Nottinghamshire Ecology Newswire Archive

The County Council meets on 23rd February to consider a recommendation to approve the award of a 26-year waste PFI contract for Nottinghamshire to Veolia Environmental Services.

7.30pm Tuesday 14th March
@the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone St, Forest Fields, Nottingham
Calling all individuals concerned about climate change to find out about the Camp for Climate Action this summer! If you are an artist, permaculturalist, alt-tech nerd, DIY enthusiast, or just interested - come and get involved!

The content of this lot shows that CM is important for local transport, personal fitness, safer cities. Right up to the global scale of stuff with pollution, climate change, big business.

CM is just yet another manifestation of the [very] old adage

"Think Globally -- Act Locally" I think it is important that we do so act locally!

Further actions by Nottingham people in support of Rossports resistance to Shell

Today a Critical Mass and blockade shut a Shell Petrol Station on Woodside Road and the A52 in Nottingham.

17th Feburary - Last Friday before the last Friday! (this Fri!!!!)
5:30pm - 6:30pm Upstairs at The Peacock 11 Mansfield Rd

(Its hired for free so this gathering is FREE, you will not be asked for name or details be as annonymous as you like)

Followed by an evening of fun making banners, and other such items to make ourselves feel less invisible and creatively safer on the roads at:

[To Be Confirmed, will let you know closer to next Friday. We will head off together from The Peacock if so]
ASBO Community Space
35 Burns St - 7:00pm
 http://asbo.squat.net/

So bring paints and scraps and all things bright and fun!

Nottingham East Midlands Airport a draft plan proposes a quadrupling of freight.

Camp for Climate Action gathering in Nottingham this weekend, 11th -12th February. A monthly orgainising meeting to prepare for the Camp for Climate Action, 26th August - 4th September, is been held at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.

Critical Mass is a bikeride, where lots of cyclists get together to take over the street, just once a month. In Nottingham these bikerides have happened for a few years now. On Thursday 9th Feb there will be a meeting/discussion about how to move forward with the ride. How to make it more positive and how to get more people involved. Previous article about the discussion:

Where is Nottingham Critical Mass heading?
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/01/332500.html

The meeting will start at 7.30 at the ASBO Community Centre, 33-35 Burns Street, Arboretum, Nottingham.

See previous reports on Critical Mass with photos:

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/02/332729.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328535.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328514.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326823.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/324826.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/310149.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/305420.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/305893.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/292966.html

Attended a session on Recycling, Art and Banner making at the Sumac centre on sunday.
It was shown that with a little creativity, it is possible to put alsorts of material, that most would normally discarded, applied to other use. Here are some we made earlier.

today saw the launch of the campaign to stop the M1 being expanded near nottingham.

Nottingham's January Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures

Setting out from the usual meeting place [Outside the Savoy Cinema on Derby Road, meet at 5.30pm] 'twas a dark, wet and oh so very cold. But a fair few turned up to take part .....

We will be launching our opposition to the M1 widening campaign on Monday 6th Feb, meeting outside the tourist information office in Nottingham city centre at 12-30. Please come along and get involved with the campaign.
We will do a public information stall at this time, then at 2-30 we will hand in a letter of objection to Arup who are working on the first stage of the widening project.

We have a guest speaker coming to S.C.R.O.A.T cinema next week (Wednesday 8th February). Having recently returned from Venezuela, a UK activist will talk on indigenous people resisting big business in the rural north west of Venezuela. The talk will include two films: 'Bolivarian Venezuela: people and the struggle of the fourth world war' and a short film about a new libertarian social centre in Caracas.

Having attended the Critical Mass rides in Nottingham for the last year, I really started wondering what it is all about after the ride this last Friday. I find the rides choatic, stressful and dangerous. It's dark, wet and friday night and I don't think Critical Mass should just be about blocking traffic for the sake of it. People in the ride should stick together and we should make sure everyone's ok. At the moment the route is unclear. At each junction people in the front of the ride argue and shout at each other and it all just feels like hard work and not really enjoyable. Why do we continue to go down the widest roads where we continue having the same kind of accidents, month after month? If we were enough that would be great. But I don't think we are.

Incinerator in Nottingham breaks emission limits

Get the latest updates on the Shell campaign in County Mayo and preparations for the solidarity camp

On Saturday there was a workshop to prepare flags and other decorations for this month's Critical Mass. The workshop was from from 1-4pm at the ASBO Community Centre, 33-35 Burn St, Arboretum.

Plans to close a Nottinghamshire recycling centre have provoked an angry reaction from nearby residents.

Hundreds of people living around Southwell have signed petitions against the closure, but environmental officers have said the site is not used enough.

Saturday 18th Feb - Shell to sea solidarity critical mass - to coincide with the call out for international solidarity actions in support of the shelltosea campaign.