The government will announce voluntary standards today to regulate carbon off-setting programmes - the schemes by which environmentally friendly projects such as planting trees are undertaken to 'off-set' the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.
… Carbon off-setting feels the rod 18th January 2007 News Climate Change Carbon Off-set Off-setting DEFRA Carbon Dioxide Global Warming …
William Powers' new book is an interesting but at times tedious account of off-grid living
… Twelve by twelve: a one-room cabin off the grid & beyond the American dream … | 3rd June 2010 Reviews Reviews Society Off Grid Living Renewable Energy Eco … New York, Powers enthuses about the striking setting of No Name Creek, and the profound …
Fixing a tap could help save tens of thousands of litres of clean water in a year, and save yourself money in the process. In her new book, Mend It!, Siân Berry explains how
… below for more on washerless taps. 2. Turn off the water supply (see below to learn how) … isn't one, find the nearest stopcock and turn off the supply there instead. Turn on the tap … from the pin at the bottom. It may just pull off with pliers, or you may need to remove a …
If you want to return from holiday to a low electricity bill and a guilt-free conscience, power down your home before you go. Not sure how? Rachael Stubbins has more
… far too few of us think to switch things off when we go away. The Energy Saving Trust … a year could be saved if everyone turned off gadgets such as TVs, computers and phone … it off or at least put it on a motion sensor setting to reduce electricity wastage. …
The UK government is to cut support for domestic rooftop solar to 13% of current levels, with similar cuts for bigger systems, and end all support for small scale renewables by 2019. The likely result, and surely the intention, is to kill off the UK's solar industry altogether.
… Government kills off UK solar industry Oliver Tickell | 27th … result, and surely the intention, is to kill off the UK's solar industry altogether. The … it looks like a deliberate attempt to kill off the sector altogether, even though the …
On Wednesday 22nd February, activists from the group London Rising Tide occupied the offices of the Carbon Neutral Company. Below are their grievances...
… action group 'London Rising Tide' on carbon off-setting Mark Anslow | 22nd February 2007 News Carbon Offset Carbon Off-Setting Carbon Neutral …
Carbon off-setting hogs the headlines. Blair says he is going to off-set all his flight. MPs fall over themselves to join him. The government declares that it will introduce a 'kite-mark' standard to regulate the industry. Prius-driving Hollywood actors help launch the 'Global Cool' campaign.
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… Carbon off-setting 1st February 2007 Other Carbon off-setting hogs the headlines. Blair says he is …
As budgets are cut local authorities are selling off farmland without considering the long-term implications of losing a valuable asset for future generations. Tom Levitt reports
… The great farm sell-off: Spelman gives green light to agricultural … budgets are cut local authorities are selling off farmland without considering the long-term … energy, letting land to nature groups, setting up projects to return the fens to …
Dave Hampton on watt's watt in carbon footprints and why he aims to launch a campaign for a million more carbon coaches
… to date? I would have to say the Come off it day back in April 2006. I think it did … spawned several other campaigns like it. Come off it day got a lot of remarkable backing and … lots of newspapers picked up on it. Come off it was authentically me; it is about the …
The Ecologist’s political writer, Bibi van der Zee, asks whether the German's energy policy is a crazy punt, or an example to be followed by other states.
… The gamble on electricity had more than paid off. Now, over a century later, the Germans … the time Ronald Reagan took the panels back off the roof governmental money had stopped … that about 200,000 people had their power cut off in 2011 because they could not pay the …
The extraordinary environmental costs of freeports.
… is growing evidence of a series of marine die-offs connected to dredging around the UK , … 18 months ago there was a mass marine die-off neat Teesside in Yorkshire, that appears … oil and gas projects off shore, both by off-setting their emissions and then using CO2 to …
Campaigners up and down the country are trying to stop public access land from going under the hammer as UK councils seek ways to plug the Government funding gap. JAN GOODEY reports
… regroup to stop the Great Downland Sell-Off Jan Goodey | 15th March 2017 Activism … This latest campaign went into vertical take-off, like in Worthing five years before when … This coincided with the Cabinet Office's setting up of a scheme to encourage councils …
Ignoring cries of protest from impoverished communities and fierce international criticism, Detroit will begin to serve water shut-off notices on some 25,000 households tomorrow as it prepares to privatise its water department.
… Detroit: 25,000 households face water shutoff this month Tyler Van Dyke WSWS | 9th May … Detroit will begin to serve water shut-off notices on some 25,000 households tomorrow … in America, is set to resume mass water shutoffs for tens of thousands of households in …
Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots, where indigenous tribes have long lived in harmony with the forest and its wildlife, writes Rod Harbinson. But now they are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Now local communities are defending themselves and their land.
… risk everything to defend national park sold off to highest bidders Rod Harbinson | 24th … violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for logging, … park is anything but, with most of it sold off to business. Farmers and fisherfolk have …
Earthship Brighton, an award-winning off-grid community centre set in an organic farm within the South Downs National Park, has hosted hundreds of events and inspired tens of thousands of visitors over the last decade, writes Phil Moore, demonstrating green technologies and energy-efficient living. But now it's in need of a refit.
… Earthship Brighton, an award-winning off-grid community centre set in an organic … with extremes of temperature - very much the setting of a dreamscape - was a spin on the … on the wider environment. There are now three off-grid Earthship communities in Taos , and …
The UK’s first community-funded hydroelectric scheme, Torrs Hydro is generating green energy as well as interest in H2O power. Claire Baylis meets the man behind it
… CASE STUDY: setting up a community micro-hydroelectric … a key role in getting the whole project off the ground, having heard about the … Friends of the Earth (FOE) group, I wanted to offer our support,’ he says. Once there, he …
The installation of home insulation measures 'fell off a cliff' a decade ago, the government's own climate advisors state.
… Home insulation policy 'fell off a cliff' Emily Beament | 3rd July 2022 | … of home insulation measures 'fell off a cliff' a decade ago, the government's … He added: “The UK is a champion in setting new climate goals; now we must be …
The UK's 'Green Deal' energy efficiency scheme was a massive failure, writes Sue Roberts. But few knew just how bad until the NAO's report - which reveals that its main effect was to line the pockets of the Big Six energy companies, load the public with expensive loans, create a tangle of red tape, and engineer the collapse of the UK's nascent energy efficiency sector.
… The recent revelations by the National Audit Office (NAO) on the Green Deal and the Green … liable to have their gas and electricty cut off. What the NAO report reveals is that … out enormous investments they had made in setting the companies up and receiving all the …
There's a simple way to induce us to make good environmental choices, writes Cass R. Sunstein: make them the default setting. Whether it's selecting double sided photocopies or renewable electricity tariffs, defining easily-overridden 'green defaults' is by far the most efficacious means to influence consumer choices for the environment and the planet.
… Cass R. Sunstein: make them the default setting. Whether it's selecting double sided … motion detectors create the equivalent of an 'off' default. Or consider appliance and computer settings that turn the equipment off when it is not in use. If the default …
Financial slowdown? What about a holiday to match? Eifion Rees ditches the nine-to-five in favour of a stress-busting canoe trip down the river Thames.
… Slipping on our buoyancy aids and pushing off from the bank at Henley was like signing a … to the languid spirit of the venture, we set off. As weekend breaks go, it isn’t too … located in remote and exclusive riverside settings along the river Wye. ‘Leave only …
After decades of work, A$200 million in taxpayer funding and even more from farmers' pockets, Australia has a good news story to tell about the Great Barrier Reef. But as John Brodie reveals, all that is now at risk from vast dredging operations.
… and large amounts of other agricultural run-off polluting Australia’s most famous natural … better management practices to reduce run-off of sediment, nutrients (nitrogen and … along the reef As well as agricultural run-off, large amounts of sediment are also …
Fernanda Mayrink, who championed and launched the ‘Light Recicla' scheme tells Alex Elliott how it is revolutionising lives in Santa Marta and beyond.
… to exchange recyclable goods for money off their electricity bill. What made you set … showing how much money he or she will have off her next bill. Another company Doe Seu … who sell fruit and vegetables and we are setting up these eco points together. I have a …
Barys Piatrovich recalls the tension of unknowing during the days that followed the Chernobyl disaster. Today, barely any of the evacuees are still alive. Dispersed throughout the country, they died alone and unnoticed, statistically insignificant.
… feel like writing, and I keep on putting off the moment of actually sitting down at my … in front of a blank piece of paper. "OK, I'm off" , says my wife. "I'll go with you to the … rumours. Anyway, what would be the point of upsetting the nation on the eve of the greatest …
Claire Perry O'Neill says COP26 is threatened by Tory broken promises, failure to take action, faction fighting, ballooning costs.
… adding that the government was "miles off track" in setting a positive agenda for the COP26 summit … greenhouse gases and any remaining pollution offset by measures such as planting trees. As …