UK Indymedia - UK Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

UK Emission-free transport cooperative needs your support

07-12-2007 12:58

We are now asking the people of Sheffield UK to register their support to gain a license to operate a FREE, emission-free transport service in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

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Climate Change Autonomous Bloc: Stop the police filming our protest

07-12-2007 12:50

Maintain the pressure following recent court victories and join FIT Watch
to kick the FIT off our bloc.

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Cool Planet, Cool Youth

07-12-2007 12:47

NUFFGlobal Climate Change Youth Films are screening on multiple occasions during the Bali Conference at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), December 2007.

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Women Climate Activists Blockade the Department for Trasport

07-12-2007 09:45

Women have this morning blockaded the Department for Transport preventing staff from getting to work and carrying out their policies which are catapulting us towards dangerous run-away climate change. This action comes in response to the Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly confirming the government's intentions to build a third runway and a sixth terminal at Heathrow and co-incides with the opening of their first 'consultation' exhibition.

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German Atomic Forum wins Worst EU Greenwash Award

07-12-2007 07:19

The Worst EU Lobby and the Worst European Greenwash were
being awarded in the Botanique in Brussels.

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Call Out: Autonomous Prescense on Saturday's Climate Change Demonstration

06-12-2007 11:49

For social change, not climate change

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Audio: Peak Oil & Climate Change - Twin Crises?

06-12-2007 11:32

The relationship between Peak Oil and Climate Change was discussed, during a joint meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Peak Oil and on Climate Change, in the Grand Committee Room in Parliament on 5th December 2007.

Speakers:

Jeremy Leggett, author of `Half Gone' and CEO of Solar Century.

Martyn Williams, Parliamentary Campaigner, Friends of the Earth.

Chris Vernon, the Oil Drum, Europe.

mp3 file (100mb) of the meeting:

http://www.appgopo.org.uk/events/02_051207/APPGOPO2_PO_CC.mp3

http://www.appgopo.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18

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Peakfood in the Yorkshire Post

05-12-2007 22:26

Yesterday

http://www.Peakfood.co.uk/ had an article published on pages 10 and 11 of The Yorkshire Post’s Country Week (thanks to Michael Hickling!) It mainly discussed price increases and the threats to future food production.

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E.ON irony & hypocrisy in market square

05-12-2007 12:17

Polluting power giant EON have sponsored an ice rink in the market square....very pretty you might think. But in all the statistics on the advertising there is no mention of how much electricity the rink takes to run, nor the carbon cost of this, nor of who is paying for it!

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Activists chained to bulldozers to prevent work on open-cast coal mine

05-12-2007 09:53

9am - More than thirty climate activists and local residents this morning took mass direct action to prevent excavation work on Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. (1)

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Buy nothing day 2007.

04-12-2007 13:32

Manchester Climate Action enjoy a day out at The Trafford Centre.

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Climate Justice Newsletter *1 at the Bali Climate Talks

04-12-2007 12:43

For an alternative take on the Bali climate talks, check out Alter Eco – Offsetting Emissions, which you can download from

http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=17652

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International Hoax Targets US Business Consortium Amidst Bali Climate Negotiatio

04-12-2007 12:19

Climate activists with the international Rising Tide network embarrassed the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobby group composed of 33 prominent businesses and organizations, by distributing a spoof press release declaring that the consortium’s members had committed to a 90 percent reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In addition, the spoof release called for an immediate moratorium on the construction of all new coal-fired power plants.

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Heathrow expansion - Harlington's "army of ordinary people"

04-12-2007 11:32

Hard on the heels of Sipson's meeting came last night's in Harlington. In a packed church locals heard HACAN's John Stewart explain the deceits contained within the government's "consultation" process, followed by a precise analysis from NoTRAG's Geraldine Nicholson on what Harlington could really expect to suffer.

Sipson has always been considered to be the ultimate victim of this particular expansion, not least because the whole village is set to disappear under Terminal Six. The biggest displacement of people in the UK since - as local MP John McDonnell pointed out - the Scottish clearances.

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What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?

04-12-2007 10:17

Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.

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Documentary Film Festival Spain

03-12-2007 21:57

Call for entries for CINESTRAT 08, competition for docs about climate change, peak oil, ecology, nature, etc. Deadline febr. 29 / 2008. Check regulations and get more info at www.cinestrat.es.

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Veg*n Climate March update

03-12-2007 17:17

Be part of history in London this Saturday! Be part of the biggest ever mobilisation of vegetarians and vegans on environmental grounds!! Veg*nism is the solution to many of the catastrophies facing the planet - it`s time to tell the world!!

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The Student Climate Project prepares for summer tour of action ’08!

03-12-2007 10:57

The Student Climate Project’s Launch Gathering leads to exciting plans for action.

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Un-nerving Update to Recent Climate Report

02-12-2007 16:13

What the IPCC Report Didn't and Couldn't Say

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Virtual Bali to give people a low-carbon way to attend the UN Climate summit

30-11-2007 16:21

Starting this Monday (December 3), 'climate Facebook' www.OneClimate.net will give people around the world a unique chance to participate in the UN Climate Change Conference.