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  • UK government's environment adviser wins major international green award
    21/06/2010 - 12:01
    Blog entry
    Blue Planet Prize, Environment, UK government

    UK government's environment adviser wins major international green award
    Professor Bob Watson, science adviser to the environment ministry, chosen alongside Nasa's James Hansen
    Juliette Jowit, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 June 2010 15.42 BST

    Professor Bob Watson, chief scientist at the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs. Photograph: University of East Anglia
    One of the government's leading science and environment advisers today won a prestigious international green award, the Blue Planet Prize.

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  • Can nature mitigate oil spills?
    03/05/2010 - 09:59
    Blog entry
    BP, Environment, Gulf of Mexico, oil spills

    From BBC Radio4

    President Obama says that he holds BP fully responsible for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which he said was potentially an "unprecedented environmental disaster". Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs Richard North and senior climate advisor for Greenpeace Charlie Kronick, debate the long-term effect of the oil spill on wildlife, fisheries, and the tourism industry.

    Listen in full on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_8657000/8657755.stm

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  • Should we give Nestle or Orangutans a break?

    21/04/2010 - 14:17
    Blog entry
    debate, Environment, Greenpeace, nestle, orangutan, Palm Oil, rain-forest

    Greenpeace has started an international action to expose Nestlé’s role in the destruction of the last remaining forests and peatlands of Indonesia. Greenpeace says that the crime file shows that Nestlé is buying palm oil from suppliers that are rapidly expanding their plantations into rainforest areas – killing orang-utans and accelerating climate change in the process. Nestle, on the other side, says they are highly concerned about deforestation in Indonesia and other countries, and they support a moratorium on the destruction of rainforests.

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  • World Naked Bike Ride Public Meeting
    09/03/2010 - 12:18
    Event
    activism, cars, Environment

    Wed 24 Mar 2010, 7.30pm at The Fat Cat pub, Alma Street S3 8SA
     
    The World Naked Bike Ride is becoming a global movement, to draw attention to oil dependency and the negative social and environmental impacts of a car dominated culture. Sheffield's event will be in June, this is a discussion meeting with DVD film show, all welcome, with clothes.
     

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