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/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/2012/06/13/the-debate-should-we-be-doing-more-to-combat-climate-change-2/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/the-debate-should-we-be-doing-more-to-combat-climate-change-2/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:44:19 +0000 Laura Davis http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25221 Fifty years ago, few people cared about pollution, deforestation, whaling or the Ozone later. But even with an increasing awareness of issues concerning the environment, there is still a long way to go. This week The Independent is looking at the successes and failures of the Green Movement at 50, with a series of blogs and features centred around the question: "Has the environment movement been a success?"]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/13/the-debate-should-we-be-doing-more-to-combat-climate-change-2/feed/ 202