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It is a really good sign if a company is winning a customer service awards. It is even better news if that company is a company selling renewable energy. This is what  Green Energy UK has done this week. We need more examples like that if the sustainability industry is to be seen as a [...]

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Global warming o Climate Change is our single biggest threat these days and still noone really seems to care about it that much. This article here is a great post on the need to stop debating and to start convincing people to solve it. This is the beginning of the Huffington Post article:
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Several years ago [...]

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A german fishing boat flies giant kite to save fuel. How great is that? And this is a sign of how the marine future may look like? A really interesting article.
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The 15,000 tonne ‘Maartje Theadora’ is the first fishing vessel to use the system, in which a 160 square meter blue and white [...]

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Now this is a frighting report for everyone living in the UK. Published today a report entitled Land Use Futures: Making the Most of Land in the 21st Century. This is the beginning of the article:
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Mass migration northwards to new towns in Scotland, Wales and northeast England may be needed to cope with [...]

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If you are getting asked the same question about climate change and again and again: What about climate change? We have had the coldest weather imaginable this year. What can you possibly say other then: ‘ This is the weather and not the climate’. Here is another interesting article that will help you get more [...]

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Now we will see whether our leaders will stick to their comittments from the shambolic Copenhagen Conference:
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Donors will probably have to decide for themselves how to spend money in 2010 since there is no mechanism to guide handouts. A “Copenhagen Green Climate Fund,” also planned by last month’s low-ambition summit, does not yet exist.
“The expectation [...]

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This is an interesting article I thought I would share with everyone here:
Industrial biotechnology is gaining supporters among environmentalists as a way to make significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and eventually move to a society free from fossil fuels. The lofty idea behind industrial, or white, biotechnology is to use nature’s own ingredients to solve industrial problems. [...]

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Climate change scepticism is likely to surge in 2010 and could exacerbate “hardship” for the planet’s poorest people, one of the world’s leading authorities on climate change has told the Guardian.
Writing on environmentguardian.co.uk today, Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, also dismisses suggestions that he is personally profiting from [...]

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This is an interesting analysis of the Copenhagen talks:
Fuqiang Yang, director of global climate solutions, WWF International
The negotiations in Copenhagen ended without a fair, ambitious or legally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this, what emerged was an agreement that will, at the very least, cut greenhouse gases, set up an emissions verification [...]

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Climate change minister Ed Miliband Sunday blamed China for blocking an accord on legally-binding emissions targets and a 50 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2050 at the Copenhagen summit.
Miliband admitted the results of the Copenhagen conference were “disappointing” but insisted that important progress was made in the fight against global warming.
“We got a lot [...]

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