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Leo Hickman is a journalist with The Guardian. He regulalrly writes for the Ethical Living section of Guardian Unlimited offering advice on readers ethical concerns. Hickman also wrote two books on the theme, Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying To Live Ethically and A Good Life.

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Climate change champion and sceptic call for inquiry into leaked emails

Writing in the Times, Lord Lawson, the former Conservative chancellor and long-time climate change sceptic, said: "The integrity of the scientific evidence on which not merely the British government, but other countries, too, through the ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  Met Office

Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists

A researcher collects data from an electronic device to monitor climate change. Photograph: Vo Trung Dung/Corbis Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists over the past 13 years ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Met Office

Climate sceptic James Delingpole's cheap shot at Newsweek backfires | Leo Hickman

Propaganda by global-warming sceptics and deniers reminds me of 1944, when as an army officer I saw living skeletons in striped pyjamas. Horror stories about Nazi concentration camps suddenly rang true. I wondered how intelligent people could commit ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Newsweek,  Al Gore,  Joseph Goebbels

British food from the past

Jacqui Wood cooking using prehistoric techniques and recipes. Photograph: Chris Saville/Apex The next time you bite into a pork-and-leek sausage, remember to thank the Romans. Show some gratitude to the Celts, too, for inventing the bacon sarnie. These ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009

Building Design editor attempts to demolish climate change debate | Leo Hickman

Amanda Baillieu has laid bare her utter contempt for environmentalism but failed to construct a solid argument Apocalyptic language is now standard, but when it is challenged the proponents of emission[s] reduction point to science for their answers. ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

How can you make sure that a Christmas tree really is fair trade | Leo Hickman

Is there such a thing as a fair trade Christmas tree, and should I be worried about 'unethical' trees? Is there such a thing as a fair trade Christmas tree, and should I be worried about "unethical" trees? Please share here your own thoughts on this ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  13 Nov 2009

Is the National Trust taking the piss? | Leo Hickman

Encouraging gardeners to urinate on compost heaps makes perfect sense. Just leave the tea-and-cake brigade out of it Facilities such as this could one day be a frequent sight at National Trust properties. Photograph: Ashley Bingham There was plenty of ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Comment Is Free,  13 Nov 2009

Britain's problem with pets

A treadmill for obese dogs on display at a pet show in Birmingham. Photograph: Andrew Fox Henrietta Morrison confidently plunges her spoon into a tin of slow-cooked lamb hotpot and lifts out a mouthful for inspection. She passes her nostrils over the ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harrods,  Colgate-Palmolive

Are global warming and deforestation too scary for Sesame Street? | Leo Hickman

Scaring kids might not be the best approach, but we shouldn't avoid talking about 'scary' subjects with children altogether Global warming and deforestation – those are really adult concepts, and it's just too scary for children … The place we're ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009

British climate change campaigners ride The Wave

The Wave claims to be 'UK's biggest ever demonstration for urgent action on climate change'. Will you take part – and do marches work? Thousands of protesters called on the government to combat climate change during National Climate Change March, ...

From LEO HICKMAN, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

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