Author Archives: greencentre
Offsetting – the excuse to pollute!
Well, new posts here have been rare as the world continues to have eyes turned to face a different set of problems. As always, when there’s a major distraction, others can plunder. Chris Lang’s excellent Redd watching has just brought … Continue reading
Wood as fuel maybe not so dangerous!
Of course it aint. But it has recently been used as both scapegoat and decoy. The fight back begins: Fake News about Wood Burning Stoves Pollution
The Butterfly Effect
Well, they talk of Brazilian butterflies changing history by merely flapping their wings, so here’s encouragement for more local, UK, butterfly wing flapping! I cannot get to these events but wish them well. Maybe I’ll get one here in the … Continue reading
The problems in discussion or why we are where we are!
Laura Sutherland Posted on bees and Monsanto – Ref 1 with 2 and 3 as background Piers Newland And an alternative blog opinion – Ref 4 Chris Hemmings OK, I’m sat waiting for a train so I read it. Full … Continue reading
Project to grow Cider apples in North West Wales
Cider Project Aims 1 -To plant up to 50 hectares of cider apple orchards, to produce at up to 20 tonnes per hectare. Cropping, on M106 rootstocks, commences in year 2, peaking from around year 10 with a yield of … Continue reading
More treeconomics
So I sat and I thought and as I sat and I thought, well, I thought: “It’s ongoing, isn’t it?” And then, as I sat some more, I thought some more: “And as it’s ongoing, that means its effects are … Continue reading
Bobby say “Reforestation can’t offset massive fossil fuels emissions”
On December 13, 2013, Bobbie Edwards published the following article on Mongabay. It’s nothing new but posted up to a forestry discussion site, provoked the discourse that made up my previous posting/chapter. It echoes much of what’s been said previously … Continue reading
More trees, please………
This is like proceedings of a select international conference and is a follow up to the series of articles which arose in similar circumstances two years ago. It’s a global sampler of interested and interesting participants, responding to an article … Continue reading
“Burn our planet or face financial meltdown. Not much of a choice.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/21/carbon-problems-financial-crisis-hutton Very simply and to paraphrase for those of you who have so little time that you cannot spare ten minutes to scan the above Will Hutton assessment it runs like this: “We lost and we’re all doomed”. or “The … Continue reading
How do you price the tonne of carbon that, once burned, tips the balance and triggers catastrophic, irreversible global warming?
[I wrote this a couple of years ago for The Ecologist. They didn’t use it but, hey, I still like it. It was a valid question and emphasises the position of inevitable no return we seem to be sailing through … Continue reading
Five Trillion Trees 