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Sustainable Business
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Once a place to escape to, the suburbs became a byword for conservatism. Owen Hatherley on a surprising exhibition at the London Transport MuseumA couple of years ago, I temporarily moved out of south-east London, where I hav (Read More)
The Guardian:
Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaignersThe government's planned crackdown on unlawful online filesharing has been attacked by privacy campaigners and int (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
• Shortage threatens low-carbon targets, argues business group• Gap comes as demand for scientists and engineers increasingBritain lacks the skills or training facilities to make the successful transition to a low-carbon econ (Read More)
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High-octane drama of polar bears tumbling to a bloody death may leave viewers feeling manipulated by propagandaThe high-pitched whine of a low-flying jet engine fills the air as the camera tracks across images of shimmering g (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Richard Lambert says even the Conservatives are not ambitious enough about cutting the Britain's deficitRichard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in London (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
National debt soars to 59.2% of GDP, the highest since records began in the 1970sBritain's budget deficit blew out to the worst ever reading for an October last month, suffering a much bigger than expected shortfall of £11.4b (Read More)
The Guardian:
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 co (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 chang (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 prepa (Read More)
The Guardian:
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 defi (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 th (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 (Read More)
The Guardian:
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 a (Read More)
TreeHugger:
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 m (Read More)
The Guardian:
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 chargin (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 e (Read More)
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Targeting meat eaters in the fight against climate change alienates ordinary people and won't save the planet on its ownSir Paul McCartney arrived in Brussels yesterday to recruit support for his "meat-free Mondays" campaign. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Brendan Barber says sustainable growth is needed to nurse public finances back to health"Slash and burn" spending cuts could sentence the UK to a decade as a Japanese-style "zombie economy," TUC general secretary Brendan Barb (Read More)
The Guardian:
A rally in the mining sector, led by Randgold Resources, has sent the FTSE 100 to its highest point of the yearA rally in the mining sector has pushed the Footsie to its highest level of 2009, on a morning when gold also hit (Read More)
The Guardian:
Merely reducing Britain's trillion-pound debt mountain will not be enough to reinvigorate the economy: the tricky bit is stimulating growth at the same time. Observer columnist Will Hutton goes head to head with George Osborn (Read More)
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