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It’s official now. Taiwan will hold the World Games 2009 in July. This international sporting event will include games like korfball, billiards, dragon boat racing and women’s tug-of-war. But why are we discussing World Games 2009 in an alternative energy spectrum? Actually Taiwan can boast of Asia’s first fully solar-powered stadium. The stadium gives [...]
The Kingsnorth Six made history last year: accused of causing ?30,000 of criminal damage to Kingsnorth power station, their defence of "lawful excuse"was accepted by the jury – because they were acting to safeguard property around the world "in immediate need of protection" from the impacts of climate change, caused in part by burning coal.
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"Everyone gets gold!"
That was the verdict given by Tom Hoblyn, top Chelsea garden designer, to the four guerrilla gardens created yesterday in the villages under threat from a third runway at Heathrow.
Residents and activists teamed up under bright bank holiday sunshine to transplant hundreds of plants from this year’s Chelsea Flower show, under the expert [...]
A lick of paint could save the planet according to Barack Obama’s top man on global warming. But his plans would be scuppered by British bylaws and health and safety dogooders as Stephen Armstrong found out
Dormice and water voles two of Britain’s bestloved countryside mammals are recovering from the brink of extinction thanks to conservation programmes to save them.
The Kingsnorth Six made history last year: accused of causing ?30,000 of criminal damage to Kingsnorth power station, their defence of "lawful excuse"was accepted by the jury – because they were acting to safeguard property around the world "in immediate need of protection" from the impacts of climate change, caused in part by burning coal.
Inspired [...]
CHICAGO (May 13, 2009) – The Midwest took a giant step toward building a clean energy future for the region and the nation on Tuesday according to policy and legal experts from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Environmentalists, energy utilities, petroleum and manufacturing business representatives agreed to a set of recommendations for a clean [...]
The Prince of Wales has warned the world is in the “last chance saloon” in its attempts to prevent catastrophic climate change with most people failing to appreciate the urgency.
We’ve made some progress on the coal campaign lately, with Climate and Energy Minister Ed Miliband finally ruling out any new coal-fired power stations that don’t capture a proportion of the carbon they emit. But that’s not nearly enough to save the climate.
The next few months will be crucial in persuading Ed to go all [...]
Controversial plans to build a huge car park on greenbelt land next to the river Avon in Bath have been condemned by Natural England environmental campaigners and residents.