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RSPB give wind farms the go ahead

Posted in Animals & wildlife, Energy & Biofuels, tagged , , , , on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

More wind farms will be built around the UK in coming years after the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) announced today they will no longer object to plans for more turbines, so long as developers stay away from certain sites which are home to rare and important wildlife species.

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Is this the most deluded man on the planet?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on December 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, yesterday declared his country’s killer cholera epidemic under control – even as neighbouring South Africa designated one of its northern regions a disaster area due to the number of people crossing the border to seek treatment.
Nearly 800 people have died and more than 15,000 have been affected in Zimbabwe and surrounding [...]

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Animal testing: wrong or right?

Posted in Animals & wildlife, Ethical Living, tagged , , , on December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It’s an argument which has raged for decades. My recent visit to a pharmaceutical animal lab didn’t help solve the debate on an issue so tangled in complex ethical dilemmas, but it did offer an insight into the lives of people involved in this line of work. I’m talking specifically about those responsible for the [...]

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Are newspapers becoming extinct? A conversation with Alan Rusbridger.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on November 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »

How to save the newspaper from extinction? This was, predictably, the topic on every journalist’s lips at a Soho soiree hosted by The Guardian last night. It’s a difficult question to answer at the best of times, let alone when Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger is doing the asking.
“Let’s say, hypothetically, I’m the editor of The [...]

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The law will not tolerate vigilantes: Plane Stupid found guilty of tresspassing

Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Travel & Transport, Video, tagged , , , , , , on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Guilty: the ‘Westminster Five’ climate change campaigners who embarrassed Mr Brown by staging a rooftop protest at the House of Commons have – surprise, surprise – been done for trespassing.
The campaigners, from the environmental network Plane Stupid, scaled the roof in February to protest against the proposed expansion of Heathrow airport. They had put forward [...]

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