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- agriculture
- bottle
- build an audience
- caring
- Circular
- climate change
- clinical trial
- constitution
- Democracy
- deposit return
- diabetes
- DiRect
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- economy
- election reform
- environment
- EU
- farming
- flowers
- food systems
- forest
- future
- GDP
- GEP
- global warming
- human rights
- leave
- net zero
- parliament
- plastic
- poverty
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- remain
- remission
- return scheme
- rights
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- sustainable
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- voting system
- weight management
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Category Archives: environment
Why are we still using GDP?
For more than 70 years our economic system has been using Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the yardstick measurement of our economy. This yardstick measures only economic activity. It was meant to help reduce poverty using “trickle down” economics. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Circular, economy, GDP, GEP, poverty, sustainable
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Net Zero is Greenwash – Don’t be Fooled
There is a lot of talk these days from people advocating we should be trying to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions as soon as possible to stop the planet heating up even further. However most of this is greenwash, it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, environment, global warming, net zero, zero carbon
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Flowers at the roadside
I’ve noticed recently that there are some different flowers growing in the roadside verge near Marine Parade compared to those that grew last year. It is likely a combination of the dry, sunny weather, lack of rain, chill breeze from … Continue reading
A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic
We all had plans for 2020. And then a global health pandemic happened. Nearly a year ago, life as we knew it began to change. From work to school to home, almost every aspect of daily life took a hit. … Continue reading
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How to get a fairer, greener planet
Politician’s are like balloons tied to a rock. Campaigns trying to influence only them can only blow them so far. You can’t fundamentally change the position of the balloon without moving the rock. The rock in this instance is the … Continue reading
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