- Also provides a great deal of useful information on green living and a classifieds section to enable the public to give away, or find, unwanted household items.

Alternatives to alternative energy
7. April 2011
Governments need to channel more financial and intellectual resources into solving the long term energy conundrum. We need something on the scale of the Manhattan Project (which created the atomic bomb), or the Apollo Program (which put a man on the moon). Read more

Energy

UK firm uses cooking oil to power building
7. April 2011

Energy

Growing biomass on unused land can help meet energy needs, study finds
7. April 2011
Short-rotation biomass crops could help meet the UK’s renewable energy targets without impacting on food production or the environment, a study has found. Read more

Energy

WikiLeaks - nuclear industry corruption
7. April 2011
In the wake of the emotion prompted by the Fukushima nuclear accident, and at a time when the Italian government appears to be reluctant to implement a policy of redeploying nuclear power (phased out following a referendum in 1987), L'Espresso publishes a series of American diplomatic cables that reveal how "bribes could have a major impact on the future of the country’s energy industry." Read more

Energy

Barclays 'making up to £340 million profit' on food price speculation
5. April 2011
Barclays could be making as much as £340 million a year in profit through gambling on the price of key commodity crops like coffee, sugar and wheat, the Ecologist has learnt. High-street customers could be subsidising the role of Barclays Capital in driving up global food prices and leaving millions facing hunger and malnutrition, says campaign group. Read more

Magazine

Weekend Project: Making Biodiesel
5. April 2011

Magazine

The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all
5. April 2011
George Monbiot: Over the last fortnight I've made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice. Read more

Energy

Where there's muck there's brass
4. April 2011
Henderson's Seb Beloe lays waste to the claim that British companies are not doing their bit for the environment. In fact the waste management industry has been undergoing a complete revolution. Read more

Recycling

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