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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

Admiralty Arch update: Government fails to prove claims of illegal timber

Posted by admin — 13 July 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

The government might be painting over it, but the cracks in their timber policy are still showing

Yesterday we occupied Admiralty Arch where the government is using illegally logged plywood from the rainforests of Papua New Guinea as hoardings around the building. Fourteen protestors sat on top of the Arch, demanding Tony Blair own up and commit to legislation banning imports of illegal timber into the UK.

Article tagged as: admiralty arch, cabinet office, government, illegal timber, indonesia, papua new guinea

Illegal timber found on government building site - again!

Posted by admin — 12 July 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Greenpeace volunteers scale Admiralty Arch

Stop us if you've heard this one before, but the government has been caught with illegal timber on one of its own building sites. Sounds familiar? It should, because this is the third time it's happened in four years. If it wasn't so serious, it would be funny.

Article tagged as: admiralty arch, cabinet office, government, illegal timber, papua new guinea

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

A bad month for Blair

Posted by bex — 5 July 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Radioactive Champagne?

Radioactive champagne, near nuclear meltdowns, leaked terrorism documents and a nuclear waste train crash... In the same month that Tony Blair announced nuclear power was "back on the agenda with a vengeance", events in the real world put the lie to nuclear industry spin.

Article tagged as: government, nuclear accidents, nuclear power, nuclear waste, tony blair, waste dump sites

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