UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Please Support the Heathrow No Third Runway Campaign

12-02-2008 17:09

Transforming the threatened villages near Heathrow Airport into a giant eco-village could help save them from being demolished for the planned third runway according to environmental campaigners.

Proposals for a variety of different groups to move into the area and help the local residents develop eco-friendly projects have been circulated by the Earth Aid Environmental Campaign.

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Are your meals costing the Earth?

12-02-2008 10:56

Vegan Society CEO, Nigel Winter will be giving his hard-hitting "Are your meals costing the earth?" presentation as part of the Green Party Spring Conference 'fringe'. The talk is at Reading Town Hall, on Fri 15th Feb 2008 at 19:00. Day membership of the conference is required to attend.

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Climate Change teach in

11-02-2008 17:55

A teach in organised by LSE students for young people and students to come and discuss the issues around climate change and global warming.

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

10-02-2008 21:12

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?

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Climate Change TU Conference Report

10-02-2008 12:10

Report on the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Conference in London on 9th February.

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Bio-fuel - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

10-02-2008 10:55

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.

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Eco-Village of the Future Instead of Third Runway at Heathrow?

08-02-2008 15:43

Environmentalists and concerned local people resisting the plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport have begun ongoing discussions with a view to establishing a permanent climate centre in the Sipson, Harmondsworth, and Harlington villages.
Environmental campaigners are attempting to offer grassroots solutions to global warming and climate change which would effectively enable the local residents to transform their local area into a futuristic high tech eco-village.

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Sea Shepherd Getting Ready to Return to the Whale Wars

08-02-2008 00:06

The objective in returning to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is to stop whaling activities for another three to four weeks and to keep the Japanese whalers on the run, wasting fuel and further exposing their illegal poaching activities to the rest of the world.

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Days of Action on Climate Change

07-02-2008 11:18

Dates for your diaries:

National Days of Climate Action

1 MAY: Mayday Mayday: Invasion of the Climate Snatchers....

3 JUNE: Day of Action on Food and Climate Change

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Wrexham: Animal, People & Environment Fayre - this Sat.

07-02-2008 07:28

Want to find out what’s going on in Wrexham for animals, people and the environment?

THEN GET YERSELVES DOWN TO THE VIC ON FEB 9th!

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'Smarter than yeast' Climate Activities Day

06-02-2008 00:32

Held on Sunday the 3rd of Feb, from 2 - 10:30pm. at The Art Organisation, 21 Station Street, Nottingham.

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Climate Change Solutions Conference

05-02-2008 20:49

A day of talks and workshops on climate change solutions.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
10:00am - 6:00pm
Portland Building, Nottingham University Campus

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Tesco Biofuel Protest and Chain mail

05-02-2008 20:23

Protesters gathered at Tesco in Stroud during the weekend to protest against biofuels and collected names of people to volunteer to send around a chain mail presentation highlighting the destruction that the biofuel industry causes.

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British Airways And The 5 Tonne Businessmen

04-02-2008 21:29

I don’t make a habit of swearing, but this morning has been testing, to say the least. Formerly known as the “World’s Favourite Airline” until the world decided that it wasn’t too fond of airlines pushing out carbon dioxide into its upper atmosphere, British Airways have decided, in its eternal wisdom, to kit out a couple of Airbus A318s for its most luxury conscious business travellers.

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Seedy Sunday Brighton 2008

04-02-2008 16:04

Seedy Sunday Brighton 2008 was held at Hove Town Hall Sunday 3 February 2008.

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UK government must abandon road and airport expansion

04-02-2008 14:08

Transport expert says UK government must abandon road and airport expansion and initiate an electric transport ‘revolution’

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USAF to use Nazi technology to turn coal into jet fuel

03-02-2008 21:01

The US Air Force has announced plans for a massive $4 billion coal to jet fuel plant -- like the switch from food crop to fuel crops this is another confirmation that peak oil is here.

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Global Warming Contrarians Exposed

03-02-2008 18:08

An extremely informative, in-depth account of four of the major global warming "confusionists" is available free-online.

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Food Not (Bio)fuel protest Cambridge

03-02-2008 14:32

A dozen or so protesters braved the cold, the sun, and stroppy Tesco managers to draw attention to the increasing use of biofuels that wreck the environment and drive up food prices, most often in the developing world. The protest came at the end of a week of action called by biofuelwatch.org.uk.
Police were in attendance, but soon left, leaving Tesco staff so concerned about protester's safety that they repeatedly threatened to call the police when they stepped onto the forecourt. They finally got so fed up that just as we were about to leave they asked us to leave, in the process delaying our departure.

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Killed By Plastic... Salvador Brazil pictures and video

03-02-2008 03:43

The London based artist Mark McGowan, commissioned by
Global Ocean, has completed an extraordinary
performance, leading the incredible Salvador Carnival
procession in Brazil, which is attended by 5 million
people , the artist pulled a massive fishing net
filled with plastic waste weighing 300 kilogrammes,
8km along the official route.

The event was organised in an attempt to raise
awareness about the catasphropic levels of plastic
ending up in the oceans of the world, killing an
estimated 100,000 sea animals every year.