Hints and tips:
...Ben Ridley, director at Architecture for London, says buyers needn’t get bogged down in the semantic nitty-gritty. “Whether a development is net zero or Passivhaus-certified is perhaps not relevant....
...Tales of his grandfather hunting antelope on the family farm in Nigeria instilled in him a wonder for his parents’ homeland, which couldn’t be further from his own childhood, when he shared a bedroom with...
...The Welsh couple, whose nursery at Crûg Farm in north Wales, is a place of pilgrimage for plant geeks, helped Hinkley refine his approach....
...You know, it really doesn’t look so bad, the Mars of Ridley Scott’s new film The Martian....
...More than any predecessor – far more, even, than Tony Blair – he luxuriates in heading trade missions abroad and visiting factories and farms at home....
...That is tough on investors but it would at least allow them to take advantage of low operating costs once the wind farms are operational and connected to the grid....
...One investor trying to call was mistakenly put through to a turtle farm....
...But head even an hour away from the coast and you can enter a much calmer world, where country roads wind past pretty farms and forests....
...But I also think it pretty likely that any long-term crisis over a shortage of fossil fuels will be thwarted by something along the lines of Ridley’s “vast solar power farms” in Algeria and some “pebble-bed...
...The first stretch follows the river’s gentle rapids and waterfalls through beech woodland carpeted in springtime bluebells, which is actually the landscaped “wilderness area” of nearby Ridley Hall’s Victorian...
...Some produced gunk; some – like Gale’s in Hampshire, Ridley’s in Essex, Shipstone’s in Nottingham – produced ambrosia....
...In addition to its centuries-old farms and fisheries, the north-east has some food and drink-related businesses of long provenance....
...The market trader Larry Julian, chairman of the Ridley Road Market Traders Association in Dalston, north-east London Selling any kind of commodity is an art, it’s like a guy building a house or painting...
...Excluder devices have helped save the Kemps ridley turtle, although there remains concern about the vaquita marina , the world’s smallest porpoise, facing extinction in the Upper Gulf of California....
...RICHARD DAWKINS: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think edited by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley Oxford University Press ₤12.99, 283 pages There’s no getting away from Dawkins this year....
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