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Industrial revolution power house shakes off dirty image with high scores on recycling, green space and tackling climate changeA city once wreathed in smoke and deafened by shipyard steel-hammers, has transformed itself into the greenest in Britain, according to the country's most comprehensive sustainability audit.Million (Read More)
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Changing connections "Green Card Lawyers" [Usenet spam] and "My Naked Wife" [email virus] arose (War beneath the web, 12 November) because they could. Both Usenet and email were successful among early adopters, but neither could really adapt to their eventual parasites. The web has become popular too, and also has issues wi (Read More)
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Uncertainty over investing in green technologies more dangerous than lack of Copenhagen treaty says Achim Steiner, the head of the UN environment programme Vital business investment in clean technology to tackle climate change is being threatened by delays and doubts over the Copenhagen deal on climate change, senior figure (Read More)
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A new, government-sponsored, awards scheme is helping to showcase the UK's innovation in science and green technologyDesigning traffic lights to be more energy efficient may not seem the hardest thing to do. Change the energy-wasting incandescent bulbs for modern light sources and you're done, right? Not quite."We've reinve (Read More)
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• Tariffs could be lowered on Latin American imports• UK shoppers urged to keep buying Caribbean fruitBritain's shoppers are being urged to keep faith with fair trade Caribbean banana growers as Europe and Latin America prepare to declare a ceasefire in the 16-year "banana wars," one of the world's longest-running trade dis (Read More)
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Provides statutory basis for reining in government's spiralling deficit and debtThe government's new fiscal responsibility bill will provide a "firm and binding statutory basis" for reining in the government's spiralling deficit and debt in the wake of the credit crunch and recession, the Queen said.The bill will commit the (Read More)
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How to be festive and green - from rentable Christmas trees and organic turkeys to original ethical gift ideas and tips on recycling electrical waste... From the Ecologist, part of the Guardian Environment NetworkFoodAvoid the last minute supermarket dash - head for your local farmer's market or farm shop instead to stock u (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
My communism fell in 1989 – now I'm standing as a Green party candidate in the next general electionJoining the Green party was a quiet, private moment. It was unusual for quite a loud politico like me, habituated to citizenship as a way of intervening, a mission to make a difference.It was a rather innocent gesture. Signin (Read More)
TreeHugger:
This week is Carnival of the Green #203 and it's being hosted by EcoSalon, a site that believes that environmental consciousness doesn't have to mean granola, that style and sustainability belong in the same sentence and that living green is fun, not fussy. From fashion to decor to wellness, EcoSalon keeps you up to date wi (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Investment banking unit almost sank business a year ago• Transformation will build UBS for 'sustainable profit'UBS plans to revamp itself by expanding the investment banking unit that almost sank the business less than one year ago, the Swiss bank revealed today.After suffering about $50bn (£30bn) of writedowns and losses (Read More)
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Image credit: Liz OConnellIt's funny how uptight people can get about death. Yet it's one of the very few things, along with birth, taxes, breathing etc, that we all have in common. For the green minded, there are plenty of more sustainable end of life options cropping up, from jute coffins to woodland burials. But beyond t (Read More)
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Despite the growing demand for live comedy, Britain's biggest chain of comedy clubs faces surprise closure. So why aren't standups taking it seriously? James Kettle finds outFancy seeing some comedy this weekend? You're not alone. Thousands of people will be doing the same thing – some might be at stadium gigs of the sort r (Read More)
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Restructured clothing was definitely at home at the San Francisco Green Festival this year. There were several fashion designers that knew how to shred old clothing and sew it into something new, creative, and stylish. Here we have Elisabethan, a line by Elisabeth Delehaunty - a clothing artist we've followed for years. It (Read More)
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Micro-payments dismissed in favour of charging for 24-hour access to day's edition of the paperJames Harding, the editor of the Times, today gave the clearest indication yet of how News International is going to start charging for its journalism online.Pledging to "rewrite the economics of newspapers", Harding said the Time (Read More)
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Water experts to debate the best ideas to avoid a future crisis in clean water at the Royal Geographical Society. Here, four of the speakers argue for their solutionsSand dams'They transform lives and they transform fragile environmentsSimon Maddrell, executive director, Excellent Development'Over one billion people lack ac (Read More)