Liverpool Ecology Newswire Archive

21-10-2008 14:40

Guerrilla Gardening Comes To Chester

Guerrilla Gardening Comes To Chester Read more >>

14-09-2008 12:49

Pulling in the crowds - vegan food fayre

The vegan food fayre, held at Liverpool's social centre Next To Nowhere, drew the crowds last Saturday. Read more >>

18-07-2008 20:55 | 2 comments

Merseyside Peace & Ecology Festival 2008

DATE: Saturday 26th July 2008
TIME: 11am - 7pm
LOCATION: St.Luke's Church (bombed out one) top of Bold Street, Liverpool City Centre

ORGANISED BY: Merseyside CND Read more >>

30-05-2008 09:22

MCR Critical Mass tonight!!!

CRITICAL MASS
Friday 30th May 6pm
Central Library Manchester Read more >>

23-04-2008 18:31

Chernobyl Day Event - Saturday 26th April 1pm

Merseyside Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Chernobyl Day Event - Saturday 26th April 1pm

In The Peace Garden
St.Johns Gardens
(Back of St.Georges Hall) Read more >>

21-04-2008 13:29 | 1 comment

Orang-utans protest at Unilever's HQ and Factory

Greenpeace folk dressed as Orang-utans have climbed all over Unilever's London HQ and Merseyside factory to tell the company to stop destroying rainforests for palm oil. Palm oil is used in products like Dove and Persil, and the companies Unilever buys from are destroying valuable rainforest and peatland areas - bad news not only for the millions of people who depend on them for their way of life and endangered species such as the orang-utan, but also for the global climate. Read more >>

01-03-2008 17:31

Report on Sefton Park 24th February 2008

On a visit to Sefton Park looking for a location (amongst others being considered) for Merseyside CND's 2008 Peace and Ecology Festival tree felling was very obvious, logs still left around and saw dust. Read more >>

26-02-2008 19:32

Manchester Crtitical Mass and After Party This Friday

Critical Mass Bicycle Ride
Friday 29th February
6pm Central Library M1
Bike ride around the city to celebrate the bicycle Read more >>

26-02-2008 01:27

Lismullen Woods near the Hill of Tara under threat from M3 Motorway

The Lismullen Woods near the Hill of Tara in Ireland are now under threat from the M3 Motorway, which has now expanded to cover the woods and unexcavated archaeological structures there. Read more >>

15-02-2008 17:15

Aldermaston 50th Anniversary demonstration

Merseyside CND have organised a coach for this important protest against
Britain's nuclear weaponary. Read more >>

13-02-2008 13:30 | 1 addition

The Power of Community: How Cuba survived peak oil

Film screening: Thursday 21 Feb, 7pm

Aigburth Cricket Club, Southwood Rd (beside St Michael's station) Read more >>

10-02-2008 21:12

Bali & Beyond: the international climate change negotiations, and local action

Bali and beyond- what to DO in 2008
Manchester Climate Forum
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
7:15pm - 9:15pm
Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester

manchesterclimateforum@googlemail.com

First half will be info about the climate negotiations in Bali. Deepak Rughani of Biofuelwatch, who attended the Bali talks, will tell us about what went right, what went wrong...
Second half will be dynamic and participatory: what's coming in Manchester. What's needed? How do we get it? Read more >>

10-02-2008 10:55 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Bio-fuel - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Around 20 activists, some dressed as wolves in sheep’s clothing, visited the D1 Oil refinery in Bromborough on the Wirral, on 2nd February 2008. They were there to highlight the dangerous consequences of large-scale bio-fuel production for the climate and for people worldwide. Read more >>

25-01-2008 09:47

North West Vegan Festival - a reminder

The NW Vegan Festival is happening on Sat 26th Jan at Sachas Hotel, Tib St, Manchester. We have over 40 stalls, a list of talks and films, free food samples, and loads more. Free admission. Read more >>

17-01-2008 18:25 | 1 comment

www.stop-wylfa.org launched within days of Brown’s nuclear announcement

Within days of last week's announcement by Gordon Brown in favour of building new nuclear power stations, P.A.W.B (People Against Wylfa-B). have launched a website

http://stop-wylfa.org/ as part of the campaign to prevent a second nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey, north Wales. Read more >>

17-12-2007 14:56 | 4 comments

Fossil Fools Day, April 1st 2008

Rising Tide International is calling for a day of action against the fossil fuel industry on April 1st 2008...

FOSSIL FOOLS DAY! Read more >>

05-11-2007 22:30

Preston Public Meeting To Debate Ribble Barrage and Floodplain Housing Threat

Come to voice your opinion about the Riverworks Ribble Barrage and Floodplain housing plans. Read more >>

24-10-2007 11:23

Demonstration - Tesco Turtle Slaughter, Liverpool

A leafleting event has been organised by Merseyside Animal Rights on behalf of Care for the Wild International outside the lecture theatre where Tesco's CEO Sir Terence Leahy will be speaking about the economic benefits of operating in China.
Read more >>

23-10-2007 10:56

Preston Council Forced Into Barrage Retreat By Ribble Bloggers

The Save The Ribble Blog has been pointing out the environmental and social idiocy of Preston City Councils plans to barrage the River Ribble and build thousands of houses in it's floodplain.

Now it seems our concerted campaigning and blogging is beginning to pay off as this developer-driven project is taken 'back to the drawing board'. Read more >>

22-10-2007 22:30

The Vícam Declaration: “we will defend mother earth with our lives”

Reports from the Encuentro of the Indigenous People of América are still coming in. I was hoping to share with you an English version of the Encuentro's "Vícam Declaration," but I've not yet found it available in print...and the task of translating from the audio recording seemed too daunting. So here in its place is a solid piece by Hermann Bellinghausen: Read more >>