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  • Bear Cub
    Bear Bile Farm to Become a Sanctuary
    April 24, 2014, Comments Off on Bear Bile Farm to Become a Sanctuary

    Jenny Cottle                           Bear bile farming is a horrendous practise where the animals suffer unbelievably, but this week […]

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    Technology to Help Save the World
    April 18, 2014, Comments Off on Technology to Help Save the World

    Jenny Cottle                                 A UN study launched in recent days has given some good news […]

  • Little Voices – Big Victories
    April 8, 2014, Comments Off on Little Voices – Big Victories

    Jenny Cottle                               This past week the International Court of Justice, the court of the UN, […]

  • Climate change
    Walk Away from Climate Change
    April 1, 2014, Comments Off on Walk Away from Climate Change

    Jenny Cottle                           Climate Change is something that is and will increasingly affect everyone on the planet. Environmentally […]

  • Earth Hour
    Dear Earthlings
    March 24, 2014, Comments Off on Dear Earthlings

    Jenny Cottle                           In 1988 Nigel Harding wrote a children’s textbook, Wanted!  New Managers for Planet Earth, now […]

  • Our Planet
    Nature Is Good For You
    March 18, 2014, Comments Off on Nature Is Good For You

    Jenny Cottle                             Last weekend watching a summer thunder storm build, I was in complete awe.  I […]

  • Swimming Amir Tiger
    Nepal Shows Poaching Can Be Stopped
    March 11, 2014, Comments Off on Nepal Shows Poaching Can Be Stopped

    Jenny Cottle                          Tigers, elephants and rhinos are critically endangered worldwide due to poaching. At times stopping the problem […]

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    Innovations in Renewable Energy and Reducing Emissions
    March 4, 2014, Comments Off on Innovations in Renewable Energy and Reducing Emissions

    Jenny Cottle                              The fire at Australia’s Hazelwood Coal Mine continues to burn weeks after it started […]

  • Plastic bottles
    Great Re-Uses for Plastic
    February 25, 2014, Comments Off on Great Re-Uses for Plastic

    Jenny Cottle                          Plastic is convenient, cheap and a worldwide environmental scourge. Whilst science is finding many alternatives to […]

  • Fukuoka building
    Being Green in an Urban Environment
    February 18, 2014, Comments Off on Being Green in an Urban Environment

    Jenny Cottle                          Reading about a new innovation in bicycle design made me think about living sustainably in an […]