Posted by bex — 7 November 2008 at 10:44am
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Greenpeace at the Climate Clinic for a debate on coal vs renewables.
We've just found out we're up for another web award: The People's Choice Website of the Year Award. If you like what we do here in cyberspace, please tootle over and vote!
Strangely, we've won two other awards in the past few weeks. EfficienCity, our virtual town showcasing decentralised energy, has won the W3 Best in Show for animation. (The W3 or World Wide Web Consortium are the folks who decide the standards for the web. The criteria they judge include creativity, usability, navigation, functionality, visual design, and ease of use, so all credit to our friends at BiroCreative who built EfficienCity.)
Posted by bex — 6 November 2008 at 5:09pm
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I've noticed a higher-than-expected amount of traffic going to our Obama press statement over the past couple of days, so it looks like people are interested in what we make of Obama's victory.
Big news from this morning's
Cabinet reshuffle: Gordon Brown has created a new department for climate
change and energy, and Ed Miliband has been appointed its head.
This is, potentially,
fantastic stuff. Until now, one department has been dealing with climate change
and another - the department for business (DBERR) - with energy. This entirely
nonsensical division hamstrung any chances of a coherent, low carbon energy
policy and kept business and environmental interests at perpetual loggerheads.
No prizes for guessing who usually won.
Reacting to the news that Ed Miliband has been appointed Secretary of State at a new Department for Energy and Climate, Greenpeace Executive Director John Sauven said:
"For the last ten years this government has dithered on climate change, offering us inspiring rhetoric but little in the way of real action. Bringing energy and climate together at last reflects the urgency of the threat we face from climate change."
Posted by jamie — 23 September 2008 at 11:21am
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Government wonks have once again been druming up support for GM food, the latest tub-thumping courtesy of science minister Ian Pearson. He's been saying that if engineered crops can be demonstrated to alleviate hunger around the world, then the great British public will be only too happy to see them being cultivated in our green and pleasant land as well.
A coalition
of some of Britain's
biggest environmental and development groups has warned the Government that its
biofuel policy risks doing more harm than good in the fight against climate
change and global poverty. The
organisations are demanding that ministers delay the introduction of
legislation which would see biofuels pumped into every tank in the country from
April 15th 2008.
