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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Brit's Eye View: Going nuclear British government embraces a nuclear-powered future	Ben Tuxworth	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, is the new author of Brit's Eye View, a monthly Gristmill column on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. The column was previously written by Tuxworth's colleague Peter Madden. After much delay, the British government started the new year with an announcement on nuclear power generation. It seems they have finally succumbed to the prevailing industry logic, which says that we need big bits of power ...
Topics: climate, energy, nuclear power, renewable energy, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Monbiot: We can provide all or most of our electricity from renewable sources	Gar Lipow	09 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In his July 3 column, George Monbiot reminds us of how much worse the threat of global warming may be than the consensus IPCC position. But he also reminds us that there are reasons for optimism too. He cites three studies that point to the fact that there is every reason to believe Europe and the UK can supply between 80 percent and 100 percent of electricity needs completely sun, wind, water, wave, tide, and minor amounts of biomass and geothermal energy, V2G Vanadium ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, renewable energy, United Kingdom (all these topics)

I Come Back to You Now, at the Turn of the Tide Brits look to public-service ads and tidal power to cut carbon emissions		26 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
I Come Back to You Now, at the Turn of the Tide Brits look to public-service ads and tidal power to cut carbon emissions On the heels of recent predictions that the U.K. will not meet its Kyoto targets, and a more recent report that the results of global warming will be "disastrous" for the country, Brits are casting about for new ways to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. The government is undertaking a ...
Topics: climate, renewable energy, United Kingdom (all these topics)

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