Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Don’t sweat the little stuff

7th December 2007

I've just been on the phone with someone in the commercial sector fretting over the use of paper plates in their canteen outside main meals...

Waste heat “will be zero carbon”

5th December 2007

Another positive from the Local Government Association Climate Change conference. I asked the Audit Commission's carbon gurus about the use of heat from electricity generation...

Blears: “Merton Rule Not Under Threat”, but…

4th December 2007

I'm at the Local Government Association Climate Change conference today and the Government's Communities Secretary Hazel Blears stated quite categorically that the Merton Rule was...

Why don’t we do district heating in the UK?

3rd December 2007

I was giving a presentation on Sustainable Construction on Friday to a group of Local Authority energy managers. I mentioned Kalundborg in Denmark where the...

“Ethical” consumer spending doubles to 5%

30th November 2007

The Co-operative Bank is reporting that ethical* consumer spending in the UK has doubled to 5% of our total since 2002. Food in particular is...

Google Searches for Cheaper Solar Power

28th November 2007

Google's reputation as a corporate goodguy (motto: Don't be evil) took a big hit recently with charges of complicity in political censorship by the Chinese...

CBI Members Make Climate Change Commitments

26th November 2007

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has released "Climate Change: Everyone's Business" the report of its Climate Change Task Force. The task force consists of...

Brown admits 60% carbon cut may be inadequate

23rd November 2007

With all the furore over Northern Rock and the loss of 25m people's personal data, you may have missed a significant speech on climate change...

Green Dragons?

21st November 2007

It was great to see Max McMurdo get some cash backing for his Reestore eco-design business on last week's Dragons' Den. The funny bit was...

Uncertainty over Carbon Intensity of Electricity

19th November 2007

Like the rest of the carbon accounting/footprinting industry, we've always used DEFRA's published figure for the carbon intensity of electricity of 0.43 kgCO2 per kWh....

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