This week: West nuclear plants get green light, plus... The budget, renewable heat, bees, kangaroos and much more...
CHRIS HUHNE: NEW HINKLEY AND OLDBURY PLANTS CAN GO AHEAD
But the previously anti-nuclear Lib Dem Energy and Climate Change Secretary has also promised that there will be "no public subsidy".
http://tinyurl.com/nuclear-green-light
TRANSITION BATH LAUNCHING AS A CHARITY
Transition Bath are in the process of becoming a registered charity and will be launching a new membership scheme and activity programme and in September. More details will be posted on their website in the coming weeks...
http://transitionbath.org
EAVIS INSTALLING HUGE PV ARRAY
Glastonbury festival boss Michael Eavis is installing the largest privately owned solar PV array in the UK. The spanking 1,500 metre-square system will sit on roof of the Worthy Farm cattle shed.
http://tinyurl.com/worthy-ambition
BEECHEN CLIFF METHODISTS ALSO GO SOLAR...
Their system is not quite as big, but Beechen Cliff Methodist Church at Bear Flat is also going solar. The "Official Big Switch On" is on Saturday 3 July...
http://beechencliffmethodistchurch.org/solar_pv_system
RENEWABLE HEAT IN "DAMAGING LIMBO"
Green news from further afield. The proposed Renewable Heat Incentive would do for solar thermal panels what the Clean Energy Cashback scheme is doing for solar PV. But will the new Government fund it?
http://tinyurl.com/renewable-heat-disincentive
BUDGET SLAMMED FOR LACK OF GREEN POLICIES
Meanwhile, the budget has been attacked for its failure to produce further details on plans for a green investment bank or for Labour's proposed pay-as-you-save green finance scheme.
http://tinyurl.com/un-eco-nomics
"BEES SUFFERING PESTICIDE-CAUSED BRAIN DAMAGE"
This theory is being tested as part of a £10m research programme aimed at finding ways to stop the decline of insect pollinators in the UK.
http://tinyurl.com/bee-all-and-end-all
"MOVING CLOCK FORWARDS WOULD SLASH CARBON"
In fact, a new study suggests, the change would cut emissions equivalent to taking 200,000 cars off the road.
http://tinyurl.com/clock-campaign
WAYNE ROONEY AND JOHN TERRY PUT FOOT IN IT
The England stars have been criticised by animal right activists for wearing boots made of kangaroo skin. The joeys are allegedly clubbed to death and left to rot in the outback after their mothers have been shot.
http://tinyurl.com/lather-over-leather
BATTERY TECHNOLOGY HOLDING UP ELECTRIC CARS
"I would love electric cars to work, I really would. But they have their problems," says Dickon Ross, editor-in-chief of Engineering & Technology magazine.
http://tinyurl.com/brakes-progress
GREENWASH OF THE WEEK
It's EDF's 'Green Britain Day... "The truth is EDF is one of Britain's biggest polluters," says green power company Ecotricity's founder Dale Vince. Greenpeace have called the EDF ad campaign a "shameless" attempt to mislead the British public.
http://tinyurl.com/greenwash-britain-day
GREEN INVENTION OF THE WEEK
Good one this week. Electrolux are making a vacuum cleaner out of from plastic salvaged from the Pacific Great Garbage Patch.
http://tinyurl.com/vacuum-greener
DEEP WATER HORIZON DISASTER SATELLITE PICS
They should give these slicks names like they do hurricanes.
http://tinyurl.com/big-slick
FINALLY: MAN CLEARS LITTER ALONG M40
And a court has now told an ungrateful Department for Transport to pay Peter Silverman's costs.
http://tinyurl.com/littery-hero
VOLUNTEER WEB ADMINISTRATOR REQUIRED
Greenbath needs a volunteer to help administer the website. The site is currently running Drupal to administer all the groups. We need someone to help administer the site, moderate users and discussions, write faqs and help to drive the site forward. We reckon that 1-2 hours a week from someone with an idea of what they are doing, or a willingness to learn would make the site much easier to use.Greenbath is a free service offered to campaigning groups in the Bath & North East Somerset area to manage their email and subscriber lists and publicise their events. It was created with seeding money from Bath & North East Somerset Council and is now maintained by local publishersFaragher Jones out of the goodness of their hearts. If you're interested email Steve Faragher at steve@faragherjones.com. This is a great opportunity to grow and administer a community website that really does some good.
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