Category: emissions

Rocket Speed Cycling

This is extremely cool. When I find a few hours, I’m going to work out how he does it…!

Earth Hour: lights out for darker skies

Turn to the dark side tomorrow for WWF’s Earth Hour.  At 8.30pm on Saturday March 28th, people, businesses and iconic landmarks around the world (including Nelson’s Column, Canary Wharf and the Royal Albert Hall) are set go back to black for 60 minutes as they switch off their lights.
The event marks the start of the [...]

DON’T PANIC

So says the cover of the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  That would be the guide in the book - not the actual book. If you know what I mean.  You might remember that Douglas Adams put this in the hands of his slightly inept hero when the world was completely obliterated (as a result of [...]

Phasing out phase three

Boris Johnson announced earlier this week that he would begin steps to suspend phase three of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ), which had been due to begin in October 2010.  The move comes as part of our Mayor’s attempts to give businesses a boost in these troubling times for the economy.
Despite all the talk of [...]

Climate Safety

On Thursday, the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) presented their Climate Safety report (which can be downloaded here).  BFCS was at the well-attended report launch.
The panel of speakers was made up of Caroline Lucas (Green MEP), George Monbiot (journalist and writer), Jeremy Leggett (founder of Solar Century), Kevin Anderson (Tyndall Institute), Tim Helweg-Larsen (PIRC) and [...]