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Green News Round-up #22

05.06.2009 News

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…

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Vote for the Green Party on 4th June

03.06.2009 Action

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…

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Are supermarkets slaughtering the Amazon?

01.06.2009 Business

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…

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Green News Round-up #21

29.05.2009 News

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…

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Amazon hit by climate chaos

27.05.2009 Climate

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…

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The true cost of a barrel of oil

25.05.2009 Climate

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…

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Green News Round-up #20

22.05.2009 News

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…

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Europe’s largest onshore wind farm

20.05.2009 Energy

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…

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Caroline Lucas and Green politics

18.05.2009 Climate

Less than three weeks away from the European elections, the dilemmas facing Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, are daunting. If she campaigns on climate change alone, she demotes her party to the status of a single-issue outfit…

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