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The worst fall out from the lack of an effective global agreement on how to address climate change -- and alongside this establish a global strategy on biofuels production -- is the recent fast rise in wheat prices.

The impacts on the Palestinian people is explained in this TV interview last week with an old friend Kirstie Campbell. Kirstie spent the first years of her life in Brentford, and is now a spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP):

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Offsetting most of my CO2 emissions for the past year has been on my to do list for several months and today I finally got round to it. Its a crude fix to the climate change problem, but its better than no action at all.

This has been a bad year for me CO2-wise as I booked to go to the February wedding in New Zealand of an old friend, Sol Harris, just before watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth last…

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Much of my first year on the Council has been spent sitting on a scrutiny review panel looking at the current and future state of leisure and culture services in Hounslow. Given that a huge amount of this service area is outsourced to the CIP Group this became the focus of the panel's investigation.

The report has a raft of recommendations including the need for CIP to overhaul its corporate governance and build a membership base to hold trustees accou…

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My January report on Sustainable Food in Hounslow is now available online. Please let me know your thoughts on the ideas in this report - I hope to start an online discussion on this soon. A revised version of the report will be produced in the next few months taking on board your feedback.

Well its been a few days getting the basics working of my new website, powered by "Ning". I hope all the dynamic features of the site will allow folk to get a better understanding of the work I am doing for a greener Brentford, Hounslow and Britain!