Green clean destination in the American North West Lonely Planet and New York Times chose Portland as the place to go in 2017. And direct London-Portland flights begin in May 2017. People who have never been to the USA, and only know it through movies and TV shows, may be surprised at its cultural and political diversity…. Continue reading
Posts tagged sustainable
Fine electric bus, but Milton Keynes cannot match Europe’s public transport
The latest easyJet magazine extols Milton Keynes. It is certainly a city of energy and achievement, and it deserves to be recognised as a pleasant place to live and work, just 30 minutes by fast train to London, even if it doesn’t have many interesting conventional tourism features. It is in a good central position… Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Sustainable fish – not what it says on the label
The BBC’s Stephen Evans was right to go after untrue labels of packets of fish – “Mislabelled fish slip into Europe’s menus”, April 2nd, 2013. The issue is fresh in the listener’s mind after the horsemeat scandal. (The Daily Mail ran a similar investigative story on fish in 2011.) There is a separate conservation point… Continue reading →
Cities sign deal for a low carbon future
Boris Johnson may have built a great big snowman of denial on the Department of Climate Change’s lawn, but the fact remains: the overwhelming consensus among scientists is that Global Warming is real, and we need to act. Where, though, is that action going to come from? It must come from government clearly, as… Continue reading →