UK Ecology Newswire Archive
straw bale building in Nottingham
26-06-2006 20:07
Sunrise Summer Solstice Festie Pics + Report
26-06-2006 17:32
The Sunrise festival was held for five main days over the summer solstice period. This was a massive undertaking, pulling off the first 24hr music license for such a long festie here in the uk and setting out to have the site served entirely by compost loos (more on that later...)
People's Kitchen Tues 27th fundraiser for Birley Field's Campaign
26-06-2006 17:06
Delicious organic food lovingly cooked by the Hulme Permaculture Course for your delight. All donations go to the Friend's of Birley Field's Campaign, which has so far stopped the council's proposals for car showrooms, hotels and offices on Hulme's green spaces and is currently consulting local people on alternative sustainable plans for this much loved area. Come and eat good food and have your say!EU environment ministers urged to introduce tougher food safety rules
26-06-2006 14:52
The European Food Safety Authority is pro-business and works against the interests of the individual. There is still no mandatory safety testing for new GM crops or GM foods.FoE is urging EU environment ministers to ensure tougher safety standards for proposed GM crops or GM foods.
4 Essential Ways To Save The Earth : Part 4
23-06-2006 23:29
Many human and civil rights activists see the law as a key part of the tools of an oppressive state. This was particularly prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s in Europe and the USA, and is still the case in many parts of the world. At best it may be seen as a two-edged sword with, on the one hand Official Secrets laws protecting the state, and on the other Data Protection laws protecting the individual, for instance. But in the right hands and in the right circumstances the law can be used to amazing effect, and not just in the ways you might expect.Anti-nuclear photographic exhibition In Manchester next week
23-06-2006 19:57
A photographic exhibition about nuclear power and nuclear waste opens next week at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.SOUTHEND CRITICAL MASS ARRESTS : CASE DROPPED
22-06-2006 16:27
See the report of the arrests here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/340471.html CLIMATE INJUSTICE IN THE NIGER DELTA: 10 YEARS ON FROM KEN SARO-WIWA
22-06-2006 10:18
Ten years after the judicial murder of human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa shocked the world, the communities of the Niger Delta in Nigeria continue to bear the burden of our demand for oil with escalating violence and environmental deterioration.
SEVERN BARRAGE: QUESTIONS NEED ANSWERING
22-06-2006 07:46
Interest is growing in proposals to build a 10 mile long barrage between Brean Down, near Weston-super-Mare, and Lavernock Point, near Cardiff - Greens argue many questions still need answeringsaving the whale: how one whale escaped death (photos)
21-06-2006 14:37
Most of the crew of a Greenpeace boat, the 'Arctic Sunrise' who tried to stage a protest about Japan's killing of whales, are today languishing in jail on the island of St Kitts.Full article | 2 additions | 9 comments
Climate Camp to target UK's largest power station
20-06-2006 13:47
Yesterday it was announced that the Camp for Climate Action will target Drax, the largest power station in Europe and the single largest emiter of carbon dioxide in the UK.Rossport Solidarity Camp Gathering
18-06-2006 19:52
More corporate ethicswash??
18-06-2006 13:53
Article in The Obserber- business June 18th on who corporations are supposedly sooo worried out their eco etc image they're upping there ethical creds.... (as if...)Bicycles for Africa at Vauxhall Park Sunday 18th June
17-06-2006 23:35
URGENT call from re-cycle to help fill a container of bikes leaving for Cameroun on Sunday 18th June at 6pm.The reality of M1 Motorway noise
17-06-2006 19:07
Titnore protest at Taylor Woodrow
17-06-2006 16:31
Fish Can't Scream, Toxins in Fish Flesh, Fish Stories
17-06-2006 12:46
This article on the fatalities and diseases related to fishconsumption as well as the trillions of deaths of sea
beings (fishes, seals, whales, dolphins, turtles, penguins etc.)
from the fishing industry was generated by coming across
this week articles in the BBC, NY Times, and Harvard promoting
fish consumption.
Expansion of Farnborough Airport rejected!
17-06-2006 12:25
Plans submitted by TAG Aviation to double the number of weekend movements at Farnborough Airport have been rejected! Rushmoor planning committee following recommendations from their planning officials rejected the proposals by a decisive 6:2 majority.Direct Action info + planning night in Sheffield
17-06-2006 09:38
Oh, the long summer stretches ahead of you, weeks and weeks of hot days and nothing but Big Brother on tv. If only there was something better to do with your summer... something effective, positive and fun.... something like DIRECT ACTION.Sabotage Raid on Yorkshire Quarry
16-06-2006 13:06
To celebrate the Spring there was a sabotage raid on Horton Quarry in Ribblesdale, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.