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Greening my office: choosing an ethical pension
Sylvia Sunshine
13th January, 2011
Sylvia takes a step towards financial security with her premier pension payment. But can she keep a clean conscience at the same time? more...
Greening my office: I got them to switch the heating off!
Sylvia Sunshine
9th July, 2010
Sylvia scores her first eco success - persuading her sceptical boss that heating an unoccupied portion of the office is a terrible waste of resources more...
Saving and rebuilding community shops
Eifion Rees
1st June, 2010
Mourning the loss of your beloved local shop? With a little help from the Community Shops Network, you can set up and run your own shop and post office...more...
Greening my office: tacking the microwave meal
Sylvia Sunshine
22nd March, 2010
Sylvia's office gets a new, green employee, and she begins to hatch plans for changing her ready-meal-eating, email-printing, energy-burning colleagues... more...
Greening my office: no one’s switched on
Sylvia Sunshine
3rd March, 2010
In her second blog posting, young environmental pretender Sylvia Sunshine reports on her attempts to convert her office workplace to more sustainable practices more...
Greening my office: these guys print everything
Sylvia Sunshine
18th February, 2010
In the first of a new blog, young environmental pretender Sylvia Sunshine reports on her attempts to convert her office workplace to more sustainable practices more...
Can communities save the post office?
Steve Shaw
13th July, 2009
Scaled-back, out-sourced or privatised, there's no doubt that the Post Office - the hub of many rural communities - is in a sorry state. Is there a way that local communities can band together to preserve local facilities? more...
UK Met Office's forecast on human induced climate change - a mixed message?
Peter Bunyard
18th February, 2009
As US climatologists and scientists are urging the world that greenhouse gas emissions be curbed rapidly to prevent runaway global warming, the UK Met Office appears to be back pedalling on human induced climate change. Peter Bunyard reports on some mixed messages more...
Co-operatives taking up the post.
Mark Anslow
1st May, 2008
With so many rural post offices in the UK threatened with closure, Mark Anslow visits two villages whose residents have taken it upon themselves to deliver the goods.more...
Milk cartel accused of price fixing
News
21st September, 2007
The Office of Fair Trading has accused the big four supermarkets of colluding with dairies to artificially increase the cost of dairy foods. more...
How green is your office?
Low Carbon Innovation Network
19th July, 2007
Research shows that however green we are in the home, most of us leave our eco-habits at the factory gate when we clock in for the nine to five. For those of you who can see what needs to be done in your office, but don't know how to go about doing it, here's an eight-point guide put together by the Low Carbon Innovation Network. more...
Revolt
Jay Griffiths
1st October, 2004
Costing £2.9 billion, the UK’s new police communication system Tetra has been described by one independent scientist as likely to cause ‘more civilian deaths than all the world’s terrorist organisations put together’ more...
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