A rather impressive looking show home at the Offsite 2007 exhibition has been making headlines. Aside from being rather good looking, its also very green, being rated zero carbon. NB - it does achieve this in part burning wood chip, but that's fine, because the tree drunk that carbon while it was growing.
Money Programme this evening is looking at the claims the big retailers are making about going green. One pledge they looked at was Tesco's pledge to put a carbon footprint label on every product.
Marks and Spencer's enthusiastic embrace of green issues appears, in my opinion, to be little more than a marketing wheeze. Bournemouth Council has taken it hook line and sinker, putting M&S branded waste/recyclables bins across the town.
The Government has apologised to the Environmental Audit Committee for its 'unconscionable delay' in responding to the Committee's report into the use of illegal timber, Buying Time for Forests.
The Guardian reports that China is making some positive noises in Cancun
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/07/committee-on-climate-change-targets-uk
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