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James Marriott & Mika Minio-Paluello, The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

by Patrick Nicholson | Review | December 2012 - January 2013

Verso, 2012; 344pp; £16.99

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Fracking aggravation

by PN staff | News in Brief | October 2012

On 7 September, two Bristol-based anti-fracking protesters were found not guilty of aggravated trespass, but a third was convicted of failing to leave as soon as practicable, at the Cuadrilla Resou ...

Crunch time for the Douglas Valley

by Oli | News | April 2012

The Douglas Valley hosted the Earth First! Winter Moot at the end of February. People from across Scotland and the UK piled into the Glespin community hall to strategise, debate and plan.
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UK at the heart of EU! Selling out renewable energy

by Jill Evans | News | February 2012

Jill Evans MEP questions the EU's support for nuclear power

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Fossils fuelled

News in Brief | December 2011 / January 2012

Fossil-fuel consumers worldwide received about six times more state subsidies last year than were given to the renewable-energy industry, the International Energy Agency said on 9 November. ...

Kicking Merthyr while it's down!

by Chris Austin | News | April 2011

Anyone heard of the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)? No, neither had we until recently. ...

Opencast attack

by Oli | News | April 2011

In mid-March, activists at the Happendon Wood Action Camp disrupted the South Lanarkshire council planning committee meeting that gave approval to Scottish Coal’s plans to develop Happendo ...

David J C MacKay, 'Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air'; Kate Evans, 'The Carbon Supermarket'; Turbulence Collective, 'Turbulence Issue #5: And now for something completely different'

by Patrick Nicholson | Review | April 2010

Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air, UIT Cambridge, 2008; ISBN 978-0-954-452-93-3; 384pp; £19.99; free to download from www.withouthotair.com. The Carbon Supermarket, 16pp; free to download from www.cartoonkate.co.uk. Turbulence Issue #5: And now for something completely different, Turbulence Collective, 2009; 40pp; free download from www.turbulence.org.uk

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Rob Hopkins, 'Transition Town Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience'; Shaun Chamberlin, 'The Transition Timeline'; Oliver Tickell, 'Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse'

by Patrick Nicholson | Review | June 2009

Transition Town Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience, Green Books, 2008; ISBN 978 1 900322 18 8; 240pp; £12.95. The Transition Timeline, Green Books, 2009; ISBN 978 1 900322 56 0; 192pp; £12.95. Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse, Zed, 2008; ISBN 978 1 848130 25 8; 124pp; £10.99

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Editorial: At the flick of a switch...

by Ippy D | Comment | February 2006

As the government opened the public phase of its energy review at the end of January, ministers were busy warning that “doing nothing is not an option”. ...