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Is it conscientious for the UK to continue to import Botswana’s beef?

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Image via Wikipedia I spend a lot of time online and come across many great articles on lots of different topics. Of course, when writing your own blog one is always on the look out for excellent material share. I recently came across a networking site for businesses in the UK and what's great about the net is that serendipity means you can discover the most interesting things in the most unlikely of place. So it was that whilst browsing the forums on http://www.4networking.biz/ I came across this article... "Hi.... I will say here upfront, that I am a trustee of a charity called LION AID. The African Lion is facing extinction in the wild. We have lost 90% of the world's lions in the past 50 years. From over 200,000 in the 1960's, the population is now down to under 20,000. So for all of you who don't know the choices we are making when we eat cheap beef in our chain restaurants and carveries, read on....... Apart from South Africa , the UK is the b

Camden Council is hosting it's second Green Summit in Jan 2011

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Image by iknow-uk via Flickr Date:   2/12/10 After the success of the first green summit in July 2010, Camden Council is hosting a second event in January 2011. Residents, organisations and community groups are invited to the second Camden green summit to hear about the Council’s new draft plan for a greener, sustainable Camden (2011-2020). Over 100 people came together to share ideas for a greener Camden at the first summit, and due to demand, places at the second event on 29 January 2011 can be booked from 1 December 2010. The second event will also allow participants to contribute to the Camden transport strategy together with stalls providing information about Camden’s green services, and others run by groups and organisations including Fairtrade . Attendees will be able to hear about the progress being made by the twenty seven community groups allocated funding from the Camden communities green fund. The projects being delivered by the funded groups foc