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Pete Smith @ November 28, 2007 # 4 Comments
In politics, as in comedy, timing is everything. Kevin Rudd’s election victory in Australia, just before the start of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, has created a wave of optimism that at last we might be getting somewhere. There are legal arguments that the Rudd government would have to consult the Australian parliamentary [...]
Pete Smith @ November 16, 2007 # 2 Comments
Spinwatch, in conjunction with Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe and LobbyControl, are running The Worst EU Lobbying and Greenwash Awards 2007. This is your chance to vote for the “most deceptive, misleading, or otherwise problematic lobbying tactics in attempts to influence EU decision-making”.
Nominees in the ‘Worst EU Lobbying’ category are:
BMW, Daimler and [...]
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 @ June 7, 2007 # 17 Comments
Fed up with all that worthy talk about carbon credits? Do you want to make a real difference to the environment? Some enterprising Americans may have the answer. The nice people at carbondeductions.com offer you the chance to kill trees to offset carbon credits. They have a mission statement:
“The reason we sell Carbon Debits [...]
Pete Smith @ May 9, 2007 # 6 Comments
Last month, The Coffee House reported on the plight of Manor Garden Allotments (‘Olympic’ Allotments Bulldozer Threat). With their century-old site due to be erased by construction work for the 2012 London Olympics, allotment holders have started legal proceedings against the London Development Agency for reneging on promises to provide an alternative site www.lifeisland.org.
Phil Michaels, [...]
Pete Smith @ May 5, 2007 # 3 Comments
U.S. government agencies have abandoned their adherence to the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) by hazing, or driving, nearly all of the buffalo that are currently in Montana back into Yellowstone National Park, including heavily pregnant females and many newborn calves.
The official purpose of the hazing operations is to “limit the risk of brucellosis transmission [...]
Pete Smith @ April 6, 2007 # 12 Comments
Last month, the Royal Commision on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) published a report, ‘The Urban Environment’ , expressing astonishment that “on the eve of the new phase of urban regeneration and expansion, we lack an over-arching urban environment policy to coordinate the provision of housing, transport, energy and other vital services”. It makes a number of [...]
Pete Smith @ March 13, 2007 # 6 Comments
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Pete Smith @ March 7, 2007 # 2 Comments
You couldn’t make it up. The Sustainable Development Commission, the UK government’s own independent watchdog, has reported that the UK’s 19 government departments and associated agencies are missing sustainability targets left, right and centre. The full report, produced for the SDC by environmental consultancy Entec UK, can be found here, but here are a [...]