Environment news

• Dear politicians, get your heads out of the coal pit and into the real world | Peter Holding

  09-09-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  As farmers we’re dealing with increasingly extreme weather as a result of global warming. We need meaningful action now
  As a third-generation farmer from Harden in New South Wales, I’ve weathered climate extremes my whole life. It’s simply part of doing business in one of the most variable climates in the world.The truth is, Australian farmers are good at what they do, and we know when things are changing. Continue reading...
  
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• Our jobs plan for a green and pleasant land

  09-09-2018 19:36 via theguardian.com
  A national environment-friendly infrastructure plan is urgently required to restore the UK to social and economic health, says a group of MPs, academics and green campaignersTen years ago this week the Lehman Brothers collapse heralded the worst global economic crisis since the 30s, the political, economic and social effects of which are still being felt today. To help ensure that these adverse trends are reversed it is crucial to return a sense of hope for the future, including through economic
  
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• London councils accused of holding up rollout of electric car charging points

  09-09-2018 17:49 via theguardian.com
  Energy company SSE claims thousands of new points are in bureaucratic limboBritain has thousands fewer electric car charging points than required because councils are frustrating their rollout, according to one of the country’s biggest energy companies.Big six energy firm SSE said that when it started work three years ago, it had hoped to install 6,000 charging points in London by now, but had fitted just 762 because of delays by local authorities. Continue reading...
  
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• World's largest windfarm and women in boardrooms: The sustainability success stories of the week

  09-09-2018 10:12
  As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe.
  
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• UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440

  09-09-2018 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Golden eagles, leaping salmon and the rugged beauty of Scotland’s Glen Cassley appear to leave tourists cold – they’re missing a treatA single Scots pine grows from a boulder standing in the middle of Achness waterfall in Glen Cassley in the Highlands. It is a striking sight. Isolated in the fiercely flowing river Cassley, the tree towers above a long stretch of rocks swept by torrents of water. Salmon leap upriver in summer while golden eagles swoop overhead. It is an image of
  
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• If we love hedgehogs so much, why are we letting them vanish? | Tom Holland

  09-09-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Britain implores other countries to protect their wildlife while neglecting its ownThe hedgehog holds a special place in the hearts of the British. In a 2012 poll, it was voted our favourite wild species. Few animals lend themselves more readily to anthropomorphism, and so it is hardly surprising that Mrs Tiggy-Winkles should long have been a staple of children’s stories.Hedgehogs, however, do not merely pander to our sentimentality. Perhaps more than any other animal, they enable us to ge
  
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• Climate change: the Brexit threat | Letters

  09-09-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The UK’s green watchdog will be powerless to halt global warming when we leave the European UnionThere is a tacky interface between industry and government when it comes to public health or the environment, and it is abundantly clear that Brexit is fatally shifting the balance towards deregulation (“Green watchdog will lack bite after Brexit”, News).It is no coincidence that the most prominent Brexiters are also climate change deniers because they perceive climate change legisl
  
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