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Time to follow golf’s surprising lead and find different ways to be green | Tanya Aldred

Turf sports will not flourish in a changing climate unless they start planning to make do with less waterIn these darkly surreal times, sport sometimes seems to have the answer. Not for sanity, too late indeed. But for tiny moments of bliss – a perfectly balanced flick off the toes, the crescendo of hooves thudding through the earth, a Raheem Sterling hat-trick on a spring Friday night. But there is no escape, even here. For the green England of verdant pastures, firm ground and lush pitches pimped to perfection, is shifting too.Listen to Sir James Bevan, chief executive of the Environment Agency, at the Waterwise conference on Tuesday. First he laid out his stall on climate change: “It’s not just...

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F1’s creativity could benefit society, if only government had more vision | Richard Williams

With help, engineering ingenuity could bring about some of the next great technological leaps forward, with Silverstone having an important part to playAbout 15 years ago Britain ignored a great opportunity to bring together sport, industry and action on the environment. A country whose designers and engineers were dominant in Formula One could have exploited some of that creativity in order to become the world’s leader in the emerging field of electric vehicle technology. Instead the racers got on with racing and the captains of industry carried on supervising the decline of Britain’s industrial base. Related: Valtteri Bottas’ Mercedes seat could result in fireworks with Lewis Hamilton | Giles Richards Continue reading...

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