I’ve just signed up to Fish2fork’s DinerRatings. This is a new service, launched this week by the fish sustainability campaigning group to coincide with a revamp of its website. Fish2fork aims to provide an instant online rating of restaurants, according to the impact their seafood has on the seas and marine life. It invites diners to… Continue reading
Browsing Category Environment
Stonehenge heads for the future: new visitor centre welcomes the world
A new visitor centre opened at Stonehenge six months ago, in December, 2013. Its purpose was to “restore the dignity” of the monument. Mission accomplished? —- The A303 is one of the few major roads in Southern Britain that, in my opinion, is still a pleasure to drive. This is the alternative route from London… Continue reading →
Charge while you shop: France’s biggest retailer embraces electric cars
It’s hard to miss the big green statement the E. Leclerc retail chain is making when you visit its hypermarket at Pont l’Abbé in Brittany, France. Photovoltaic panel lamps stand tall and prominent over the car park, in the centre of which is a double row of electric vehicle charging points, with, on our visit,… Continue reading →
Aylesbury’s peregrines hatch a new champion of the skies
Since I wrote the following, the single egg hatched, on Monday, April 28th. The young bird is being fed by its parents now. http://www.aylesburyperegrine.org.uk/pcam.html — Aylesbury’s pair of peregrine falcons are tending their first egg on their purpose built nesting platform at the top of the 200 feet high County Hall in… Continue reading →
All-electric cars – smog-free vision in a car park
It suits the governments to play down the man made contribution to the smog that affected southern Britain in the first few days of April, 2014. The Saharan dust was there for anyone to see and feel, on cars and in your eyes. Walking the three quarters of a mile from where I took the… Continue reading →
The computer game that could help save the cuckoo
I hardly ever pay attention to new computer games. I don’t play, and while I admire the skill of the designers, I conclude that they are only peripheral to children and young people’s learning experience, good for hand/eye coordination and not much else. And if there are educational games, are they not terribly worthy, and… Continue reading →