Does Ruth Kelly drive a Toyota Prius?*

March 19, 2008 at 3:23 am | In Climate change, Communications, Environment, Industry, Infrastructure, Transport | 3 Comments

Does the Secretary of State for Transport have any idea Continue reading Does Ruth Kelly drive a Toyota Prius?*…

CO2 Councils opposing 2nd runway join with 2M Group to fight unsustainable airport expansion

March 17, 2008 at 3:39 am | In 2M Group, Aviation, Braintree, CO2, Camden, Chelsea, Climate change, College Green, Councils, Councils opposing 2nd runway, County Councils, District Councils, Ealing, East Herts., Emissions, Environment, Essex, Events, Fulham, Hammersmith, Harrow, Heathrow, Heathrow expansion, Hertfordshire, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Houses of Parliament, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth, Launch, Lewisham, Local authorities, London Boroughs, Maidenhead, Merton, Richmond, Royal Boroughs, Slough, South Bucks, Southwark, Stansted, Stansted expansion, Suffolk, Sustainability, Two million voices, Uttlesford, Wandsworth, Windsor, against Heathrow expansion | No Comments

CO2 Councils opposing 2nd Runway at Stansted logo
Press release: Continue reading CO2 Councils opposing 2nd runway join with 2M Group to fight unsustainable airport expansion…

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall and a Highway of Diamonds by Bob Dylan

March 10, 2008 at 9:51 am | In Bob Dylan, Climate change, Diamonds, Economics, Environment, Highways, Lyrics, Music, Rain, Storms, Sustainability | 2 Comments

Here you go, matt. I alluded to the dangers of defining sustainability either in exclusive economic or limited environmental terms yesterday. Just now, I stumbled upon a recent speech by Andrew McNamara, Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation that expands on the ’s’ word. Perhaps our selective use of the word ’sustainability’ tells a lot more about us and the future we may either dread or embrace:

Highway of diamonds

by Hon. Andrew McNamara (Queensland MP)

…Tonight I want to talk about capital S Sustainability.

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Leaked Environment Agency response to ‘Adding capacity at Heathrow airport’

March 9, 2008 at 4:43 pm | In Adding capacity, BAA, Climate change, Consultation, Department for Transport, DfT, Documents, EA, Environment Agency, Freedom of Information, Heathrow, Heathrow airport, Heathrow expansion, Justine Greening MP, Modelling, Responses, Reverse engineering | No Comments

Sunday Times UK edition Revealed ~ the plot to expand Heathrow 9 March 2008

A Sunday Times UK edition lead story today is:

Revealed: the plot to expand Heathrow

It links to this article:

Evidence fix led to third runway being approved

which is a good piece of investigative journalism supported by documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Justine Greening MP for Putney:

Last, but not least from a climate change perspective, we are also given a link to this:

which raises a variety of environmental concerns about Heathrow expansion in a polite, but clear way. Continue reading Leaked Environment Agency response to ‘Adding capacity at Heathrow airport’…

American Airlines flies 5 passengers 4000 miles Chicago to London

March 5, 2008 at 7:55 am | In Aviation, Bureaucracy, Business sense, Carbon emissions, Climate change, Economics, GHG emissions, Inefficiencies, Logistics, Networks, Operations, Pricing, Systems | No Comments

Transatlantic flight arrives in London with just FIVE passengers on board

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Open Skies?! We need closure on aviation growth to combat climate change

March 1, 2008 at 9:38 am | In Aviation, Climate change, Contrails, Open Skies, Photography, Windsor, Windsor Great Park | No Comments

Diagonal contrail above Windsor Great Park 10 February 2008 (inverse)On the conflict between the much-heralded airline bonanza and the climate challenge—The Independent coverage on Saturday 1 March 2008 says it all:

Following yesterday’s list of new short-haul flights (groan): Continue reading Open Skies?! We need closure on aviation growth to combat climate change…

What price little white carbon shadows of Heathrow expansion?

February 27, 2008 at 9:36 am | In Adding capacity, Alice in Wonderland, Carbon emissions, Carbon pricing, Climate change, Defra, DfT, Economics, Environment, GHG emissions, Government guidance, Greenhouse gases, Heathrow, Heathrow airport, Heathrow expansion, Policies, Shadow prices, Social costs, Trading | No Comments

Thanks to Tim for sending this pièce de résistance on carbon pricing. The thoughtful article, Path of least resistance, was written by Paul Ekins and published two weeks ago in The Guardian. I deliberately held on to it until sundown. So “little white shadows sparkle and glisten, part of a system”* at the end of consultation on Department for Transport (DfT) proposals for ‘Adding capacity at Heathrow airport‘ …

It might help you to know that in January 2008, Defra published revised guidance to government on carbon pricing. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) tells us that the social cost of carbon has been superseded by the shadow price of carbon. This terminology cleverly enables the transformation of government considerations about carbon emissions. Instead of framing emissions as having human impact (social cost), we may now recognise carbon emissions as a mysterious market opportunity (shadow price). From Defra: Continue reading What price little white carbon shadows of Heathrow expansion?…

Plane Stupid at the Houses of Parliament!

February 27, 2008 at 4:01 am | In Campaigns, Climate change, Heathrow, Heathrow airport, Heathrow expansion, Houses of Parliament, London, No third runway, Palace of Westminster, Plane Stupid, Stop Heathrow Expansion, Westminster | No Comments

The Guardian has did have an excellent photo of Plane Stupid climate change campaigners on the roof of Parliament, but it has been taken down, and replaced with Continue reading Plane Stupid at the Houses of Parliament!…

Adding capacity at Heathrow airport Response Form and supplementary comments

February 26, 2008 at 2:53 am | In Adding capacity, Air Quality, Climate change, Department for Transport, DfT, Environment, GHG emissions, Heathrow, Heathrow airport, London, No Extra Emissions, No Sixth Terminal, No third runway, Noise, Stop Heathrow Expansion, Windsor | No Comments

adding capacity at LHRYes, I completed my Response Form by hand, and sent it to the Department for Transport with four extra sheets of supplementary comments. See below. Continue reading Adding capacity at Heathrow airport Response Form and supplementary comments…

When I grow up … I want to tell my children I did help Stop Heathrow Expansion

February 25, 2008 at 7:18 am | In Air Quality, Aviation, CO2 emissions, Climate change, Environment, Flights, Future, Future Heathrow, GHG emissions, Heathrow, Heathrow airport, Heathrow expansion, Noise, Pollution, Stop Heathrow Expansion, Video, YouTube | No Comments

Continue reading When I grow up … I want to tell my children I did help Stop Heathrow Expansion…

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