The long term health of the landscape and its accessibility to the public is being scythed away.
From the plan to sell off a substantial percentage of the UK's forests (some presumably for the huge N Wales windfarm projects) to the news that the Lake District is great place to dump nuclear waste ('The report will not in itself determine where a long ( Read more... )

(Further fallout from the forestry selloff musings, the more general points of which I'm starting to switch over to the more general (and considered) collection I'm starting on at findantonia: relevant bits to date there at journal items 2815 and 3024 ( Read more... )

in Snowdonia, 3,500 acres of forest has been earmarked for felling to make way for wind turbines,: UK deforestation and shifting wildlife baselines

An unnamed entity (probably US right-wing thinktank) is funding a mail-out of the controversial anti-climate change propganda film to UK schools
Lord Monckton accepted yesterday that the original ( Read more... )

British cold spell denialists slapped http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/06/cold-snap-climate-sceptics and ( Read more... )

Monbiot on: 'The professional classes have the most freedom to lose and the least to gain from an attempt to restrain it. Those who are most responsible for carbon pollution are - being insulated by their money - the least likely to suffer its effects.'

Monbiot has a beef with C4 over their coverage. While I understand his frustration, C4s ( Read more... )

Starts here

Computer disposal

Is laminated bamboo biodegradeable or landfill?
(i.e. does it's 'greenness' lie in the avoidance of production energy costs alone, or is it a gain throught the life and death of the product?)

And how heatproof and fire retardant is it?

Buried at the end of the environment article which fails to refer to the limitations of low-energy lightbulbs or ethanol-based fuels as environment-improving steps:
In a separate development, Democrats decided not to carry out their threat to withhold military spending until Bush agreed to a resolution that would see US troops out of Iraq by the ( Read more... )

Today's environment and strategic news (which you have probably seen all in other outlets ):
this claim was predicatable from this manoeuvre though the geology looks less convincing

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