Angela Merkel’s decision to dispense with nuclear power has left environmentalists around the world exploring alternatives. Henry Gass weighs up the options
… 2011 Ethical Living Renewables Nuclear Power Home Solar Wind Biomass Green Living Science … heating options. So what does this mean for homeowners? Home heating accounts for 13 per cent of the …
The UK’s short sighted approach to energy is damaging people’s health and costing the NHS £3.7 billion a year.
… polluting vehicles and woefully inefficient homes through its narrow approach to energy … public health, in cleaner air and improved homes and public spaces. Active travel … to be caused by air pollution. Improving home energy efficiency could save the NHS …
Ten villages and surrounding farmland have already been wiped from the map for a 50 sq.km airport and surrounding 'aeropolis' or airport city in West Java, Indonesia, writes Rose Bridger. And while investors are offered an 'attractive incentives plan', villagers are subject to fierce state repression and brutality. Now only a single village remains standing, but residents continue to resist eviction and demand an end to the project.
… rice fields firing teargas. Crops and several homes were damaged and 12 residents were … were too frightened to return to their homes and took refuge in the village hall. A … had forced some residents to flee from their homes. A lengthy stand-off between officials …
We need a renewable energy revolution, an end to fracking, no new nuclear power, efficient homes, and the break up of our energy cartels, writes Jeremy Corbyn, All that, and strong protection for wildlife and oceans, no TTIP trade deal with the US, clean air to breathe, and massive investment in public transport. Is there anything not to like?
… to fracking, no new nuclear power, efficient homes, and the break up of our energy cartels, … Already 5 million people are at risk of their homes being flooded. Children are growing up … jobs Ensuring everyone has access to a decent home that is low-carbon and affordable to keep …
… was developing. Instead, he began working on Home Zones, a Dutch-inspired plan to tear up … building work. ‘I was worried that they [the Home Zones] weren’t going to be replicated,’ … a mother of two who lives in one of the 38 homes on Iden Road in Coventry says. ‘I have …
The government claims that we need nuclear 'baseload' power to keep the lights on, writes Damian Kahya. But a new study shows reliable, low carbon energy can be provided by combining diverse green technologies including efficiency, large scale renewables, 'smart grid', energy storage and rarely used fossil fuel backup.
… use electricity instead of gas to heat their homes. The DEE study did not include a full … reducing the amount of gas used to heat our homes. But that doesn't just mean more … report suggests demand for energy to heat our homes needs to fall by more than half over the …
'The diversity of habitats in Kyiv, especially on the banks of the Dnipro, is quite astonishing.'
… and curator from Luhansk whose family home has been occupied since 2014, has lived … more-than-human communities that call them home. Image: Mstyslav Chernov. ECOLOGICAL … colony of black-headed gulls makes its home here, among over 60 other bird species …
Are you suffering from cognitive dissonance? You should be, writes Oliver Tickell. After the most ferocious attack a UK government has ever mounted on the environment, David Cameron just claimed that his is the 'greenest government ever', as Amber Rudd proclaims her commitment to climate action. What's going on?
… the scrapping of the requirement for new homes to be 'zero carbon from April 2016 … and businesses" , she purred. "Protecting our homes, our livelihoods, our prosperity ... if … proofing doors and windows and insulating our homes. And that applies particularly to new …
Despite disturbing claims about the impact of uranium, ten-thousand proposals for exploration in the Grand Canyon area have been submitted. A key fuel for nuclear power, the US must now decide between full scale uranium mining, partial mining or a twenty year moratorium. Leana Hosia investigates
… cities of gold, but found only the mud-walled homes of the indigenous people. Then in the … over 500 abandoned uranium mines as well as homes and drinking water sources with elevated … of the road, old mine sites and in people's homes. Because of poverty people used material …
A direct action protest by Rising Up! today blocked access to three Heathrow terminals to press their demand for no third runway at the UK's biggest airport. The activists included both climate campaigners and local people fearful of increased pollution, loss of homes and green space and entire villages destroyed.
… fearful of increased pollution, loss of homes and green space and entire villages … of local residents are set to lose their homes and 300,000 people a year lose their … give up, we'll keep fighting to protect our homes. There will be no third runway." Our …
A massive decontamination exercise is under way in Iitate Village near Fukushima, writes Kendra Ulrich: step one in a plan to force 6,000 residents back into the evacuated zone in 2017. But as radiation levels remain stubbornly high, it looks like the real plan is to 'normalize' nuclear catastrophe, while making Iitate residents nuclear victims twice over - and this time, it's deliberate.
… more surprising, this was true even around homes that had already been supposedly … and lakes, interspersed with farm fields, and homes. It lies 28 - 47 km to the northwest of … disaster. So many are working on their former home areas which are now heavily contaminated …
A huge raft of environmental reforms is promised in the Labour Party's draft manifesto, writes Oliver Tickell. Among the highlights: a ban on fracking; a clean energy policy based on renewables and efficiency; no commitment to new nuclear power; to meet our Paris Agreement obligations on climate; to give companies a legal obligation to protect the environment; to retain all EU environment laws post-Brexit; and multilateral nuclear disarmament.
… Cooperatives. Energy efficiency in 4 million homes Labour will insulate four million homes as an infrastructure priority to help those who suffer in cold homes each winter. This will cut emissions, …
Despite Labour's 'great purge' of left-leaning voters in the leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn remains the odds-on bookies favourite. So if he comes to power, what policies can we expect in energy and climate change? Damian Kahya asks the questions ... and is astounded at the range and scope of his ambitions. But how much could he really deliver?
… how his local council has cut bills through home insulation schemes. "The least efficient … this about" , he adds. Solar panels on every home To Corbyn a fundamental tool to enabling … generation with solar panels on every new home and warehouse (in preference to fields): …
Swedish artist duo Diagram escorts a glass of water back to its origin - from a convenience store in Stockholm back to a storm-drain in Evian les Bains, by Lake Geneva - and expose one of the many absurdities of modern life.
… Evian go home Anders Granberg | 22nd April 2014 Ethical …
With the 'Heathrow 13' protestors expecting custodial sentences today for their occupation of a Heathrow runway last July, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP writes that their direct action followed years of official lies and broken promises, and forms part of a long tradition of direct action protests in defence of democracy.
… of noise and air pollution and the loss of homes and indeed whole communities was … villages are naturally distressed that their homes will be demolished or rendered … increased noise. This will impact upon 4,000 homes, accommodating approximately 10,000 …
'If you could mine salt from their grief and tears, Slovyansk would be a leader of salt-making.'
… now, but he is still at the front — just went home on leave in June, for the first time … exhausted the industry. Ground caved, homes collapsed. In 1961, the authorities … sites rich in high-grade anthracite coal. My home-town was famous for it. But since the war …
A low carbon Britain rests on the electrification of our energy supply. But new research by the University of Surrey has highlighted the challenges facing government, market and civil society-led pathways to reducing emissions
… from consumers. The success of heat pumps for homes will depend upon very high adoption … potential for future innovation in ‘smart’ homes and networks. The Market Rules pathway … GREEN LIVING Ecologist guide to greening your home Greening your home can save you energy …
New photographic series examines impact of Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japanese towns.
… are invited by their government to return home to a landscape now deemed safe, it makes … and have no interest going back to their old homes, or they simply do not believe the … that had radiation levels higher than in the homes they were fleeing. The fear created by …
The NHS is one of our greatest institutions and we must defend it to the hilt, writes Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we need joined up policies across the policy spectrum, valuing human wellbeing above crude economic growth.
… with the worst air quality, in overcrowded homes with the fewest opportunities to enjoy … in cold and damp, impossible-to-heat homes without viable public transport options … Britain is costing us all dear And our homes are deeply unhealthy. 19% of households …
Public transport often doesn't work for travellers because it's fragmented, deregulated and operated for short-term profit, writes Rupert Read. A Green transport policy would force operators to coordinate their schedules, integrate multiple transport modes, and entice travellers out of their cars building a real public transport 'system'.
… are to expect greener ways of getting from home to work on public transport, for example, … their travel habits and leave the car at home if public transport regulators and … people can be tempted to leave the car at home more often. In some cases, this will …
Ministers have launched plans for the biggest expansion of nuclear power in 70 years, including a new power station as big as Hinkley C and Sizewell C.
… – each of which can power six million homes - will be built. The government wants … time soon,” she said. More offshore wind and home insulation would help cut the UK’s ties … auction and has driven down the number of homes its helping to insulate in the past …
As Cameron appoints his cabinet, we had better get prepared for the 'green crap' that's about to be unleashed on us, writes Oliver Tickell - the return of fox-hunting, badger-culling, road building and nuclear power, the arrival of GM food and crops, more cuts to wind and solar power and the underfunding of home insulation.
… wind and solar power and the underfunding of home insulation. The coalition government was … Treasury and the planning system. Insulating homes - another no-brainer for creating jobs, … - will be under-funded, while the zero-carbon homes initiative will remain watered-down The …