Weekly compilation 22.07.2011

Here's our regular update of what's been catching our eye on twitter this week divided into our main campaigns areas:

Energy & Climate Change

Nuclear power's real chain reaction: spiralling costs:http://bit.ly/pLg1yG

Looking for Community Renewable Energy Mentors via @LocaliseWM: http://bit.ly/ny0mBQ

RT @AirportWatch: Arctic sea ice cover shrinking at record pace - lowest for July since satellite monitoring started in 1970:http://bit.ly/nENiUz

Need to take efficiency much more seriously RT @guardianeco: How energy use by UK households has risen 18% in 40 years:http://bit.ly/oanNCK

RT @wwwfoecouk: Houdini act now needed to escape from high-carbon lock-in: National Policy Statements ignore climate change targetshttp://goo.gl/fb/WSc2V

Why believe that UK nuclear reactors would be on time and on budget when French and Finnish ones over-budget and late?http://bit.ly/ntXTJQ

RT @thedancingflea: “It is unequivocally less expensive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than suffer climate damages.”http://s.coop/3crn

RT @wwwfoecouk: @DECCgovuk announces green heating grants for households http://bit.ly/n4rtsF #rhi #rhpp

RT @WomensInstitute: Fuel poverty is a killer – and too little is being done to tackle it http://gu.com/p/3vt2p/tw via @guardian

Some interesting points here: RT @PostBusiness: Andrew Whitehead: Now the electricity market gets really complicated:http://bit.ly/pl5CtH

RT @wwwfoecouk: MP energy vote set to create dash for gas and give go-ahead to decades of radioactive wastehttp://goo.gl/fb/W1yAo

Transport
RT @AstonUniversity: Aston assessing future alternative transport as part of UKs largest trial of low carbon vehicles: http://bit.ly/qsBih3

Agree with @christianwolmar's assessment of the IEA report on #HS2: http://bit.ly/n11Ipi

27% of drivers use mobile phones while driving: http://bit.ly/qsUCGVand they're very dangerous for others, as experienced many times!

RT @ncbtweets: Save our Buses: 94% of colleges say end of EMA will affect young people's ability to travel to college.http://bit.ly/oALKCx

New Standards Are Here, But How Will Aviation Biofuel Market Evolve? http://bit.ly/oRYIXq Is it economic or sustainable?

Much more than a "nudge" needed: RT @RichardHebditch: Link to Lords' behaviour change report: http://bit.ly/pcF5JV

RT @AcocksGreenFG: New Tesco's/Swan development in Yardley - pedestrians don't matter? See Mrs McAvoy's latest update:http://bit.ly/nHc42f

Waste

Is it greener to use washable or disposable nappies? Birmingham council still supported washable ones: http://bit.ly/pAmqqm @leohickman

@Bham_FOE Thanks, but looks like support was pulled on April 1, 2011?? Can u confirm? http://t.co/rbVuUeu

New blog post with comments made from our Waste round table discussion last week hosted by @chamberlainfo:http://bit.ly/qCQawe

An article on the barriers to Anaerobic Digestion plants being set up -need to be overcome quickly: http://bit.ly/nufvyV

Boo! "Bid to exclude EfW from planning framework rejected":http://bit.ly/qo2hh6

Rats on the streets are a problem that could be massively reduced by having food waste collected in special bins: http://bit.ly/r4720G

Others

Midlands FoE local groups are furiously filming fantastic forty-second footprints for FoE's big four-O http://t.co/T6Yl065 #midlandfoe40

Ooh we can inspect Birmingham City Council's accounts for 2 weeks from Monday: http://bit.ly/pu9gUG (via @jonwalker121)

RT @jonwalker121: Ed Miliband visited our offices yesterday & answered qs from Bham Mail readers: http://is.gd/6nLTaP http://bit.ly/n6tW0H

RT @wee_dave: £11bn in green taxes: is the Treasury milking the green economy? http://bit.ly/pKJqdT via @touchstoneblog

Saw @astonishernet in this photo :-) helping to Push Europe to create green jobs and take action on climate: http://bit.ly/pQDyju

Warning Of 'Food Price Riots In The UK' Madness to grow crops to feed cars, planes & power stations instead of people:http://yhoo.it/hXcu59

Was the LEP really expecting the EZ in Bham city centre to bring in yet more big retail? What about making things? http://bit.ly/n48eZs

Read our latest publications highlighting the role indigenous people play in conservation & defence of biodiversity. http://t.co/L6c0wff

RT @BatesJenny: Boris final London Plan http://bit.ly/oaV5Et ignored key Inspector air & road build/use recommendations.