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The boatman’s call

by Gareth February 9, 2009

The Sunday Times has begun publishing a series of excerpts from James Lovelock’s new book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, due out at the end of this month. It makes bleak reading for climate optimists: So are all our efforts to become carbon neutral, to put on sandals and a hair shirt [...]

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Catch a (micro)wave

by Gareth October 1, 2008

There are some amazing people in NZ. Just when I’m tearing (what’s left of) my hair out at the idiocy of some politicians, along comes a news story to gladden the heart of anyone living in the real world. Yesterday, Blenheim-based start-up Carbonscape reported that it has just begun batch production of charcoal in a [...]

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