Environmental Health Around the World
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Cyclotherapy: Road to Ventoux - poetry in motion
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This weekend I have toiled to the top of an exposed Ditchling Beacon swathed in thick fog but without a breath of wind - an eerie sight; I have pedalled up on to the Ashdown Forest to find it ablaze a million yellow gorse flowers; I have waved at bemused cows grazing at the foot of Toy's Hill, a climb that ought to be child's play but isn't. 
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Cyclotherapy: Road to Ventoux - on camera
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A quick post - just wanted to share a few Ventoux-related videos to whet the appetite for the etape (which, with this week's clement weather and light evenings, suddenly feels like it's creeping up on us like a big giant panther). 
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Brown's electric dream for Britain
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Gordon Brown has promised an environmentally friendly Budget later this month to kick start a "green recovery" – including the mass introduction of electric cars on Britain's roads. 
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A £1bn nuclear white elephant
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 A controversial nuclear recycling plant, approved by the Government despite warnings over its economic viability and reliance on unproven technology, has racked up costs of more than £1bn and is still not working properly. 
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Cyclotherapy: Road to Ventoux - a day on the farm
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As was demonstrated by Le Puncheur, which Simon Usborne has blogged about, organised events like a sportive or an audax play an important part in a training programme. They break up the routine, and introduce you to new roads. A big field has quite an inspirational effect, and the experience of riding in groups really helps when it comes to taking part in an Etape. 
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Sales of organic food slump by up to 30 per cent
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 Demand for organic food has fallen faster than expected, according to new statistics about shoppers' habits. Consumers who were once prepared to pay a premium for organic produce are turning to cheaper alternatives, cutting sales by a fifth in the past year. 
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Cyclotherapy: Road to Ventoux - punching up the Beacon
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Preparation for July's fearsome Etape du Tour kicked off in earnest earlier this month with an event making its debut in the increasingly busy sportive calendar. The Puncheur is, according to its website "not a long list of testing climbs, niether is it mega-endurance... This is a course to be attacked."  . . . MORE DETAILS
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India is stealing water of life, says Pakistan
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 Crucial, coveted and increasingly scarce, water has become the latest issue to stoke tensions between India and Pakistan, with farmers in Pakistan's breadbasket accusing Delhi of reducing one of the subcontinent's most important rivers to little more than a trickle. 
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Cyclotherapy: Road to Ventoux - the countdown begins
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I've only been up Mont Ventoux once. It was in a car, 19 years ago, long before the cycling bug bit. Naturally I stopped at the memorial to Tom Simpson, the British cyclist who collapsed and died on the sun-baked slopes of the "Giant of Provence" in the 1967 Tour de France 
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Bottled water sales starting to run dry
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A revolt against bottled water in restaurants is growing. Last year, figures showed that, after more than three decades of year-on-year growth, bottled water sales dropped by 9 per cent. Now a survey shows more people prefer tap water when they dine out. 
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