Campaigners are again talking about changing the time system, as reported on the BBC…
MS Harding added that in the height of summer the sun rises at 0400 BST, while most people are asleep and “sets while we are still enjoying our evenings”.
“Matching the daylight hours more closely with our living patterns would give us a [...]
Posted on Saturday 28th October 2006 in Blog tagged environmental, pointless, Politics, UK, with no comments.
As reported on the BBC News website, MPs(Members of Parliament) are to get an opportunity to veto the decision to waste £20bn plus on the hypocritical proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Blair and his cronies in the so called “opposition” think they have enough support to easily win, so start lobbying your MP now to get as [...]
Posted on Tuesday 5th September 2006 in Blog, Politics tagged cnd, Politics, UK, WMD, with one comment.
Another scheme to overcomplicate the charging of services in the name of promoting recycling is being discussed on the BBC News website: BBC NEWS | UK | Bugged bins to promote recycling.
This is wrong for many reasons.
The main one being that the worst materials to landfill, plastics and polystyrene packaging, weigh next to nothing, so [...]
Posted on Tuesday 5th September 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged Engineering, environmental, landfill, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
An article on the BBC NEWS states that Rubbish collection ‘may be taxed’:
The proposals could allow councils to charge residents for the amount of waste they produce, and other possibilities include charging less to greener households and those who separate their waste.
What they don’t seem to have considered is that this will just increase the [...]
Posted on Friday 16th June 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged Engineering, environmental, landfill, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
BP may now be using the slogan[1] “Beyond Petroleum”, but that does not mean they are reducing the amount of oil they are extracting, just how they are carefully using ‘spin’ to make people believe that. Another very insightful article by George Monbiot: Still Drilling, which is well worth reading whether you’re an [...]
Posted on Tuesday 13th June 2006 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged Engineering, environmental, peak_oil, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
