UFOs, lost rivers and lightbulbs: this week’s sustainability news
Hello and happy new year to everyone! As 2009 gets started, so does an increased research focus on sustainability from me, and with it a weekly update on some of the sustainability related stories and innovations that have caught my eye this week. I hope you find it interesting!
- Are UFOs attacking Ecotricity wind turbines? Two turbine blades on a Lincolnshire wind farm were damaged on Sunday amidst many reportings of UFO sightings.
- Book now for the Intelligence Squared Climate Change Festival, 25 January at the Royal Geographical Society. Some interesting sessions on the agenda including an debate between school pupils.
- London Rivers Action Plan – a big project was launched today by the Environment to rescue lots of London’s old rivers which have been long covered over. [via Treehugger]
- Series 3 of It’s not Easy Being Green just started last night on BBC2 (Thursdays 8pm), bringing Dick Strawbridge back to our screens, now joined by Lauren Laverne and a new magazine format. There’s a weekly interview with a celebrity on their green credentials (Phill Tufnell flew from Surrey to Cornwall to film his, hardly a good start). Great example of sustainability made desirable and moving into the mainstream, or a disappointing puff of hot air? Watch it and decide.
- The cold weather is bringing some unusual birds into our gardens at the moment. Put out some food, and see who comes to visit, and be extra helpful by surveying your garden birds in the RSPB’s annual national survey, the Big Garden Birdwatch on 24-25 January.
- Depressing news of the week is the Daily Mail encouraging panic buying of old fashioned incandescent bulbs as they are fazed out in favour of low energy bulbs. Traditional 100w bulbs will banned from sale from September, expected to save around 5 million tons of CO2 per year.
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