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Just do it: the film Sheffield Screening 18th Oct

13-10-2011 21:50

Dates: 18 October 2011
Times: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: Presentation Area on level 4 (upstairs), University of Sheffield
Students' Union, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TG

Sheffield University host a free screening at 6:00pm on 18th October as part of our nationwide day of Campus Screenings.

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Anti-Frackin Music Sample

13-10-2011 16:53

A quick sample of great anti-frackin songs from a new Australian CD. Find them and use them - from

http://www.wholelottafrackingoingon.com

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Campaigners Tell Cuadrilla to Frack Off

13-10-2011 14:27

Anti-Fracking protest outside DECC, where Cuadrilla Resources presents the results of its own study into earthquakes

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Banner drop in solidarity with Australian forests

08-10-2011 16:38

As part of an international day of action, some people did a banner drop in Oxford.

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Abrupt Climate Change - Has Is Started?

06-10-2011 19:19

Sure it was great at the beach in October. BUT science shows the climate can shift as much as 4 degrees C in less than a decade, with violent weather. Has this already begun? Learn about abrupt climate change, and what we might do to survive it, from Dr. Alder Stone Fuller, in this two part Radio Ecoshock interview.

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Thomson protesters strip to reveal the Naked Truth about biofuels

06-10-2011 15:16

3 protesters disrupted the launch of Birmingham airport’s first
biofuel powered flight by stripping to reveal slogans opposed to the
controversial new departure.

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Pics from Hinkley anti-nuclear mass blockade, camp and demo, Somerset

06-10-2011 13:19

Images from the Stop New Nuclear alliance's Hinkley action weekend: camp in Nether Stowey (30 Sept to 4 Oct), march and rally in Bridgwater town centre (Sat 1 Oct) and 9-hour mass blockade of Hinkley Point nuclear power station (Mon 3 Oct), all in West Somerset, south-west England.

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Countries with No Water

06-10-2011 07:39

Imagine living in a country that has no fresh water? Well, it's happening in the Pacific. Some countries there have run out of fresh water.

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How A Far Away Island Can Rock Your World

29-09-2011 18:15

The peat fires have returned to Indonesia. Last time that happened, a carbon burst larger than car emissions staged the hottest year on record (1998). Peat and forest fires in this one country can help tip climate. Plus Indonesia is world's largest shipper of coal for electricity generation. Interview with Dr. Florian Siegert from the GeoBio-Centre of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. India has huge coal scheme and is the biggest buyer of Indonesia coal. We talk with Shankar Sharma, electricy expert. With 173 new Indian coal plants approved this year, is it a Ponzi scheme?

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Please help to promote the W. Mids Vegan Festival

29-09-2011 02:10

This year's West Midlands Vegan Festival on Saturday 29th October will be bigger and better than ever, but we need your help to spread the word. Please help by distributing leaflets, displaying posters, online promotion and invite all your friends, via Facebook etc!

http://www.midlandsveganfestival.org.uk

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Hinkley Point nuclear power station to be targeted in mass blockade - 3rd Oct

28-09-2011 16:10

Nuclear power station to become target for mass blockade

Stop New Nuclear - Wed, 28/09/2011

People from all over the UK are set to descend on Hinkley Point nuclear power station [in Somerset] to protest again EDF Energy’s plans to build two new mega-reactors next to the existing site.

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No to Road-building

25-09-2011 19:28

75 campaigners sent a message to this pro-road building Tory government - Don't trash our countryside. Meeting at three rail stations on the south coast on Saturday (Sept 24 '11) - the three groups converged at the threatened Combe Haven Valley in a protest against the proposed £100m Bexhill Bypass.

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Youth Climate Event "Power Shift" Returns to UK

24-09-2011 23:46

So many inspiring campaigns are taking place at the moment in the climate change movement: Moving Planet (a global day of climate action), campaigns on gas fracking and tar sands, and new climate campaigning films. Now is an exciting time to get involved.
That is what many young people will be doing this October at Power Shift: coming together to build the youth climate movement and take action on issues surrounding climate change. Power Shift will bring together hundreds of young people in Salford, Greater Manchester, for a weekend of workshops, inspiring speakers and cutting edge bands. It will give them the skills, inspiration and knowledge to campaign and communicate around the youth climate movement, and transferable skills for use in other social action campaigns.

For more information and to book tickets (from £10) please go to powershift.ukycc.org

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Extreme Rain, Dengue Fever, R.F. Kennedy Jr.

24-09-2011 03:24

Pakistan is flooding again, millions more homeless. Panic about Dengue fever. Dengue in the Caribbean now, 12 cases reported this year in Florida. Learn what Dengue is, what to do. New diseases with global warming. Then a powerful speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at the Commonwealth Club of Calif. How coal poisoned us all, & fish too. How corporations control media, stifling Progressive radio. Plus a vision of fossil-free America.

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West Midlands Vegan Festival - Sat 29 Oct 2011

21-09-2011 13:34

Please display a web banner on your site (see below)

There's only one place to be on Sat 29th October 2011 - Wolverhampton Civic Hall for the biggest vegan extravaganza ever staged anywhere north of London!

Featuring: 80 stalls, 20 talks/workshops, 5 cookery demos, all vegan bar, live entertainment all day, free food samples galore, press-up competition, Vegan Society Awards presentation, Best Vegan Cupcake Competition, after party till midnight and so much more...!!

All welcome, admission is just £1 (under 16's free).

http://www.midlandsveganfestival.org.uk

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Why does Cuadrilla own an old gas well near Elswick in Lancashire?

17-09-2011 23:07

The Elswick-1 gas well was completed and stimulated by Independent Energy in 1993. The gas field, which was commissioned in 1996, produces gas from a low permeability sandstone reservoir at a depth of around 4000 ft and is used to generate power which is fed into the electricity grid. It has generated around 1 MW of power from a reciprocating gas engine since 1996.

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Activism against Tar Sands, for a stable climate

15-09-2011 23:20

Interview w. Tzeporah Berman, of Forest Ethics, now co-director of the Climate & Energy Campaign for Greenpeace. Plus clip from launch of her new book "This Crazy Time". From Earthbeat radio reporter Daphne Wysham, Naomi Klein outside the White House - at Keystone XL Pipeline protest. Klein exposes conspiracy to export Tar Sands oil to Europe, using cloak of American patriotism. Indigenous Environment Network Director Tom Goldtooth & Tar Sands victims in Canada & U.S

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Solidarity Call For Gerze Community-Turkey

13-09-2011 20:59

Solidarity Call for Gerze Community in Turkey, who successfully defended its land against the power plant company and the state violence

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People of Gerze, Turkey resist plans for coal-fired power station

13-09-2011 09:15

Statement from the ECOLOGY COLLECTIVE in solidarity with the people of Gerze province in city of Sinop, Turkey who have come up against police violence in defending their land against plans for the building of a coal-fired thermal power plant.

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Growing Through The Storm

12-09-2011 17:12

How can we prepare for challenging times? 3 interviews: "Peak Oil Shrink" Kathy McMahon from Vermont on unexpected lessons from Hurricane Irene. Urban homesteader Jules Dervaes - food self-sufficiency on a city lot. Richard Heinberg on coping with the End of Growth