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Major car makers not cutting emissions fast enough to meet climate targets

Energy price hikes - efficiency is the solution

Prince Charles hits GM nail on head

Less than one fifth of biofuels on UK roads meets eco-standards - Friends of the Earth reaction

Boris' first 100 days - new mayor must do more to tackle climate change

Provided by: Friends of the Earth

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With a simple, daily click of the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button at The Hunger Site, visitors help provide food to those in need. Visitors pay nothing, Just Click the Button.

“Terminator is a direct assault on farmers and indigenous cultures and on food sovereignty. It threatens the well-being of all rural people, primarily the very poorest.” - Rafael Alegría of Via Campesina, an organization representing over 10 million peasant farmers worldwide.

Recycle Facts

Each year in the UK households throw away over 29.1 million tonnes of waste, that's the same weight as 4.85 million male African Elephants!
In the UK we throw away 13 billion steel cans every year, stacked on top of each other, you could make 3 piles of cans that would reach to the moon! (source: www.scrib.org.uk)
The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours
The energy saved from recycling 1 glass bottle is enough a power a lightbulb for four hours
Disposable nappies take 500 years to decompose
Producing steel from recycled material saves 75% of the energy needed if steel were made from virgin material
Every steel can is 100% recyclable. It can be recycled over and over again into products like bicycles and of course new cans!
If every Briton purchased one item made from recycled wool a year it would save 371 million gallons of water, 480 tonnes of chemical dyes and 4571 million days of an average family's electricity needs (source: UK Gov)
Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees

Provided by: Recycle-More.co.uk