"After two and half years of secrecy and prevarication, the Scottish government has been forced by the Scottish information commissioner, Kevin Dunion, to name those who have benefited most from agricultural subsidies in the past."

Mark Lynas: "If [Newsnight editor Peter] Barron is really suggesting that the BBC should be ‘neutral’ on the question of planetary survival, his absurd stance surely sets a new low for political cowardice in the media."

"News Corp. is using its entertainment products (movies and TV shows) to push a green message."

"I still find it odd that news organizations mostly refuse to go beyond their role of strictly reporting on and analyzing climate change news. Helping to avert planetary environmental disaster, I’d think, is a cause worth championing."

"Friends of the Earth said on Thursday it had withdrawn a controversial bid to become a charity partner of BSkyB."

Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke dissects the many ’solutions’ to global warming being marketed to consumers, from tree planting and carbon offsetting to green energy tariffs.

"Sky TV’s [carbon offsetting] claims for a renewable energy plant in Bulgaria may prove illusory," Channel 4’s Dispatches programme into carbon offsetting will suggest tomrrow.

"Google has committed to carbon neutrality by the end of 2007, which is a typically audacious Google target. However it has not disclosed its carbon footprint to the Carbon Disclosure Trust."

"Rackspace Managed Hosting .. has planted 1,103 trees to offset carbon emissions as part of its carbon neutral hosting initiative."

"Get the digital magazine strategy right, and the BBC will not only save money, it will improve revenues and profits. Of course it will dramatically reduce its carbon footprint at the same time."

"Computers and other IT equipment have been blamed for causing as much global warming as the airline industry."

Kevein Maguire complains that the G8 press centre (five miles from the summit Heiligendamm and outside the security barrier) has everything, "except what we value most: hard information."

"Readers are getting through a staggering average of 38kg of newspapers each per year - and 50 per cent of them are currently being recycled."

"[E]lectronics hardware, often [becomes] obsolete quickly and containing toxic chemicals. Still, the amount of energy and environmental impact of one session on a computer pales in comparison to the impact of reading a printed newspaper or magazine."