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Rail travel that hits the heights with carbon footprint site
A new website aims to help skiers reduce their carbon footprint by taking the train. Ben Ross talks to Snowcarbon's co-founder, Daniel Elkan
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Cyclo-therapy: Unleashing thousands of bikes on terror vortexes like the Elephant and Castle could be, well, messy
Saturday, 21 November 2009
I'm the cycle snob who looks down his nose at hapless riders and their rubbish bikes. But during a recent trip to Montreal I was the one eliciting scornful glances from local pedal pushers. Not because my bike was rubbish – it wasn't bad – but because, with my spidery limbs and hunched form, I looked like I'd ridden out of a Quentin Blake illustration.
Eco-bulbs grow dimmer over their lifetime
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Energy-saving light bulbs lose a fifth of their brightness over their lifetime, according to reports.
Dutch first in Europe to adopt green tax for cars
Monday, 16 November 2009
The Dutch government is to become the first country in Europe to introduce a green tax to replace annual road tax on cars.
Nick Herbert: Meat-free Mondays won't save the planet
Monday, 16 November 2009
Sir Paul McCartney arrives in Brussels today to recruit support for his ‘meat free Mondays’ campaign. The argument seems so easy: cut down meat consumption, slaughter methane-belching cattle, and the planet will be saved.
Green jobs: Meet the movers and shakers at the vanguard of the eco revolution
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Three years ago, the Government's Stern Review proclaimed that tackling climate change would be a big business opportunity. But where are all those promised jobs? And has the economy really been stimulated? Robin Barton asks the dynamic go-getters at the vanguard of the new eco society how they have fared
EIB sets up £700m fund to help onshore wind farms
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has opened a £700m fund to tackle the lack of finance for the UK's onshore wind farm developers.
Asda is 'least green' of all supermarkets, watchdog finds
Monday, 9 November 2009
US-owned chain reacts angrily to 'inaccurate, misleading' report
10 new nuclear power stations named
Monday, 9 November 2009
The first is set to be operational by 2018 and nuclear electricity generation could amount to around 40 per cent of new energy provision by 2025.
Plans to fast-track nuclear plants to be unveiled
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Plans to fast-track a new generation of nuclear power stations are set to be unveiled tomorrow by the Government.
Ethical travel company drops carbon offsetting
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Jerome Taylor: Critics say the scheme is a 'magic pill' that merely permits people to continue polluting.
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