http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living Barclaycard Breathe Blog Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:42:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is unbeleiveable: "Public scepticism prompts Science Museum to rename climate exhibition". Talk about putting the cart before the horse! I had always thought the Science Museum's function was to tell the public about science. It's incredibly craven of the Science Museum to allow itself to be told what ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=569 Had this email from my mate Hannah the other day: Last week I went camping in Carmarthenshire, it was -5 degrees C on the first night! I didn't stay in conventional tent but a Mongolian Yurt, positive luxury in the camping world, which had a wood burning stove ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=567 As Phil says, "It's not often I agree with Alex Salmonds...but ROAR!" He's talking about this: 'Milestone' for wave energy plans . Wave energy has go to be the way forward - especially for us in the UK. It doesn't have nearly as many detractors as other renewables ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=560 I missed this the other week, but it's a nasty piece of news: Antarctic spits out iceberg the size of Luxembourg. Sceptics can claim that this sort of thing always happens, but all the climate change models tend to point to this sort of thing happening with increasing frequency. ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=564 How cool is this? Nokia patents the first self-charging phone. I'd read about these here "piezoelectric crystals" before, if we can make them affordable I think they should be used everywhere. All new roads and pavements should come with them installed as standard - think of all ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=555 The expansion of Bristol International Airport has been given the thumbs up by the local bigwigs, which gets the thumbs down from me. It's just one of many assaults that the government is making on the green belt round 'ere, although this one is a particularly severe one. On ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=552 I always enjoy it when people find new thing to green-obsess about. As someone whose first ever freelance article was about the greenest way to have sex*, the pointlessness of it just amuses me. I mean, who cares about the destruction of a footballpitchsworth of rainforest every minute, when you ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=550 Call me a softie, but this is taking things a bit far: Bullet-Hit Baby Survives Family Massacre. The adults had allegedly shot their seven-month-old daughter and two-year-old son before turning the gun on themselves at a house in Argentina. The couple, Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, apparently had agreed a ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=543 I'm off on holiday for a week, which means this blog will be quiet for a week (other bloggers get software which allows them to line up blogs to publish in the future - I don't). It is a holiday on which I will be delivered by short haul aeroplane to ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=538 Well, it isn't exactly algae like I asked for, but here's something to be going on with: The electric cactus: Tomorrow’s clean energy source? Researchers at France’s Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS) recently developed a biofuel cell that can generate power using the two main products of photosynthesis: sugar and ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=535 This isn't actually a pint of a Guiness, it's a "Juice point" - I noticed one of these while in London on a stag do the other weekend. Good to see these sprouting up, and in general it's got to be a good thing. One carp, of course, is ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=476 Bad chat this, but: gawd, isn't the news boring at the moment? All "hoaxed data" this, and "can we trust scientists" that, and even the odd "Ooh look I found some data was a bit wrong" story. None of which do anything to undermine the thrust that ... http://www.barclaycardbreathe.co.uk/modern-green-living/?p=530