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Posted by David Tebbutt on 5th May 2008.
Are you assaulted daily by people claiming to make you greener? Do you listen?
I must confess that I get irritated by many of them because they’re using my guilt to stuff their pockets with money. And, very often, what they’re offering as a ‘cure’ to CO2 emissions or pollution actually turn out to be emitters [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 7th April 2008.
We received a survey last week which was embargoed to yesterday. “Strange”, I thought, “to have a Sunday embargo on something.” On reading the survey, Behind the Wheel II from the Energy Saving Trust, the penny dropped. It’s the start of a new tax year and the content of the survey - about cars and [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 17th March 2008.
Last week the free Metro newspaper carried a front-page chart of carbon emissions by country. It looked like a chance to take a pop at the Chinese and the Americans who top the league of polluters by pumping out around four times as much CO2 as their nearest ‘competitor’ in these dismal stakes, Russia.
It occurred [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 11th February 2008.
Last September, I wrote about web-hosting company Strato and its green credentials. Just before I went on hols (very nice thank you), our beloved leader, Alex, tipped me off about Rackspace, an IT-hosting company which is also busy turning itself green.
So I rummaged.
Strato is based in Germany where it has access to hydroelectric power [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 21st January 2008.
I spend a lot of time investigating and writing about environmental issues. Not because I’m a tree hugger or a weirdo but because I’m rather taken with the idea of leaving the planet better than we found it. A better legacy for future generations than a despoiled planet plundered and polluted for profit.
It’s interesting to [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 10th December 2007.
Earlier this year, I interviewed Felix Dennis about climate change and sustainability for Sustainable Solutions magazine. Dennis is probably best known for creating Maxim although he has heaps of other titles to his credit, including PC Pro and The Week. He also owns masses of farmland which he’s gradually converting to broadleaf forest which he [...]
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