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Homeowners will be able to borrow up to £10,000 to “green” their homes and pay the money back through their council tax bill, under radical proposals drawn up by a government advisory body.
The plans, published today in a [...]

The Guardian is reporting that a recent Global poll show that Britons are among the most enthusiastic about action to stop global warming, while Americans are among least willing to put environment first.

Only 44% of Americans thought climate change should be a major preoccupation for the Obama administration.
Britons were among the most enthusiastic supporters for [...]

Commenting on reports about next week’s Government strategies for tackling climate change, Friends of the Earth’s Campaigns Director Mike Childs said:
“The cost of tackling climate change will be dwarfed by the financial and human consequences of failing to act.
“Creating a safer future by cutting energy waste and developing the UK’s vast renewable energy potential can [...]

“The time for delays and half-measures is over. The personal leadership of every Head of State or Government is needed to seize this moment to protect people and the planet from one of the most serious challenges ever to confront humanity.”

British Gas today promised to create 2,600 green jobs over the next three years by rolling out “smart meters” and installing wind turbines on peoples’ homes.
Recruits will be needed to help introduce ’smart meters’ to help people see exactly how much energy they are using in their homes
The move should help ministers meet targets of [...]

We need a climate change ‘Churchill’ to lead us away from planet-wide devastation, writes James Lovelock in the latest edition of Conservation magazine, part of the Guardian Environment Network

Back in May 1940, we in the UK awoke to find facing us across the Channel a wholly hostile continental force about to invade. We were [...]

From The Guardian
National cycling plan to be developed to show councils and employers how they can boost two-wheeled travel

Rail, bus and bicycle travel were the focus of the transport sections in today’s Building Britain’s Future document, as Gordon Brown announced initiatives including a national cycling plan.
An active transport strategy drafted by the Department for Transport [...]

The Guardian reports that Chinese firm behind ambitious plan to breed microalgae in greenhouse with the potential to absorb carbon emissions.

The garish gunk coursing through a greenhouse filled with transparent pipes appears to belong on the set of a particularly slimy episode of Star Trek.
Multiplying rapidly as it flows through tubes, stacked 14 high in [...]

The United States took its first step towards reducing carbon emissions on Friday night when the House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that would set the country’s first ever limits on its greenhouse gas production.
President Barack Obama hailed the vote, which scraped through by a 219-212 tally, as a “bold and necessary step” that [...]

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