In the four years since I’ve been tweeting, by far the greatest interest in anything I have had to say came when I posted this photograph I took on Sloane Square in London in July 2014, with this message. “J.Crew’s Bee Wall on its new store on Sloane Square, with Buglife, See more at: http://www.buglife.org.uk/news-%26-events/news/jcrew-partners-buglife-save-bees#sthash.mwzggfC0.dpuf …… Continue reading
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Fish2fork lets you rate a resturant on how sustainable its fish is – from the table
I’ve just signed up to Fish2fork’s DinerRatings. This is a new service, launched this week by the fish sustainability campaigning group to coincide with a revamp of its website. Fish2fork aims to provide an instant online rating of restaurants, according to the impact their seafood has on the seas and marine life. It invites diners to… Continue reading →
Charge while you shop: France’s biggest retailer embraces electric cars
It’s hard to miss the big green statement the E. Leclerc retail chain is making when you visit its hypermarket at Pont l’Abbé in Brittany, France. Photovoltaic panel lamps stand tall and prominent over the car park, in the centre of which is a double row of electric vehicle charging points, with, on our visit,… Continue reading →
All-electric cars – smog-free vision in a car park
It suits the governments to play down the man made contribution to the smog that affected southern Britain in the first few days of April, 2014. The Saharan dust was there for anyone to see and feel, on cars and in your eyes. Walking the three quarters of a mile from where I took the… Continue reading →
Attenborough finds paradise in Tring Museum
Sir David Attenborough was at the Natural History Museum at Tring this week, filming for a forthcoming documentary which is either about, or includes references to one branch of ornithological life about which he is passionate, birds of paradise. He describes them as “the most astounding and ravishingly beautiful birds in the world”. Tring is… Continue reading →
Remarkable tool making ability of the New Caledonian crow
The 7 o’clock news on Radio 4 on Monday, October 7 included an intriguing item, far too short and incomplete, on the remarkable tool making and using capacity of the New Caledonian crow. The item referred to new research by scientists at the University of St Andrews led by Dr Christian Rutz on the crows’… Continue reading →