Environmental stories tagged with: oil

The Borough of Poole is introducing a new project to fund the installation of biomass boilers in community buildings in an effort to reduce Poole's carbon emissions.

As world leaders pressed Saudi Arabia to increase the production of oil to alleviate the record prices of oil, George Monbiot (environmental author and Guardian columnist) wrote an open letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia asking him to "ignore" the Prime Minister's request.

Most of us are aware that in the balance of things, CO2 emitted from buring wood is less problematic than CO2 emitted from burning coal, but how many of us think about soil releasing old carbon?

Great ideas and passion were green and sustainable at last weekend's London Aware event in London's Barbican centre.

Unilever today announced its intention to have all of its palm oil certified sustainable by 2015.

Statoil today reports that 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide are now stored underground at Sleipner in the North Sea.

The UK is continuing to lead the world in marine renewables technology as the Secretary of State for Energy, John Hutton, grants planning permission for a prototype tidal stream generator to be tested in the Humber Estuary near Grimsby.

Greenpeace volunteers and a local community are working to stop the destruction of an area of swamp forest in Sumatra, Indonesia, which is to be converted into a palm oil plantation.

MP Nicholas Soames, the Conservative MP for Mid Sussex, joined residents at Hoathly Hill Community today to launch its new green heating system.

Carmarthenshire have extended doorstep recycling to include empty aerosol cans, telephone directories and foil.

Worcestershire County Council is expanding its campaign to manage buildings that are ecologically-friendly as possible by testing low-carbon biofuel at The Chase Technology College in Malvern.