On Tuesday night, BCP Councillors used their last meeting before May’s elections to ask the Dorset Pension Fund, to move ‘all remaining energy investments in the pension fund to sustainable energy investments by the end of 2024’. Effectively this means, stop funding fossil fuels, go invest in renewables.
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Anyone who has taken their little one to Peppa Pig World will have the delight of walking into the shop at the end and hearing their love of their life have a Peppa Pig meltdown:
“Peppa Pig House”
“Peppa Pig Car”
“Peppa Pig Helicopter”
…And through everything they sell, all with Peppa Pig...
The humble garden shed has a special place in our hearts and homes. Whether it's the dusty sanctuary of dad's man cave, home to the remains of a short-lived drumming career, or just the escape space for many members in the family.
Sheds, garages and other outbuildings are an invaluable...
Any technology, including artificial intelligence, designed to interface with humans that does not take into account human error and fallibility is junk technology. Charging people for this failure is a growing problem and the imposition of increasingly excessive penalty charges is an affront to humanity.
Two personal encounters with junk...
Queen Elizabeth School, Wimborne, 12 September 5.30-9pm
There’s now no doubt the climate has changed, we are entering a period of extreme weather and uncertainty. After the hottest June ever recorded wild-fires are raging across the globe from the Amazon to the Arctic where sea-ice is also disappearing at an...
Any technology comes with privacy concerns. Alexa is an always-on device, so it's constantly listening for the wake word and will record anything that comes after it. However, just because Alexa is always listening doesn't mean it's always recording.
This article explains what Alexa actually listens to and how you...
Dr. Andrew Stevenson, surgeon - qualified 21 years. “The burning of fossil fuels used to be for the advancement of human society. It is now the mechanism of its destruction. If we don’t leave oil in the ground. Our children and those forever more will have no future. Stop...
BCP Council has overwhelmingly passed the Climate & Ecological Emergency motion submitted by Green Party councillors Simon Bull and Chris Rigby in fulfilment of an election pledge.
Councillor Simon Bull said: "I'm delighted. There was a lot of interesting debate, but the main thing is it's passed. But now the...
The new BCP Council budget for 2020/21 has been comfortably voted through Full Council, with backing from the Unity Alliance and abstentions from the Conservatives. It contains £1.4m of new investment in BCP’s corporate priorities. This included amongst other items:
· £240k for the climate and ecological emergency
· £150k for arts and culture
· £150k for street cleaning
· £370k for regeneration.
This investment now makes up...
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The Treasury Committee has published a unanimously-agreed report as part of its decarbonisation and green finance inquiry: Net Zero and the Future of Green Finance.
Financial products should have climate impact labelsGreenwashing of financial products must be preventedFCA should further...
