UK Ecology Newswire Archive
BBC to show previously censored McLibel documentary...
05-04-2005 16:58
BBC have bought McLibel!(better late than never?)
it'll be screened on Weds 13th April - two days before McD's 50th b'day - on BBC4 at 9pm.
press release below to any journos/mailing lists.
Howard ducks local eco questions:GenElect
05-04-2005 16:00
Tory leader M.Howard snubs local eco group FoE's General Election Hustings despite having 7 weeks notice and having quite happy to attend 3 previous ones at Election time.
What's he afraid of this time??....
Latest Corporate Watch Newsletter: housing and corporations
04-04-2005 15:35
The April-May Corporate Watch Newsletter focuses on aspects of Labour's housing policy -- and how it is set up to help construction and property corporations while possibly evicting thousands of tenants from their homes.Plus international and local news and features
Lakenheath Vigil
01-04-2005 18:01
Following the wide publicity given recently to an authoritative U.S.estimate (Natural Resources Defense Council) that there are 110 nuclear bombs at Lakenheath, there will be a demonstration at the base:Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Assaulted By Sealers
01-04-2005 08:54
Report from the Farley Mowat by Captain Paul WatsonCountermotions to Bayer´s Shareholder Meeting on April 29
30-03-2005 20:39
We hereby notify you that we will oppose the proposals of the Board of Management and Supervisory Board as regards items 2 - 6 of the agenda, and will induce the other stockholders to vote in favor of the following countermotions.
Aviation and climate change--Questionnaire
29-03-2005 21:29
Aviation and climate change--Public consultation March-April 2005--Questionnaire for individual citizensSeedy Sunday in Oxford
24-03-2005 23:13
Eastbourne's torture state investor in trouble with Greenpeace as well
24-03-2005 18:04
Lister Lutyens, the Eastbourne company engaged in timber imports and the manufacture of garden furniture, reveals that as well as drawing flak from the Burma Campaign UK by investing in the world's worst torture state, it is also under strong environmental pressure from Greenpeace.Third International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors
23-03-2005 18:32
Third International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factorson Health. call for papers/ abstracts..
NUS delegates enter discourse of oppression by Coca-Cola at NUSSL conference
23-03-2005 15:25
Given partial information regarding the activities of Coca-Cola in India and Colombia, the National Union of Students' buying consortium met in Liverpool this week and renewed a contract with Coca-Cola. However, the topic hot on everyone's lips was Coca-Cola; the ground work is prepared for continued work to tell the truth about Coke.The other Greece, the Greece of movements, say no in the war
22-03-2005 23:48
Facing Global Warming & Other Great Adventures
21-03-2005 17:49
experiential activities to harness heart as well as head - workshop almost full but evening talk is free and takes 400 people.New site aims to shop Tesco
21-03-2005 16:58
New blog criticises growth of Tesco. Interview/news story with founder Dave MillerProtest/leafletting re Killer Coke at NUSSL AGM in Liverpool tomorrow
21-03-2005 15:33
NUS Services Limited (NUSSL) are having their AGM at the Adelphi hotel in Liverpool city centre tomorrow (Tues 22nd), starting at 10am.Electronic Sit-in Against Coal Power Station Proposal in Aotearoa/NZ
21-03-2005 12:37
http://www.mightyriverpower.co.nz)
Councillors powerless in face of corporations?
21-03-2005 00:05
A re-post from www.corporatewatch.org.uk - about another incinerator being passed.We're watching the incinerator extension being built, and we know its insidious health effects. We know there are waste and recycling alternatives, that the dioxins produced will be with us forever more, and that once in operation it needs feeding with waste - destroying any genuinely sustainable waste strategy.
Isn't it time we began to think about getting the thing stopped?
Saturdays Summer Weather Cause For Concern
20-03-2005 11:40
While people have been enjoying the freak summer weather this weekend, scientists have been warning that the ozone layer is are at amoung the thinest sofar and that UV levels will be conrispondingly high. Record cold tempatures during the artic winter have resulted in an increase of the chemical reaction that destroys ozone during the spring as the sun comes closer to the earth. So, enjoy the early spring/summer but remember to cover up and keep up the pressure to curb consumption and climate change.