Renewable energy overtook nuclear power in the US last year, and now accounts for 12% of US energy. 43.4 million prescriptions were written for anti-depressants in the UK last year. In a country of 62 million people, that’s a cause for concern. What happens if you leave a skyscraper half finished for too long? You [...]
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Taking a Christmas break
Christmas eve, and it’s time to put the blog to bed for the holidays. As 2012 rolls around, I will have been blogging for ten years, five of them on Make Wealth History. I intend to celebrate with a design refresh, so apologies in advance if it looks a little messy around here for a [...]
What we learned this week
I usually find the New Internationalist a little too ranty and socialist for my liking, but this is a great article on the arms trade. Facebook has embraced renewable energy, and aims to move all its operations and servers off coal . Visit Greenpeace’s site to tell Apple, Microsoft and Twitter all about it. Has [...]
What we learned this week
I remember whining at the number of time-waster candidates on Luton South’s ballot paper last May. I take it back. We had 12 candidates. Voters in Kinshasa this month had a 56 page booklet and over 1,500 names to choose from. Interesting to see how Newt Gingrich’s views on climate change and the need for [...]
10 things you didn’t know about E F Schumacher
1. He held the rank of colonel in the US army. 2. He was a member of a group called Men of the Trees, with a particular interest in developing ways to reforest the Sahara. 3. In 1938 he was part of a start-up company called Battery Traction Ltd that aimed to build a national [...]
A slow and patient anger
I was talking to a friend the other day, and he said that my blog made him angry at the world. Which got me thinking – do I want to sound angry? Is this an angry blog? Am I an angry person? On reflection, the answer is yes on all counts. That requires a few [...]
What we learned this week
5,000 people got a free lunch in London last week, all made out of food that was otherwise going to be thrown away. Tom Hunt is the chef responsible, and you can read his blog and browse his recipes here. The Rough Guide to Community Energy is a new book from Rough Guides. You can [...]
What we learned this week
What it looks like if you print out every photo uploaded to Flickr over one 24hour day. When the BBC’s critically acclaimed series Frozen Planet is shown in the US, it will not include the episode that focuses on climate change. I saw a map of all the Occupy protests the other day, and my [...]
What we learned this week
Why conspiracy theories are on the rise, and why it matters. Have US carbon emissions turned a corner? There’s been an unexpected 7% fall in the last four years, and it’s not all down to the recession. A few months ago I looked into biodegradeable trainers and found them hard to come by, so I [...]
What we learned this week
An MP singing the praises of tax havens… care to guess which constituency he represents? The City of London of course. Shame on you Mark Field. Would you live on an eco-estate built by Ikea, currently underway in East London? The financial crisis has many victims, but the economics profession is not among them. So [...]
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