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7 Dec 2007
David Fleming, creator of the concept of Tradeable Energy Quotas and author of the forthcoming and rather wonderful “Lean Logic”, has just published **The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy**, which is a thorough demolition of the case for nuclear power being a solution to peak oil. and climate change. You can down load the pdf. for free here or you can order printed copies here. Like much of David’s writing, it patiently yet assertively builds its arguments, backed up by exhaustive research, to build a case against nuclear power that looks pretty much bulletproof to me. The report’s key findings are;
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4 Dec 2007
A recent train journey and my obligatory hoovering up of all the newspapers and crap magazines people leave behind gave me a long-overdue opportunity to get up to date with pop culture; which celebrities are happy with their big bottoms and which ones aren’t, and what’s ‘in’ and what’s not (with no TV I live a very sheltered life ordinarily you see). Apparently, all the rage at the moment are designer handbags, which various female celebs can’t be seen without, and which are put out in limited editions at knee-buckling prices, touted as being this season’s ‘must haves’. An article in the Observer magazine on Sunday explored the emergence of ‘designer water’, brands such as BlingH2O and Elsenham, spring water in fancy bottles, labelled so as to look exclusive, and sold at over £30 a bottle in the exclusive nightclubs of Soho and wherever else in London has exclusive nightclubs (told you I live a sheltered life), at something like a 10,000 to one mark up on tap water.
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6 Nov 2007
Lists of things you can do to ‘save the planet’ often get stuck at lightbulb changing and thermostat twiddling, failing to engage with the deeper challenges. The Environment Agency brought together 25 leading thinkers in the green movement, including Tony Juniper, Jonathan Porritt and David Boyle, and asked them for their 50 things that will save the planet. The list is deep and rich, and Transition Towns appear in No.8, and the Totnes Pound gets an honorary mention in No.6. Although their enthusiasm for importing solar panels from China and for carbon capture and storage might not get the thumbs up from this end, it is still a very enlightening read. You can see the document here.
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31 Oct 2007
(**This is the press release for tonight’s event in Totnes.**)
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was won by Al Gore for his work on climate change, a compelling example of how rapidly the issue has gone mainstream. Around the world, scientists, policy makers and business leaders are grappling with the climate challenge, namely, how can we reduce our emissions of carbon in as short a time as possible? Earlier this year, the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales, Europe’s leading eco-centre, published ‘Zero Carbon Britain’, its bold plan for reducing the country’s emissions to zero within 20 years.
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29 Oct 2007
I had just about got over the sense of outrage and indignation caused by reading John Vidal’s piece, Labour’s plan to abandon renewable energy targets, which revealed Gordon Brown’s administration as truly nailing their colours to the economic growth mast rather than the responding to the climate change one by withdrawing his support for the European target of 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020. Just about. Then, the next day in a follow-up article, was a quote attributed to energy minister Malcolm Wicks, which read*”at the end of the day, renewables is a means to an end. The end is bringing down carbon emissions”*.
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David Fleming, creator of the concept of Tradeable Energy Quotas and author of the forthcoming and rather wonderful “Lean Logic”, has just published **The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy**, which is a thorough demolition of the case for nuclear power being a solution to peak oil. and climate change. You can down load the pdf. for free here or you can order printed copies here. Like much of David’s writing, it patiently yet assertively builds its arguments, backed up by exhaustive research, to build a case against nuclear power that looks pretty much bulletproof to me. The report’s key findings are;
