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UK windfarms off-shored to Ireland – the arguments for and against this...
image: dan / freedigitalphotos.net When is an Offshore Wind farm really an Onshore Wind farm? When it’s on somebody else’s shore! Last week saw the signing of an historic Memorandum of Understanding...
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The Horsemeat Scandal – What’s in our Food?
images: Piyachok Thawornmat / freedigitalphotos.net The headlines this week have been all about the furore surrounding the disclosure that certain processed meat products on sale in supermarkets have...
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Weird Weather or Changing Climate?
image: Jomphong / freedigitalphotos.net There have been a number of sets of weather and climate-related data published in the last couple of weeks that illustrate just how extreme the weather was in...
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Margaret Thatcher – the unsung environmentalist?
image: wikipedia commons Since the announcement of the death on Monday 8th April of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (latterly Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven), the British media has been awash...
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CO2 levels rising but no one takes any notice
image: njaj / freedigitalphotos.net To be fair to the Prime Minister, he did have a lot on his mind on 10th May 2013. The Conservative party was embarking on one of its periodic spasms of...
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The State of Nature affects us all
Published last week amid as much of a blaze of publicity that the media ever grants to environmental issues, the State of Nature report was launched by veteran documentary maker and national treasure...
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Shale Gas Tax Breaks
Image:Stuart Miles/ freedigitalphotos.net Today Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced plans to give generous shale gas tax breaks to companies involved in exploiting the UK’s...
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Fracking Threatens to Fracture the Coalition
Image: xedos4/ freedigitalphotos.net Following increasing public disquiet about fracking, including the recent protests and direct action around the Sussex village of Balcombe, which saw the arrest of...
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The Davos Summit since 2011, ThriveAbility and our uncertain future
Speaking at the Davos World Economic Forum in January 2011, Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon did not mince his words when he addressed the assembled world leaders, central bankers...
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What to do about Somerset Levels as the Floodwaters Rise in Somerset?
January 2014 was the wettest month in the UK since records began, according to figures from the Met Office. The persistent heavy rainfall has led to flooding across many parts of the UK, some of the...
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