Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Ruscombe Green: Hinkley petition and Oldbury's extension plans

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Ruscombe Green: Hinkley petition and Oldbury's extension plans

Apple blocks iPhones from green ranking scheme | Environment | The Guardian

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Apple blocks iPhones from green ranking scheme Environment The Guardian

...The scheme gives phones a rating of zero to five based on their environmental footprint and major manufacturers including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung have signed up. The network O2, which is launching the rating system today, said 93% of the devices its customers use will be covered.
Launched in partnership with sustainability advisers
Forum for the Future, the green ranking scheme scores handsets on the ecological impact of their raw materials, the manufacturing process, packaging, how long they are likely to last, energy efficiency and how easy they are to reuse or recycle.
An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on why the company had decided not to join the voluntary labelling scheme, but highlighted its
environmental reporting online.
Many other mobile phone manufacturers, including market leader Nokia,
publish similar environment reports online and are taking part in the rankings...

BBC News - Budget hits the poorest hardest, says IFS

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BBC News - Budget hits the poorest hardest, says IFS

Note what the Treasury and Coalition Government say their budget was all about, summarised in this picture. Remember that they have said that we are all in it together or words to that effect. Then read what an independent analysis by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) says (extract below, more detail via link):

The coalition government's first Budget has hit the poorest families hardest, a leading economic think tank has said.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the measures announced in the Budget in June were "regressive".

Its analysis suggests that low income families with children are set to lose the most as a percentage of net income due to benefit cuts announced in the Budget.