This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.
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Did China block Copenhagen progress to pave way for its own dominance in cleantech?
Posted 25/01/10 by Matt B in the Online category
You hear it all the time, one of the most frequently voiced excuses for Western countries failing to radically cut carbon dioxide emissions: Taking any such action would hand a massive competitive advantage to fast-industrializing China.
Yet evidence is piling up that the very opposite is the case. The main challenge from the world’s new industrial superpower is not that it will continue to use the dirty, old technologies of the past, but that it will come to dominate the new, clean, green ones of the future.
As developed nations fail to put an adequate price on carbon, and thus to stimulate clean-technology development themselves, they risk handing market supremacy to the rival they most fear. Indeed, it could even be hypothesized that China’s blocking of agreement on rich-country emission targets in Copenhagen was intended to hold back the development of cleantech by its Western rivals.
Did China block Copenhagen progress to pave way for its own dominance in cleantech?
Kent County to become factory centre?
Posted 10/01/10 by Matt B in the Urban category
Council in Kent offering all farmland for factory building in 2010 and onwards.Kent, the garden of England, could well loose it's title if one of it's Conservative run district councils gets it's own way.
The innocently named "Policy 25" would offer a way for planners to bypass all country and farm land protection rules by promising lots of jobs as a result of the build. The reason for this push is because the conservative leadership would very much like to build houses on the already desgnated industreal areas such as EuroKent. The companies most likely to benefit from this arrangment include those run by the council's own leadership!
(Local bloggers have more as do the BBC)
This all coming from a council that is never far from the news (for example misleading the public in a FOI request) with complaints about the behavour of their planning officers and irregularities in the way they have carried out certain actions. Not least of which are the significant threats to all the drinking water in the area. Is Thanet in Kent going to become a concreate jungle so that a few businessmen can line their pocket?
Are we stupid or something?
Posted 05/01/10 by Matt B in the Unspecified category
Why is it do you think that instead of putting the very finest ingredients into household consumables that companies put the most damaging and potentially deadly?Because they are cheep. Because we let them. Because no one makes a fuss.
Why is it that we pour a noxious blend of cancer promoting neurological toxins onto even our children's heads just to wash their hair?
It's not because it gets hair clean - it's because it makes the products last longer and so increases profit. Because we continue to use these chemicals and fail to understand the risks we take.
I think maybe we are very silly people.
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