UK Ecology Newswire Archive
Photos of GM trials site [cambridge]
22-04-2007 16:17
Benny Rothman's Twyford Down Mass Trespass recollections
21-04-2007 16:46
In a largely unpublished article, Benny Rothman, one of the leaders of the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout, recalls his day at the Mass Trespass on Twyford Down of 4th July 1994.The Kinder Mass Trespass & Labour's Greenwash
21-04-2007 16:42
A local Labour MP and the Environment Minister are gathering in the Peak Districy National Park tonight to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass of 1932. But the same MP supports the construction of a new road through the same National Park.Full article | 3 additions | 7 comments
Non GM Potatoes planted at Hedon test site
21-04-2007 14:24
Protesters are planting non-GM potatoes in the field near Hull where BASF intend to trial their GM potato variety. About 100 protesters are spread across the large (several acre) field, with two mounted police and 2 foot police standing by watching - not even filming, for once.Update: 2 cops on off road motorcycles have entered the field.
The New Shopping Order
19-04-2007 22:02
Do we really care about our shopping habits, or have we just become enveloped in a commercial fantasy that won't let us go? This article offers a way out of our biggest addiction.gathering anticivilization 2007
19-04-2007 21:33
After the success of the last gathering in Tavertet, we are calling for a new one this year. It will take place the 8, 9, 10 and 11 of September.International Climate Conference! (London)
19-04-2007 15:39
Campaign against Climate ChangeINTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE
Saturday 12 May & Sunday 13 May
London School of Economics, Houghton Streeet, London WC2
www.campaigncc.org
Disrupt Shell's Annual General Meeting!
18-04-2007 11:51
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Royal Dutch Shell plc will be held at Circustheater, Circusstraat, The Hague, The Netherlands at 11.00 am (Dutch time) on Tuesday May 15, 2007, with an audio-visual link to a satellite meeting place at Novotel London-West Hotel and Convention Centre, 1 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom at 10.00 am (UK time).Saving Iceland tour coming to Oxford
18-04-2007 10:02
Oxford Action Resource Centre (OARC) 44b Princes St (corner of Cowley Road)
Lydd Airport-Kent cuts jobs The beginning of the end?
17-04-2007 15:56
News today of cutbacks at Lydd Airport on Romney Marsh, Kent currently wanting to expand...Sheffield M1 Protestors Arrested
17-04-2007 13:42
Eight people were arrested and houses were raided yesterday before a planned action against M1 widening in South Yorkshire could take place. According to the mainstream media three women and five men were arrested on suspicion of committing Public Order offences and were later released on bail, the arrest were made before the activists could stop any work and the 'incident' did not disrupt traffic.The Mutatoes Are Coming !!!
16-04-2007 23:40
Everything you ever wanted to know about Frankenspuds, but were afriad to ask.@ rampART (www.rampart.co.nr) this Tuesday (17th), 8pm
16 rampart street, london E1 2LA
Films and discussion on GM crops trials in the UK and the previously sucessful campaign to stop them. Plus update on the biotech industries latest attempts to push this shit down our throats.
This month a controversial experimental genetically modified potato crop is due to be planted in the UK by the German chemical giant BASF (offshoot of the infamous AG Farben). The trials are the first GM crops to enter British soil in nearly 3 years, after public opposition forced a u-turn in government and corporate plans for patented crops.
The potato trials are a poorly disguised test of public opposition, so to make sure that opposition is adequately expressed, a national rally is taking place on Sat 21st April. Come along, learn about the history of the anti-GM campaign and find out about transport from London. For more info, contact
rally@mutatoes.org (0113 262 9365) or check out the website www.mutatoes.org Cambridge GM Crop Trial Location Published
16-04-2007 12:13
Defra have published the 6 figure grid reference for the GM Potato trial site near Cambridge.It is: TL430627
Titnore Woods benefit gig
15-04-2007 19:49
ROBB Johnson is to headline a benefit gig for the Camp Titnore protest site to be held in St Leonard's, East Sussex, on May 18.The Garden of Eden
15-04-2007 12:26
The Sprouting Activist - an interview
14-04-2007 21:37
Supermarkets and their lorries are real threat to the environment
14-04-2007 10:09
Supermarkets are the biggest threat to the environment. They stop people having real choice over foods, they sometimes deliver only a few items in their trucks, the safety record of these trucks is awful, they are the largest seller of processed junk foods, they are responsible for half of landfill and they are the largest provider of disposable goods including plastic bags which take 4,000 years to degrade. Tesco is one such operator that is trying to kill off connections to locality and food.Infinite Continues launches free games swap site
13-04-2007 15:49
UK gamers have a great new way to turn their completed games into new titles thanks to the Infinite Continues video game swapping service.Arctic Ice 50% as thick as 1960
12-04-2007 18:36
A British submarine just back from a cruise underthe North Pole measured the ice. "They said there
is now evidence that the polar ice cap could
disappear in as little as 13 years if global warming
continues at its current pace."
Seaside food
12-04-2007 13:22
Why is seaside food and fast food so bad in Britain? Does it have to be bad? Does fast food have to be synonymous with junk food?