Full Coverage: Northern Europe

31.12.2006 from British Wind Energy Association:
BWEA have launched a guide on choosing and siting a small wind system, electricity savings, payback times, grant funding and how to contact manufacturers, aimed at consumers from the domestic, public and business sectors.

29.12.2006 Four Rwandans who settled in Britain were last night arrested in a coordinated operation after their home country sought their extradition in connection with its 1994 genocide.

29.12.2006 Efforts to develop cooperation between six industrial trade unions have advanced to a new phase. In mid- December the unions chose SAK’s bargaining department head, Lauri Lyly, to examine the options for future relations between the six unions. The main alternatives lie between a full merger and closer cooperation.

29.12.2006 from National Consumer Council:
A useful PDF report on the ‘greenness’ of renewable energy suppliers.

27.12.2006 from The Energy Blog:
The new, improved performance G-Wiz AC drive electric car from GoinGreen is now available for sale in London.

27.12.2006 from Mur Crusto eco-farm blog:
The passive solar conservatory construction is underway, but what about the eco-cottage and the planning department?

27.12.2006 from WorldChanging blog:
Last month's pre-Budget statement by the UK government was heralded as 'green' when in reality, most of its measures were pretty puny. A mere £5 extra tax on flights, anyone? But one measure that was mentioned did get radical.

25.12.2006 from 10 Downing Street:
'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Adopt Carbon Rationing and Contraction and Convergence.' Add your voice...

24.12.2006 from The BBC:
Britain's barnacles, limpets and seaweeds are moving north and east in response to climate change.

23.12.2006 from It's the Planet, Stupid! blog:
The idea is simply for anyone to find out just how dependent we all are on fossil fuels.

23.12.2006 from ecorazzi.com:
The 790 square-metre home on the England-Wales border will feature solar-powered heating, and insulation made of sheep’s wool plus a few 'trimmings'.

22.12.2006 from Stoat blog:
A bold new initiative from the Natural Environment Research Council. Trouble is, the 'panel of experts' don't seem to be responding.

22.12.2006 A UK Government decision to allow its departments to purchase wood products certified by schemes that allow destructive logging practices comes under fire from major environmental groups.

22.12.2006 from monbiot.com:
The government knows that its airport plans will cancel out all its efforts to tackle climate change... but they have a cunning wheeze.

22.12.2006 from marklynas.org blog:
'My Grand Total is about a sixth of the UK average of approximately 9400kg. But before I get too smug, there are a couple of major catches...'

20.12.2006 from Guardian Unlimited:
The government has given the go-ahead for the world's largest offshore windfarm to be built off the coast of south-east England.

19.12.2006 Joseph Williams is working to help reduce criminal recidivism in the United States while Caroline Casey is helping promote the contributions people with disabilities make to business in Ireland. Wayan Patut is helping conserve coral reefs in Indonesia, Abdellah Aboulharjan is fostering entrepreneurship in France's immigrant communities...the list goes on and on and on...

19.12.2006 from grownupgreen:
A new government report addresses how the theory of carbon trading might work in practice.

19.12.2006 from Bill Totten's Weblog:
Greenhouse gases generated by British aviation could be far higher than the government's published figures.

18.12.2006 More than £500,000 was raised at a Saturday night fundraising party hosted by UNICEF UK Ambassadors Trudie Styler and Jemima Khan.