Microsoft goes Green?

It's a sign of just how mainstream Green messages are becoming when the MSN homepage main link is to an MSN money article entitled Ten ways our spending destroys the environment which goes beyond the usual "don't leave your TV on standby" message and looks at the energy costs of food and the damage done by non-biodegradable shampoos and household cleaning products.

Oddly there was no mention of the Vista layer which about to be created as millions of PCs are sent to landfill by consumers upgrading to new hardware in order to run Microsoft's new Vista operating system.

Campaigners lose incinerator challenge

Campaigners, backed by Ken Livingstone and the Greens in London, have the lost their fight for a judicial review of government plans to build a massive incinerator in Bexley.