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• Huge wind-powered boats and a boon for solar in the US: The sustainability success stories of the week

  25-10-2020 23:29
  
  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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• The Guardian view on plant-based food: nothing wrong with a veggie burger | Editorial

  25-10-2020 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  For good environmental reasons we should eat less meat. But banning the term veggie burger would not help thatThe European parliament has not always had the best press. A peripatetic assembly with a messy remit and a decidedly unenthused voter base has allowed critics to misrepresent, often lazily, its deliberations. Thus were myths such as the ban on bendy bananas born, and we all know where that led in 2016. But things are looking up in Brussels (or is it Strasbourg?) because the parliament ha
  
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• ‘We had nudity on the greens!’ The battle over Britain’s golf courses

  25-10-2020 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The country’s fairways take up a huge amount of green space – and many were thrown open to the public during lockdown. Should that change be made permanent?Hollingbury golf course is a big splodge of green bleeding into Brighton’s grey urban sprawl. For more than a century, its 18 holes have risen above the seaside city towards the ruins of an iron age hillfort, which is now enclosed by holes nine, 12, 13, and 14. From Hollingbury’s highest point, it is possible to look w
  
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• 'Murder hornet': First nest found in US eradicated with vacuum hose

  25-10-2020 11:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Asian giant hornets can wipe out a colony of honeybees in hours.
  
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• Republicans want to open pristine Alaska wilderness to logging. This is a tragedy | Kim Heacox

  25-10-2020 11:17 via theguardian.com
  
  The Tongass forest sequesters 3m tons of C02 annually, the equivalent of removing 650,000 gas-burning cars off the roads every yearForests are the lungs of the Earth.Around the world, every minute of every day, trees perform magic. They inhale vast amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and exhale oxygen, the stuff of life. They keep things in balance. And no single forest does this better – contains more living plant life per area, or stores more carbon – than the 17m-acre Ton
  
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• 'It feels like a nightmare': Sussex villagers aghast at road plan

  25-10-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Route chosen for £250m dual carriageway around Arundel avoids national park but slices through three villages“It’s like they are torturing us. Each step, it just gets worse.” Gilly McCadden is in tears. She has just learned that the route chosen for the £250m dual carriageway around Arundel in West Sussex will bring four lanes of 70mph traffic within metres of her house and garden.The new route of the A27, bypassing a bypass built in the 1960s, has been planned &nda
  
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• Can California’s top wine region survive the era of megafire?

  25-10-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As the climate crisis brings increasingly unpredictable fire seasons, the future of the $43bn industry is uncertainThe Silverado Trail, a two-lane road that weaves through the bucolic hillsides in the heart of California’s wine country, is the quintessential vision of Napa Valley. Home to dozens of wineries, it is a destination within a destination – one that welcomes both vacationing imbibers and oenophiles from around the world.But recently the amber hillsides have been laced with
  
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• Climate change: Technology no silver bullet, experts tell PM

  25-10-2020 09:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson's techno-optimism ignores the need for big societal changes, experts warn.
  
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• The US has a good record on fighting monopolies. Now it's Google's turn

  25-10-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The tech giant claims that no one is forced to use its search engine. All power to regulators set on proving otherwiseSundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is a mild-mannered software engineer who is not good at games of verbal fisticuffs with US politicians. He received a drubbing last month during the “big tech” congressional hearing.Pichai can, however, summon lawyers and lobbyists galore as soon as the game gets more serious, which it definite
  
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• Now that nuclear weapons are illegal, the Pacific demands truth on decades of testing | Dimity Hawkins

  25-10-2020 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With a 50th nation ratifying it, the treaty outlawing nuclear weapons for all countries will come into force in 90 daysNuclear weapons will soon be illegal. Just over 75 years since their devastation was first unleashed on the world, the global community has rallied to bring into force a ban through the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.Late on Saturday night in New York, the 50th country – the central American nation of Honduras – ratified the treaty. Continue reading...
  
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