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Ozone
Energy trial success
accele
FAMILIES taking part in an
energy saving trial have cut
power usage by up to 30% just
THE hole in the ozone
five months into the year-long
layer over Antarctica has
study, according to the Institute
already surpassed its 2007
for Public Policy Reseearch.
size this year, and is set to
The Green Streets study, in
keep growing for another
conjunction with British Gas, is
few weeks, the U.N.
looking at 64 households across
weather agency has
eight cities and found they have
revealed.
also cut emissions by a fifth.
The Antarctic ozone hole
Using only British Gas
appears every year and
customers, each street has
normally stretches to about
been given a budget of £30,000
the size of North America,
to spend on energy efficiency
reaching its maximum size
measures.
in late September or early
The street that performs best
October.
will win £50,000 towards making
But in 2008, the World
their community more energy
Meteorological
efficient.
Organization said the
l Click Source: The Guardian
protective layer, which
THE UK is facing a drought of domestic
nhoney brought about by a late spring and
wet August – traditionally a key time for honey
production. The British Bee Keepers
Association fears a drop of up to 50% in honey
production, with a third of the UKʼs 240,000
hives thought to have died. Traditionally
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