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Green Pepper is going Wilde!

by Paul on Monday, 10 August 2009 · 2 comments

in Notices

There’ll be plenty more ideas for eco-friendly living, plus news and views on the most pressing environmental issues of the day – everything that you’ve come to expect from Green Pepper. And then some…

Green News Round-up #22

by Paul on Friday, 5 June 2009 · 3 comments

in News, Round-up

Each Friday we’ll bring you a round-up of the week’s green news from around the web. Please drop us a line if you know of a story we should include in the next round-up…

Vote for the Green Party on 4th June

by Paul on Wednesday, 3 June 2009 · 1 comment

in Action, Politics

You’re probably fed-up of hearing about politicians’ expenses by now, so here’s a short video by the great comedian and campaigner, Mark Thomas (no relation!), explaining why you should vote Green in the local and European elections on Thursday…

Supermarkets are driving destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation, according to a three-year investigation of the global trade in Brazilian cattle products…

Green News Round-up #21

by Paul on Friday, 29 May 2009 · 0 comments

in News, Round-up

Each Friday we’ll bring you a round-up of the week’s green news from around the web. Please drop us a line if you know of a story we should include in the next round-up…

Amazon hit by climate chaos

by Paul on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 · 0 comments

in Climate, Land, News

Flooding is common in the world’s largest remaining tropical wilderness, but this year the waters rose higher and stayed longer than they have in decades. Experts suspect global warming may be driving wild climate swings that appear to be punishing the Amazon with increasing frequency…

Not every barrel of oil has the same carbon footprint – some extraction processes radically increase the amount of greenhouse gases which are released. A report from Greenpeace singles out Shell as the most carbon intensive oil company in the world…

Green News Round-up #20

by Paul on Friday, 22 May 2009 · 2 comments

in News, Round-up

Each Friday we’ll bring you a round-up of the week’s green news from around the web. Please drop us a line if you know of a story we should include in the next round-up…

Europe’s largest onshore wind farm

by Paul on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 · 2 comments

in Energy, News

The final section of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm is officially switched on today. The Whitelee development on Eaglesham Moor, just outside Glasgow in Scotland, is made up of 140 massive turbines and can produce enough clean green energy to power over 117,000 homes…