Keen readers will recall this posting from last year about the petition to “levy a tax on energy inefficient light bulbs so that their long term financial and environmental cost is visible in their retail price”. I’ve just got an email telling me of the governments response: (my comments in line)
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has […]
Melanie’s Bean Sprouts blog makes for interesting reading if you are interested in practical things to help the environment. Having changed our electricity supplier last year to npower’s Juice tarif I had assumed I was buying electricity from 100% renewable sources. It turns out I’m not …
Bean Sprouts - Melanie Rimmer
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… The electricity companies’ implication […]
Aaron Cohen
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Following on from Australia’s pledge to phase out the usage of incandescent bulbs, the 27 leaders of the European Union have decided that all member states will have to use energy efficient lighting before 2010 (yes, that’s just 3 years away). The switchover, which will affect all of the EU’s 470 million+ citizens, was […]
Guardian
At the high court earlier today, Mr Justice Sullivan granted the environmental group Greenpeace an order quashing the government’s decision to build new nuclear power stations.
Greenpeace had accused the government of reneging on its promise to carry out “the fullest consultation” before making its decision.
It said the government failed to present clear proposals and information […]
I went to a really good event on Tuesday night to launch the results from Forum for the Future’s Future leaders survey. I met several great people. One of whom, Sebastian Wood, told me about his new startup business Better Generation which advises on saving energy and generating electricity at home. They have a shop […]
Happy new year all!
I’ve just offset all the carbon emmisions from my flights last year (London to Florida for work, London to Madrid for work and London to Croatia for holiday). You should consider doing the same. I used carbonneutral.com and it was easy and informative. They explain it far better than I can:
www.carbonneutral.com
One single […]
As has been discussed in comments on my “light bulb action” posting devices such as TV’s, DVD players and set top boxes that are in standby mode rather than switched off waste power. This wasted power costs you money and generation of that power most likely released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The simple solution to […]
Here is a chance for us all to be heard!
Energy inefficient light bulb petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lightbulbs/
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to levy a tax on energy inefficient light bulbs so that their long term financial and environmental cost is visible in their retail price
(International readers this is a UK only petition but I think […]
Another good article from Mike’s very informative and interesting blog, this one is about generating electriicity from geothermal energy.
Electricity from hot water
That’s right, geothermal resources (hot fluid and/or gas) can and is being used to generate electricity the world over. Geothermal literally means “heat from the earth.” The first successful geothermal electricity generation installation was […]
This explains why the Morrisons supermarket I stopped at in Bridgwater on Sunday had so many Bioethanol pumps:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4498934.stm
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4603272.stm
Its an interesting option to reduce carbon emissions, although I think there a better options for cars and other land based transportation (Electricty or Hydrogen fuel cells). Where this has to make a difference is comercial airlines. Virgin’s […]
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