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War has been declared on climate change and one of those leading the charge is Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group and Co-Founder of the Carbon War Room. The multi-national team involved is made up of eminent business leaders and environment experts including several professionals associated with the virgin.com brand. Source The [...]

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Here in the UK we rarely have extreme weather. So, our cars are not really suited for bad conditions, indeed, many drivers will avoid taking the car when the weather is severe. If you are a driver of one of the millions of small cars, you will reap the financial benefits and ease of city [...]

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Farming is one of those businesses that is under more financial pressure than ever before. With the current economic climate, supermarkets are more desperate than ever to offer good deals to consumers while maintaining their own profitability. Unlike the governments dubious cutting waste economy drive a policy that gets wheeled out with each new administration, [...]

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Whether you choose to eat meat or not, the vast majority of us tend to evade or simply ignore the ways in which animals are slaughtered for consumption. Why? Well, we all have our reasons, however the general consensus is that the stark and barbaric images that arrive with slaughtering would scar for life, or [...]

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On what otherwise might have been an average excursion through Australia’s Kakadu National Park, tourists were treated to an epic battle between two of nature’s most ferocious predators, a crocodile and a shark. There’s no saying just how long the pair were at it for, but by the time the tour boats arrived on …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mountaintop removal was again in the news this week after the EPA announced that it wants to overrule the Army Corps of Engineers and revoke the permit for one of Appalachia’s largest MTR sites. Arch Coal Inc.’s Spruce No. 1 in West Virginia has been at the center of controversy, but the EPA will take away the mine’s permit under the Clean Air Act, a victory for the increasingly strong movement against mountaintop removal….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nick Lowe, of Johnsonville, New Zealand, pulls on bike shorts and a t-shirt when he climbs on to pedal away through the city. But as soon as he hits the open road, a “change of clothes” is on the agenda. The t-shirt graces Lowe’s handlebars. The bike shorts he carefully arranges on the saddle so that the chamois seat pad still performs as point of contact. “The majority of the public…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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One of the problems with the oil (kerogen) in oil shale is that it is not mature enough (i.e. close enough to being an oil) that it will easily flow through the rock. In earlier parts of this particular theme, I have written about mining the rock and then heating it in retorts as a [...]

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In the resource depletion soup, one ingredient looms large ? social equity. Equality is a function of population, social status aspirations and resources. With a small population, everyone can have reasonable equality. With unlimited resources, the same (although the amplitude generated by law of large numbers will exert outsized social pull from the top). But [...]

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For just the price of a weekly shop … you can protect an area of Rainforest from deforestation Why do we need to save rainforests? Because in the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. That’s about 100 acres cleared [...]

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