- 30 years ago fishermen used to throw away tuna, as there was no market for it other than cat food. Tuna numbers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean have fallen 90% in the last three decades.
- An average civil war, if there can be an average of such things, lasts seven years and leaves a country 15% poorer than it would have been, according to Paul Collier’s book ‘The Bottom Billion’.
- George Bush is using his last 60 days in office to systematically dismantle America‘s environmental laws.
- Wyecycle, a small recycling center in the village of Wye collects excess cooking oil from all the local restaurants to make a biofuel used to run their vehicles. They can use all excess cooking oil, save that from McDonald’s which requires too much purification and has a high carbon concentrate.
- In other news, we are now uncles to the power of four. Congratulations to Rosie and Stephen on the birth of little Lucy.
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