Articles tagged ‘climate change’
Daily Dose 08.15
By Chris | August 15th, 2007 |
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* Research by neuropsychology team shows travellers passing through Heathrow Airport suffer higher stress levels than fighter pilots, Formula One racing drivers, parachutists and riot police.(Telegraph)
* Sunderland manager and former Manchester United hardman Roy Keane says many of todays Premiership players are so pussy whipped by their WAGS that they will not consider playing for [...]
Carbon Calculator
By Chris | June 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
On the day its reported that China has overtaken the US as the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, here in the UK the Department of the Environment has launched a new online CO2 Calculator for people to get an idea of the carbon footprint they’re leaving due to their everyday actives at home.
You input some [...]
Lights Out London
By Chris | June 19th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
London’s Capital Radio has been organising and promoting its Lights Out London event to highlight climate change, which will take place this Thursday 21 June. The idea is that the whole of London turns off all lights and non-essential appliances between 9pm-10pm on Midsummer’s Night.
This shouldn’t be that difficult as it’ll still be light at [...]
Climate Change in Britain photo exhibition
By Chris | April 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The National Trust has got together with Magnum Photos to pose the question, what does climate change mean for the UK, to 10 of Britain’s leading photographers and asked them to answer it by taking pictures of the effects of climate change around the country.
The result is an exhibition called Exposed:Climate Change in Britain’s Backyard [...]
Live Earth:London concert ticket ballot
By Chris | April 10th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This July there’s going to be a series of huge concerts, under the title Live Earth:The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis, taking place in seven cities around the world to highlight climate change and they’re all happening on 7 July 2007. The cities staging the shows are London, New York, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, [...]
Making London more sustainable
By Chris | March 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Politicians in the UK are falling over themselves at the moment to show who has the greenest policies, the Conservatives only yesterday announcing how they’d whack more taxes on flying, although what collecting revenue is going to do to stop climate change I still can’t work out.
There’s an exhibition at New London Architecture at [...]
How clean is London’s air?
By Chris | January 25th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
London Mayor Ken Livingstone, in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum says he wants London to be the greenest city in the world and the leading centre for climate change research within five years.
The mayor says ‘cities produce 75% of global carbon emissions and it is therefore in cities that the battle against [...]
