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- Climate Camp Article in Guardian (Carbon Trading)
When it comes to reducing emissions via carbon trading I guess the question we want people to ask is:Do we want to place our faith in the same set of principles that lead to the financial crisis? The economy is important but our natural environment is foundational to life. Lets not gamble on this one. Stopping the construction of new coal plants is a lot more concrete than trading in abstract
Source: - added 18 months ago - Anti- Heathrow campaigners to meet airport residents from Clydebank, Paisley, Cramond, Aberdeen.
Communities from all across Scotland are co-ordinating and mobilising to halt airport expansion, with a little help from the 'Heathrow Ladies.'Key figures from the attention grabbling campaign against Heathrow expansion will be touring Scotland to meet with communities fighting expansion plans at Scotland's main airports.Next week two of the 'Heathrow Ladies' ??? Maggie Thorburn and Geraldine
Source: - added 18 months ago - Dye letters in the snow: spend the night in jail!
On Sunday 8th Feburary 2009 a radical attempt was made to spread a message. I say radical, based on the police response. Being arrested for trying to get a message across--how, i hear you say, where these delinquents communicating? Ehh, well, they had some food dye and they diluted it and they wrote thier message in the snow. And it wasnt the deadly yellow snow that Frank Zappa warned us all
Source: - added 18 months ago - NEW: Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Select Committee
There are several committees in parliament which look at climate change in various ways. In general the select committees are very good and debunking govornment spin and providing a voice of support for stringent cuts in emissions. There have been some changes recently, so to summerise.There are several select committees:The Environmental Audit Committee (which has hitherto done most of the work
Source: - added 18 months ago - Coal Update
In the last few days my news filters have picked up the following about coal in the UK...An old article (why?) with an interesting statement from Paul Golby about the fact that basically the govornment have to look after his customers because that isnt his responsibility.Julian Cope on a discussion that covored clean coal at Leeds civic hall.A new website for your attention--publicservice.co.uk
Source: - added 18 months ago - NEW! Documentary on Climate Camp.
In a liberal democracy freedom of the press is sacrisanct...Part 2...God i love citizen journalists! Independent media is the only way to go, we need to improve it, but it is the only game in town if we want to change our society for the better.
Source: - added 18 months ago - Feeding The Hand That BItes you
There's been a lot of debate lately about whether this or that extreme weather event - from China to Australia - is a symptom of Global Warming or merely a surprisingly large cluster of normal freak events. Are these disasters the last of the rare disasters or the first of the common disasters? This seems to me to be like asking - whilst under violent assault - whether one's assailant is the
Source: - added 18 months ago - Ed Miliband and A Govornment of Hypocrites
The Plane Stupid activists dressed in t-shirts reading:'Ed's Popular Mobilization Team' referring to Miliband's call late last year for 'Popular Mobilization' on the issue of Climate Chang. Flyers listing the 34 airports planned for expansion within the UK were handed out to the audience, demonstrating the apparent lack of government resolve for tackling the environmental issues that are crucial
Source: - added 18 months ago - Much ado about nothing
Things get worse and get worse quicker, and the media fudge and the businessmen run for cover.Lotsofbad newstoday...so I'm posting a curate's egg of a cartoon, putting my feet up and watching some crap TV
Source: - added 18 months ago - EON F-OFF: Arsenal vs Cardiff (emirates stadium FA CUP)
About 18 of us went along to the Emirates stadium to hand our EON FOFF red cards. We handed out several thousand, to a very good reception. Very satisfying :-)
Source: - added 18 months ago