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Daniel Start’s wild swimming round the UK
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008I met Daniel Start at the end of last Summer when he moved into my friend Jo’s house in Bristol. He’d just finished writing a book, Wild Swimming, about all the beautiful rivers and pools he’d visited in the UK where you can go swimming and he’s done a blog for us on his travels [...]
Food, farming and flying
Friday, April 18th, 2008As the impacts of oil price on food lead to hunger for millions, there is no better time to change down a gear and find better ways to spend our precious time relaxing and eating locally.
The ever rising price of oil not only directly impacts the price of food through artificial fertilizers, pesticides and [...]
David Cameron’s green Tories
Friday, April 4th, 2008Amazing, that the Tories have come out against BAA and BA business plans, although they lay blame squarely at the Labour Governments feet, naturally. Well maybe this is just the same old political point scoring we know and love, but the fact that a major political party takes on the issue in this way is [...]
Is Videoconferencing the Antidote to Business Air Miles?
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Michael Daw is somewhat of an expert on virtual meetings and in this post gives his take on the potential for technology to replace our ‘need’ if not our desire to fly:
When you took the pledge not to fly, did you take the Gold or the Silver? For those of you who don’t know, this [...]
Fighting the right battle against global warming
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007LowFlyZone response to Tom Robbins Observer article where he questions the need to halt in the rapid growth in aviation.
His reasoning does not add up. Rather than suggest we back off or somehow water down our efforts at tackling our unsustainable lifestyles, cutting out flying is an important signal in accepting and embracing necessary change. [...]
BAA take off the gloves
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007A signal court case affecting the right of individuals to protest peacefully about climate change:
BAA are attempting to ban environmental campaigners from the airport, parts of the rail network and sections of the M25 and M4 motorways.
Heathrow Airport Ltd (part of BAA) has applied for an extremely broad injunction under the Protection from Harassment Act. [...]
Flybe’s responsible flying?
Monday, June 11th, 2007Flybe have launched a series of broadsheet advertisements in the UK claiming to be leading the way in ‘responsible low cost flying’. But can ‘responsible low cost flying’ really exist?
Flybe don’t offer a definition of what ‘responsible low cost flying’ might be, but we can infer from their advertisements that this entails five things:
Applying a [...]