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Matt Gammie's Articles in Society

  • Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Plans
    The move away from our current destructive attitude concerning the environment and towards sustainability is reliant on those scientists, engineers and businesspeople that are willing to spend the time and money on researching into green energy sources

    In other words, the hunt for renewable, or at least cleaner, fuels is one front in the battle against climate change
  • Climate Change Will Wreck This Weekend and Next.
    The story goes that Newton felt an apple fall on his head and wondered whyGravity, a theory that persists to this very day, thus came about
  • Stay Sharp on Climate Change
    Many people want to act in a more environmentally friendly way Whether they are focused on the small scale, like simple lifestyle choices, or have their sights set on mountainous political heights, there are a large number of people out there who are not content to simply know about environmental issues, but want to act
  • New Dawn For North Cyprus Property Market
    The election, in February of this year, of Demetris Christofias in South Cyprus has produced a shift in the diplomatic relationships between the Greek and Turkish sides of the island Christiofias’ predecessor, Tassos Papadopoulos helped persuade the Greek population to reject the Annan plan in 2004
  • Sustainable Water Hopes for the Dead Sea
    One you glance over the numbers, you realise that it doesn’t take a mathematician to work out that the Dead Sea is under a severe amount of stress at the moment The River Jordan, the sea’s main tributary, has had 95% of its flow diverted for the sake of agriculture and other domestic uses
  • Herbicide Use Threatens Sustainable Gardening Trend
    The susceptibility of the food chain to manmade chemicals has been highlighted once again by the Dow AgroSciences calamity over Aminopyralid

    The chemical, a herbicide popular with many farmers, is able to destroy weeds and nettles without destroying the crops or grass around them
  • Black Gold and the Ice
    It’s a rare business plan that involves visiting the pale severity of the Arctic, but for those companies that do send their employees into the wilderness the return can be sizable For these companies it’s not what’s visible in this fragile, remote and utterly unique portion of the world, but rather what is hidden, beneath the surface, swirling in giant lakes; the dark liquor of the deep earth that yells up to the oil prospectors through the ice, apparently desperate to be pumped upwards and put to use in our cars and factories
  • All on the Consumer as Prices Rise
    Consumers worldwide have been feeling the pinch recently Food prices have risen as the honeymoon period of cheap oil that allowed for the years of overabundant production in the west has ended
  • Oil and Gas Fears for the Amazon
    Two non-profit organisations in the United States, alongside the private research Duke University in North Carolina, have spent the last three years monitoring the actions of gas and oil companies in the western Amazon, and have now completed a comprehensive map covering the area that shows the alarming extent to which the corporations have plans for commencing their destructive trade in their area
  • Sustainable Development and Harry Hill is Fairtrade Nuts
    We live in the age of the celebrity endorsement, so much so that it is often impossible not to think about a certain footballer when shopping for our latest pair of pants, or a certain model when lathering our scalps with a particular brand of shampoo

    All this is, of course, well and good, but there are far fewer products actually devised and launched by celebrity folk, and even fewer still that are not intended to further boost the bank balances of these notable persons, but that are, instead, launched with purely altruistic intentions
  • Climate Change Shows That the Birds Know Nest
    Imagine your wedding anniversary or your birthday falling a week earlier this year than it did forty years ago This was the example that Mark Avery, the RSPB's conservation director, gave to the BBC’s Today programme this morning to highlight the significance of a new report showing that many of the UK’s garden birds, from Robins to Chaffinches, are laying their first egg of the year a full week earlier than they traditional have done
  • UK's Waterway System Under Fire
    Foreign invaders are undertaking a siege of Britain’s waterways, leaving respectable domestic species reeling beneath their imported terror In an attempt to raise awareness about the problem of non-domestic species in the waterway system British Waterways- the people in charge of maintaining the country’s waterway system - have produced a list of the twelve animals and plants that, the agency says, pose the greatest threat to our native fish, water plants, towpaths and very way of life

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