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“Organic food no better”

August 9, 2009 12 comments

There’s a controversy in Britain at the moment about a new report that claims to prove that organic food is no better for you than chemically agro-grown food.
The report was written by the government’s Food Standards Agency, which compared 55 scientific studies comparing organic and non-organic produce. Of course, the Soil Association (Britain’s organic food [...]

Greenpeace Activists Call Coal Companies On “Property Damage”

December 11, 2008 No comments yet

Six Greenpeace activists were recently cleared of all charges in a British court after causing and estimated $53,000 of damage to a coal power plant in Kingsnorth in the county of Kent, England. After scaling the chimney of the plant and painting”Gordon” on the side, the activists pleaded guilty but used as an argument that [...]

UK’s Two-Wheel Initiatives

February 25, 2008 3 comments

The UK is not known among the cycling rich cultures of Europe as a particularly bike friendly place. In fact it ranks 12th out of Europe’s 15 ‘cycling nations’.
This may all be changing soon though as Britain announced earlier this week a $100 million program to seek out a “cycling city” that would promote two-wheel [...]


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