From plastic bag-free towns to refashioned clothes and bus fleets run on chip fat, here's a guide to what you can do to tackle waste in your community
… bag-free towns to refashioned clothes and bus fleets run on chip fat, here's a guide to … article on building a community biodeisel bus service in Brighton. Click here for an …
Growing crops to solve the planet’s energy needs doesn’t work. Recycling the energy in our waste just might have a significant part to play. By Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes
… Hughes | 29th March 2007 News Biogas Sweden Bush Biofuel Dung Biomass Biofuel Biotechnology Agribusiness Farming Biotechnology Ozone Layer … part to play. By Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes Bush’s latest’ state of the union speech – …
With human beings about to become a predominantly urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable.
… UK government argues, not to act would harm business in the city. In the developing world, … and land use. Concentric circles of local bus lines connect to five lines radiating from … the centre of the city. On the radial routes, buses in their own traffic lanes carry 300 …
Tackling global warming with better public transport, increased energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean cookstoves, better waste management could increase global GDP by $2.6 trillion. The alternative is growing risk from harshening climates ...
… Finance Energy Transport Wastye mumbai-bus-cut.jpg Tackling global warming with … risks from climate change. The study - Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change … - said it's clear that staying on the current business-as-usual path will only increase the …
First we heat up cold water for baths, showers and washing, write Jan Hofman & Laura Piccinini. Then we chuck all that precious heat down the plughole. So how about recycling our waste heat to warm up water on its way to the boiler or hot water tank, cutting bills and emissions? Or on a larger scale, use the sewage from entire communities as a free energy source for heat pumps?
… for instance, and use it to power the 'poo bus' among other things . It takes about ten …
Carbon offsetting isn't perfect but Much Better Adventures’ partnership with environmental charity, the Converging World, has produced an initiative that just might work
… CO2 emissions associated with travel by air, bus, train, car and ferry. Users can go to …
This week 20 Amazon Indians walked to the Belo Monte dam site to demand the company keep its promises to compensate indigenous communities. Police shot them with 'rubber bullets' and stun grenades, wounding four. Tensions are rising ...
… the first complaint filed regarding alleged abuses of the men in the National Force within … guarantee anything." Last Saturday morning, a bus from Belo Monte Construction Consortium … if their demands are not met, further buses may be burned. No compensation - and …
As we embark on our final splurge of Christmas shopping, spare a thought for all those heaters blasting hot air in customers' faces, set above wide open doors. Jeannie Dawkins says the waste of energy is a national disgrace that must be ended!
… Here, for once, the answer is simple and business friendly. The Close the Door … endorsement from well known scientists and business figures, and also from Usdaw, the … door uses energy equivalent to driving a bus from London to Glasgow and back, every …
After years of protest, plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze are awaiting the go-ahead from the Turkish government. But protest group YEGEP are not giving up without a fight
… “real” in Turkish - to coordinate efforts to bus residents to neighbouring coal plants, … GES office, but it was certainly much more busy. The entrance hall was crammed with armed …
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour party, today called for a new democratically controlled, localised energy system to deliver a transition to a low carbon economy and help prevent climate change. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… four million homes, invest in rail and bus networks to reduce traffic on our roads, …
As the fiscal dust kicked up by Alistair Darling's 2010 budget begins to settle, experts say they are 'surprised' by how 'un-green' the budget turned out to be
… it will face cuts, and the subsidies that bus operators receive could disappear,' said …
The community of Machynlleth has gone beyond just investing in someone else’s wind turbine. They’ve clubbed together and planned, built and paid for one of their own.
… advice to the community. It gives away free bus passes to get people out of their cars. The community mini bus is being converted to biodiesel. …
Kate Hathway from the local communities charity Urban Forum says we should look to Europe for tips on successful community renewable energy projects
… inclination to run their own ‘green energy’ business, there are opportunities to be part … bag-free towns to refashioned clothes and bus fleets run on chip fat, here's a guide to …
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.
… transport improvements, cycle lanes, local bus services, etc. Energy and climate Today's … exercise denounced as illegitimate and an abuse of democracy. Oliver Tickell edits …
A new generation of biofuels is poised to come into the market. Grown on unused, ‘marginal’ land they won’t compete for our food crops. But just where exactly is all this marginal land, and whose backyard might it be? Helena Paul reports
… viable. Thermal methods involve controlled combustion (pyrolysis) to break biomass into … Jatropha: myth or reality? The oilseed bush Jatropha curcas is often cited as an … This ‘biogas’ can then be used to power cars, buses or trains. Sweden already runs nearly …
Electric cars are backed as a climate panacea by the majority, but are there negative impacts we're missing in the rush to electrification?
… compared to a mere 5.4 billion on coaches and buses. In a world where few are ready or … In October 2008, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reforms … changing behaviour and improving the rail and bus network, rather than investing millions in …
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.
… provide help and advice for local people and businesses to start up Community Energy … energy costs are affordable for consumers and businesses To ensure we meet our climate … an energy system that delivers for people, businesses or our environment. One-in-ten …