‘ENVIRONMENT’ Archives
GREEN HOLIDAY
INTERVIEW: JANET DICKINSON Still want to have a holiday, but want to do it in a eco-friendly way? Then dump the idea of rushing to your destination and go slow. Janet Dickinson is author of “Slow Travel and Tourism”.
REDUCING WASTE IN THE COFFEE INDUSTRY
REDUCING WASTE IN THE COFFEE INDUSTRY. By CHANTAL COOKE. Most of us hate waste. And most of us enjoy a good cup of coffee. In fact in the UK we buy over 27,680 tonnes of coffee a year. And in the process our coffee drinking habit produces a lot of waste! However, Jeremy Knight has found a way to help [...]
CARBON BUSINESS
INTERVIEW: JANE BURSTON Carbon trading, carbon offsetting, buying and selling carbon – lots of possibilities but what do they mean? Jane Burston is from Carbon Retirement.
REDUCING FUEL CONSUMPTION
INTERVIEW: NEIL GREG If you want to be more environmentally friendly, but you can’t give up your car, there are still ways to reduce your fuel consumption, and therefore your CO2 emissions. Neil Greg is Director of Policy at the Institute of Advanced Motorists.
OVERPOPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
LET YOUR KEYBOARD SAVE THE PLANET. By JASON DREW. Let your keyboard save the planet. Let me first explain why we need to bother. The credit crunch has shaken our global economy, but it will recover. ‘The Protein Crunch’ is far more serious and, if we open our eyes, it is unfolding right in front of us. Our food – protein [...]
MISTREATMENT OF ANIMALS
HOW OUR TREATMENT OF ANIMALS AFFECTS US. By AYSHA AKHTAR. In the US, there was a recent report of the arrest of a man who tortured and killed his wife's kitten because he was upset the kitten had scratched him. The man was described as hitting the kitten repeatedly with his fists, slamming her into a wall, [...]
LIFE AND DEATH ON THE MASAI MARA
LIFE AND DEATH ON THE MASAI MARA. By CHANTAL COOKE. Dozens of bodies float down the river, forming huge islands of death as they get caught on the rocks and other debris. Crocodiles, fat from gorging on the rotting flesh, sit back and watch as Marabou Storks and Vultures peck away at the meat. There’s [...]
URBAN BIODIVERSITY
INTERVIEW: DAVE WAKELIN If we want to encourage biodiversity in our towns and cities is it a good idea to build on brown field sites? And if we do build on them can we encourage biodiversity onto the site. Dave Wakelin, Senior Sustainability Consultant at Hilson Moran.
NATURAL FIBRES
INTERVIEW: DR BRETT SUDDELL Natural fibres are becoming more and more common in very day items from cars to clothes to appliances. They can come from animals, from minerals and from plants and they have a wide rnge of environmental benefits according to Dr Brett Suddell from ADAS.
ETHICAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CRISIS
TOWARDS AN ECONOMY OF KINDNESS. By ANNIE LAWLER. Ethical Human Solutions to the Global Crisis It is clear to many people across the world that the current systems are not serving the majority of the people as well as they could. There are of course, solutions but we need to look at ways of breaking out [...]
