Cycling initiave updates
Watch this space for updates on our planning application to install bicycle stand planters in Hadlow.
We are planning to join in with Green Transport Week in June 2011, and if you have any ideas for a local cycling event or want to get involved, please get in touch by emailing hadlowcarbon@gmail.com
New Biofuels report shows how Europe is driving hunger
Up to 100 million people could go hungry as the developed world demands more and more ‘green’ biofuels, a report has warned. A decision by European nations to power at least ten percent of transport by biofuel by the decade’s end is proving disastrous for poorer countries, according to ActionAid. If demand for the crops to make biofuel increases, prices will go up,meaning millions of people will not be able to afford the most basic foods, it warned.
Read more… http://www.actionaid.org.uk/102322/news.html
