Day: 9 March 2007

Climate change claims to go up, insurers warn

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US looks to Brazil for bio-fuel tech

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‘Turquoise belts’ to climate-proof homes

'Turquoise belts' around rivers and waterways designed to protect buildings from flooding may become the latest addition to the planners' arsenal of climate-proofing tools.

European leaders strike emissions deal

European leaders agreed on a package binding emission targets, and, crucially, binding renewables and energy efficiency goals designed to achieve these, at the European Council meeting this Friday.

Device puts the plug on pollution

Hundreds of pollution incidents that contaminate British rivers each year could be stopped at the source with a cutting edge device that instantaneously plugs the pipe in question.

Scientists unite to highlight mercury threat

The world's leading mercury specialists have published their collected findings on the toxic metal, claiming it poses a serious global pollution threat.

Higher landfill costs could curb Ireland’s waste exports

Ireland needs more recycling facilities if it is to curb the steady flow of recyclable glass, paper and plastics abroad - and for that to happen landfill costs need to rise - according to experts at the Irish Water Waste Environment (IWWE) show this week.

Ikea launches flat-pack homes

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Simply does it: how to be a record-breaker

If you make it easy for householders to recycle, then participation rates will rise.
That's what North Kesteven found as it rose to the top of the recycling league

The carbon cycle

Brighton & Hove Council is encouraging residents to get en route to a healthier planet with a new kind of online journey planner. Simon Jennings reports

Chain reaction

One man's rubbish is another man's treasure. Or so the saying goes. But what if the two men (or women) in question work in different sectors? Well, traditionally, the transformation between trash and treasure would never take place. But that's where the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (or Nisp, to give it its snappier title) comes in.

SMEs adopt EMS in USA

American experts were asked to look at the problems facing a wider adoption of EMS by small and medium-sized companies in the USA. Pennsylvanian academics Christopher J Lynch and Thomas Gibson told edie their findings.

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