UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Invasion of indigenous land in Bolivia. Interview with an indigenous leader.

19-05-2011 21:25

An interview with Adolfo Moye, indigenous leader in the TIPNIS National Park, Bolivia. My translation from the Spanish. Find out how Evo Morales plans to trample through an indigenous territory and national park, and how oil and cocaine threaten the rainforest.

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Air France-KLM exposed transporting monkeys for the research industry!

19-05-2011 18:28

The BUAV has released footage of a shipment of 120 long-tailed macaques being loaded on to an Air France flight. On their website they state that the flight took place on May 12 2011 and that the monkeys were transported from Vietnam to Covance in the USA. Fortunately the Air France Cargo shipment number is clearly visible in the video, (057 90196083), and by using this activists have been able to trace the monkeys' journey from Vietnam to the USA in minute detail!

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20s plenty meeting – Monday 23rd May at 6pm

19-05-2011 15:39

There will be a 20s plenty for Sheffield meeting on Monday 23rd May at 6pm at 340 Glossop Road (just up the road from the Harley public house and the HSBC bank).

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Fracking Myths Richard Heinberg

19-05-2011 05:59

After speaking in place of climate denier Exxon CEO, Richard Heinberg sticks a pin in the fracking natural gas bubble. No it won't save the climate from coal. In fact, fracked gas may be as dirty as coal, counting fugitive methane emissions. Heinberg interview, followed by speech except by David Hughes of Post Carbon Institute on the realities of natural gas production.

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Climate Capitalism

19-05-2011 05:45

"Climate Capitalism" book by founder of Natural Capitalism, Hunter Lovins. Launch speech by co-author Professor Boyd Cohen. A new business approach to climate change. Pokes some Sacred Cows, loaded with real-world details.

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The Mound - Brighton's latest community garden demolished

18-05-2011 21:08

Once again a much needed green growing space in a city cenre is trashed to make way for more concrete steel and glass...

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Reclaim the Fields - Romania 2011

18-05-2011 11:53

Reclaim the fields Camp 2011

21.-30. September

in Rosia Montana in Romania

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UG#549 - Human Casualties of The Chemical Civil War (Homo Toxicus and Poison Fire)

17-05-2011 08:57

This week's show looks at the health impacts of chemical pollution. At home, profit maximisation is steadily toxifying the environment of North America as corporations hide behind deceitful and outdated legal guidelines. In Nigeria, we see how $hell are blatantly dumping whatever is expedient, using a mixture of lawyers and violence to try to stifle objections. We conclude with a 2005 recording about the damage of pre-natal exposure to environmental toxins.

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Activists block Grangemouth docks port to stop Forth Energy’s mad biomass plans

17-05-2011 06:43

Members of Action Against Agrofuels blocked the two sole access roads to Grangemouth docks yesterday, in protest over Forth Energy’s plans to build a biomass (wood) burning power station at the docks. The company, which is co-owned by Forth Ports, plans to build four large biomass power stations across Scotland [1]. Activists blocked off traffic to the entire port and fuel tankers were at a standstill. Seven protesters were arrested.

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Sheffield incinerator waste burning plan

16-05-2011 11:52

The Veolia planning application to import waste to Sheffield to burn goes to Planning Committee next Monday - 2pm at the Town Hall. There should be some coverage in the Star tomorrow. The Green Party objection is outlined below for information. Obviously a presence at the meeting to outline objections will help the case against.

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Reclaim the Fields Online!

13-05-2011 10:02

A call out for content for the RtF website.

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Forests rally on Saturday

13-05-2011 06:42

THREE key speakers will address a West Sussex protest against privatisation of woodland. Worthing Keep Our Forests Public is staging a rally and walk from Whiteways car park on the A29 near Amberley and Arundel at 12 noon on Saturday May 14. Map reference TQ 001 107, 2.25 miles south west of Amberley railway station.

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FUKUSHIMA Poison Released

12-05-2011 17:27

According to the mainstream media, the nuclear accident is all over. Just the opposite is happening. Historic high levels of radioactivity. Reactor 1 totally melted down. Mega radiation released again. Unconfirmed rumors of another reactor fire. What we need to know. Summary of all latest news.

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Glos Eco-village camping trip, mark 2!

11-05-2011 20:45

As promised- more notice this time...
After one seriously wet night, followed by one lovely sunny morning, followed by another night of rain- it has been decided, NOT to move the next camping trip one week forward- to this coming weekend (as previously stated) but two weeks forward. The MET - after failing us over the weekend - promises the weather will be more hospitable then.

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Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22

10-05-2011 20:41

You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22. The tour will examine issues of land reform, urbanization issues, rural development and food sovereignty within a dynamic political context.

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Eco-Warriors Plan World's Greatest Environmental Project in London Area

08-05-2011 22:35

As a result of the alarming rise in temperatures, the outbreak of forest fires right across Britain, and the worldwide escalation in global warming disasters, an appeal is being made for Network X to hold an urgent consultation with all the activist groups with a view to moving en masse into the Hounslow area to create a futuristic eco-village to save the human race from being driven to extinction by the burning of fossil fuels.
Some of the original road protesters from the 1990s have already moved into Hounslow near Heathrow Airport in preparation for working with local residents to help them transform their derelict run-down Dickensian neighbourhood into the world's first fully sustainable eco-town as the earth faces unprecedented ecological cataclysm.

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Glos Eco-village Camping trip!

06-05-2011 13:44

The Gloucestershire eco-village group will be meeting for a weekend of camping, live music, swimming in the river, and relaxing around the campfire- debating how we might go about resolving the complex, seemingly insurmountable problems we all face. Whilst enjoy the sun, and each others company amongst the natural splendour and beauty of the forest of dean, gloucestershire.

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Climate, Media and Learning

04-05-2011 22:16

New look at public health risks of climate change, with Harvard's Paul Epstein, and Tim Tarako of Simon Fraser University. Malarial mosquitoes in Scandinavia & Canada by 2025? Interview with Andy Revkin, former environment reporter for The New York Times. Interview with Vermont teacher Katy Farber on "Service Learning" & Captain Charles Saylan on fixing environmental education.

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The Mound - Brighton's Latest Guerilla Garden

04-05-2011 21:45

The legacy of the Lewes Road Community Garden lives on in a community of gardeners who stick it to developers and bring green growth to the centre of town

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A real sense of community down at the Farm !

02-05-2011 13:17

Its hard to not get wrapped up in the idea a farm is merely and exclusively for producing food, although the milk was particularly delicious!, or that the animals are merely there for petting , although Dingle the pony didn't seem to mind much!, what we can see at the Wellgate Community farm is a real sense of a community and a sense of achievement.