Free bicycle hire for all might seem like a utopian pipedream, but it’s already happening in Paris and could be a reality in London as early as next summer.

If you’re that blase sort of person of the opinion that global warming will only make the summers hotter and at worst drown Norwich, then think again. Global Warming could be coming for you. Or so scientists at the University of Texas are telling us.

George Bush finally caught up with the rest of the right-thinking world by acknowledging the threat of climate change at this year’s G8 summit. The talking shop of rich white nations agreed to “share” the “vision” of a 50 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.

“Monday’s child has learned to tie his bootlace,” sang Paul McCartney on The Beatles classic ‘Lady Madonna’. The yougling will also be refraining from devouring any lambchops on the same day if the legendary titan of popular music has anything to do with it.

Just days after the Royal Society of Scientists issued a warning that the world needs to deal with the vast amounts of carbon emissions produced by power stations, a group of eco warriors have stormed a train headed for Drax, the UK’s largest powerstation.

Orange may have slid down the telecoms league table in recent years, but the French mobile phone company’s latest venture puts them right at the heart of the cutting edge once again, not to mention in the good books of thousands of young music fans with SRI of the thumbs from too much texting.

With the G8 summit rapidly approaching, scientists are attempting to ensure climate change is the central agenda of discussions at the symposium for the world’s most powerful leaders, though this time they’ll not be satisfied with placatory noises and no action.

While NASA has been proving the sky is the limit for 40 years and beyond, it appears that down here on earth the organisation is not ammune to a little party political corruption.

Dubious national stereotyping aside, there is a great lineage and association between Scotland and the world’s finest whisky, though that conjugal felicity between man and distillery could be endangered as the climate heats up. In the next seven decades the Scots may have to get used to becoming synonymous with that most popular of French pursuits, winemaking. We’ll give you a moment to get your head around that one.

While some believe Google practically runs the planet anyway these days, the IT company and its directors are still attempting to make sure that said planet is a better place despite all the unparalleled success… from the grassroots up.