The government recently published a Green Paper on the creative economy. It contained an addendum at odds with the bubbly tone of the rest of the report; a proposal for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to monitor user activity for copyright
Shelving Change
This month, supermarket watchdog the Competition Commission released findings from its third inquiry into the role of supermarkets in the UK grocery industry. The CC has constantly found evidence of unsavoury practices squeezing food suppliers; demands for upfront payments, changing
Climate tipping points and carbon fasting
Two interesting climate change stories in the news this week: from tipping points to fasting Bishops. A new report from University of East Anglia suggests climate change may happen faster than we thought, in that there are key tipping points
Chicken run
This week has seen a spate of programmes in Britain looking at food production and in particular the poor old broiler bird. Our food heroes, Messrs Oliver and Fearnly Whittingstall are doing a great job of bringing the issues into
85% shop with healthy and environmentally engaged principles
The poll has now closed in our healthy eating survey. Although the sample was not huge 85% of you registered as SHEEP – shoppers with healthy, environmentally engaged principles – good news for our collective health, for responsible food production
Food: What are we really eating?
Our latest title – Food: What are we really eating? is published this week amidst the usual onslaught of conflicting advice from governments, food agencies and experts about our eating habits. Yet the majority of us do not possess the
What a load of rubbish?
Rubbish is big business and bigger news this week. Whilst the UK Climate Change bill makes its way through the commons, Britons are also being threatened with “pilot” trials (according to DEFRA), paying for the amount of rubbish we have
Al Gore – from nine errors to the big prize in a week
It’s been an interesting week for Al Gore. He started it being ‘convicted’ by a UK judge for having ‘nine errors‘ in his film, An Inconvenient Truth, although the judge ruled that the film could be shown in schools on
UN says record emergency flood appeals… where is the urgent action?
The UN claimed on Friday that the record number of floods and humanitarian disasters happening around the world is due to climate change. According to Sir John Holmes, Under Secretary for Ocha, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
New climate change poll…but is it representative?
The BBC announced today the results of a new global poll on climate change. According to the Globescan poll, an average of 79% of respondents agreed that “human activity, including industry and transportation, is a significant cause of climate change”.