Each year, UK livestock produce some 60 million tonnes of collectable faeces. If left to run into water-courses or even spread on fields, this waste can lead to the same problems associated with excessive fertiliser use – algal blooms and aquatic life starved of oxygen.
… Power On - Energy from Waste Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 1st November 2007 News Waste Energy Carbon Dioxide Biodigesters … water-courses or even spread on fields, this waste can lead to the same problems associated …
Even among green campaigners, nuclear energy is quietly gaining ground as a potential solution to the impending energy crisis. However several issues – particularly those of raw materials, cost and waste – remain unaddressed within the mainstream of opinion.
… particularly those of raw materials, cost and waste – remain unaddressed within the … taxpayer’s money to deal with legacy nuclear waste, and has financially guaranteed the … assistance will be available to deal with waste that will last for hundreds of thousands …
When it comes to selling incinerators, only the best PR will do. Mark Anslow reports
… to deal with what it describes as ‘residual waste’, rubbish left over after recycling and … has pledged to reduce household residual waste by 45 per cent by 2020, but by the same … promised to increase incineration of residual waste to 20 per cent by the same date. Knowing …
Three years ago, winter was not a good time of year for residents at Hoathly Hill in West Sussex. A community founded in 1972 on the principles of Rudolf Steiner, many of Hoathly Hill’s residents enjoyed the sense of quiet self-sufficiency that living on a smallholding in Sussex’s High Weald gave them.
… a central wood-fired boiler burns forestry waste and pumps the hot water through an … of nearby Balcombe Sawmill and a man with a waste problem. ‘Before I met the Hoathly Hill … I was looking at a very big pile of wood waste thinking, “What the hell am I going to …
‘You’re confused by recycling, bless you,’ say the politicians. Nonsense, says Mark Anslow
… on recycling logos between the Government’s Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) … on packaging simply because local authority waste schemes couldn’t get their act together, … with three categories: ‘Widely Recycled’, for waste handled by over 60 per cent of local …
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus
… My aim is to make a difference.’ Fuel from waste With that in mind, the buses run on waste vegetable oil courtesy of a growing … a small workers’ cooperative that collects waste vegetable oil from local chip shops, …
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus
… My aim is to make a difference.’ Fuel from waste With that in mind, the buses run on waste vegetable oil courtesy of a growing … a small workers’ cooperative that collects waste vegetable oil from local chip shops, …
The claims for biofuels make it seem truly a wonder crop. Mark Anslow separates the wheat from the chaff
… to the energy required to clean up the waste from bio-refineries – they have shown … ‘offset’, they are set to become a serious waste problem. Claim 2: It makes economic … A bio-refinery is an extraordinarily wasteful facility. For every litre of …
With the UK capital struggling to get commuters to work on time following strike action by tube and train drivers this week, JAN GOODEY reports on a project that will bring the first solar-powered electric buses to the public in the Spring
… running all its vehicles on recycled waste cooking oil from local restaurants. … estimates that over half a million tonnes of waste cooking oil has been used and that the … Lemon buses use sustainably sourced fuel from waste cooking oils, the current fleet of …
The Ecologist harnessed the power of several luminaries from the renewables world to find out why a wholly renewable future seems no closer than before.
… Fuels, said that there was a huge resource of waste wood from the construction industry … biggest proportion of wood in this country is waste wood,’ he said. ‘If we had processes to … digestion of all the UK’s sewage and waste food and wood could supply half the …
Local authority pension funds continue to invest in dirty oil and gas.
… include financial, chemical, security and waste concerns. This is over and above … for Cuadrilla; oil conglomerate Total; and waste provider Northumbrian Water. Fiduciary …
Mark Anslow considers whether new generation hydroponics can feed the world's cities
… desalination systems for providing water, and waste treatment equipment to make sure no … for school and office roofs – will use waste heat from the buildings’ air …
Nicola Peel's new film Blood of the Amazon tells the story of the world's largest environmental lawsuit and investigates how the oil industry threatens a fragile rainforest environment. By Jan Goodey
… rubbish to build with and so solve a lack of waste collection at the same time. Again in … to help with the clean-up. As for the waste plastics initiative - which was founded … floating villages where there is a massive waste problem; teaching them how they could …
This new e-book tells you everything you need to know about raising fish and vegetables for the table at home in an ingenious, ecological way
… ecosystems, using the nutrients in fish waste to grow plants, which in turn act as a … supplementary nutrients for the plants (fish waste is high in nitrogen, but can be …
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must eat and farm differently
… feed and reform the sewage system to use our waste as an organic fertiliser. 2 Energy … George Chan, sees farms feeding manure and waste from livestock and crops into …
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must farm and eat differently
… feed and reform the sewage system to use our waste as an organic fertiliser. 2. Energy … George Chan, sees farms feeding manure and waste from livestock and crops into …
Mark Anslow explains why the Government’s bottom line is trumping our most efficient form of transport
… a vital fl aw: it puts a price on the wasted time of car drivers during their … per hour, whereas the same amount of time wasted by a coach or bus passenger counts for … on the road with a lower value on his or her wasted time is the cyclist, with a value of …
A house built with straw could cost as little as £70,000 to build - and some are still standing after 140 years. Barbara Jones' fantastic book Building with Straw Bales reveals all you need to know
… him: that you could take a ubiquitous, rural waste product and use it to build a home that …
Greater Manchester Authorities has launched an immediate probe into its investments after an investigation by The Ecologist revealed it was funding the company behind the world's biggest, and most controversial, coal mine. JAN GOODEY reports.
The biggest UK pension fund backs coal mine set to ‘destroy’ the Great Barrier Reef Jan Goodey | 16th November 2017 News FOIA Mining Australia Pension GMPF Great Barrier Reef 405593.jpg Greater …
With a government seemingly intent on pushing through the latest road-building programme via its localism agenda campaigners are readying themselves for combined resistance using legal experts, alliance groupings and direct action
… of which’ll have to be raised locally, is a waste of resources and won’t solve the … spin on glamour but also for its fur, its waste and its excess. But with green designers …
It has taken just one year for the land-based biofuels (agrofuels) bubble to inflate and burst. In February 2007, the Ecologist was almost alone in pointing out that growing energy crops for car fuel was ecological nonsense; now the tide of academic studies showing that agrofuels are neither energy - nor carbon-efficient seems unstoppable.
… article, he wrote: ‘There are thousands of [wastewater treatment pools] around, but they … at present. Making oil from algae grown on wastewaters still requires significant R&D.’ … GreenFuel Technologies uses PBRs. It bubbles waste flue gases from industrial facilities …