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Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns: Part 13

08-03-2007 23:10

Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns: Part 13

EcoWorks: Straw Bale Building

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Co-mutiny community gardening

08-03-2007 18:04

Fancy a bit of co-mutiny community gardening this sunday? Down in deepest darkest Whitechapel (east London), an amazing thing is starting to happen. A formerly disused and abused piece of land has been reclaimed and is starting to be turned into a garden, with the aim of having a place where people can interact with, take care of and just gain a greater understanding and respect for nature.

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Rospudas' Currents

08-03-2007 07:23

'International forces of reaction' are being formed...:
- if you want to join them e-mail me on this address
and you will be informed about any alert
(with which I will be going there and dragging others...)
As I said above all we will need even few, but experienced
people...

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Rospuda Demo this Friday!

08-03-2007 07:18

A 'Save the Rospuda Valley' demonstration will take place on Friday, 9th March 2007 at 16.30, outside the Polish Embassy, 47 Portland Place, London.

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GM Potatoes to be grown in Cambridge

07-03-2007 21:52

The German multinational chemical company, BASF, has been granted permission to plant genetically modified potatoes at NIAB in Cambridge from the end of this month.

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Sheffield Rossport Soldarity Action

07-03-2007 19:16

Today at 16:00 a peaceful demonstration was held at the Shell Garage on Hoyle Street, Netherthorpe in Sheffield.
This demonstration was an act of solidarity with the people of Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland and the campaign ShelltoSea, who are opposing Shells plans to build a potentially lethal high pressure gas pipe line and refinery in a marine special area of conservation.

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Nuclear Power is Green - NOT

07-03-2007 19:04

Here is an article that talks of a new study
that shows nuclear to be not green, and the
study did not even take into account the huge
cost of decommissioning the plants after thier
40 years of production which must be done with
robots because of the extreme radiation. The
author apparently also has not been informed of
the new Solar Voltaic panels that bring the cost
of solar equal to coal plants.

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West Midlands Climate Camp meeting

07-03-2007 19:03

Come and get involved in organising the West Midlands Neighbourhood for
Climate Camp 2007!

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London Food Not Bombs, Every Saturday in Whitechapel

07-03-2007 10:57

A new London Food Not Bombs group is now up and running and serving free, hot vegan food to all who are hungry every week in a park in Whitechapel. We are still looking for more people to be involved with cooking, skipping, or just to come dwn and support the project, bringing food, music, energy etc whenever it takes place.

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Tundra Disappearing At Rapid Rate

06-03-2007 21:38

It's like it waited until conditions were just right
and then it decided to get up and run, not just
walk."

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Heathrow Residents Take Direct Action with Plane Stupid

06-03-2007 14:17

John Hunt interrupts Alexander speech
ANGRY HEATHROW RESIDENTS DISRUPT MINISTER’S SPEECH
~ Airport residents resort to direct action techniques for the first time
~ Marks new phase in resistance to airport expansion

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Radley Lakes: Join the protest march on legs and cycles on 10 March

05-03-2007 21:38

Join a Cycle Ride and March to Say No to NPower's "Criminal Damage" to Radley Lakes on Saturday 10 March

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Time for a Revolution

05-03-2007 21:20

This is the time for a revolution, not for half-hearted actions, said retiring French president Jacques Chirac.. Despite higher prices, energy still has an aura of inexhaustibility.. Renewable energy has an 18% share in worldwide electricity production.

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On The Ground, Ireland: Video/Report - Pushme-Pullyou on the picket line

05-03-2007 16:25

Video
Today, the first of March in this year of our corporate lord Shell E and P Ireland, the violence slowly started to sneak in again after nearly two weeks of daily peaceful pickets.

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The voice of dissent at Gothenburg’s motor show

05-03-2007 13:07

60 meters by car = this much co2 (2).
A successful action to offset the tanker loads of greenwash in Gothenburg, Sweden, the home of the Volvo.

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Champagne water in radioactive danger

04-03-2007 10:20

Greenpeace is warning that the nuclear waste centre in Soulaines in eastern France is endangering the growing of champagne grapes. Less than ten kilometres from the famous vineyards of the Champagne the groundwater is polluted with radioactive tritium.

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Liverpool: £377,000 Spent On Marketing Toy

03-03-2007 18:46

Liverpool city council has spent £377,000 on a massive advertising campaign...for re-cycling!

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documentary: Reclaim Power - voices from the camp for climate action 2006

03-03-2007 18:18

In the summer of 2006, 600 people convinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Climate Action in the shadow of one of the biggest C02 emitters in Europe: Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire / UK. Cine Rebelde produced a documentary film about the camp.

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Do You REALLY Love Hackney?

03-03-2007 14:33

How to influence local, national, and global planning policy using a simple criminal law argument....

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Rospuda camp of road protesters temporarily suspended

03-03-2007 10:07

Due to egg-lying time by birds.