Day Light
This is a street light in Embankment Gardens, at 3.45pm on Saturday. It is fully switched on and drawing electricity, despite the clear blue skies and impeccable visibility that one might associate...
View ArticleEv-eon
I’m enjoying this idea for saving the planet while still burning tons of coal: By capturing the CO2 before it is released into the atmosphere and piping it through natural spring water from Kent’s...
View ArticleAgainst the Windfall Tax
Like Conor at the Liberal Conspiracy, I can’t really get behind this clamour for a windfall tax on oil companies. I would love to have a dig at Big Oil, but something grates. Its not that I am like Tim...
View ArticleSouthwark Rooftops
The rooftops of houses behind Waterloo East rail station, Southwark London. What did I tell ya? There’s the whole world at your feet. And who gets to see it but the birds, the stars and the chimney...
View ArticleThink local, act local?
Philip Blond’s interesting cover essay for this month’s Prospect, ‘Rise of the Red Tories’, advocates a new form of Conservatism for David Cameron, centred around the Tories’ new thinking on social...
View ArticleEarth Hour
I’m at a wedding today, so won’t be in my house to participate in Earth Hour. That’s doesn’t mean that all you non-wedding guests can’t do it though, does it? (via) Click.
View Article#Flashride
Cycling home on Friday, I was unwittingly caught up in the London Cycling Campaign’s ‘Flashride’ across Blackfriars Bridge. They want the speed limit on the bridge to remain at 20mph but apparently the...
View ArticlePut Your Eco Money Where Your Mouth Is
When it comes to the environment, there is an awful lot of rhetoric about how ordinary consumers should take action to change the way businesses operate. By choosing green products or services, the...
View ArticleWhy doesn’t David Hockney see beauty in wind farms?
There’s a new documentary about David Hockney coming to the BBC, so he’s been doing media interviews. This morning he was on the Radio 4 Today Programme and last week he was in the Observer....
View ArticleThe Sherwood Syndrome and Deep England
In an Aeon essay on the (surprisingly early) deforestation of England, Hugh Thomson writes this about our national identity: The myth panders to our need for a sense of loss. There is an undercurrent...
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