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Did you know that soil is a non-renewable resource? This year – 2015 – has been declared the International Year of Soils. If you want to know a bit more about it, I suggest you read this interesting article. http://colour-of-money.co.uk/international-year-of-soils/
Home Energy Grants Scrapped
For an Administration that claims to be supporting renewable energy they’re certainly going the wrong way about it. The Home Renewables Grant aimed at encouraging home owners to fit things like solar panels to their roofs is to be scrapped … Continue reading
Electric Cars – subsidy gone?
The previous Labour government pledge to help the motor car industry introduce electric vehicles into the UK market place by offering a £5,000 grant to purchasers. Despite the Lib Dems having a “green” thread to their manifesto it would appear … Continue reading
Tar Sands
Tar Sands development has been in the press a lot (especially before the BP oil problems in the Gulf of Mexico). Most people want pressure put on Royal Bank of Scotland (a Government owned company) as they finance the developments … Continue reading
Climate Change, Global Warming, does it exist?
According to a couple of “flat earthers” at last nights One Planet election hustings held in Haddington – no! The science behind this is not proven and certainly not man-made was the claim. In one sense I agree with them … Continue reading
Biofuels and Hunger
Biofuels are made from food crops like maize, so by using biofuels we are basically burning poor people’s food in our cars. The amount of crops it takes to fill a large vehicle fuel tank with biofuel would feed a … Continue reading
Our Environment
This planet on which we live has a very thin life-supporting layer on it that cannot be viewed edge on from space. If the planet was the size of a football, this fragile layer would be as thick as a … Continue reading
What’s the environment for?
According to some people it exists to be exploited for maximum profit, it’s both a mine of natural resources and a waste dumping ground. But it doesn’t need to be viewed this way. Many indigenous communities have a far healthier … Continue reading
Create a safer cycling environment
According to Sustrans of the 2% of journeys made by bike in the UK only a quarter of that are made by women. In the Netherlands of the 27% of bike journeys over half are by women. Sustrans wants to … Continue reading
Some views on migration
Some views on migration from me. The United Nations Refugee Agency has found that 90 per cent of those who crossed into Europe by sea last year came from the world’s top-10 refugee producing nations. So why are refugees paying … Continue reading →