Blog: Climate

What does your car say about you?

Posted by jamie — 21 July 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

The UK is baking in the summer heat - and in London, the Motor Show has started. So ask yourself, what does your car say about you?

(Warning: the video contains some mildly rude words...)

Article tagged as: 4x4s, cars, climate change, road transport, transport, videos

Greenpeace Motor Show Blog

Posted by bex — 20 July 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

The British International Motor Show is in town and we're blogging the entire event reporting on the latest gas guzzlers. This year’s motor show will see the launch of the first right-hand drive Hummer. Based on a war fighting assault vehicle, the Hummer’s size and fuel consumption will make it a deadly addition to the fleet of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) on the roads of our cities. Our mole inside the motor show will also pontificate about the latest fuel efficient and electric cars on the lot.

Read the whole Motor Show blog..

Article tagged as: 4x4s, climate change, motorshow, transport

Blair's energy review: save nuclear, destroy the climate

Posted by bex — 11 July 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

UK floods

It's now official. Blair wants a new generation of nuclear reactors. The energy review is over and, disappointing as it may be, the conclusion won't come as a surprise to anyone who has been following recent events. The review has been a farce from the beginning: "a rubber-stamping exercise for a decision the Prime Minister took some time ago," according to the chairman of the Trade and Industry Committee.

Article tagged as: climate change, decentralised energy, energy review, government, nuclear power, UK policy

"The future is decentralised"

Posted by bex — 7 July 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Flowers growing in a greenhouse heated through combined heat and power

Remember 1997? Imagine somebody had predicted then that, within a decade, the Conservatives would be advocating "a revolution in green energy" and New Labour would be the only mainstream party still clinging to nuclear power as a central part of their energy policy. You probably wouldn't have rushed down to Ladbroke's.

Article tagged as: climate change, david cameron, decentralised energy, energy review, government, UK policy

Greenpeace's recommendations to the 2006 Energy Review

Posted by bex — 28 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Drax power station

Greenpeace has called on the UK government to recognise that our existing energy system is outdated, fragmented and inherently wasteful - and to start a wholesale regulatory and market reform to make decentralised energy the mainstay of the UK's energy system.

Article tagged as: climate change, decentralised energy, energy review, government, nuclear power

Yesterday a Bafta, today the world

Posted by bex — 4 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Thandie Newton in her Toyota Prius

After winning a BAFTA in February for her performance in "Crash", Thandie Newton has now set her sights even higher: on doing her bit to save the planet.

Last year, the actor found a Greenpeace leaflet stuck to the windscreen of her family's SUV. A short while later, she traded in her gas guzzling 4x4 for a fuel efficient Toyota Prius, which switches between petrol and electric to get nearly three times more miles to the gallon than her old BMW X5.

Article tagged as: 4x4s, BMW, climate change, hybrid cars, prius, thandie newton, toyota, transport

Blowing more hot air

Posted by bex — 28 March 2006 at 9:00am - Comments

Drax is the UK's most polluting power station

A year late - the government announced the results of their review of climate change initiatives today and told us what we already knew. They are not going to meet their targets. But instead of taking this opportunity to put in place measures that would really make a difference to reduce climate damaging emissions, they've lowered their expectations.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, co2, decentralised energy, government, targets, tony blair, transport
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