UK’s First Community Hydro Scheme
Pete Smith @ November 23, 2007 # 5 Comments
A new community-owned hydro power project has launched a share offer today. Torrs Hydro New Mills Ltd plans to install new hydro-electric technology in the 200 year old weir at the Torrs in New Mills, Derbyshire. The company, a joint venture between Water Power Enterprises and High Peak Friends of the Earth, is an ‘Industrial [...]
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Climate Change Too Hot To Handle?
Pete Smith @ November 18, 2007 # 4 Comments
It’s official, we’re in trouble again. Or still. You’d be forgiven for thinking the latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is more of the same old same old. It is. The Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is effectively a summary of three papers published earlier this [...]
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£3m Funding For Research Into Our Ancestors’ Response To Abrupt Climate Change
Pete Smith @ October 8, 2007 # 7 Comments
“A Walk In The Snow, Naked” by lickyoats
A research consortium, led by Professor John Lowe in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been awarded funding of £3m to develop a novel approach for assessing how humans may have responded to rapid environmental changes during the recent past.
A five-year project named [...]
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