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Take it from an expert: how to eat fish sustainably

My family eats fish two or three times a week. I have a six-year-old son and it’s important for him to get his oily fish. We buy only Marine Stewardship Council-certified fish. Sainsbury’s has the largest number of these. We would never buy cod; we ...

From ANDREW PURVIS, Times Online,  16 Nov 2009

Open the office door and let the kids in

Over the past decade, during times of economic plenty, the number of young people not in education, employment or training has consistently hovered above 8 per cent; often it has been more than one in ten. So why are we surprised that, during a ...

From DAMON BUFFINI AND ANDREW PURVIS, Times Online,  11 Nov 2009

The Brazilian island hideaway

Not even a tractor in sight… Boipeba Island, Brazil. Photograph: Karen Robinson 'The whole village fits into three tractors," says Tony Fitzsimmons, the English owner of Pousada Mangueira in Moreré, on the island of Boipeba in tropical north-east ...

From ANDREW PURVIS, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Jean Paul

Imagine a World Without Seafood for Supper -- It's Nearer Than You Think

As I step off the train at Heysel, the vast art deco structure of the Palais du Centenaire rises like a cathedral. With its four soaring buttresses topped by statues, the Palais forms the centrepiece of the Parc des Expositions in Brussels, Belgium - a ...

From ANDREW PURVIS, AlterNet.org,  29 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Mitsubishi,  Boeing

Should ministers submit to scientists on fishing?

Is it time for ministers to have a legal duty, not just a moral one, to put long-term ecological concerns ahead of short-term economic gains? Are fish to disappear from our plates entirely? Photograph: Romas Foord Last week, the European Commission ...

From ANDREW PURVIS, Guardian Unlimited,  27 Apr 2009
Related Topics: European Commission

Who ate all the fish?

Are fish to disappear from our plates entirely? Photograph: Romas Foord As I step off the train at Heysel, in the shadow of the notorious football stadium, the vast art deco structure of the Palais du Centenaire rises like a cathedral. With its four ...

From ANDREW PURVIS, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Apr 2009
Related Topics: European Commission,  Mitsubishi,  Boeing,  Marks & Spencer

Call for fishing ban in a third of oceans

Callum Roberts, professor of marine conservation at the University of York, has reviewed 100 scientific papers identifying the scale of closure needed. "All are leaning in a similar direction," he said, "which is that 20-40% of the sea should be ...

From ANDREW PURVIS, Guardian Unlimited,  25 Apr 2009
Related Topics: European Commission,  Royal Society

OMF awards: Readers' award: Best cheap place to eat

She has been hailed by the media as 'the new Nigella', 'a slender English beauty' with 'a mop of curly brown hair', 'long legs trailing from a denim miniskirt' as she rides her bike to work - Wahaca, the Mexican-style cantina in Covent Garden that has ...

From ANDREW PURVIS, The Observer,  30 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Frida Kahlo

Is this the greenest city in the world?

A worker cleans solar cells aat Solar World in Solar Valley, Freiburg. Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty It is 6C outside, and a dusting of snow can be seen on the Schauinsland - the low hill overlooking Freiburg, where the good burghers of the southwest ...

From ANDREW PURVIS, The Observer,  22 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Gordon Brown

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