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Government announces annual targets for carbon reduction
Feb 18 2008
Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for the Environment announced today that the Government would set an annual target range for emissions reductions. He also said the Climate Change Committee would be asked to consider whether the 2050 target should be tightened up to 80 per cent.
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Motorists could save themselves up to £100 a year and reduce their impact on the environment by adopting more eco-friendly driving practices, the RAC said today.
The RAC has come up with the following tips to help improve fuel efficiency and reduce cars’ impact on the environment:
• Pump up to cut down. Under-inflated tyres create more […]

We’ve just gone Carbon Neutral ! !
Whilst looking at some of the setting of our website with our website hosting company I noticed that they have now become carbon neutral.
Following the link to the the carbon offsetting company that they use, I was very pleased to discover Great Green Toys could also become carbon neutral. […]

This is the Great Green Toys Blog.
In this blog we will try to give some useful information about buying greener toys and living a greener life in general.
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There are lots of green issues in the news this week like the legal challenge to the government’s ecotown proposals and Environment Agency plans for a 100 year plan to protect the south coast from flooding.
Campaigning group ‘Bard’ will challenge the government’s 6,000-home development at the village of Middle Quinton, which is about six miles […]

Commenting on the official opening today of Europe’s biggest onshore wind farm – Whitelee Wind Farm in East Renfrewshire, Scotland – Friends of the Earth’s Executive Director Andy Atkins said:
“Whitelee Wind Farm is an exciting step towards a greener future – it will slash carbon emissions and generate enough clean, safe power for over 180,000 […]

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The first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to the Gulf of Alaska and areas off the coast of British Columbia since 1965 has been documented by scientists, suggesting that historical migration patterns are being established by these amazing marine mammals.

Great news…

World’s biggest offshore wind farm to be built off Kent coast

Every home in the UK must be fitted with a “smart meter” by 2020 to reduce energy use and pave the way for a low-carbon “smart grid”, under plans unveiled by the UK government.

The government estimates putting smart meters in the country’s 26m homes could save customers and energy companies £2.5bn-£3.6bn over the next 20 […]

Today the Green Party launches its European election manifesto titled: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
The manifesto promises to rapidly create a million jobs through a Green New Deal. It stresses the need to make Britain’s economy work differently in order to protect and improve public services, to create a fairer society and to tackle the climate […]

Ahead of its manifesto launch later this week, the Green Party today revealed one of its key policies – a Green recovery package that would create a million jobs.
“Put the economy on a war footing NOW”
To deliver these jobs urgently (2), the UK economy must be put on something like a war footing, […]

The Belgian city of Ghent is about to become the first in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week.
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Brighton & Hove is launching a bid to become one of the UK’s most friendly cities for electric cars.
This week the city sees a major investment in electric car charging infrastructure, with the installation of four street-side charging stations and a further 16 completed by the end of 2010. The charging stations, which are vital […]

The line-up includes the Twizy Z.E. city runabout and the Zoe Z.E. small hatchback, both of which Renault described as “close to production concepts”.
Despite the “concept” coding, both cars will make it onto roads – according to Renault. But the launched versions may look and handle slightly differently.

Twizy is powered by a 15kW/70Nm (20bhp/52lb-ft) electric […]

Comet, the electrical goods retailer, is offering its customers a 20% discount if they trade-in old white goods appliances for a new model. The pilot scheme by Comet will run until the 14th of September. The UK has roughly 15 million fridges, freezers and washing machines that are over ten years old.
Darren Johnson, the Green […]

Caroline Lucas has been named as the new President of the European Parliament’s cross-party Animal Welfare Intergroup.
The Green Party leader is well known for her longstanding efforts to achieve better protection for animals, having played a key role in the creation of legislation to ban the sale of cat and dog fur in the […]

Commenting on President Obama’s climate change speech today, Friends of the Earth’s senior international climate campaigner Asad Rehman said:
“Barack Obama’s speech was deeply disappointing – it was a huge missed opportunity which does nothing to break the logjam in international climate negotiations.
“The President clearly recognises the urgent need to slash emissions, but the US must […]

The British Humanist Society has congratulated the Green Party on its new Education Policy, recently adopted at the party’s conference in Hove.
Director of Education and Public Affairs for the BHS Andrew Copson said “the Green Party’s new faith schools policy represents a very positive step forward for those who care about a more inclusive state […]

News that “Gordon Brown has announced that he is prepared to go to Copenhagen to clinch a deal” has been welcomed by Friends of the Earth – but the campaign group urged the Prime Minister to take urgent action ahead of the UN climate summit to help secure a fair agreement.
Friends of the Earth’s Executive […]

The campaign for the Greens to win Brighton Pavilion stepped up a gear this week, with 14 billboards going up around Brighton and Hove, timed to coincide with the Labour Party conference in Brighton.
The billboard campaign has been devised by the Green Party’s retained ad agency, glue London.
In the ads the Green Party’s slogan for […]

On the eve of the Harper-Obama meeting in Washington D.C., climate and energy campaigner Mike Hudema explains why Greenpeace is locking down and blockading a giant dump truck and shovel at Shell’s massive Albian Sands open-pit mine in northern Alberta to send the message that the tar sands are a global climate crime that must […]

Commenting on news that the world’s biggest wind turbine blades will be made in Britain with Government backing, Friends of the Earth’s renewable energy campaigner Nick Rau said:
“It’s great news for Britain that the world’s biggest wind turbines will be made here. This is exactly the sort of development that the Government should be […]

£6.50 for a loaf of bread, £7 for a box of cornflakes and £18 for a pint of beer –  these are the eye watering prices we could face in 2030 unless urgent action is taken to prevent dangerous climate change.
The figures were published today by Friends of the Earth, 40 days before vital […]

Homeowners in Scotland will be able to borrow up to £10,000 interest free in order to improve energy efficiency.
What a fantastic idea…
Available in England when ? ?
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Suzuki has shown off its Swift plug-in hybrid at the Tokyo Motor Show.

The car is driven by a 54kW (72bhp) electric motor which draws its power from a lithium-ion battery squeezed into the centre console between the two front seats.
A full battery charge will propel the car roughly 20km (12.5 miles), Suzuki said, after which […]

Conservative leader's eco-speech shows his true colours

via Green Party News by Green Party on 10/16/09

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has warned that David Cameron’s speech this morning showed the Conservative leader’s true colours – that despite his green rhetoric, he would put laisser-faire principles before any commitment to meeting climate change targets.
Commenting […]

Ever feel powerless? Worried that the problem is too big? Worried that you can’t have an impact?
(Timberland are a big shoe company who, after being told to sort out their supply chain by you lot, helped us put pressure on big cattle companies to stop their businesses destroying the Amazon rainforest. This guy is their […]

The Guardian is reporting that:

"Old electrical items are being thrown out with household rubbish because many people don't know how to recycle them, a new survey reveals today"

The research by the consumer group also found almost three-quarters of those questioned admitted to hoarding products that were broken and in need of repair or simply no […]

Greenpeace volunteers occupy Parliament to save the climate

via Greenpeace UK RSS by jamie on 10/11/09

Update from the scene: 31 volunteers are still ocuppying the roof this morning, 24 came down last night and were arrested and all have been bailed to return.
Fifty-five Greenpeace volunteers scaled the walls of the Houses of Parliament and […]

The Green Party today welcomed the publication of an RMT-commissioned poll which shows 70% support for rail renationalisation. The party has long argued that the 1993 privatisation was botched, costly, and against the interests of the travelling public, and supports a return to public ownership.
Alan Francis, transport spokesperson for the Green Party, said:
“Rail privatisation has […]

An in-depth poll of Britain’s marginal constituencies (1) today predicts that Green Party leader Caroline Lucas will take the Brighton Pavilion seat in the coming general election.

The poll predicts that the Conservatives will form the next government with a majority of 70 seats. Last year’s equivalent poll, however, predicted a Conservative majority of 146 – […]

The BBC is reporting that four degrees of warming ‘likely’ ! !
In a dramatic acceleration of forecasts for global warming, UK scientists say the global average temperature could rise by 4C (7.2F) as early as 2060.
The Met Office study used projections of fossil fuel use that reflect the trend seen over the last […]