Part of the flagship BBC2 series Faulks on Fiction has been shot in a London restaurant which sells one of the most endangered fish species in the oceans. In the third part of the series presenter Sebastian Faulks is filmed dining in Nobu, whose owner is accused by conservationists of helping to drive the bluefin… Continue reading
Posts by Gareth Huw Davies
Have low-energy, eco-friendly homes finally become affordable?
(The author has written extensively for the Sunday Times Home section.) I blogged last month about the “tea cosy houses” that should cost hardly anything to heat. This is an estate of 14 housing association homes now being built at Wimbish in Essex. Click here to read more. It will be one of the first… Continue reading →
Life on the margin just got better for birds
Walking on a footpath near my home last weekend, I came across something I haven’t seen in that field before. A low cost avian “lifebelt”. All the farmer had done was not plough a 10 metre strip down the side of the field, reducing his yield by a few percent. But the benefit to nature… Continue reading →
Chart-topping walk on London's doorstep
How do you measure Britain’s most popular walks? Footpaths may look busy, but it’s very difficult to count how many people are using them. And who’s to say it isn’t the same local people taking a turn every day of the year, which would certainly build up the numbers? Truth is, the countryside is not… Continue reading →
Big boost for radically new wind turbine
The more we accept the need for renewable energy, the more we seem to have it in for wind turbines. They creak and groan and, many say, blight fine landscape. They kill birds, it is alleged. They are just too big and intimidating for the virtuous life. Yet we know we would be mad not… Continue reading →
Capital plan to beat electric drivers' range anxiety
When the first mass-market electric cars glide onto our streets this year (2011), early adopters will need their mathematical wits about them. With a range of only 100 miles, or less, on a full battery, a day’s pootling about could put you close to empty well before you can reach home for an overnight charge. In London at… Continue reading →