Tutti i temi: Gran Bretagna

31.10.2006 from I Count:
Join I Count supporters and many others for the Climate March on Saturday 4th November.

31.10.2006 from Treehugger blog:
Colin Challen MP thinks that a quarter of the space in car ads should be given over to environmental impact data.

30.10.2006 from Campaign against Climate Change:
The great Climate March is in London on Saturday November 4th, two days before the UN climate talks in Nairobi begin. Be there if you can!

29.10.2006 from Gristmill blog:
The U.K. is going offset-crazy, but how much is it helping the planet?

28.10.2006 from WWF-UK:
The world's natural ecosystems are being degraded at a rate unprecedented in human history. The UK needs 3 planets to support it.

27.10.2006 from The BBC:
A council in London wants owners of gas-guzzling vehicles to pay more to park outside their homes.

26.10.2006 from Friends of the Earth:
The public have given Tony Blair a thumbs down on his record of achievement on the climate change issue.

26.10.2006 from The Greening of Hedgerley Wood blog:
"We have to go back to the idea of buying a part-share in a turbine sited somewhere more suitable," says Peter Armstrong, who had hoped to install a Windsave microgenerator on his home.

25.10.2006 from The BBC:
Britons are the worst energy wasters in Europe with bad habits which could cost £11bn by 2010.

25.10.2006

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George Monbiot, activist author of Heat, spoke to a rapt Oxford audience about our unique responsibility to halt runaway climate change. He detailed how the UK could achieve a 90% cut in CO2 emissions by 2030 - if we could trigger enough political will.

Listen in on this riveting and historic occasion, organised by COIN - and add your comments to the debate.

25.10.2006 from Oil Change blog:
The hypocrisy of Blair’s government on climate change is all too evident again.

24.10.2006 from The Energy Blog:
A UK company has successfully designed, built and tested a 1kW fuel cell stack - the fundamental building block of micropower generation - which can generate sufficient power for the average home.

24.10.2006 The Lady of Burma, "a powerful and moving play about Aung San Suu Kyi", is being staged at the Old Vic in London on 12 November, in aid of the Burma Campaign.

24.10.2006 Companies, businesses, and individuals are proving that generating their own power can be profitable as well as Earth-friendly.

23.10.2006 from Carbon-info.org:
It is now clear why the Government's information campaigns and voluntary approach to cutting CO2 emissions has failed.

23.10.2006 Leading Black and Asian professional women in Britain have called on their peers to "storm the doors" of blue chip companies, following a report this week that shows that a form of employment apartheid is rife in Britain.
From: Times of India

22.10.2006 from Guardian Unlimited:
Offsetting makes us feel better, allows us to consume more to the benefit of the polluters and deflects attention away from the real and present danger that is climate change, says George Monbiot.

21.10.2006 from The BBC:
Newsnight's Ethical Man, Justin Rowlatt, examines some of the options for people who want to offset their emissions and joins a 'Plane Stupid' protest.

21.10.2006 from deSmogBlog:
The UK's sweltering summer was not only unpleasant, but was also historically significant.

19.10.2006 from Oil Change:
Either countries reduce aircraft travel or they will not be able to reduce their carbon emissions. There is no technical fix.