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Pete Smith @ May 18, 2008 # 2 Comments
Fuel rationing may be just one of a series of shocks facing drivers and commuters in Queensland, Australia. Looming oil shortages will produce the biggest change in society since the industrial revolution, Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara warned yesterday.
To underscore his concerns, Mr McNamara will appear in a documentary film premiering May 20th in which he [...]
Pete Smith @ April 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Today, April 19th, Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has launched the Australia 2020 Summit, “an important initiative to harness the best ideas for building a modern Australia that is ready for the challenges of the 21st century”. 1000 expert invitees wll spend the weekend debating topics such as ‘Australia’s future security and prosperity in [...]
Pete Smith @ January 6, 2008 # 3 Comments
A flyer in my weekend paper announces that Londoners are to be offered the chance to exchange two traditional light bulbs for two free energy efficient bulbs. From 11th-13th January, take your nasty old incandescent bulb along to any branch of B&Q and trade it in for a lovely new long-lasting, energy-efficient compact fluorescent lightbulb [...]
Pete Smith @ January 3, 2008 # 3 Comments
The second series of Jericho is scheduled to premiere on CBS on February 12th. The post-apocalyptic drama follows the progress of a small Kansas town as it struggles to come to terms with the destruction of 22 major US cities. Series 1 ended on a cliff-hanger with the people of Jericho defending themselves against an [...]
Pete Smith @ December 16, 2007 # 2 Comments
Question 1
In 2003 the United States used the United Nations to legitimise its invasion of Iraq on the grounds of Iraq’s threat to global security.
(a) Discuss the proposition that the United States’ response to climate change poses as significant a threat to global security as Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction”.
(b) Assess the practicality and effectiveness [...]
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 26, 2007 # 3 Comments
Photo: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
The New York Times has been running a series of in-depth articles ‘Choking For Growth’, exploring the extent of the pollution crisis in China. In the latest instalment, ‘Far From Beijing’s Reach, Officials Bend Energy Rules’, Howard W. French shows how China’s campaign to cut energy use is having [...]
Pete Smith @ November 23, 2007 # One Comment
Well, not quite all. Here in sunny Bromley, capital of the People’s Republic of Suburbia, a trial scheme to compost kitchen waste is being hailed as a roaring success. 6000 homes in six neighbourhoods of the London Borough have been selected to take part in the six-month scheme which began in September.
Participants in the trial [...]
Pete Smith @ November 19, 2007 # One Comment
Following the publication of the Climate Change Bill, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn will take part in a live webchat on the 10 Downing Street website, and will answer questions on the theme of climate change and floods.
“This Bill is a landmark in environmental legislation and will set us firmly on the path to the low-carbon [...]
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 [...]