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Sustainable Living
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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)
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An installation featuring giant tropical tree stumps in Trafalgar square is designed to symbolise threatened rainforest trees throughout the worldWhether you perceive them as beautiful sculptural objects or a scene of devasta (Read More)
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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 (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)
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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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Put your questions to Campaign for Better Transport, formerly known as Transport 2000If this week's You ask, they answer guest has its way, our streets will be greener, cleaner and a lot quieter in the future. Joining us in t (Read More)
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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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Palm oil is decimating the world's forests, yet producers are shirking their responsibility to move to sustainable sourcesA couple of years ago I met a nonplussed father whose eight-year-old daughter refused to allow him to e (Read More)
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Before - Typical HPS street lighting, not optimized for ocular sensitivity and energy savings. Image credit: Mesopic Street Lighting Demonstration and Evaluation Final Report, for Groton Utilities, Groton, Connecticut. (pdf (Read More)
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Last week's meeting of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation was more than just grandstanding. The commitments made by faith groups were impressiveA thundering US Baptist choir in dazzling golden gowns belting out "All C (Read More)
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From Associated Content, by Meg C. Having a green lifestyle can be a lot of fun. You don't have to settle for secondhand junk or sacrifice your quality of life. Eco-friendly lifestyle choices and sustainable living have becom (Read More)
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The British Mountaineering Council could learn a thing or two from Yangshuo when it comes to scaling back exhaust emissionsYangshuo, an ancient mountain town that is fast becoming the adventure capital of southern China, open (Read More)
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Seventeen Madagascar pochard ducklings raised in captivity since Wildfowl and Wetland Trust took emergency actionConservationists battling to save the world's rarest duck have managed to almost double the bird's population in (Read More)
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The authors of a provocative new book have bad news for animal-lovers: pets are bad for the planet. They consume vast amounts of precious resources, produce mountains of noxious waste – and they can be a disaster for wildlife (Read More)
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This week, theatre bloggers ponder the death of stage utopianism, whether life is actually better live and the launch of a new UK theatre databaseA life in the theatre can be tough. Sure, it's not as bad as fighting a war or (Read More)
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Attempts to bypass local networks, local styles of decision-making and local rationales invariably produce resentmentRecognising faithThe last few years have seen definite shifts in attitudes to religious faith among those co (Read More)
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David Cameron's speech on poverty, the state and the mass engagement of a new generation of community activists on Tuesday set the direction of travel under a Conservative government. Here a panel of social experts analyse th (Read More)
Nov 11, 2009
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SimplySwitch founder Karen Darby's call centre company plans to get people back to work and 'bag some cash'After his first couple of months out of work, Karlton Ramsey felt his confidence start to slide. The 23-year-old had w (Read More)
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From Associated Content, by Ilene SpringerYour pets will probably benefit from the natural ingredients, and you'll be doing the environment a big favor.Your recycle bin fills up faster than your garbage can. You turn the ligh (Read More)
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From Associated Content, by Eric Shutt:Sustainable living is pretty easy and involves a lot of doing nothing. But it's a different kind of nothing than we're used to. When it comes to sustainable living, we need simple ways t (Read More)
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