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• The AA's EV service and OXO's planetary sales donation: The sustainability success stories of the week

  13-09-2020 21:07
  
  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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• Covid-19 drives leaders to make unprecedented interventions but what next?

  13-09-2020 12:38 via theguardian.com
  
  New thinking is needed because of economic turmoil since 2008 and environmental concernsFor years, those on the left in Britain have been arguing that the government should be more aggressive in its use of state aid to revitalise those parts of the country affected by industrial blight.Now, at last, we have ministers prepared to have a bare-knuckled fight with the EU over their right to intervene on behalf of those living where the factories and the coalmines used to be, but they grew up as disc
  
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• Never mind Extinction Rebellion, let's consider Boris Johnson's charge sheet | Stewart Lee

  13-09-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Blockading newspapers may cross a line for some, but is the PM a bigger criminal?My old university friend, the American geographer William Dyer, accepted my Skype call at a research station on the pebble shores of the Antarctic Sound. Once, it would have been too remote to receive messages and yet here I was, laughing at the Sub Pop Records baseball cap that fixed him temporally and culturally. Will had wanted to be free, free to do what he wanted to do. And he had wanted to get loaded and have
  
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• Coronavirus: Disposable masks 'causing enormous plastic waste'

  13-09-2020 10:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government is urged to do more to get people to wear reusable, washable face coverings.
  
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• Scientists baffled by orcas ramming sailing boats near Spain and Portugal

  13-09-2020 08:27 via theguardian.com
  
  From the Strait of Gibraltar to Galicia, orcas have been harassing yachts, damaging vessels and injuring crewScientists have been left baffled by incidents of orcas ramming sailing boats along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.In the last two months, from southern to northern Spain, sailors have sent distress calls after worrying encounters. Two boats lost part of their rudders, at least one crew member suffered bruising from the impact of the ramming, and several boats sustained serious damage.
  
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• Killer whales launch ‘orchestrated’ attacks on sailing boats

  13-09-2020 08:27 via theguardian.com
  
  From the Strait of Gibraltar to Galicia, orcas have been harassing yachts, damaging vessels and injuring crewScientists have been left baffled by incidents of orcas ramming sailing boats along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.In the last two months, from southern to northern Spain, sailors have sent distress calls after worrying encounters. Two boats lost part of their rudders, at least one crew member suffered bruising from the impact of the ramming, and several boats sustained serious damage.
  
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• A Japan trade deal is little consolation if Britain is locked out of the EU

  13-09-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Europe is a far more important export market for the UK, as business leaders know – bigger even than the USThere was a consistent message from business leaders to international trade secretary Liz Truss’s claims that she had signed a “historic” deal with Japan to lower tariffs and gain access to previously restricted markets. Thank you, they said, but could you please sign a deal with the EU because that is our most important export market. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump doesn't care if wildfires destroy the west – it didn't vote for him | Robert Reich

  13-09-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The climate crisis is upon us all but the president pursues more rollbacks. This election offers an existential choiceThe air outside my window is yellow today. It was orange yesterday. The Air Quality Index is over 200. The Environmental Protection Agency defines this as a “health alert” in which “everyone may experience more serious health effects if they are exposed for 24 hours”. Unfortunately, the index has been over 200 for several days. Related: Wildfires are strik
  
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• Brian Cox and Adele's producer Paul Epworth discuss music and the cosmos

  13-09-2020 01:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How do physics and space travel inspire musicians? Award-winning producer Paul Epworth finds out.
  
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