Environmental Photographer of the Year Award 2008, Natural World, runner up: ‘Green Steps’, Ly Hoang Long, Vietnam A scary article in last Saturday’s Guardian outlines the extent to which rich nations are flexing their financial muscles around the globe to secure their food supplies. …
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Scramble For Soil
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Composting For All
http://environmentdebate.co.uk/2008/11/21/composting-for-all/Well, not quite all. The London Borough of Bromley’s (LBB) trial of weekly kitchen waste collections continues its lumbering progress. The Composting For All trial has been running since September 2007, with 4,500 participating households (or 5,000 depending on which piece of LBB propaganda you happen to read). …
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“Grow Your Own” Guidance For Eco-towns
http://environmentdebate.co.uk/2008/09/19/grow-your-own-guidance-for-eco-towns/Urban paradise: ‘A place for everything’ by Justin Coombes All residents of proposed new eco-towns should have access to land where they can grow their own food, according to new guidance drawn up by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA). …
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The Coffee House
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It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison
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Swifts Locally Extinct
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Swifts Locally Extinct
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Australia Pumping Empty
http://petethehat.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/australia-pumping...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
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Australia Pumping Empty
http://changealley.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/australia-pumpin...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
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Goodbye To Cheap Air travel
http://petethehat.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/goodbye-to-cheap-...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
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Goodbye To Cheap Air travel
http://changealley.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/goodbye-to-cheap...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
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Food Profiteering: Investing in Starvation
http://earthpal.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/food-profiteering-i...m aware that there are other factors contributing to the jump in food costs and as I said, there have been many explanations put forward as to what is causing the crisis. Pete from Change Alley has a good post up here but even so, it seems so wrong that the traders are allowed to worsen the situation and play their market games with blatant disregard for the human costs. People are starving, there’s a major food crisis and what do the fat cats do? They
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Model - Weaning villagers off supermarkets
http://www.sustainablecitiesnet.com/sustainable-cities/model...extensive system using the minimum of chemical inputs”. For more information about Martin visit Change Alley and “The Real Good Life”. For more information about the Future Farm cooperative model visit http://www.futurefarms.org.uk/index.html.