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Shun meat, says top scientist

Posted in Caring for the Planet, Vegetarian and Vegan stuff, tagged , , , on September 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global
warming, says the UN’s top climate scientist.
Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday
evening.
UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into
the atmosphere than transport.
Full story at BBC [...]

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Another Study on Meat and Climate Change

Posted in Caring for the Planet, Vegetarian and Vegan stuff, tagged , on August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is yet another report about the impact of meat production on global
warming. The study has been published online in German by a non-profit
organization known as Foodwatch based in Berlin (foodwatch.de)
All published reports seem to report the same text. The text below is copied
from Yahoo.
Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with
meat-eaters’ [...]

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The Free Shop

Posted in Caring for the Planet, Contemporary Culture, tagged , , , , , , , on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This has been a hectic week for me as I have been away at the NASES conference with work, and tomorrow I’m heading off to France on holiday. It was great to meet up with other student job shop staff and I’ve got loads of ideas to put into practice online and offline
 Photo by [...]

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The Shift Movie Trailer

Posted in Be inspired, Caring for the Planet, tagged , , , on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A little follow on from yesterday’s post.

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Peak oil – what to do?

Posted in Caring for the Planet, Contemporary Culture, tagged , , on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Sometimes I wish I was not so curious. I really gave myself the heebie-jeebies this morning when, for some reason known best to myself, I saw fit to Google the phrase “Peak Oil”. All the bell curves seemed to point towards what we know already but don’t want to face up to: thanks to increasing industrialisation across the [...]

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