Archive for May 16th, 2006

Aquaflow who?

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

A couple of users have now pointed me to this press release, in which a Marlborough-based company claims to have produced the world’s first bio-diesel from algae growing in sewerage. The company, Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, believe they can produce 1 million litres of bio-diesel per year, which would be hugely significant.
It sounds too good to […]

More gross school lunches

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Sue K today released the results of the second Green Party School Food Survey, which paints a pretty scary picture of the food for sale to kids at school tuckshops - high fat, high sugar foods are the cheapest, most common staples. Sarah Crawford, an independent dietition, reviewed the results of the survey, calling them […]

A lesson in eco-nomics

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

I blogged the other day with some links to a couple of stories about attempts to link environmental outcomes with economic incentives. This story from the Guardian yesterday illustrates how important it is that such attempts are done properly if they are to have the desired effect.
In sum, the EU’s carbon trading regime is in […]