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Citizens across the UK will have the chance to expand their knowledge of all things green with a London expedition due to run in May. Entitled LONDON AWARE 08, the exhibition gives people a chance to meet and talk with the exhibitors. And as the website tells us: LONDON AWARE 08 will be a meeting [...]
Not many of us link our soy chai latte or our occasional fast food splurge with Amazon deforestation. However, travel up the Amazon river and you’ll be greeted not by endless lush forest, but by soy farms and cattle ranches. We’re all familiar with the statistic: every minute, an area of forest the size of [...]
Each January since 2001, the World Social Forum (WSF) has assembled NGO’s and activists in a “developing” nation under the banner, “another world is possible.” The WSF hopes to counterbalance the World Economic Forum (WEF), which attracts the world’s rich and famous to Davos, Switzerland each year. The WEF motto: “entrepreneurship in the global public [...]
Commercial aviation is coming under increasing environmental pressure due to its high emissions, noise and rapid growth. Militarily aviation in Switzerland is now starting to feel some of the same pressures. Swiss hotel owner and environmentalist Walter Knutti has become tired of the noise and concerned by unnecessary emissions from military aircraft on training flights [...]
Perhaps one of the more confusing factors regarding global warming is the suggestion that parts of the planet will indeed get a whole lot colder. It doesn’t seem to equate, does it? Surely, as harmful emissions trap heat from the sun, then logic would dictate that the planet would uniformly heat up as a result. [...]
