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Monthly Archives: May 2007

Green issues need blue-skies thinking

Published 30 May 2007

Recently I was at a conference on the state of London. Mayor Ken Livingstone made the opening address. One of his chief slogans concerned human waste: “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down”.

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Take a PEW, hear a sermon

Published 25 May 2007

With three new tracts on planning, energy and waste, the government shows it would rather change our habits than encourage innovation.

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Don’t let the e-waste tail wag the innovation dog

Published 23 May 2007

Killer applications, not regulatory labyrinths about waste, are the way forward in IT

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Did Rachel Carson really kill more people than Stalin?

Published 23 May 2007

On the centenary of her birth, the author of Silent Spring is idolised by greens and demonised by the right. Both sides need to turn over a new leaf.

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Come, friendly bombs, fall on Brown’s eco-towns

Published 11 May 2007

With his plans to erect zero-carbon homes in zero-car suburbs, Gordon Brown builds on the Blairites’ small-minded approach to housing

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E-science creates another dimension

Published 11 May 2007

Remote teamworking is set to have a growing role in scientific research and experimentation.

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