Give us your views on Harper's Green Debate |
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Harpers is launching The Green Debate to give the drink's industry a platform to discuss key sustainability and environmental issues.
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Sean Quinney
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I read with interest that you are seeking debate and comments on the Green Issue, i run a large, privately owned coutry house hotel and i am embarking on taking us Carbon Neutral within the next 12 months. I have been researching this subject for a while and strongly believe that we all as individuals and as businesses need to and must do something. I have attended seminars by the Uk's top scientists and ut is proven beyond doubt that carbon emmisions cause global warming, and that global warming will eventually kill everything on earth if its not slowed down. I would be very keen to learn of other companies green initiatives and how they have tackled this project etc. regards |
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Sara Brook
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As a student investigating the impacts of wine on the environment I urge the wine industry to act rationally and quickly. We are now facing adaptation rather than mitigation and oil reserves are potentially running low by 2015. Research indicates wine is a very high carbon product in comparison to others and as more more than one scientist has pointed out- it is a luxury! Please dont just offset here or recycle a bit there to give the PR team something to write about . Make it part of your vision, strategy and everyday thinking and you will discover that better environmental practices can be profitable aswell. |
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Berenike Hartmann
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From an industry related perspective I think it will be an interesting addition for Harper's Green Debate to learn that wineries in Australia are taking strong action on climate change now. The company I work for, the Carbon Reduction Inst*tute - www.noco2.com.au - has recently certified two prestigious Australian wineries as carbon neutral: Cullen Wines and Woodlands Wines in the Margaret River region. We recognize that the wine industry is especially vulnerable to climate change and drive wineries to take on green business practices. Our program is very well received here; not only from wineries but across many different industries. I would be happy to share ideas about how we can help wineries and other businesses reduce their carbon footprint. |
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Jeff Topping
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The alleged science does not support the "theory" of "man made" global warming. Everyone seems to forget that the earth was in an Ice Age from the 14th to 19th Century caused by approx 100 volcanic eruptions each century. This ice age was pushed into the 20th century by one last ma*sive vulcanic eruption in the mid 19th century. Currently the Earth is going back to its climate status before the 14th Century. There are numerous items which point out this reality. At one time Southern England had a thriving Wine Industry. In the later 17-19th Century there used to be a "Winter Festiveal on the river Themes". Not on land but on the "frozen River". This stopped in early 1900 as the Ice age was ending. Greenland when settled in 1000 by the Vikings was actually "GREEN". In fact the latest data from the digs have revealed the the diet on Greenland was 80% from the land and 20% from the Sea. When the climate changed in the 14th Century the reverse occured. I am all for conserving energy but not in a state of panic! People are jamming "Green items" down our throats and in the end many of these are turing out to be worse pollutants. Corn based fuels waste more energy and harm the envirment 100x's worse than Oil. Farmers are clearing away protected land and forest, which harm wildlife, pollute water systems, and strip away natural nutrients from the soil just to produce fuel (tractors wasting fuel)? The fuel cannot be sent by pipeline, it must be sent by truck (wasting fuel again). What about these energy saving light bulbs? They contain mercury which means they cannot be disposed of in a normal manner, however, how many of you have been given notice? It only takes one drop of mercury to ruin a water supply. We have the technology to rethink how we use and process energy. Do not let the politicians and Big Business lead us the people down the prim rose path. If the government really believed in "Global Warming" they would stop every MP and government official from driving cars, taking private jets, living in huge mansions by themselves, and etc. Their actions do not support what comes out of their mouths. |
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