Monthly Archives: March 2010

Budget 2010: good news for wind; bad news for green transport

As the fiscal dust kicked up by Alistair Darling’s 2010 budget begins to settle, experts say they are ‘surprised’ by how ‘un-green’ the budget turned out to be http://www.theecologist.org/News/

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Bluefin tuna: can trade bans protect our fisheries?

Atlantic bluefin tuna could be the first widely eaten species to be banned from being traded internationally. Would it work, and would it set a useful precedent for other species? http://www.theecologist.org/News

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Spring about to ‘explode’ in Britain, conservationists say

Experts believe release of pent-up energy after such a long, hard winter could produce the most spectacular spring in years. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/19/spring

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Think oblique: How our goals are best reached indirectly

In business, in mountaineering and even in the pursuit of happiness, the most direct route isn’t always best. Economist John Kay makes the case for obliquity http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/think-oblique-how-our-goals-are-best-reached-indirectly-1922948.html

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1GOAL: EDUCATION FOR ALL

  1GOAL is a campaign seizing the power of football to ensure that education for all is a lasting impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.  Raising our voices all over the world we believe that, together, we can make … Continue reading

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UN to review errors made by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The United Nations is to announce an independent review of errors made by its climate change advisory body in an attempt to restore its credibility. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7055999.ece

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Experiments in workplace autonomy

Traditional employee management techniques are out of sync with human nature. Get ready for a renaissance of self-direction. http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/69/workplace-autonomy/

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Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve, say experts

Conservationists say rate of new species slower than diversity loss caused by the destruction of habitats and climate change. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/extinction-species-evolve

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Unmeasured Is Uncontrolled

I’ve cut my electricity use because I can measure exactly how much I’m using. I want to do the same for heating oil, but …By Daniel GrossPosted Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at 6:16 PM ET http://www.slate.com/id/2246738/

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Fairtrade Fortnight 22nd – 7th March

For this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight we’re asking the nation to join us in The Big Swap. For two whole weeks we’ll be asking you to swap your usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff. Your usual bananas for Fairtrade bananas, your usual … Continue reading

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How can we have fish tomorrow? Ask the past

Dismissed initially as a good storyteller but nothing more, environmental historian Poul Holm has mapped the history of marine animals in such detail that it is having profound impacts on our current understanding of the oceans. http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/natural_world/

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