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Earth-Info.Net offers environment news, links + comment.2006-12-03T21:35:34Zen-GBLisa Taylor has been in touch to recommend taking ...
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Lisa Taylor has been in touch to recommend taking a look at a Canadian documentary called The Great Warming which explores the causes and impacts of climate change, and our potential responses to the threats posed by disruptions to our climate patterns.Matt Prescott2006-09-26T09:38:00ZSmall and medium businesses to start carbon trading?
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The UK's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is considering a scheme in which small and medium-sized firms may face pollution limits in the UK's drive to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
If these businesses exceed their allocation of permits to emMatt Prescott2006-02-02T09:57:00Z"Back off Badgers!" says the RSPCA
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The RSPCA is today tackling the government head-on in a desperate fight to prevent the senseless slaughter of thousands of badgers in England.
Badgers are protected by law, yet the government is now consulting on whether - and how - badgers should be kilMatt Prescott2006-02-02T09:26:00ZClimate Challenge Fund launched
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On 26 January the UK government launched a Climate Challenge Fund which aims to support climate change communication at the local and regional levels.
The Fund will distribute a total of £6m over the next two financial years and support projects in EnglMatt Prescott2006-02-01T18:28:00ZInnovative Westmill Wind Farm share offer
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Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative Ltd. is seeking to raise £3.75 million to build the first community owned wind farm in southern England on the Oxfordshire/ Wiltshire border.
It is doing this through a Share Offer that will close on 28 February 2006. TheMatt Prescott2006-02-01T18:16:00ZBanTheBulb.Org energy-efficiency campaign launched!
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Earth-Info.Net has just launched it's first online campaign at BanTheBulb.Org!
This campaign aims: (1.) to increase the use of energy-efficient light bulbs, (2.) to encourage the taxing and phasing out of incandescent light bulbs, (3.) to propose a timeMatt Prescott2005-11-15T13:43:00ZObituary: Prof. Sir Richard "Dick" Southwood
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Earth Info is very sad to have learnt that Prof. Sir Richard "Dick" Southwood died on Wednesday 26 October, 2005.
Prof. Southwood was the one of the fathers of modern ecology and an important mentor to many ecologists.
Prof. Southwood founded and chaireMatt Prescott2005-10-29T06:22:00ZBeavers, Reindeer + Lynx to make a come back in the UK?
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The Wilderness Foundation has proposed that 800,000 hectares of Britain should be managed as wilderness reserves.
Such a scheme could help to revitalise rural communities, where farming is likely to become uneconomic over the next 20 years, and allow theMatt Prescott2005-10-27T12:48:00ZCarbon Rations and Domestic Tradeable Quotas
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Green MEP, Caroline Lucas, has called for the introduction of domestic carbon emission rations.
Sometimes called Domestic Tradeable Quotas, personal carbon rations have the potential to assist the process of contraction and convergence in global greenhouMatt Prescott2005-10-24T23:09:00ZBird flu panic ignores and exaggerates risks
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BirdLife International have warned that hasty responses to Avian Influenza based on incomplete or unsound data could do great damage to birds and other biodiversity, while actually raising the risk to people and to the economically important poultry indusMatt Prescott2005-10-24T20:37:00ZCampaigners call for a Climate Change Bill
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A coalition of British NGOs and MPs have called for a new law to ensure that the UK reduces its emissions of greenhouse gases. Despite Tony Blair’s concerns about climate change, UK emissions are continuing to rise, and are now higher than they were in 19Matt Prescott2005-07-29T11:01:00Z