Nottinghamshire Technology Newswire Archive

Appearing around Nottingham University around the weekend, a leaflet offering 4 quid for 30 mins volunteering tells you to email Anthony Carse,  epyyamc@nottingham.ac.uk or phone mobile no. 07921 706 198 to take part.
"Absolutely anyone is suitable to undertake the experiment". "WHY NOT SEE IF YOU ARE UP TO THE CHALLENGE"

A new indymedia mailing list has been created to help facilitate communication and collaboration between photographers working on environmental and social justice reporting. If you regularly go out to document protests etc with a camera, please join this list.

Wind turbine building course 9th - 11th March

Etc Groups international Nanotechnology Hazard warning sign competition samples

Two members of Liverpool Defy-ID attended the gathering in Nottingham last Saturday,
there were over 50 people there at the SUMAC centre. There were workshops where
the people were broken up into three different groups:

As the government continues to implement its plans for a UK identity card and database, Nottingham Defy-ID is hosting the National Defy-ID Gathering next weekend, Saturday Nov 25th. The event will start at 11am. But please arrive for coffee/tea at 10.30am (which will also include a refresher of the developments).

Nottingham Defy-ID's fourth bulletin (October 2006) is now available for download and distribution.

University of Westminster shows the way in ID card enforcement! This university's marketing slogan is most revealing - "educating for a professional life", they say. With a basic principle of compulsory carrying of cards, a 'three strikes' policy to deny you entry to premises & services if you forget your card, and making it a disciplinary offence if you refuse to show one, this kind of education will most certainly be invaluable for future life if the government gets away with introducing its national ID policy.

We have 27 computer monitors that we don't want to throw out, available for anyone who can collect (we are on Mansfield Road, opposite House of Fraser). Various sizes, all good condition.

Nottingham Defy-ID are holding a Defy-ID National Gathering on Saturday 25th November 2006 from 11am onwards at The Sumac Centre in Nottingham, to discuss opposition to ID Cards and the National ID Register.

from main page first reported in uk indy national site & gm watch,also Radio Nottingham recently.If anyone has details of these potato crops please put them up on indymedia so people know where they are & can protect their own crops & genes.But how many people also know that the recent monster elephant man drugs were genetic medicine made by german Biotech company Tegenero.
Nottingham has its own biocity with gm companies & connection to nanotechnology etc next to the bbc island on london road, as there are no safety regulations what happens to people nearby if dangerous particles escape or there is an accident?

On top of ID cards and the move to NHS electronic records, another major government plan with a potential for hideous invasion of privacy and loss of personal freedom comes out of the Children Act (2004). The new Act allows the setting up of incredibly invasive databases by the Secretary of State and/or children's services authorities in England. At the same time pupils and parents are getting more vocal and organised in their protests against the alarming rate of introduction of biometric systems in schools. These have included fingerprinting (and even iris scanning) of children for school dinners, attendance registers, and use of libraries or ‘learning resource centres’.

Nottingham Defy-ID's third bulletin (August 2006) is now available for download and distribution.

L'Oreal and Boots use nanoparticles in sunscreens and cosmetics, the Gap and Next are putting nanoparticles in clothes to make them stain and wrinkle resistant, Smith and Nephew are putting them in bandages while chemical company BASF are putting nanoparticles in food additives into drinks. Meanwhile Unilever and Nestle are working on nanoparticle ice cream. Unfortunately products that contain nanomaterials do not have to be labeled

As you can see from the the links below, other 'multi-bike' and trailers have been made.

This is yet another example, of some inovative work, that I hope may inspire others to start their own projects.

Here are a series of pictures, to show some of the important features, and progress.

Simple eh?

Your one stop shop for resistance to identity theft

This project was born when a number of people from Nottingham's Critical Mass and the ASBO bicycle workshop got chatting about the idea of creating some fun alternative bike-based machines. After all, the ASBO workshop had loads of bikes that local people had donated.

We are meeting as usual on Wednesday's at the Sumac Centre at 6-7pm before the regular Scroat Cinema food and film evenings.

All welcome. Now the ID cards bill has been passed, we need to build the local campaign.

Green Party Principal Speaker, Keith Taylor is to give a talk about Nuclear and Renewable Energy at Angel Row Library in Nottingham on Thursday 6th April, 2006.

This short video voices the views of Nottingham residents about the Eastcroft Incinerator and the plans to expand the facilities. The three incinerators on the site burn most of Nottingham's household waste - including recyclable materials. They also incinerate industrial waste including reject cigarettes, plastics, chemicals, tyres, PVC, animal tissues etc. On the site there is also a clinical waste incinerator that burns hospital waste including low-level radioactive waste.