Neom: a planned eco-city in the Saudi desert? Hello fellow environmentalist / equality champion, Publicity material imagines a greenhouse to provide food for Neom, a sea of solar panels providing energy, and how about a sprinkling of Royal palaces, a golf course and helipad to help combat climate change! Critics accuse the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin […]
Read MoreNeom: a planned eco-city in the Saudi desert? Hello fellow environmentalist / equality champion, The NEOM Project (Creating a New City): THE ULTIMATE IN ‘GREENWASHING’ & ‘CLIMATE APARTHEID’…THE FACTS: Neom is a $500bn (*£366bn) project, part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan to wean the country off oil (but they’re still going to continue selling 10 million barrels of the […]
Read MoreChina / Solar Panels & its use of Slave / Enforced Labour… Hello fellow environmentalist / equality champion, With solar panels being in huge demand due to climate change China’s Uyghur Muslims (from in Xinjiang province) are being forced to produce solar panels for global sales. Xinjiang produces about 45% of the world’s supply of […]
Read More‘Climate Apartheid’ between rich and poor looms, UN expert warns… Hello fellow lifestyle leader,As you sit here reading this article you will discover something that you probably could have never imagined would ever happen to you…POVERTY! A UN expert has warned of a possible “climate apartheid”, where the rich pay to escape from hunger, “while […]
Read MoreThe FAKE Representation of Environmental, Social and Governance investing (ESG) Hello fellow environmentalist, Companies with strong ‘ESG’ credentials do so to represent a certain set of ‘investment attributes’. A single phrase sums up the appeal of Environmental, Social and Governance investing: “doing well by doing good”. ESG strategies, we are told, promote the greater good […]
Read MorePeatland Restoration… Hello fellow environmentalist, Peatlands are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store; the area covered by near natural Peatland worldwide (>3 million km2) sequesters 0.37 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year – storing more carbon than all other vegetation types in the world combined! Damaged Peatlands are a major source of greenhouse gas […]
Read MoreHydrogen…its Full Speed Ahead! Greater Brighton (England) gears up for the Hydrogen fuel age! Hello fellow environmentalist, The drive to use clean fuel hydrogen to help tackle carbon emissions and climate change have been boosted by a high-level group of experts brought together by Greater Brighton. The group, which includes universities, gas, water and electricity […]
Read MoreBioplastics…Will They Solve the World’s Litter Problem? Hello fellow environmentalist, Unfortunately we only recycle 9% of the plastic we consume.For all the effort and fanfare, that’s the sad truth. Less than 1/10 of the plastic we use winds up not buried in the ground, not dumped in the ocean, and not burned up in giant […]
Read MoreThe ‘Recycling Smokescreen’… Hello fellow environmentalist, Let’s talk about Oil Companies & Plastic… The BIG and powerful oil companies (Shell etc) are now putting there vast financial resources into building new PLASTIC manufacturing plants (especially in the USA). They are intent on making money (profits) from the billions of gallons of oil they extract from mother earth any […]
Read More25,000 Tons of Trash: COVID’s Environmental legacy…Where have all the old face masks ended up? Hello fellow environmentalist, Last year, a study commissioned by OceansAsia determined that more than 1.5 million face masks entered the world’s oceans in 2020 — a single but substantial prong of the total mass of plastic waste generated by the […]
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