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Nuclear Power Conferences in London Hit by Protests

18-05-2010 18:18

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 - CAMPAIGNERS from London and SE England Stop Nuclear Power [1] protested outside the Financing Nuclear Power and Nuclear Interim Storage conferences in central London today. They invited delegates to invest in a green future instead of nuclear energy and demanded an end to nuclear waste production.

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Video of the Climate Emergency overnight vigil - May 2010

17-05-2010 16:51

Light a candle for scientific realism and rationality against the dark, populist tide of sceptic lies and ignorance.

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Crisis in the clouds

17-05-2010 12:50

Update on the controversy caused by the volcanic ash clouds and the threats to the airline industry

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Blockade of Monsanto office in The Netherlands

17-05-2010 08:03

On Monday 17 May a group of 50 people from the group "Roundup Monsanto" blockaded the Monsanto office at Bergschenhoek in the Netherlands.

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Shell Protest Video - Party at the Pumps 2

16-05-2010 19:17

Checkout the video of UK protestors shutting down the Islington based Shell petrol station for 5 hours on the 15th of May on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

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Polish veganarchist arrested in Holland

16-05-2010 09:00

Renata Zelazna is a Polish anarchist and vegan that has been studying and living in Holland. She is also spent some time living in Brighton, UK.

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Hounslow Community Land Project

14-05-2010 16:40

New Community Land Project in Hounslow

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BP: The Unfinished Tale of Imperialism

14-05-2010 09:35

an aerial view of the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, 6 May 2010
In the light of BP's crime against humanity committed in the the Gulf of Mexico, it is well to remember the sordid historical role of BP and its earlier incarnation as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

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Monsanto Roundup Ready creating super weeds

13-05-2010 10:12

Roundup Ready is the herbicide used with Monsantos genetically modified Roundup soya beans. Weeds are now appearing that are resistant to the herbicide causing farmers to use other herbicides to combat this thus negating the benefits cited by proponents of GM crops.

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Biodiversity Walk at Manchester Airport - 9th May 2010

11-05-2010 16:16

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Around 60 people took part in a Biodiversity Walk organised by the Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport coalition. Local residents and campaigners visited green belt areas threatened by Manchester Airport's plans to build car parks at freight sheds.

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Non-Corporate From the Gulf Coast

11-05-2010 14:20

"The Cajun "paradise" lost in southern Louisiana. The entire Gulf Coast wetlands ecosystem is a delicate and profound balance of tides, winds, and ocean temperatures. It's almost cosmic. Tides push and pull vast and deep columns of water through narrow passes into lakes and bays and back out to the open ocean. This is a marine cardiovascular system on a continental scale, one supporting waters that roil with life. Winds move shallow layers of salt water toward the shore and push back with undercurrents of brackish and freshwater from lakes like Pontchartrain, Borgne, and Salvador. The coastal prairies and cypress swamps breath. Water temperatures and salt concentrations from the edge of the continental shelf and as close as the shallows of Chandeleur Sound and Barataria Bay trigger complex movements of sea life, telling them when to spawn and where to feed. Larger seasonal shifts provide signals to migratory birds, ushering them to land upon horizon-to-horizon beds of grass where they feed from the bounty all around."

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Iceland volcano smokes toxic aluminium!& Geothermal to stop global warming+erupt

10-05-2010 18:53

As an ex raf cadet & former metal worker although I mainly worked on a lathe I did some metal work & forge work so I know it should be possible to pour-drop alot of iron or maybe marble into a volcano & then seal it with water sprayed on or dropped.
Hopefully volcanologists, meteorologists & expert metalurgists are looking into this.

IF you smell sulphur, Keep in as much as possible especially kids& babies!
The smoke from Iceland has alot of aluminium in it
A potential win,win,win,win,win situ though if this wakes the world up to the geothermal power in iceland that could potentially power the whole of europe & alleviate volcanic activity if done safely

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Dissident Island Radio Tonight - May 7th

07-05-2010 12:41

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Sea Shepherd // Merthyr to Mayo bikeride // EDO Decommissioners trial // WAG election analysis // Jammy Bastard

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BP Gulf of Mexico Spill Special

06-05-2010 18:11

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The Gulf of Mexico "spill" is really a man-made underwater volcano of oil. This accident taps a primeval fear in the human mind. Something dark and uncontrollable rushes out of the Earth, poisoning the global oceans. Could that really happen? Richard Heinberg, Anita Burke, Riki Ott, Antonia Juhasz, and new song "Corporate Catastrophe".

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Coal Action Network website relaunched!

06-05-2010 08:39

Check out  http://coalaction.org.uk for the updated and re-vamped Coal Action Network website and detailed coal maps of the UK. It is hoped that this website will be a useful resource to anyone taking action – or thinking of taking action – to protect communities, environments and the climate system from coal projects.

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Thompson Ecology - Helping kill badgers in Wales

05-05-2010 17:26

Thomson Ecology is the company responsible for surveying for badgers and sett locations prior to the Welsh Assembly badger killing due to start this month. Please contact them and ask them to stop their involvement in this illegal, immoral slaughter.

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Beekeepers at war over funding from chemical companies

05-05-2010 11:32

The Telegraph, 5 May 2010. Beekeepers at war over funding from chemical companies
Angry bee keepers have blamed Britain’s rapidly decreasing population of honeybees on their own organisation. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent .
Sorry to quote the Torygraph, but we have been running a campaign in Europe, for two years and when the mainstream media occasionaly wakes upto reality, we pump it .

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Critical Mass at Party at the Pumps 2

03-05-2010 12:22

Critical Mass 15th May
When: Saturday, 15th May
Critical Mass meeting point: 1PM at Marble Arch
Bring: a bike, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
Marble Arch meeting point map:  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=marble%20arch%20
(Meeting point for those without bikes – Oxford Circus, 1PM.)

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Company surveying for Welsh badger cull

01-05-2010 19:52

This is the company with the contract to survey the Welsh badgers before the gunmen come in and shoot them. These people will be supplying details of badger numbers and setts to the people carrying out the cull. They may as well be pulling the trigger.