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 [...]
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Posted by Guy Clapperton on 12th March 2008.
OK, I think we’ll take all the digs about journalists going off that nice Mr. Darling because of the hikes on alcohol as read - suffice it to say a lot of us will be binge buying very quickly.
There’s a lot of positive stuff in this budget, though - and after Northern Rock there needed [...]
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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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Posted by David Tebbutt on 28th October 2007.
As a frequent, and guilt-ridden, writer on environmental topics, I changed my life fairly significantly this year. I downsized from a large four-bedroomed house to a two-bedroom bungalow. Of course, a move to a flat in the centre of London or New York would have been even more environmentally friendly, but life is full of [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 24th September 2007.
Strato, a German web-hosting company with operations in six countries, including the UK, invited me along to hear its ‘carbon neutral’ story. “Yeah, right”, I thought. Just another company jumping on the greenwash bandwagon. I put the cynic’s hat on and off I went.
Turns out that it has really worked hard on the carbon neutralisation [...]
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