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Manor Gardens Allotments: Spring Party, 1 April, 2007

03-04-2007 23:36

Getting down to work on a plot
The eviction of Manor Gardens plotholders has been postponed until July pending court action, and they celebrated with a party.

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Effort

03-04-2007 17:26

EU to reduce greenhouse gases

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Spring Into Action Central Venue Announcement

03-04-2007 16:23

J. B. Spray factory
The central venue has now been occupied and secured for Spring Into Action! Come down and join in with the preparations!

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“Commercial interests must take second place to protection of the population’s h

03-04-2007 10:38

BAYER´s Toxic Waste Incineration:
“Commercial interests must take second place to protection of the population’s health”
Contrary to previous announcements, the BAYER Group has entered into international trade in toxic waste. For the time being BAYER plans to incinerate 4,500 metric tons of highly toxic hexachlorobenzene from Australia, for which the company will receive three million euros.

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Szyszko Is Flying Over Rospuda

03-04-2007 07:25

Jan Szyszko, Poland's Minister for the Environment, is planning helicopter flights over Rospuda, where nesting has already started. The minister wants to show foreign journalists and union experts the town along with presenting them with the itinerary of the bypass route, and in particular the section crossing the protected peat bogs of the Rospuda river.
"Flying over Rospuda during the nesting season is idiotic", confirmed an ecologist.

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London Food Not Bombs

02-04-2007 16:56

Food Not Bombs
'Food is a right, not a privilege'. London is one of the most expensive cities in the world and also thus has a high level of poverty and homelessness. Through highlighting the amount of food that is wasted in this city and at the same time, providing people with a healthy and nutricious Vegan/Vegetarian meal, we aim to combat this.

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The Great Global Warming Swindle's GIANT Fallacy

02-04-2007 12:35

The documentary is now available free on Youtube:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU

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Carnival Against The Pipeline

02-04-2007 02:07

Video
On Saturday 24th March the Carnival Against The Pipeline filled the quiet Welsh town of Trebanos with the sounds of samba and colourful constumes. Campaigners from all over the world joined together with locals to use the carnival to highlight their objections to the 200 mile gas pipeline being built by National Grid from Milford Haven to Gloustershire.

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Machinery occupied near anti-pipeline camp

02-04-2007 01:47

Activists have once again climbed on machinery to delay work on National Grid's 200 mile gas pipeline. Work was stopped near the anti-pipeline tree camp for several hours on two consecutive days.

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Rivers Of Life - Dams Of Death

01-04-2007 23:13

All round the world, rivers are under threat from greedy developers, keen make money building dams and barrages - yet these dams and barrages have a terrible impact both on the environment and on the people who live nearby, and need vast amounts of money to keep them going.

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Sustainability or Consumerism

01-04-2007 11:39

The industrial nations must lower their CO2 emissions at least 80% by 2050.. Consumerism, accumulating goods as a substitute for meaning, is the great enemy of climate protection today.. Without sustainable lifestyles, protection of the atmosphere runs the risk of becoming technocratic.

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MY NEWS- CHINA/ UK/ WORLDWIDE

31-03-2007 18:44

China News From SinoDaily.com
Global Trade News
The Economy
All About Solar Energy at SolarDaily.com
Civil Nuclear Energy Science, Technology and News

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Cadmium causes Cancer.

29-03-2007 13:42

Cadmium in its Elemental pure metal form.
Two articles on different sites related to Cadmium causing Cancer.

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Cambridge GM Crop Trial

28-03-2007 16:35

Public Meeting

7.30 pm Monday 2nd April
Emmanuel United Reform Church, Trumpington St.

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Please sign petition to save Mabira Rainforest in Uganda

27-03-2007 23:01

Please go to
 http://www.petitiontime.com/ViewPetition.aspx?key=savemabira
and sign a petition to save Mabira rainforest in Uganda .

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Gardens under threat

26-03-2007 16:43

suburban garden turned into a building site
Gardens are under threat from greedy developers.

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Seed saving

26-03-2007 16:35

dwarf French beans from Slovakia
Seed saving is something we can all do to help safeguard our genetic heritage.

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Gorleben fears it will become all of Europe's nuclear dump

26-03-2007 07:00

People who have fought for 30 years against nuclear waste dumping at the north German village of Gorleben now fear that the salt deposit there will become an international final repository. If the exploratory salt mine in Gorleben, now temporarily stopped over safety concerns, were to start operating as a repository, “it would be an international repository because of substitution treaties already in place”.

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Preston Vision Board - Private Developers Marketing Subsidised With Public Money

25-03-2007 16:52

Preston Vision Board want to build a barrage in the Ribble to create a Marina, and build 4000 houses in the greenfield land nearby. Now that we know WHO Preston Vision Board are, we learn that they include representatives of companies that make their money by building marinas and developing property - so why is this board being supported with public money and officer's time, by the very councils that they are trying to sell their expensive and environmentally disastrous ideas to?

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NPower obtains High Court injunction to prevent press coverage of protests

25-03-2007 15:03

Electricity giant Npower has obtained an injunction to stop protests and filming at the site of a proposed ash dump.