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From the Editor
I'm going to start with a small call for help. On Friday I get the first of a set of bright, shiny, new, tin hips. Best bionic ceramic with go-faster stripes. But it means that I will need some help getting the next one or maybe two newsletters out. If you have some time to spare, to help find stories and get the copy ready, do please contact me. It will have the additional benefit of making the lucky person - or persons - feel immeasurably smug and superior. Go on, you know you want to.
It's another bumper issue. There's the next in my series about nuclear power, and another article from the wonderful Bill Scott. And remember, I love to hear your stories, so get writing/sounding/videoing.
Tim
News
 Yunus Loses Appeal
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus said he has left Grameen Bank to prevent disruptions at the pioneering microlender he founded, days after a court upheld the Bangladeshi government's decision to remove him. The statement the 71-year-old banker issued said he was voluntarily resigning, ending a long-running court battle involving the Bangladesh central bank.
Read more here.
 Is Cameron about to do the green thing?
The UK's decision to adopt the recommendations of the Committee on Climate Change is a welcome victory for us greenies and makes Britain the first country in the world to set legally binding commitments to reduce carbon into the 2020s. There are comprimises, of course, and some real fears that the measures may harm the UK's faltering economic recovery - although most Keynsians think the government is doing enough to harm recovery on its own and hardly needs help from other quarters.
Read the article in the Independent.
 Feature Story
Fukushima 2: When Things Go Wrong
"By the beginning of the 1990s rational argument and cumulative confirmation of our skeptical prognoses had finally carried the day. Alas, nuclear proponents have now found a new generation of the gullible. The claims of the proponents, nevertheless, have long since been tested and found wanting." Tim Willmott continues his series looking at the debate about nuclear power and looks back to the accidents at Windscale, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.Read the full article here.
 Hope
Barefoot College
Established in 1972, the Barefoot College is a non-government organisation that has been providing basic services and solutions to problems in rural communities, with the objective of making them self-sufficient and sustainable. These ‘Barefoot solutions’ can be broadly categorised into solar energy, water, education, health care, rural handicrafts, people’s action, communication, women’s empowerment and wasteland development.
Read more here.
 Action
Think! Dammit!!
We welcome back Bill Scott with another though-provoking insight into the pitfalls we all fall into in our desire to do the right thing. "Whether we like it or not, we’re all learners and teachers now. Learners and teachers? Really? Well, yes. We’ve got used to the idea that learning is something we don’t just do at school and college (on a good day), but is something that we humans go on doing from our first to our dying breath." Read all of Bill's article here.
Announcements
 Communicate Conference is back!
The Bristol Natural History Consortium has announced dates of the 2011 Communicate conference. It will run from November 2 to 3, 2011. Registrations will open at the end of May 2011 and the Consortium will send out a registration alert as well as programme updates. They are already building a programme leading on from last year’s sell-out event, and look forward to welcoming you to Bristol this November. More info here.
 B&Q's Peat Zero Challenge
B&Q is pioneering the development of sustainable replacements to peat in all its products. Significant investment in the last 20 years has delivered success in partial peat replacement, and B&Q is now setting challenges for 100% peat replacement from bagged media by 2020, and100% peat replacement for professional horticulture by 2030. The organisation is working with the 2degrees network to elicit responses. It's not before time and we wish them well. I will let you know how they get on! More info here.
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