Prince Charles and the Environment

[milla Ca]

HRH calls for a global partnership to tackle climate change in an interview on the Today programm
15th May 2008

The Prince of Wales - HRH calls for a global partnership to tackle climate change in an interview on the Today programme

[Skydragon]

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In a speech at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, he said: "It really is crazy to go on imagining that we can remove what in many ways is the future of health for many generations to come.

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales: Protect medicinal plants from deforestation - Telegraph

[Elspeth]

Prince Charles has gone on a crusade to save the Great British Apple,

From the Telegraph:

"The Prince of Wales has helped secure the future of one thousand of the rarest English apple breeds.

Currently, the entire gene bank of 2,300 British apples – covering long-forgotten varieties such as Peasgood Nonsuch, Bloody Ploughman and Greasy Pippin – is stored at Brogdale in Kent. However, it was decided that it was too risky to have all of the trees on one site.

Adrian Barlow, chief executive of English Apples and Pears, the trade body, said: "There is always the worry that if some catastrophe happens – fire, or disease – you could lose the whole lot."
To stop this happening, three separate collections of the 1,000 most important breeds have been sold to the Prince of Wales, the Co-operative supermarket group and an anonymous Scottish businessman. Each will plant their saplings in different parts of the country...."

Full article here:

Prince of Wales saves British apple breeds - Telegraph

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by CasiraghiTrio

why does he drive those gas-guzzling Land Rovers?

I only saw this today and I drive among other things a Land Rover. Like many mine is converted to a SVO, others can easily run on Biodiesel!

Originally Posted by Elspeth

Prince Charles has gone on a crusade to save the Great British Apple,

Good for him, you can't beat an old variety delicious British Apple.

[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

Good for him, you can't beat an old variety delicious British Apple.

I was once in Britain and had found a guide book about farms and small companies and even pubs which produced their own cider and was fascinated by it: so we travelled the South of England in autumn searching for fresh cider... what a joy that was! We searched for recipes which used cider as well and found the richness of a taste apparently long lost except for some real fanatics (like Charles....) - it was simply great.

[Skydragon]

THE Prince of Wales is appealing to Asian billionaires to help him protect the environment, preserve historic buildings and support the young unemployed throughout the Indian subcontinent.

Prince Charles in greenplea to Asian tycoons - Times Online

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Prince Edward is to release 300 balloons at a school birthday - but has infuriated a wildlife protection charity whose president is his brother Charles

Prince Edward angers Prince Charles' charity over balloon release - Mirror.co.uk

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A Prince's Green Sensibility
washingtonpost.com

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Joking about the "virtual, virtuous, low-carbon form" of his pre-recorded video, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, gave a brief presentation Wednesday to the audience at the Serve to Preserve Climate Summit

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[milla Ca]

Prince Charles ´s Aston Martin is wine powered, June 30

The Prince of Wales has reduced his motoring emissions by running his 38-year-old Aston Martin, a 21st birthday present from the Queen, on fuel made entirely from English wine.

Prince Charles's Aston Martin is wine powered - Telegraph

[Skydragon]

Thank goodness our Land Rover runs on recycled vegetable oil, if it was wine I might be tempted to siphon it off!

[iceflower]

The Prince of Wales speaks to the Corporate Leaders Group at
a climate change meeting in St James's Palace in London - 16 Jul

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[Skydragon]

Governor Charlie Crist today met with Prince Charles, Prince of Wales to discuss strategies for addressing global climate change, particularly reducing the impacts of deforestation. They met at Clarence House in London

Tampabays10.com | Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater | Gov. Crist discusses climate change with the Prince of Wales

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The Prince of Wales - The Prince of Wales gives an interview about climate change to the Royal Meteorological Society

The Prince of Wales has spoken about the need to fight climate change during an interview for the Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather magazine

[milla Ca]

Prince Charles: World is not acting quickly enough over climate change
September 30

"We are simply not reacting quickly enough and we cannot be anything less than courageous and revolutionary in our approach to tackling climate change.

Prince Charles: World is not acting quickly enough over climate change - Telegraph

[Skydragon]

Concern: Prince Charles has hit out at the claim that GM could solve world hunger

Prince Charles has blamed GM farming for 'truly appalling' suicides in India, and rejected claims that the controversial technology will feed the Third World.

GM crop firms are driving farmers to suicide, says Prince Charles | Mail Online

[Al_bina]

... and it would be most kind of Prince Charles to suggest feasible solution of dealing with this terrible situation... Not all farmers are rich enough to use the organic methods Prince Charles utilizes in his farms. Can he do anything palpable, except raising the awareness?

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by Al_bina

... and it would be most kind of Prince Charles to suggest feasible solution of dealing with this terrible situation... Not all farmers are rich enough to use the organic methods Prince Charles utilizes in his farms. Can he do anything palpable, except raising the awareness?

It would be rather pointless throwing money at the problem, as we have seen, many take the money and then don't follow the advice.

What Charles is doing, is raising awareness in the hope that a solution can be found, after all he is not claiming to be a 'savior', just trying to guide people in the right direction, especially the nay sayers.

[Al_bina]

Well... if Prince Charles can do nothing, but raise an awareness, it remains to be seen who will win : Prince Charles or Monsanto. Meanwhile poor people will suffer anyway.

[Skydragon]

Hundreds of jobs and heat for Prince Charles' organic business in Caithness have been identified as spin offs from a proposed green energy project.
Tidal power developer Atlantis Resources Corporation confirmed it was considering a site near Castle of Mey for a computer data centre.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Major tidal power plan revealed