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Cyclo-therapy: 'There are few things more spiriting than a crisp morning cycle ride through London?s befrosted parks'
The bad-weather cyclists are out in force in London.
UK renewables industry on tenterhooks over tariff plan
The Government will today set out the details of the "feed-in tariff" scheme designed to encourage small-scale, green electricity generation, concluding years of intensive lobbying from the renewables industry.
Who will pay for Amazon's 'Chernobyl'?
It's barely eight in the morning and already the dusty oil town of Lago Agrio, on the fringes of the Ecuadorian Amazon, is sweltering. Its name means "sour lake" in Spanish, after the hometown of Texan oil company Texaco ? a fitting name for an area of once-pristine rainforest that has been decimated in the pursuit of oil. So severe is the environmental damage here that experts have called it an "Amazon Chernobyl".
Campaign to save tropical forests failed by food giants
Western food manufacturers are buying so little sustainable palm oil that the system set up to limit damage to tropical forests caused by the world's cheapest vegetable oil is in danger of collapse. Palm-oil producers say the industry may quit the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) because so few firms are financially backing the scheme.
'Solar panel loans' to help homeowners invest in green energy
Homeowners will soon be able to take out "solar panel loans" to cover the high costs of renewable energy. Solar panels typically cost up to �12,000 to install yet take decades to pay for themselves in energy savings.
Simon Usborne: Why do so many of us take a softer approach to pedalling drunk?
It?s a dilemma I face most Friday nights when, looking incongruous in my shorts and clippy-cloppy shoes at the poncy pub round the corner from work, someone asks, ?Shall I get the next one??. Inevitably the response from my Underground-bound workmates is ?yes?. So I have a second beer. Quite often I?ll say yes again before I hit my drink cycling limit of three pints and ride home.
The end of consumerism: Our way of life is 'not viable'
Ditch the dog; throw away (sorry, recycle) those takeaway menus; bin bottled water; get rid of that gas-guzzling car and forget flying to far-flung places. These are just some of the sacrifices we in the West will need to make if we are to survive climate change.
Eco-homes tax incentive is 'shocking failure'
Just 24 homebuyers have taken advantage of a high-profile scheme devised by Gordon Brown to encourage the construction of environmentally-friendly houses across the country.
Green energy will not meet world demand, warns BP boss
Policymakers are fooling themselves if they believe greener sources of energy alone can adequately meet Britain's needs for the next decade, the chief executive of BP warned last night.
Green light for show homes to sell eco-town project
One hundred "eco-show homes" are to be built to allow people to "test drive" green living as ministers try to convince the public that controversial eco-towns can work.
Battery-recycling law in force
Shoppers will be able to recycle old batteries in thousands of shops across the country from today as part of a crackdown on the throwaway society.
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