FootprintWire: 25/08/10
Today’s green news includes an oil rush in the Arctic and beautiful photography of renewable technologies by Toby Smith
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Hattie Hartman’s sustainability blog: best practice, projects and products
Today’s green news includes an oil rush in the Arctic and beautiful photography of renewable technologies by Toby Smith
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In today’s news: The Guardian calls for Britain to protect and encourage its biodiversity.
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Green news today - including how to get free solar panels for your house
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Links from today’s broadsheets:
The Sustainable Development Commission is set to be scrapped tomorrow by the coalition government.
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PRP have completed their first retrofit as part of the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Retrofit for the Future’ programme.
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China’s growing renewables industry has been a lot in the news recently. Jonathan Porritt of Forum for the Future, who introduced the RIBA Ashden debate last week, is just back from Shanghai where he has been researching a series for the BBC.
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Guest Blogger Lynne Sullivan, Sustainable by Design
The RIBA and other professional institutions are considering what they can usefully contribute in the run up to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. Measures set out in ‘The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan’ issued recently by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, amount to [...]
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On Wednesday Professor James Woudhuysen gave his third lecture as part of YRM’s ‘Ten Talks’ series.The talk was titled ‘The future of Nuclear Power and Renewables’ and was typically provocative (an upcoming talk is ‘the future of sex’). If you aren’t familiar with ‘futurologist’ Wouduysen have a look at his website where you’ll find acerbic [...]
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