Going Green

Meat Doesn't Grow on Trees

Beef cattle via Shutterstock Marginalisation of farmers and their role in food production has been the result of an increasing number of largely urban consumers in the industrialized world that...

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This week's top environment news stories: October 14th 2011

Oil drilling platform via Shutterstock Leading conservation groups have attacked the UK government for failing to deliver on its green pledges. Commitments to protecting wildlife and ecology were made by...

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Food and Agriculture Reorganisation

Grain crop via Shutterstock Nature has published a daring study outlining plans to double food production in order to feed the projected nine billion mouths we will have in 2050....

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The environmental news this week: October 7th 2011

Image: Illustration of drill rig showing horizontal well bore, Marcellus Shale formation, aquifer and fracture zone. (Not to scale) via Shutterstock Is New York really aware of the cost of...

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Green Light for Green States (can you Bear it?)

The journal Science has given US states the green light literally. Where any native species is not under any special protection, there is an obligation for conservation. Because wildlife is...

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Gammon promotion of farmers' markets

A lovely lady called Robin Gammon backs Hilary Clinton's farming focus on "heartier crops" this Autumn by pushing the direct-sell aspect of markets. Her recommendations are: Take the entire family...

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University of Michigan invests in sustainability

Credit: University of Michigan campus © Steve Pepple The University of Michigan pledged this week to invest $14 million in a variety of green initiatives on campus. The funds are...

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