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New EnergyRoyd ride share group
You’re welcome to join the new Ride Share Group.
Here’s an interesting account of the joys of ride sharing that might hopefully inspire you.
This might not be exactly what most ride sharers have in mind - more's the pity, maybe!
Cows fed linseed reduce their methane emissions by 40%
The Torygraph has an article about reductions in cows’ methane emissions (from farting and burping) when they’re fed on linseed.
30% of farm greenhouse gas emissions comes from methane from sheep and cattle, so if feeding them linseed reduced that amount by 40%, that means it would reduce overall farm greenhouse gas emissions by 12%. Given that the current target is an 11% reduction in farm greenhouse gases by 2020, based on the 1990 level, this sounds too good to be true?
Become a low carbon community centre- a guide
goCarShare
Carshare website for people offering or looking for lifts http://gocarshare.com/
There’s also now an EnergyRoyd rideshare group for people in the Upper Calder Valley offering or asking for lifts.
Cooperative energy/utilities
Co-operative Energy has announced that it is to cut its prices to most of its 16,000 customers by an average of three per cent from February 1st, which will make Co-operative Energy cheaper than all the big six standard tariffs in all 14 regions.
Midcounties Co-operative launched Co-operative Energy in May 2011.
Californian shared car ownership scheme
Liberate Tate – Floe Piece
http://vimeo.com/35078978
Demand end to biofuel and biomass electricity subsidies
I have just sent an email from Biofuelwatch’s website to the Department for Energy and Climate Change, calling on them to ensure that subsidies for renewable electricity must go towards genuinely renewable and sustainable energy, not destructive biofuels and biomass electricity! To find out more, please go to http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2011/rocs-alerts/