A ‘green loan’ scheme which allows people to pay for energy-saving measures such as solar panels after they’ve had them installed, rather than before, has just been announced by the Government.
Green campaigners have been celebrating since Bristol city councillors dramatically rejected their own legal officer’s advice and threw out plans to build a biofuel plant at Avonmouth earlier this week. So is that the end of the story? Not necessarily.
A Bristol couple has beaten 8,000 other homeowners to win a £23,000 eco-makeover on their home, thanks to a campaign fronted by Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud.
A new film, Food, Inc, has just opened in the UK – and comes to Bristol tomorrow for a week – which lifts the veil on our industrialised food industry and the mega corporations that now control so much of it.
The National Trust has announced an ambitious plan to slash its use of fossil fuels by 50% within 10 years – using wind turbines and hydro power and by ‘growing its own energy’ in the form of wood fuel and solar panels.
A barrage across the Severn Estuary to create green electricity would be an environmental catastrophe – destroying wildlife and leading to disastrous flooding – if the Dutch experience is anything to go by, according to a conservation charity.
Start generating your own electricity using a small wind turbine or solar panel and from April you’ll be entitled to claim payments for the green energy you produce.
The Bristol-based Soil Association conference has heard that adopting widespread organic farming across the UK could offset nearly a quarter of British agriculture’s official greenhouse gas emissions.
We’re all going to have to eat far less meat and far more locally produced food if we are going to avoid a looming global food crisis, adapt to climate change and feed the world’s growing population. That was the message from the Bristol-based Soil Association’s annual conference
The UK reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 2% in 2008, taking our carbon emissions to 19.4% below 1990 levels, according to new figures released by the Government yesterday. That puts the UK well above its Kyoto climate treaty target of reducing emissions by 12.5% below 1990 levels.
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