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Pete Smith @ June 3, 2008 # 6 Comments
Back from our traditional Whitsun break, and time to take stock. After a surprisingly small amount of soul-searching I’ve decided to put Change Alley out of its misery. There are other projects that are more deserving of my attention right now.
The Change Alley brand may make a reappearance in a new form in the future, [...]
Pete Smith @ May 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Shares in British Airways rose sharply this morning after preliminary results for the 12 months to March revealed annual pre-tax profits up by 44.5% to £883 million. These excellent figures are bucking the trend in airlines around the world, and particularly in the US, where the airline sector as a whole posted an $11 billion [...]
Pete Smith @ April 21, 2008 # One Comment
The flowering currant in our front garden is in full bloom, and is covered with bees, although you’d never know it from the photograph. Sadly, they seem to be desperately camera-shy, after a dozen attempts I gave up trying to get a shot with even a single bee in it. You’ll just have to take [...]
Pete Smith @ March 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“Britain seeks loophole in EU green energy targets” trumpeted The Guardian yesterday, as if this is something new that hasn’t been on the cards for months. Back in August, newspapers reported that Government ministers had been told that Britain has no hope of meeting its commitment to renewable energy and should consider ways of [...]
Pete Smith @ March 11, 2008 # One Comment
Hot on the heels of the Catholic Church including environmental pollution on its list of mortal sins for the 21st Century , the Southern Baptist Church declares that it has been “too timid” on environmental issues. Senior members of the Southern Baptist Convention have signed ‘A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change‘, [...]
Pete Smith @ January 1, 2008 # 2 Comments
After two years, The Coffee House is going through its biggest shake-up yet. In November we moved over to our own self-hosted domain running Wordpress. Sadly, after six weeks my colleague Matt has decided that our viewing figures are too low and has taken himself back to the old site.
I have too much time and [...]
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 [...]
Pete Smith @ July 11, 2007 # One Comment
Shares in Traction Technology plc (LSE:TRAC) rose sharply on the London Stock Exchange today, after the company announced the launch of its new ‘TRIBRID’ product range for bus operators. TRIBRID is a power pack that has the ability to draw on three separate power sources for use in bus engines.
Traction Technology Plc is a [...]
Pete Smith @ January 24, 2007 # 2 Comments
I found this posted on an American ‘preparedness’ site, survivalblog.com. It sums up Joe Public’s ignorance of his relationship with his environment.
I have always relied upon the complex interdependencies of society
They have never failed me in the past.
They will, therefore, never fail me in the future.
I do not need to prepare for [...]