{"id":1653,"date":"2006-10-21T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2006-10-21T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T10:40:19","slug":"small-enviro-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Small enviro round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perversely good news: the scheme to provide <a href = \"http:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/energy\/story\/0,,1928099,00.html\">grants for renewable energy<\/a> for homes in the UK has run out of money. Perhaps in part due to a <a href = \"http:\/\/www.greenenergyworks.org.uk\/\">Green Party drive<\/a> to get a high take-up rate. But it looks like the government is going to be forced into providing more money.<\/p>\n<p>There is meanwhile a quite decent sounding EU drive to <a href = \"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/9\/22678\">cut energy use by 20 per cent<\/a> by forcing producers to make power-using items more efficient. Sadly, however, it seems, it has hit a hitch. I can&#8217;t find a news story on it, but the word I have is that it is meeting strong resistance and will be delayed. Anyone know more?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the good news but&#8230;&#8221; category, milk that <a href = \"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2414294,00.html\">tests positive for antibiotics (and detergents!)<\/a> is going to be banned from the food chain. But &#8230; shouldn&#8217;t it always have been?<\/p>\n<p>Finally in America &#8230; <a href = \"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/article1916308.ece\">cars could be banned from Rodeo Drive<\/a>, &#8220;the four-block mecca of luxury shopping in Beverly Hills&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in California, a <a href = \"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/envirohealth\/43285\/\">Bioneers<\/a> conference in California &#8211; perhaps a bit on the alternative side for my taste, but some interesting ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perversely good news: the scheme to provide grants for renewable energy for homes in the UK has run out of money. Perhaps in part due to a Green Party drive to get a high take-up rate. But it looks like the government is going to be forced into providing more money. There is meanwhile a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}