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United Kingdom: Asda turns to Canary Islands bananas to cut carbon footprint
2013-03-11 10:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Supermarket chain Asda is to be the first to sell bananas from the Canary Islands, in an attempt to reduce the fruit's considerable carbon footprint. Transportation time will be more than 80 per cent shorter than for bananas sourced from central America. The fruit will be shipped from the Canaries to mainland Spain and then by road to the UK ripening centre -- a total journey of four days as opposed to 24 days for bananas from the Caribbean and Americas. The bananas, already familiar to the...
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United Kingdom: Invisibility of pollution implies such problems are past
2013-03-10 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The invisibility of modern air pollution gives the impression that air pollution problems are a thing of the past. Today is it rare to see persistent black smoke from a factory chimney or clouds of thick black smoke from traffic. This February provided some good opportunities to see air pollution directly, if you knew where and when to look. Easterly winds brought cold, polluted air from Europe to the UK. The worst conditions were measured on 19th February in the Midlands, in Birmingham and Nottingham,...
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United Kingdom: No Dash for Gas campaigners set up anti-EDF website
2013-03-10 22:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of environmental campaigners being sued for 5m by energy company EDF for occupying one of the company's power plants in October last year has launched a website encouraging EDF customers to switch to alternative providers as a gesture of opposition to the civil action. Members of the campaign group "No Dash for Gas" occupied EDF's gas-fired power plant in West Burton for a week in October last year, protesting against fossil fuels and carbon emissions. Last month, 21 activists pleaded...
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United Kingdom: Ministers' oil industry ties prop up high-carbon policy, report alleges
2013-03-10 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Close links between senior government ministers and the oil industry risk perpetuating dependence on a high carbon energy policy which is pushing the planet to the brink of climate catastrophe, a report has warned. The World Development Movement (WDM) believes that up to a third of all coalition ministers may have past or present links with fossil fuel companies or with financial and services companies supporting oil or gas projects. The WDM's (http://wdm.org.uk)report, Web of Power, also highlights...
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United Kingdom: Ethical economies of scale can they really work?
2013-03-07 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Absence has not made my heart grow more fond of supermarkets, but there are times when I miss their sheer convenience. Since I gave up shopping in them almost a year ago I have halved my grocery bills, wasted less food, cut down on packaging and avoided eating horsemeat. My routine now involves going to the local high street for fresh produce, making regular online bulk-buys and growing my own vegetables. In busy weeks, not being able to buy everything from broccoli to bleach in the same...
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