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Much has been written on TalkClimateChange of the challenges associated with the mass adoption of renewable energy.
Yet investors are apparently keen to throw money at renewable projects, despite lingering uncertainty over the plans of many governments to implement carbon credits as a means of incentivising such projects.
Keith Johnson wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal:
Spain’s […]

This post was originally published on EcoWorldly. It is loosely connected with climate change in that it concerns the potential for the mass adoption of public transport, although I post it here purely for your interest and to spread the message.
Putting pen to paper for Bus Transportation Week I began to make a few notes […]

I am going to get a little introspective about my life and the contradictions I face everyday in my work, my lifestyle, and my opinions in an effort to see if there is a balance that can be reached in regards to adapting to a changing world.
I do this in the hope that by […]

This week I have written a piece at EcoWorldy recounting my experiences of public transport in the UK from a stand point of viability as governments around the world try to slowly wean motorists off of their beloved cars.
An excerpt of these experiences follows:
At 10.42 my train had yet to arrive. Ok, 2 minutes […]

This post hopes to demonstrate that environmentalism and common sense are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
People want cheap air travel, yet they don’t want additional runways. People want cars, but they don’t want traffic jams. They also want mobile phones without antenna masts, fast food without calories and a whole host of other benefits […]

Many nations have forecasted energy shortages for the coming decades as power utilities struggle to balance rising demand against aggressive targets for carbon reduction. In fact, the predicted shortages are so severe that the UK government is giving serious consideration to a war-time style energy rationing scheme.
An often suggested answer to energy shortages is […]

There is an old expression “the customer always knows what he wants, but he rarely knows what he needs”.
Marketing is the science of identifying those needs and then developing and delivering products to meet them. Firms who play only to our ‘wants’ usually loose out to firms who fully understand our ‘needs’ - firms who […]

The United Arab Emirates’ plan to build a completely carbon free city. Thirty kilometres from capital Abu Dhabi, Masdar (Arabic for ‘source’) will be home to approximately 40,000 people and accommodate a further 60’000 commuters within its 1,500 planned business premises.
Covering six square kilometres and making extensive use of public transport, solar energy and low […]

I’ve written on EcoWorldly this week about proposed legislation to ban the use of products which generate high levels of Co2 emissions. The EU is close to banning patio heaters, and calls for a total ban on high emissions vehicles have recently been made by the former head of oil giant Shell.
There is an important […]

“How can you be interested in Formula 1 Motor Racing?” a colleague recently said to me. Surely such a sport is increasingly irrelevant into today’s world of carbon footprints and sky high energy costs? Shouldn’t governments ban such sports all together?
Like most climate change related topics, there is more to the environmental considerations of […]

Recent research my British retailer Marks & Spencer on consumer attitudes to green shopping describe a particularly apathetic public with little interest in buying green.

Only a small percentage (11%) of consumers actively make green purchases, with 27% of consumers inclined towards green shopping habits – but only if it’s easy. A surprisingly high 24% claim […]

We talk a lot about ‘predictions’ for global warming, and we tend to think of it in the future tense. But there is mounting evidence each day that climate change is not something that will happen in the future – we are feeling the first real impacts right now.
The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets […]

Norway has boldly announced plans to become a carbon neutral country by 2030, ahead of their original goal of 2050.

The plan will be achieved through domestic emissions cuts of approximately 66%, and through investment in overseas environmental projects which will offset Norway’s remaining emissions. Norway already has significant hydro electric power generation capacity by virtue […]

 
Billionaire, entrepreneur, serial adventurer and airline owner Richard Branson is the man behind an innovation which may take the sting out of one of climate change’s biggest sins.
Next month a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 will make the world’s first biofuel powered flight between London and Amsterdam. Testing a blend of 80% conventional aviation fuel and […]

The 15th of February 2008 will see the release of “The 11th Hour” in cinemas across the US. Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, the movie tells the story of mankind’s wanton disregard for our planet and outlines the tragedy and consequence of our actions.
We didn’t want to like this film. We fully expected to […]