Tag Archives: biosphere
Many people like me would probably prefer to buy a wood based product, furniture, if it had an Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label attached to it. This label is used to promote use of timber from socially and environmental beneficial … Continue reading
Water is essential but growing populations are draining supplies
For life you need water but, millions of people on our little planet live in places with little or no water. The Horn of Africa is just one example. The 16 most water stressed states are in the Middle East … Continue reading
Our food may be killing us
I’ve read a few articles over the last couple of days suggesting that pressure being put on farmers to control disease in their animals may end up reducing our resistance to disease. Mega factory farming, as practiced in the USA … Continue reading
Government fails to get tough on Excess Packaging
The average family spends £470 each year just on packaging for goods they purchase. There is the cost of disposing of it – as well as paying our local Councils to collect our rubbish, we’re now paying extra for whatever isn’t … Continue reading
Despite recession carbon emissions continue to grow
A recent article in the Guardian Weekly has highlighted that despite there being a recession in some parts of the world recently, the volume of carbon emissions went up last year not down. It has been expected that carbon emissions … Continue reading
Sustainable Economy or Economic Growth – part two
Various surveys suggest that while economic growth has more than tripled in countries like the UK and U.S. since 1950, data regarding life satisfaction reveal that people have not become any happier. Happiness and life satisfaction apparently increase with income, … Continue reading
Sustainable Economy or Economic Growth – part one
Reading through the Scottish Liberal Democrats manifesto I came across the “green” section. The intro sounded OK referring to ‘a sustainable economy’. I turned over the page and started to read the Climate Change Action Plan’. In the second paragraph … Continue reading
Biodiversity – what does it mean?
I’ve just read a recent article on the Guardian’s Environment Blog regarding last year’s United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. In the final paragraph the author, Ben Bryant, suggest the UN need to come up with a better, less wordy, … Continue reading
ScotLibDems – improving our forests
As this is the UN International Year of Forests I was glad to read some positive proposals regarding Scotland’s forests in the Scottish Liberal Democrats manifesto. This states that Scot Lib Dems will retain public ownership of the country’s forests … Continue reading
There is very little that’s natural about our countryside
I’ve previously written about High Speed Rail here. There is an article in the Guardian here and a leader in the Independent here. One thing that only the Guardian has mentioned so far is the potential impact on the environment. … Continue reading
