Out on the road I notice all-electric Nissan Leafs, and I can’t help keeping a running total in my mind. What particularly sad obsession is this, you ask. There’s a more positive purpose. I’m keeping up with a story about business and the environment and what is likely to be a radical change to our… Continue reading
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Duke gastropub gains high praise for serving sustainable fish
How often to customers in pubs and restaurants, when ordering fish, make their choice according to the sustainability of that particular species? How many decide not to ask for fish at all because the menu doesn’t tell them where it came from, and the serving staff can’t advise them either? The answer to both questions… Continue reading →
New deal lets electric cars run on 100% green energy
Another argument against the electric car is about to fall. It’s the “Ah, but electric cars are just as polluting because they use electricity from dirty old coal fired power stations” criticism. True, up to a point. Although detractors forget that electric cars don’t emit any noxious gases, so are clean at the roadside. But… 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 →
King’s Cross Square deal for Cubitt’s Victorian railway marvel
Yesterday people stood outside King’s Cross Station and celebrated a negative. Empty space. The site of something nobody could possibly have liked, gone forever. Polar opposite emotions to those that would have been felt in 1962, half a mile away, the last time a familiar feature was demolished in front of a station in the… Continue reading →
Will Waitrose’s sustainable fish pledge be a catch with customers?
A new Waitrose opened in our local town of August 8, and we shall be going there in future for all our fish. I don’t mean to make light of the efforts the other local supermarkets have put into selling fish from sustainable sources, but Waitrose has made a commitment that, by the end of… Continue reading →