UK Ecology Newswire Archive
RECLAIMING THE SEASON
21-12-2006 02:26
Disgusted with the personal debt, spiritual emptiness and ecological damage that the holiday seawson now entails, writers and activists began to promote the idea of a downshifted Christmas in the late nineties.'Consultation' Preston City Council Style
18-12-2006 23:25
Councillors in Preston are consulting residents of one ward about the 'Riverworks' proposals - but are asking questions which ignore the key issues for local residents, and failing to give the information that people need to answer the questions they do ask.Santas Against Excessive Consumption hit London, 16.12.06
17-12-2006 19:34
Santas Against Excessive Consumption (SAEC) went out to play for the second year running on Saturday December 16th 2006, dropping in on the Shell-sponsored Natural History Museum (NHM) on the way to the consumer hell that is Oxford Street.No Land, No Money, No Job
17-12-2006 15:57
While the rich continue their frenzy of consumption the unemployed and low paid are still seen as immoral. they have to believe it because their debt-ridden economy relies on the suppression of dissent.Full article | 2 additions | 5 comments
Shell education in Barnsley
16-12-2006 20:10
Screening of 'Those who Dance', film about Rossport
13-12-2006 09:39
You are warmly invited to a screening of *‘Those Who Dance’* a filmabout Rossport, Ogoniland and Imagination by Mayyasa Al-Malazi and
Camilla Cancantata
Climate Change through the Lens of Youth
11-12-2006 20:13
“The strongest way to deliver an environmental message and to create an impact is certainly through film…”(Nick Bonner, cartoonist, landscape artist, filmmaker and NUFF Global ambassador from Beijing, China)
Green Seniors : Launch Of A New Concept
07-12-2006 18:41
Green Seniors launched on Friday 1st December. Here is a little about what we hope will mobilise a completely different type of environmental campaigner.The Problem With...Christmas
07-12-2006 18:33
Christmas - a time for peace, happiness and family; a time to sell vast quantities of seasonal goods, toys and cheap electrical items. What is it that people love about Christmas, and is that being taken away from us for the sake of a retail dream?Please ask your MEPs not to trash rainforests for biofuels
06-12-2006 12:58
A crucial vote in the European Parliament could decide the future of many millions of hectares of rainforests. Biofuelwatch support demands made by many NGOs across Europe and also in the South that rainforests, local communities and other countries' environments must not be sacrificed to grow fuel for our cars. Please help by writing to your MEP this week.Preview recorded for ResonanceFM, of Platform's new opera 'Andwhilelondon burns'
05-12-2006 01:12
Listen to an interview with James Marriot of Platform discussing his recent joint project with John Jordan an opera/audio walk entitled 'And While London Burns' "a soundtrack for the era of climate change".Interview recorded by Pennie Quinton for Resonance FM104.4
http://www.resonancefm104.4.com. http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/16179.php
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Sabotaged promised as government test public resolve on GM
01-12-2006 12:57
Protesters have pledged to take direct action to sabotage genetically modified crop trials that the government has today given the go ahead for. These trials will be the first GM trials to take place in this country for several years after a sucessful campaign of resistance. The new trial is widely regarded as a test of public resolve before further attempts to introduce genetically modified organisms on a commercial scale to a unwilling public...'An inconvenient truth’
29-11-2006 12:02
Straight away we can make a contribution to improve earth with tenthingstodoBrighton blockade for peace
28-11-2006 17:25
This weekend, from Sunday over to Monday, saw a large group of students from Sussex University travel to Scotland to play their part in the audacious civil resistance initiative, 'Faslane 365', which began on October the first 2006 to apply critical public pressure for the disarmament of Britain's nuclear weapons. Groups from all over Scotland, England, and Wales and beyond have been invitied to come down and shut the base for a period of time suitable to them.The QUICKTIME REPORT 28 /11/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!
28-11-2006 01:47
In the Pipeline
26-11-2006 13:09
pipeline protests respect wishes of landowner , to protect her from bullying police and national grid officials....Nottingham's November Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures
25-11-2006 02:03
Friday 24th November @ 5.30pm
Setting out from the usual meeting place [Outside the Savoy Cinema on Derby Road, meet at 5.30pm] with more arriving from the Sumac in Forest Fields.
Tesco GM rice removed from the shelves landed Tesco Poland stores?
23-11-2006 16:26
According to Polish Chief Health Inspectorate GM rice of variety LL601 wasfound in 6% (3 out of 48) of samples taken in the stores of three regions of
Poland: Pomerania, West Pomerania and Lower Silesia. The contaminated rice
came to Poland from US via France.
According to the spokeperson of Regional Health Inspectorate of Lower
Silesia- Elzbieta Peszko-Bilska rice of variety LL601 was found in the
supermarket chains Tesco and Auchan in this region. Polish authorities hasn't
found LL601 rice in Warsaw region although Greenpeace Poland testing done in
Germany of long rice showed three products contaminated: "Bosto"(Ebro
Puleva), "Britta" and "Halina".