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The Third Industrial Revolution

Confronted with the implacable details of today’s climate science, we draw comfort as best we may from the thinnest of thin pickings.

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Modi (‘Solar Champion’) versus Cameron (Solar Dunderhead)

If anyone needed confirmation that this Government’s energy strategy is terminally, irretrievably incoherent, just check out this press release from the Solar Trade Association: 'The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, today will sign £10billion worth of trade deals today including pacts on…

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#KeepItClean !

Check out the new #KeepItClean campaign from Salt Magazine: http://www.wearesalt.org/vivienne-westwood-and-salt-launch-keepitclean-campaign-2/ -  a series of open letters and videos urging George Osborne to reinstate support for clean energy. Follow the campaign on Twitter: @SALT_now……

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Meltdown for Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists

I wonder what our pro-nuclear greenies will be thinking this week as they listen to President Xi Jinping and George Osborne bombastically declaring ‘a new nuclear dawn for the UK’. I hope they’ll be feeling as ashamed as they should be. It may be just a little harsh to blame the meltdown in UK…

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Hinkley C: ‘The Most Expensive White Elephant in British History’

The latest instalment in George Osborne’s personally-authored potboiler, the Hinkley Point F***** (think ‘Fiasco’!) will be published sometime around October 20th to mark the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Anticipate another announcement about UK/Chinese nuclear collaboration; another…

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Students Organising for Sustainability: Old and New

I nipped down to the Eden Centre on Friday last week. All these years on, it still makes such an impact – and it was brilliant to hear from the wonderful Tim Smit that the Eden Project he’s been trying to get off the ground in China is about to get off the ground for real! And because it’s China,…

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