UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

The Age of Ocean Warming

13-03-2011 18:51

90% of global warming goes into the ocean. Heating seas change storms & species now, and for 100's of years. Dr. Josh Willis of NASA explains how. Dr. Hobday of CSIRO Australia on marine species impact. Plus sample of "The Climate Show" from New Zealand.

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New Ecovillage, food forest, Gloucestershire

13-03-2011 15:35

A new eco-village will soon be started, this year, near Gloucestershire. The group plans to establish a network of productive community gardens, food forests, log cabins, eco-buildings and occupied spaces in which people can enjoy the food and relax after a day of gardening, or swimming in the river. The group remains to be named, and is rather elusive, only an email address and an invitation to a face-to-face meeting in gloucester or cheltenham, to be arranged in the near future has been given. The group is calling for interested parties to contact them.

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Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #2

13-03-2011 06:34

Japanese news says six reactors are in danger of melting down. One has already blown up. The government covers up while hundreds of thousands evacuate. The world economy could blow up as well.

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Earthquake and Tsunami Update

12-03-2011 00:12

Vienna, 11 March 2011 (1245 CET) | The IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre has received information from Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) that a heightened state of alert has been declared at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. NISA says the plant has been shut down and no release of radiation has been detected.
Japanese authorities have also reported a fire at the Onagawa nuclear power plant, which has been extinguished. They say Onagawa, Fukushima-Daini and Tokai nuclear power plants were also shut down automatically, and no radiation release has been detected. ....

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2011/tsunamiupdate.html

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Japan earthquake: A timely reminder of the dangers of nuclear power

11-03-2011 21:04

Anti-nuclear campaign group Kick Nuclear today urged the government to cancel its planned ‘nuclear renaissance’ following the declaration of a ‘state of nuclear emergency’ by officials in Japan.

http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net

http://boycottedf.org.uk

http://www.sizewellcamp.org.uk - 22-25 April 2011, marking the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

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Extinction Event?

10-03-2011 15:03

The Arctic is defrosting as warm Atlantic waters rush through the Fram Strait instead of skirting the southern coast of Greenland. This is an important event, regardless of the deafening silence exhibited by the mainstream media.

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Wicked Problems & Solutions

08-03-2011 04:37

Wicked problems, like climate, energy, or economy - cannot be solved by normal science. A new synthesis interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon. Webcast by Jerome Ravetz, Valerie Brown on Post-Normal science & community. Plus Eben Moglen on dream of total free speech - now causing a revolution near you.

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Are we the next to be labelled a 'Barrier to Enterprise"/

07-03-2011 12:52

In our new press release "Are we the next to be labelled 'A Barrier to Enterprise' "(PR 101) links the publication of our latest Briefing Note "Energy Policy and the proposed National Planning Policy Framework" (E2) to what the Prime Minister said in Cardiff yesterday to conclude that the outcome predicted in "Energy Policy and the proposed National Planning Policy Framework" that rules governing the approval of opencast mines predicted in E2 is now even more likely.

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Chimpanzee Meat Found on Sale in British Restaurant -- Take Action Now!!!

02-03-2011 17:29

According to an article in the Daily Mail, investigators researching the bushmeat trade recently discovered that bushmeat they bought in a British restaurant was actually originally from a chimpanzee!

The original horrifying story can be found here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361149/Chimpanzee-meat-discovered-British-restaurants-market-stalls.html

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Collective statement from some individuals affected by recent infiltrations

02-03-2011 10:13

A group of people involved in radical action around the environment and other social struggles who have been involved with and been affected by recent exposes of infiltrators have come together to create a joint statement on how the issue has evolved and been represented in the media.

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Peak Trouble: Navigating the Chaos

27-02-2011 19:12

News of unstable oil, climate, banking and regimes begs the question: are we ready, personally, for difficult times? Dr. Jeremy Leggett, oil geologist, former Greenpeace campaigner, solar entrepreneur on world energy. Analysis of EU dependency on Libyan oil, connections to arms trade. Then historian and psychotherapist Dr. Carolyn Baker on new book "Navigating the Coming Chaos: A Handbook for Inner Transition."

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Stopping Shells Survey Work

25-02-2011 18:04

Today, 12 people from the Rossport Solidarity Camp walked onto the land where Shell intend to build their compound to disrupt survey work. No one was arrested.

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Anarcha feminist Weekend a Roaring Sucess!

23-02-2011 11:53

The weekend of 19th/20th February saw over 40 women and trans people and lots of children gathered at the Rossport Solidarity Camp house for a few days of workshops, discussions and skillsharing.

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Please Tell Smithfield No More Pig Gestation Crates

22-02-2011 22:47

While the world's biggest pigkiller, Smithfield Foods of Virginia, has gestation
crates for pigs which have been outlawed in the EU, its crates continue
in the US and 3 states in Mexico.

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more 'tar sands' crooks join the Advanced Manufacturing Park

22-02-2011 09:19

Swiss company joins ‘united nations of advanced manufacturing’

One of the world's leading crooked manufacturers of construction machinery is the latest international company to sign up at the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham.

Liebherr-Great Britain Limited is part of the Swiss based Liebherr-International AG company, which in addition to its production of heavy construction machinery such as the trucks used on the tar sands is also an acknowledged in numerous other fields, including commercial refrigeration, aerospace and rail vehicles.

http://www.attheamp.com/featured_news/swiss-company-joins-united-nations-of-advanced-manufacturing

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Transition - The West Coast Scene - Really!

20-02-2011 19:05

What started with Rob Hopkins in the village of Totnes, UK, evolves differently in North America. Michael Brownlee from Transition Boulder, Joanne Poyourow from Transition L.A., Vandy Savage from Vancouver, plus recording of a Village Vancouver meet-up, Ann Pacey and Ross Moster. Full of ideas for your own action plan.

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Victory Against Open-cast Co. Durham

18-02-2011 14:46

On Tuesday 15th February Durham county councillors voted unanimously to reject the application by UK: Coal to extract 530,000 tonnes of coal from the site known as Bradley.

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Population Overload

16-02-2011 20:03

Three voices with solutions for the population crisis. Lisa Hymas, co-founder and Senior Editor of Grist.org on GINKs, Green-Inclined, No Kids. Clinical psychologist Dr. Ellen L. Walker - the good and the bad of going childfree. Plus the grand-daddy of the whole population movement, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. His 1968 book "The Population Bomb" woke us up. Now he's got a surprising new tool that could help us survive the multiple crisis we face.

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Three BP petrol stations shutdown in Birmingham

16-02-2011 17:18

Today three BP petrol stations in the Quinton, Longbridge and Selly Park areas of Birmingham were shutdown.

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beware the Nuclear Rennaisance in doncaster

16-02-2011 11:46

PROTEST AGAINST THE 'Nuclear Rennaissance' event

This thurs 17th at Doncaster Racecourse 9am onwards