Eco

Don’t worry about the aviation industry worry about cement!

I found it fascinating to read an article in WAN (newsletter 17th October) regarding the co2 emissions in the cement industry. In a shock announcement the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) made up of the heads and senior staff of 18 leading companies that produce more than 40 percent of the planet demands confirmed that a staggering 5 percent of the world carbon emissions were caused by cement Read more …

Say it with Carbon

Despite the promises last week of impending greeness Marks & Spencer this email tells us, extols even the benefits of buying flowers from foreign climes. Why buy? it says, because these roses are from Columbia and Kenya! The first bullet point on the M&S press release states a very worthy aim “to become carbon neutral”. This is not the way to do it. I realise of course they’ve Read more …