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Gummer update

Posted by graham - 2 October 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

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Graham at the Climate Clinic

BAA spin doctors (seated) look shifty when probed about how more runways mean less aviation emissions ...

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The mouthpiece for big business

Posted by graham - 2 October 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

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How the toxic waste was won

Posted by jamie - 29 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Toxics

Sitting behind a desk in London, it's sometimes easy to forget we're part of an organisation working in places all over the planet. The mundanity of everyday life acts a kind of blinker and even with email, the exotic locations some people work in still seem very far away. It's all relative of course, but then something happens to peel back those blinkers and put what we do in context.

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Yet more illegal rainforest timber found in Westminster

Posted by admin - 28 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments
Following our expose at the Cabinet Office, more illegal timber has been found in Westminster

You couldn't make it up. After having been exposed no less than three times already for using illegal timber in their building projects, Tony Blair's government has done it again.

Article tagged as: forests, government, houses of parliament, illegal timber, newsnight, papua new guinea

What we made: a nuclear wasteland

Posted by bex - 26 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

London rapper Example doesn't just take his music to the edge - he also takes it to deserted, radioactively contaminated post-nuclear zones. Now he's released a documentary about his journey to Chernobyl, explaining why he thinks the future shouldn't be nuclear.

"I don't think anyone who's been here can be for nuclear power," says rapper Example, looking around at empty cots and babies' gas masks in a disintegrating schoolroom near Chernobyl.

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Ben

Posted by bens - 26 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Ben

Flying can seriously damage your health

Posted by bens - 26 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Climate Clinic

Part of the Climate Clinic blog

There's something unhealthy in the air up here in Manchester. As the Labour party conference rumbled on down the road, I sat in a fringe meeting today at the Climate Clinic where the chap from the British Airports Authority allowed the 'sincerity' to drip from his lips like dark honey.

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A word of explanation

Posted by jamie - 26 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

If there isn't already a maxim warning against making rash decisions in the pub after a few pints, then there should be. It's as a result of a slightly drunken conversation a couple of weeks ago in the garden of the Canonbury Tavern (nice beers, terrible terrible service) that this blog has seen the light of day several months earlier than expected.

Oh Mandy! You came on a plane...

Posted by bens - 25 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Peter MandelsonPart of the Climate Clinic blog

We stuck a snapper outside Manchester airport on Sunday, wondering if we'd catch any of our oh-so-green politicians letting the plane take the strain. When a silver Merc pulled up outside Arrivals and Jeeves stepped out, our guy asked if he was waiting for a big cheese. 'Er, can't say mate.' So who came waltzing out of the terminal?

Oh Mandy, who knew that you flew here from London?

And Pete, what kind of gent are you, letting your young aide lug all the gear? Having a bag-carrier, it's all a bit Old Labour isn't it? All a bit beer and sandwiches. I thought The Project was all about personal responsibility and a culture of respect. Hmmm...

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