Tristram Hunt: The un-eco eco-towns | The Guardian

Unfortunately, the response of the housebuilding industry has been a series of cunning attempts to revive planning permission for previously rejected projects. In Micheldever, Eagle Star Insurance has been trying to develop a London-Basingstoke commuter settlement since the mid-1970s. But with a sprinkling of "sustainable development" and "carbon-neutral" buzzwords, the bog-standard scheme for 12,500 homes on a pristine, greenfield site has magically transformed itself into an "eco-town".

Bishop Hill blog - Climate cuttings 24

Welcome to episode 24 of Climate Cuttings, my roundup of developments on the global warming front.

First up is Nobel Laureate, Al Gore, who has changed his mind on whether adaptation should play a part in our reaction to climate change. He has now decided that those who advocate it are not dangerous lunatics after all, but are in fact, erm, right.