'Green' News from Metro
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WHAT'S HOT; WHAT'S NOT
Not for us the style barometer — oh no, here's the eco-thermometer, marking out what's hot and what's not on the green scene. Although clearly, in global warming terms, hot isn't all that hot...
Last week, Jon Snow weighed into the Great
Trees debate,
nominating a hardy Ash in London's St Pancras Churchyard as his arboreal favourite
in the Capital. If you want to give a shout out foryour personal pick, visit www.greattrees.treesforcities.org
before September 1.
OK, so maybe we can't pin this on global warming ― but it's surely a sign of things to come. Becky Yelland wrote in to say she was so astounded when she pulled an oversized basil leaf out of a Sainsbury's packet that she had to take a photo. If you've got any examples of other freaks of nature, e-mail them to green@ukmetro.co.uk
Moveover, glamping: the new way to camp is dressed as a penguin and waving a placard. The Camp for Climate Action was back last week, moving on from 2007's Heathrow protest to pitch tentsoutside the proposed site for Britain's first new coal-fired power station in 30 years. On Thursday, 1in-tall Campaigners scaled thereplica of Kingsnorth at Legoland at Windsor and unfurled a banner.
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