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Ethical travel company drops carbon offsetting
Jerome Taylor: Critics say the scheme is a 'magic pill' that merely permits people to continue polluting.
Inside Green Living
Green beliefs win protection
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Robert Verkaik and Michael McCarthy: Ruling means employees can sue for unfair dismissal
Top food firm switches to sustainable palm oil
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
A leading food manufacturer says it will switch to a "sustainable" source of palm oil for its most famous brands, such as McVitie's, Jaffa Cakes and Penguin.
Why the Nasca's big mistake was to cut down the huarango tree
Monday, 2 November 2009
Clearing key trees left pre-Inca culture exposed to floods and drought
The palm oil scandal: Boots and Waitrose shamed
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Retailers complicit in environmental damage caused by industry, World Wide Fund for Nature says
Centrica to build new wind farm
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
British Gas's parent company Centrica today announced it will build a new offshore wind farm in UK waters which will provide enough electricity to power around 200,000 homes.
Ingrid Newkirk: You can't be a meat-eating environmentalist
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Lord Stern has just given environmental leaders food for thought and an important topic to discuss at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
New green taxes to be unveiled
Monday, 26 October 2009
Reports over the weekend suggested British motorists will be penalised unless they drive less environmentally damaging cars, such as Toyota's latest electric vehicle, pictured above at the Tokyo Motor Show.
Who says it's green to burn woodchips?
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Graham Mole: Woodchip power stations are set for a boom. But conservationists are increasingly challenging their green credentials.
Lily Cole launches sky rainforest rescue
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Model Lily Cole launched a campaign yesterday to save one billion trees in the Amazon rainforest.
Prescott attacks windpower 'nimbys'
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister, will today launch a ferocious attack on the “landowners and nimbys” who he says are holding up the installation of wind farms across Britain and thus hindering the fight against climate change.
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