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Well you don’t get much news for a while and all of a sudden two things happen at once. Today, thanks to the guys at Better Place relaying this type of news, two prototypes of Zero Emission fully Electric Vehicles have been unveiled. One is by Renault, the other by Nissan. Now I’m a big ( Read more... )

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Yeah I know another boring environment entry but this sort of thing gets me all excited. In the last few weeks, though I suspect it’s been in the works for longer than that, it’s become apparent that the UK is showing a willingness to commit to a greener economy in terms of energy and ( Read more... )

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Now this is the sort of news I like to read before I head off to sleep. Under a new scheme currently being put in place by Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, people who generate their own power through renewable methods (normally solar or wind) could be put on a scheme ( Read more... )

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I’ve only found this out today by pure chance reading the Metro (which rarely happens these days, yet I saw 2 copies today). So today is apparently Green Britain Day, an initiative in the spirit of the upcoming 2012 London Olympic Games to encourage the British population to become ( Read more... )

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Following the tragic and untimely death of Michael Jackson last week, a multitude of artists have started offering tributes to the late King of the Pop. According to Music Radar, from which the video below came from, there are rumours going around about a tribute concert similar to the ( Read more... )

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Well it’s not much but it’s something. There were apparently obstacles to the UK building more wind farms in order to increase their chances to meet the EU targets of 15% energy supplied from renewable sources by 2020.

The first obstacle was that it was believed the grid could not cope ( Read more... )

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Here’s finally something to be proud of. This afternoon, Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) have unanimously agreed to reduce carbon emissions from an initial agreement of 34% to 42% by 2020. In the longer term, the idea is to have them reduced by 80% by 2050.

This won’t be easy ( Read more... )

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I should check Digg more often, there tends to be some interesting articles that don’t get picked up anywhere else.

Anyway, this is just a quick post to plug this very interesting article from Time Magazine on line about whether wind power can finally overcome fossil fuels as the main ( Read more... )

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A few weeks ago when I introduced the Manpollo Project, I mentioned that Greg Craven, the guy behind all the videos I posted, was in the process of writing a book about his ideas on how to tackle the seemingly endless debate about Climate Change. Well things are moving along, the book ( Read more... )

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Pinged back from various sources but original from Jenn again.

That’s right Mr Big. is back and they’re coming to Europe in September. The good news is, they’re coming to the UK, the bad news, not to Scotland… in fact they seem to only do one date per country, except Spain where they do ( Read more... )