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How much to let me put a nuclear dustbin in your back yard?
The Business Secretary, John Hutton, has ambitions that the United Kingdom should become the number one place for nuclear energy generation in the world. It is the only policy that he thinks that will...
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Low energy light bulbs may put mercury into the fish we eat
Millions of low energy light bulbs are being given away to British home occupiers. It, along with insulation, is the Government’s virtually only policy to reduce carbon emissions in households. Low...
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Plastic bottles and a Junk made out of junk
Two brave eco warriors, Marcus Eriksen and Joe Paschal from San Francisco built a thirty foot vessel from junk. They salvaged a mast from another vessel, the cabin was made from a fuselage of a Cessna...
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North of the chemical equator
If you live in the northern hemisphere, and most people do, you will be breathing a different and poorer quality of air than if you live in the southern hemisphere. Researchers from the University of...
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Supermarkets are super creators of greenhouse gas
The Environmental Investigation Agency is a small campaigning organisation that was established to prevent trade in endangered species and, naturally for an organisation that seeks to prevent the loss...
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Do not breathe too deeply in the city
I was brought up in Poplar, which is in the East End of London and is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. My school was separated from a main road by a very narrow pavement. The road was...
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Rubbish, wheelie bins and recycling
For years the United Kingdom had a very unhealthy attitude towards its rubbish compared with its European partners. There were weekly rubbish collections from the home; some places allowed you to put...
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Climate change scepticism
There is plenty of disbelief in the theory of human made climate change in the United Kingdom according to a survey by the University of Cardiff in Wales. It is not hard to understand the reasons for...
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Wheelie Bins
All over the developed world there is one thing that you see on almost every street. The thing is instantly recognisable whatever language you speak and spends usually twenty to forty hours a week on...
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Burying Radium and your head in the sand
Not too far from Edinburgh, on the East coast of Scotland in Fife lies Dalgety Bay, a area of some beauty which is close to many residences of people who work in Edinburgh. It lies on the North side of...
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