Oil spills, green entrepreneurs and the Icelandic ash cloud

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Trewin Restorick argues that environmental risks rather than peak oil fears should drive our shift away from the high carbon economy

The concept of Peak Oil has been used by many organisations and movements – notably Transition Town - as a reason to cut our dependency on oil. Personally, I am always a little wary of using the concept...

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