Like every other race there are good and bad Americans.  It’s a geat pity that more of these good Americans don’t hold high office.  Maybe the politicians are just scared.  Would they tell the people that they had to pay $11 a gallon for petrol (gas)?  there would be mutiny! But there are US citizens […]

It seem odd to me that after watching a TV programme on the decommissioning of Calder Hall,  the world beating nuclear reactor that was a British ‘First’,  that this is yet another race we have lost.
Partly because of the ‘nibmby’ attitude of the prospective neighbours to alternative energy generation systems we have played back into the […]

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With a hot summer on the way, fans will […]

This headline - Summer Promises to be a Scorcher-, was a recent offering in the Daily Express. This got me thinking again - dangerous!
If there is a scorcher of a summer there will almost certainly be an increase in the ocurrence of skin cancer.  To illustrate just how dangerous hot sun can be, consider this.  For […]

Views on wind farm vary.  I think that the turbines look graceful and add to the landscape as well as their more accepted benefits.  Some people don’t agree. A caravan site owner in North Yorkshire is objecting to a wind farm being built near his property where he has built a nature park. Now, my opinion […]

Yes, there is a connection. Because of adverse weather the rice harvest is way less than usual causing the price of rice to rise by 74% this year.  You don’t need me to tell you the international implications.  The situation reminds me of a crisis point in Irish history. That is the potato famine in […]

Recent dead donkey in the London Evening Standard.  Sea horses are back in the Thames. Maybe this doesn’t thrill you, but it does me.  150 years ago the Thames smelt so much from sewage and dead animals that Parliament had lime rinsed cloth hung over the windows to try to kill the smell. Cholera was […]

POWERTUNE  can cut your electricity bill by 10 to 25% for the extremely cost effective cost of £42.99.  If every property had one of these, the government carbon dioxide target would be a lot easier to reach.  To read more about POWERTUNE take a look at my mini-site.

This is a resume of an article in the latest update from www.EuroACE.org
How Low? Achieving optimal carbon savings from the UK’s existing housing stock: A new report commissioned by WWF-UK and prepared by UK ACE, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Dr Richard Moore, concludes that it is feasible to reduce CO2 emission levels in […]

Because of climate change and the depletion of the ozone layer, more harmful ultraviolet rays reaching the earth are causing an increased risk of people losing their sight through cataracts. Cataracts are responsible for 50% of blindness worldwide already. Prevention is better and cheaper than any cure and more readily available.  Just wear sunglasses or […]