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Pete Smith @ May 9, 2008 # One Comment
May 18-23 2008 is Walk to School Week. The Walk to School campaign asks parents, pupils and teachers to think about their journey to and from school and the many benefits of making it on foot. Walk to School is promoted jointly by ACTTravelwise and Living Streets, and is now in its 13th year, with [...]
Pete Smith @ December 8, 2007 # 3 Comments
As a student of the Open University, I receive a quarterly copy of the magazine Sesame, “reaching the OU community worldwide”. The Winter 2007 edition flopped through my letter box the other day, snugly wrapped in a plastic bag. Now I’m not usually one to complain, but this struck me as a remarkable waste of [...]
Pete Smith @ December 7, 2007 # 2 Comments
Last month The Coffee House drew your attention to the
Worst EU Lobbying and Greenwash Awards 2007.
The winners were announced at a festive awards ceremony in the Witloof Cellar in Brussels on 4 December 2007.
Winner of the Worst EU Lobbying Award 2007
BMW, Daimler and Porsche – nominated together in the worst EU lobbying category – [...]
Pete Smith @ November 24, 2007 # 4 Comments
More evidence, if any were needed, that climate change has irrevocably invaded the consciousness of Middle England. The BBC Radio 4 soap opera ‘The Archers’ featured a touching scene in which a young member of the Archer clan, disturbed by a school lesson on the impact of climate change, quizzed her parents on what [...]
Pete Smith @ November 13, 2007 # 2 Comments
The Eden Project is already a world-renowned attraction and now it’s looking to add an extra edge to its success. Their latest building, the Edge, will demonstrate options for energy supply, water conservation and waste management intended to act as models of how we all might live in the next decades. From www.theedge.org :
“Its scale [...]
Pete Smith @ September 10, 2007 # 3 Comments
September 14-16: Clean Up the World Weekend 2007
Clean Up the World Weekend is an annual campaign supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The campaign encourages individuals and communities to clean up, repair and conserve the environment. Organizers estimate 35 million people from more than 120 countries will take part, in activities ranging [...]
Pete Smith @ July 18, 2007 # One Comment
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Pete Smith @ July 8, 2007 # 15 Comments
There’s been a lot of disagreement about the Live Earth project, its motivation and usefulness. There’s always room for a bit more.
Off-Grid journalist Brendan Montague tells the tale of how British environmentalists who first conceived the idea of a climate change concert were forced into the margins and their attempts to reduce carbon emissions replaced [...]
Pete Smith @ May 5, 2007 # 11 Comments
We live about 1/2 a mile away from a popular primary school, with all the usual associated problems of school run traffic and pressure on parking space in local streets. In order to beat the rush, parents are turning up earlier and earlier. The other day at 2 p.m. I walked up the road on [...]
Pete Smith @ February 18, 2007 # 12 Comments
My mate Jim Kunstler’s at it again. In a typically forthright article for Envirohealth, he describes, for all those who obviously haven’t been listening, the implications of a post-oil economy, and tells us what we can do about it.
All we have to do is:
Start thinking beyond the car
Produce food differently
Inhabit the terrain differently
Move things and [...]