2 Points

Millions of Burgers Wasted (www.motherjones.com)

The British supermarket giant Tesco is no longer sending any trash to the landfill. Impressive, considering the company's annual waste weighs as much as 75,000 double-decker buses. A company press... More

Tags: tesco,mother jones,uk,britain,meat,hamburgers,fuel,recycling,waste,electricity

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2 Points

Climate Disobedience Is on the Rise and It's Not Just for Radical Activists Anymore (www.alternet.org)

An emerging movement is determined to use direct action to combat the depredations of climate change and they've got some big names on board.

Tags: tmc,alternet,climate disobedience,greenpeace,uk,britain,coal

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2 Points

Climate disobedience: Is a new “Seattle” in the making? (www.grist.org)

In the early morning of October 8, 2007, a small group of British Greenpeace activists slipped inside a hulking smokestack that towers more than 600 feet above a coal-fired power plant in Kent,... More

Tags: tmc,grist,climate disobedience,greenpeace,uk,coal,power,carbon,seattle

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2 Points

Greening a 1930s Hous (www.motherjones.com)

Last year a U of Nottingham crew of merry men and merry women built a 1930s house. Now they're going to retrofit it with three energy efficiency upgrades designed to convert it from unbelievable... More

Tags: green,tmc,mother jones,uk,nottingham,energy efficiency,zero carbon,energy

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2 Points