http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/29/the-carbon-footprint-created-by-imports/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/29/the-carbon-footprint-created-by-imports/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:18 +0000 Tom Bawden http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34528 Over the past couple of decades successive governments have made plenty of noise about Britain's falling CO2 emissions. But while such claims are technically true, they overlook a key component of the country's actual carbon footprint - those emissions generated in the production of the goods and services we import.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/29/the-carbon-footprint-created-by-imports/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/21/how-clean-is-your-air/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/21/how-clean-is-your-air/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:13:40 +0000 Clare Nasir http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=31810 What I do find quite strange and frustrating is the lack of public information about the quality of air.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/21/how-clean-is-your-air/feed/ 13 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/15/reduce-and-reuse-%e2%80%93-have-we-come-full-cycle/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/15/reduce-and-reuse-%e2%80%93-have-we-come-full-cycle/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:00:16 +0000 Richard Bastian http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25270 London residents alone throw away 20 million tonnes of waste each year according to the London Community Resource Network, which estimates that recycling or reusing these resources could stop 150 million tonnes of annual carbon emissions.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/15/reduce-and-reuse-%e2%80%93-have-we-come-full-cycle/feed/ 4 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/like-thatcher-before-them-leaders-must-understand-their-moral-duty-towards-the-environment/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/like-thatcher-before-them-leaders-must-understand-their-moral-duty-towards-the-environment/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:00:30 +0000 Trewin Restorick http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25240 The full horror of hitting 50 hit me personally this year as I ‘celebrated’ my birthday a couple of weeks ago. I realised that half my life has been spent in the Green Movement.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/like-thatcher-before-them-leaders-must-understand-their-moral-duty-towards-the-environment/feed/ 30 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/03/07/online-house-hunter-be-read-and-green-2/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/03/07/online-house-hunter-be-read-and-green-2/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:00:30 +0000 Alan Cleaver http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=9513 Don't ignore your new home's Energy Performance Certificate - it could guide you about future costs needed on your home]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/03/07/online-house-hunter-be-read-and-green-2/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/30/politics-in-a-warming-world/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/30/politics-in-a-warming-world/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:00:36 +0000 Andrew Jordan Dr Tim Rayner http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=6642 On the day of the Political Studies Association’s Annual Awards and to mark the 60th anniversary of the Association, two leading academics write exclusively for Independent Blogs about how climate change is the biggest political challenge that we face.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/11/30/politics-in-a-warming-world/feed/ 0