Environmental Issues

MPs on the transport select committee have come out in support of the government's plans to build a high speed rail network between Manchester and London but are questioning its costs and environmental issues. The Today programme's Nicola Stanbridge is in Kenilworth in Warwickshire ...

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There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing has significant efficiency and cost advantages. The most recent one with which I am directly familiar was conducted by Jon Taylor’s team at WSP Environment & Energy for Salesforce.com, and it showed per-transaction emissions reductions ...

Last week's Association of Southeast Asian Nations security conference produced an agreement on how to address South China Sea disputes and a breakthrough meeting between North and South Korea. The group's leaders say the progress demonstrates that a consensus-based approach to pursuing regional peace ...

Looking to start a benefit corporation, a nonprofit, or a for-profit company with a social purpose? Those whove done it say social entrepreneurism takes grit, resolve, and imagination. Fred Keller, founder and CEO of West Michigan plastics manufacturer Cascade Engineering, keeps a card in his pocket ...

When I was in high school, I had a darkroom in the basement. Because I didn’t do a large quantity of film processing, one of my biggest concerns was that the expensive chemicals would go bad before I had a chance to use them. Since it is primarily exposure to oxygen that damages photographic chemicals, ...

The local food movement in America is gaining steam. The question is whether can it attract sufficient capital from the private sector to build large, profitable businesses. Without that, it's just a fad. Energy and agriculture have more in common than you might think. Food and fossil fuels prices are ...

The attempted departure of the Freedom Flotilla 2 from Greece and the ensuing political debacle has illuminated the geopolitical fault lines that litter the Mediterranean. Conversely, it also reveals the potential of the Mediterranean Sea to provide an alternative narrative to a region troubled by political ...

Releasing tiny bubbles of natural gas from the shale that lies under better than half of Ohio has also released a whole series of environmental concerns. They range from how much water is needed for the process to what to do with the waste water when it's done...waste water that includes hundreds ...

Dear Radio Friend, The latest Shortwave Report (July 15) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom This week's show features stories ...