This interesting article discusses getting "green" electricity and gas in the UK.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/cash/story/0,,1973621,00.html

This article says Good Energy is the best as 100% of its electricity is produced by renewable sources.  Scottish and Southern's RSPB energy deal and EDF's Green Tariff did well.

This is discussed in more detail at

http://www.energywatch.org.uk/help_and_advice/green_tariffs/index.asp

This is particularly interesting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6162959.stm

An interesting article about organic material found in a primordial meterorite

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6197228.stm

I read this short article with interest today


http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,1962912,00.html


Apparently organic material trapped by dams, decay and emit methane gas which is more damaging than Carbon Dioxide.

Oxford University Press have released six box sets of related Very Short Introduction books.  Each box set has five books.  The six sets are:

The Picture Box, ISBN = 0199209057, Art History, Renaissance Art, Modern Art, Architecture, and Design

The Basic Box, ISBN = 0199209065, politics, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and history

The Boom Box, ISBN = 0199209049, Ancient Warfare, The Cold War, The Crusades, The French Revolution, and The Spanish Civil War

The Brain Box, ISBN = 0199207976, Evolution, Consciousness, Intelligence, Cosmology, and  Quantum Theory

The Thought Box, ISBN = 0199207968, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Kierkegaard

The Ballot Box, ISBN = 0199207984, Politics, Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism, and Fascism

The British Government is discussing whether to spend £25Billion to replace its ageing nuclear missiles.  Mary Riddell writes why they shouldn't, an excellent article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1962771,00.html

I read a very interesting article today about Gordon Brown's plans if he becomes the next British Prime Minister. 
See

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1962751,00.html

He has some very good ideas.