{"id":2925,"date":"2009-03-01T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2009-03-01T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T13:51:15","slug":"weekend-reading-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"Weekend reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Two stories about how Britain has entirely failed on green industries: <\/p>\n<p>1. From <a href = \"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/mar\/01\/renewable-energy-investment\">the Observer<\/a><br \/>\nThe big six energy companies in Britain are investing on average only \u00a330 per year from each customer in renewable energy projects. If this continues, the UK may miss its 2020 green targets by 50%.<br \/>\n2. The <a href = \"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/technology\/article5822090.ece\">Times<\/a>: According to The Sunday Times\u2019s inaugural Green Rich List, Britain is home to only 10 of the world\u2019s top 100 entrepreneurs in new industries such as wind energy, electric cars and clean coal.  <\/p>\n<p>*Victorian America: <a href = \"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/01\/us\/01survival.html?_r=1&#038;th&#038;emc=th\">this piece<\/a> from the New York Times, about former executives now working in low-level jobs made me think of tales from a century or so ago, when the great family downfall was a novelists&#8217; and journalists&#8217; staple. What happens when there&#8217;s no safety net.<\/p>\n<p>* And Australia looks <a href = \"http:\/\/business.smh.com.au\/business\/emission-impossible-unholy-alliance-set-to-sink-carbon-reduction-plan-20090301-8lg9.html\">set to fail on carbon reduction<\/a> &#8211; worth noting the the writer of this piece is a much-respected economics editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Two stories about how Britain has entirely failed on green industries: 1. From the Observer The big six energy companies in Britain are investing on average only \u00a330 per year from each customer in renewable energy projects. If this continues, the UK may miss its 2020 green targets by 50%. 2. The Times: According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","category-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","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=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}