To support young people throughout the world ,who have been demanding action to tackle the climate crisis, adults are being asked to join the climate school strikes on Friday,20th September ahead of the important UN climate summit that week. Those …
Making products by mining for raw materials, manufacturing these into a product, using the product till it wears out, then disposing of it to landfill is non-sustainable, so says Walter Stahal, in his recent book, the Circular Economy. He promotes …
Guy Shrubsole, author of “Who owns England? How we lost our green and pleasant land and how to take it back, 2019”, has produced a fascinating analysis of all that is wrong with land ownership in England today. While he …
In writing a section recently on Electric Vehicles for this website “sustainability-in-practice”, the experts I talked to kept emphasising how battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are going to improve city air quality, our grid and the efficiency of renewable power generation. …
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The proposal to build an anaerobic digestor (AD) plant to digest food waste and create biogas offers an excellent opportunity for Aberdeen to improve its waste collection system. AD plants like good quality, uncontaminated, food waste. This is best collected …
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I am delighted that the Scottish Government has submitted a Climate Change (Scotland) Bill for consultation. Having an Act with specific climate emission limits for precise future dates is an essential step forward to avert catastrophic climate change. There are …