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Marcos Lutyens & Alessandro Marianantoni, "CO2morrow", 2009. Carbon firbre, LED, aluminium, data stream. Courtesy of the artists. Commissioned by the National Trust.

Funky New Art Commission, CO2morrow, for Royal Academy

Marcos Lutyens & Alessandro Marianantoni, “CO2morrow”, 2009. Carbon firbre, LED, aluminium, data stream. Courtesy of the artists. London’s getting a new public art work next month. Eight metres in diameter and called CO2morrow, we’re told is inspired by a zeolite, a brilliantly named “scrubber molecule” …

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Power Your Home With Rubbish

Image / cakehole A new London Assembly report urges Boris to set the wheels in motion for turning more of our non-recyclable waste into energy. “Where There’s Muck There’s Brass” (oh dear) says Londoners produce rubbish to fill Canary Wharf every 8 days, and that …

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Conservatives In Heath Row

Image / Route79 … that’ll be ‘row’ as in ruckus or bust-up, rather than a hark back to the area’s original name. A front-line Tory MP has caused consternation among the Bullingdon set by suggesting the Conservatives would revisit their oppostion to a third runway …

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Greenness Officially In Turmoil Today

Greenness is certainly suffering mixed fortunes today. For a start, Mayor Boris had originally moved to save trees, only this evening to reverse Ken’s planned £25 CO2 congestion charge hike. Into the bargain he also thanked Porsche for donating their subsequent legal costs paid by …