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Inspecting Invaders: February 2015
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Your one stop shop for all things invasive species related: Providing science and entertainment or your money back. Monday, 9 February 2015. Ecosystem Services To Suffer Under Invasive Impact? In any case, I've had time now to put something together, taking a look at the potential impact of invasive species on ecosystem services, using a recent example from Montserrat (Peh et al.,. If you're thinking ' what is an ecosystem service? In addition to the term's growing usage, there is growing concern that in...
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Inspecting Invaders: November 2014
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Your one stop shop for all things invasive species related: Providing science and entertainment or your money back. Thursday, 20 November 2014. Invasive Plants and Anthropogenic Environmental Change: Will Europe Soon Be Losing Its Rag Over Ragweed? First some basic background information. In recent decades invasive plants have impacted nearly all ecosystems and ecologists have increasingly recognised invasive plants as a major threat to native biodiversity. So as we can see, invasive plants could potenti...
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance: January 2014
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive" - Albert Einstein. Tuesday, 14 January 2014. Well' the US have done it. Cameron claims that encouraging fracking could create 74,000 jobs. However, I feel the likelihood of this either being regulated for or occurring through market forces, is slim due to the decreasing price of US coal. The process of fracking:. Essentially, once the well is dug (approximat...
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance: Love thy neighbour?
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive" - Albert Einstein. Monday, 2 December 2013. Community energy comes in various forms between the following three degrees of community involvement ( Devine-Wright, 2005. Information led – passive recipients. Varying balances of partnership – between different stakeholders. Ownership led – high local control. Advocating the ‘soft energy path’. I...However, the ...
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance: October 2013
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive" - Albert Einstein. Friday, 25 October 2013. Sunday, 20 October 2013. It’s turning chilly, let's up the heat to a balmy. 150,000,000°C. Diagram of nuclear fusion reactions, courtesy of http:/ www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8590562.ece/ALTERNATES/w2048/sungraphic-kath.jpg. The factor more likely to limit the renewability of nuclear fusion is the require...
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance: The A&E climate doctor?
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive" - Albert Einstein. Thursday, 9 January 2014. The A&E climate doctor? Moving in the opposite direction to a few of my previous posts on the topic of small scale or locally governed renewable projects; geoengineering (GE) has resurfaced in the last few weeks in both popular and academic circles. Solar Radiation Management (SRM). Within these categories;. And t...
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance: A climate conscious Christmas?
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive" - Albert Einstein. Friday, 27 December 2013. A climate conscious Christmas? This quote from George Monbiot from his Guardian article. Particularly struck me when I was considering my Christmassy blog post over the last few days. Although his attitude towards the Christmas mass consumerism does seem to me to be leaning towards the unnecessarily dour side ...
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance: We saw war in Warsaw (now say that 5 times fast)
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive" - Albert Einstein. Friday, 22 November 2013. We saw war in Warsaw (now say that 5 times fast). This idea was first proposed in 1991 by the small island state of Vanuatu. Would be working towards a lower carbon economy, no longer with the excuse of waiting for the developing economies. Strategic planning takes place under high uncertainty. Looking to the futu...
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance: 'Renewables Obligation' - the most ironic policy
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Round and round we go: renewable energy generation and governance. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive" - Albert Einstein. Monday, 16 December 2013. Renewables Obligation' - the most ironic policy. Energy Companies Obligation (ECO). Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Feed In Tariffs (FITs). This is an incentive for the non-domestic sector and essentially provides a subsidy for renewable heat generators for up to 20 years. In spring 2014, this programme will b...
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Inspecting Invaders: Invasive Plants and Anthropogenic Environmental Change: Will Europe Soon Be Losing Its Rag Over Ragweed?
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Your one stop shop for all things invasive species related: Providing science and entertainment or your money back. Thursday, 20 November 2014. Invasive Plants and Anthropogenic Environmental Change: Will Europe Soon Be Losing Its Rag Over Ragweed? First some basic background information. In recent decades invasive plants have impacted nearly all ecosystems and ecologists have increasingly recognised invasive plants as a major threat to native biodiversity. So as we can see, invasive plants could potenti...
