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An interesting article about the (lack of) disaster in the response to the flooding across central England last week If this is a national disaster, I’m a tomato—Times Online .

While it does not solve the problems of houses at risk, it does put the floods into perspective.

Roll on a considered response to the floods [...]

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NASA have now made their amazing montage of city lights across the Earth at night available as a layer on Google Earth.

To switch it on, go to Layers > Featured Content > NASA > Earth City Lights, but before you do that, for maximum impact, navigate to an area you know well, like Scotland, and [...]

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A compilation of various surveys that may just indicate that people are, albeit slowly in some case, trying to become more “green”. Or at least, think about being more environmentally friendly.

Money talks: How concern for the planet is changing the way we shop – Independent Online Edition > Lifestyle

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Everyone should read this book. It should be part of the national curriculum, as it is much more important than Shakespeare.

The Revenge of Gaia

Yes, James Lovelock does have an outlying view of the Earth system we live in, but only by reading these theories that are not mainstream, do we truly appreciate the potential perils [...]

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George Monbiot discusses in his article “Giving Up On Two Degrees” how the governments of the western world are manipulating the figures, so that they appear to be meeting their greenhouse gas emission targets. But not that they are trying to meet the wrong targets.

For those of us who live in this country, this is [...]

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