I mentioned last week the climate change maps from the French researchers CIRED, which show the type of weather we can expect in 2071 on probablistic trends. This week environmental researchers released a study analysing shifts in animal and bird patterns in the UK.
I wrote last week of trends that seemed to be colliding and reinforcing the ‘liberties’ agenda. There have been more since then, both pointing in the same direction.
One of the purposes of this blog is catch potentially useful data points, and Polly Toynbee provides one in a Guardian article today about the number of agency workers in the UK. Agency workers are among the most vulnerable in the workforce, with the most limited rights, typically working in the worst parts of the [...]
I mentioned in a recent blog the acquittal of the ‘B-52 Two’ - the peace protestors acquitted of causing criminal damage to USAF planes at Fairford in Gloucester. There’s more detail and comment by Stuart Weir at the Our Kingdom blog.
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A trend is a trend is a trend - until it bends, said the futurist Ged Davis, but two which keep colliding without seeming to bend are the trends about human rights on the one hand, and security on the other. The UK government’s penchant for security related legislation (is it 50 Acts in the [...]
When is eating beef going to become the subject of open social disapproval?
I need to do some research into this, but the thought came into my head while talking to a conservator at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust earlier this week. He works with marmosets in Brazil, now endangered by Brazil’s continuing growth as the [...]
A couple of reports on flexible working - which may or may not have been released to coincide with ‘National Work From Home Day‘ last Friday - suggest that senior managers may at last be starting to work flexibly (even in sectors with antediluvian employment practices such as investment banking) - but that the environmental [...]
Given that it’s a big week for football (with the FA Cup and European Champions’ Cup Finals) it seems a good moment to note that the most sustainable stadium in Britain is the 4,000 capacity Princes Park, the home of Dartford, in the Ryman Division 1 South.
Travelling through Gatwick on Monday provided an insight into the modest and apparently inexplicable fall in the load factor (how full they are) of the UK’s low-cost airlines. Easyjet’s load factor fell in April by 3.3% (c0mpared to April 2007); Ryanair and BA have also reported falls.
