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Maryking - who has written 72 posts on Environmental Graffiti.
Mary is 24 and lives in Brixton, south London, where she divides her time between dodging bullets and nagging people to recycle. Since graduating in 2004 she has lived in London, Sydney and Perth and hopes to travel more in the future. She is a freelance writer for a number of websites.
UK Government-Sponsored Massacre!
In a move criticised as biased, scientist Sir David King has advised the UK government that they should cull badger populations in an attempt to prevent the spread of tuberculosis among cattle, disregarding evidence that such a move is unworkable. King commented that “in certain circumstances [...]
Continue reading...Film review - A Crude Awakening: the oil crash
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Rating: 3/5 The consensus from our two reviewers is: go and see this film, it’s worth the trip to the cinema, but walk, don’t run. Emma: Less of an awakening, more of a gentle nudge – with the possibility of a full English (and only then if the café’s still [...]
Continue reading...Genetically Modified: how the EU embraces “frankenstein foods”
Friday, September 7, 2007
Europe has been resistant to products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), insisting on the worlds toughest labelling regime and outraging the US who accuse them of violating free trade agreements over the products. Now it is thought that EU ministers will approve a GMO sugar beet variety this [...]
Continue reading...Gordon Brown uses stalinist tactics to push for nuclear
Friday, September 7, 2007
Tomorrow there will be meetings in eight cities around the UK in which more than a thousand people will be asked to assess the case for and against nuclear power and vote on its use. The UK government has contracted market research company Opinion Leader Research [...]
Continue reading...Green photographers. Our friends are out to get you!
Friday, September 7, 2007
DeSmogBlog are running a photography competition for The Greenest Photo Ever. Interpret the challenge as you will: “It can be literally a really green photo (but not of a green dress, that’s cruel). Or it can be a metaphorically green photo, whether that’s ecological or ‘green with envy’ [...]
Continue reading...5 Reasons not to shop in supermarkets
Thursday, September 6, 2007
“Don’t buy anything from the supermarket,” advises Chris Goodall, author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life. Supermarkets supply three-quarters of all the food consumed in the UK, and many of us accept this without question. However, our supermarket-reliant culture makes the food production process [...]
Continue reading...BBC: it’s not our job to save the planet
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Plans to show a TV special on climate change have been scrapped by the BBC under fighting over impartiality. Senior BBC executives protested about the plans for “Planet Relief” which would devote a full day to programmes about the environment, claiming it was “not the BBC’s [...]
Continue reading...Warning: tsunami will hit Bay of Bengal
Thursday, September 6, 2007
It looks like the Bay of Bengal could be the victim of the next major tsunami. A report published in the Nature journal today suggests that there is “compelling evidence” for tsunami-triggering earthquake activity in the region, north of the area where 2004’s tsunami hit. Geologists say [...]
Continue reading...5 greenest clothing shops
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
It is a truth universally acknowledged that most clothes on sale in the high street originate in sweatshops, or at least in places with very unsavoury work conditions. In addition to the human suffering caused by exploitative manufacturing processes, garments have often been transported around the [...]
Continue reading...Commercial whaling is evil. Iceland has woken up.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
In a step greeted with relief by environmental campaigners, Iceland have announced that they will issue no new quotas for commercial whaling. Fisheries minister Einar K Guofinnsson said that “I will not issue a new quota until the market conditions for whale meat improve and permission [...]
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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