Eat Food
Pete Smith @ January 13, 2008 # 7 Comments
Channel 4’s food season ‘Big Food Fight’ is about to start its second week. I’ve deliberately avoided most of the programs so far, because I know a lot of this stuff already and frankly I just get upset by yet more gory details about factory farming. Great bloke though Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall seems to be, I [...]
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nUKlear
Pete Smith @ January 10, 2008 # 10 Comments
It’s taken a while, but today the UK government has given formal backing to the construction of a new generation of nuclear power stations. To paraphrase Sir Humphrey Appleby, that most civil of civil servants: as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another, then in the [...]
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Pssst! Wanna Buy Some Green Energy?
Pete Smith @ December 10, 2007 # 4 Comments
The Observer reports that Britain is running out of renewable energy, as a surge in demand from businesses has outstripped the supply of electricity generated from ‘green’ sources. Firms’ interest in reducing their carbon footprint has far exceeded new capacity coming on-stream. This leaves companies which have pledged to become ‘carbon neutral’ with a sizeable [...]
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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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