Julian Hawkins urges us to rethink Britain's sea power Proposals for a barrage across the River Severn to generate electricity are regularly in the news, and tidal stream generation is also being trialled. So what is the potential of tidal power in the UK?
Tales from the front line Christian Vassie on the trauma of our love affair with plastic You know plastics are out of control when your wooden shelves are plastic veneer, your "biodegradable" bamboo cup is packed with melamine, your supermarket vegetables sit in plastic straight jackets, your toothpaste oozes polyethylene microbeads, your sausages are cased in nylon, your favourite team plays on a polypropylene pitch, while you comb your polyester hair with a plastic comb paid for with a polymer banknote.
The Green Campaigning resolution which was doing the rounds this last couple of weeks for signatures has been successfuly submitted by the due date. We now have to wait and see whether it makes it onto the Agenda for Brighton.
Following extensive discussions at the GLD 30th Anniversary Conference held in Nottingham in May, Conference organiser and GLD Exec member Keith Melton looked at policy resolutions to put before the Autumn Conference in Brighton. He has also considered a resolution which looks at how the Liberal Democrats should treat Green issues in a strategic electoral sense. The suggested resolution below has been passed by Newark and Sherwood Liberal Democrats in the name of Keith Melton, who was also responsible for organising the original Nottingham Conference back in 1988 from which the Green Liberal Democrats was created. Keith was Chair of the Liberal Ecology Group at the time and had been active in Liberal politics since 1964.
Two announcements today throw into sharp relief the detachment from reality currently being suffered by the Tory government.
Vince Cable talks of his green awakening in the 70's and whilst writing the United Nations' Brundtland Report in the 1980's (Vince will be speaking at the GreenLibDems conference in Nottingham on Saturday 19th May)
