| The ethical minefield of GM crops | | 9:20am Wednesday 14th May 2008 | | The rising cost of food, because of drought, the price of diesel, the demand from 75 million more people each year and an increasing middle class in the developing world has put the emphasis, once again, on the genetic modification of crops. |
| Answer to the earth’s problems could lie in the soil... | | 8:32am Wednesday 30th April 2008 | | The large number of wind turbines in Spain was a highlight on a recent rail trip through that country to Morocco, but it was the landscape between Tangiers and Casablanca that really caught my attention - mile after mile of plantations of coppiced trees and smouldering charcoal kilns. |
| Driveways pose flooding risks | | 12:28pm Wednesday 16th April 2008 | | This month the rules changed and parking tickets can now arrive courtesy of CCTV. In October, another amendment will be introduced and it is to do with parking spaces in the front gardens of private properties. |
| Low-carbon Britain looks like it will be built slowly | | 6:18am Wednesday 26th March 2008 | | The section in the recent Budget on tackling climate change is called Building a Low-Carbon Britain and it covers most of the opportunities. It's just a pity that it's short on decisions and long on voluntary commitment and delays. |
| Why we need a car-free-zone to get on our bikes | | 8:39am Wednesday 27th February 2008 | | I often see a fine example of the
cycling problem in Bradford. It's a yellow clad mature male pedalling slowly home up St Enoch's Road towards Wibsey, a kilometre-long hill of unrelenting gradient. |
| Countries showing the way | | 3:12pm Tuesday 19th February 2008 | | A number of countries have decided to make themselves carbon neutral by a definite date and so set the rest of us a good example. |
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