UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Veg*n Climate March update

03-12-2007 17:17

Be part of history in London this Saturday! Be part of the biggest ever mobilisation of vegetarians and vegans on environmental grounds!! Veg*nism is the solution to many of the catastrophies facing the planet - it`s time to tell the world!!

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2 Fur Farms raids in Spain - Mink Freed

02-12-2007 19:15

Media in Spain have reported raids on two mink farms located on opposite sides of the country. Bermudez fur farm in Bando, near Santiago de Compostela (Galicia), 20,000 mink released from their cages. Bermudez fur farm in Bando, near Santiago de Compostela (Galicia), 20,000 mink released from their cages.

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Un-nerving Update to Recent Climate Report

02-12-2007 16:13

What the IPCC Report Didn't and Couldn't Say

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Depleted-Uranium, Nuclear War and the politics of Radiation: Read and act NOW

01-12-2007 04:44

For Indymedia readers, friends and comrades in struggle worldwide against war, militarism, colonialism and nuclear industry: a brief review about “Depleted” Uranium, nuclear war and radioactive genocide-ecocide

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Climate Change March - Coaches from South Wales

29-11-2007 15:39

CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH - Transport from South Wales
March on the US Embassy
SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER:
Global Day of Climate Change Protest
Assemble 12 pm, Millbank, Central London

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M1 Widening in Notts Looms

28-11-2007 23:18

Preparatory work is now underway in Nottinghamshire for the widening of the M1 motorway. The government and the Highways Agency (HA) are planning to widen the M1 along most of its length between Luton and Leeds, with potentially huge climate change impacts.

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Plane Stupid Disrupt Parliamentary Committee In Commons

28-11-2007 16:17

3.15pm - Climate activists opposed to plans for a third runway at Heathrow this afternoon disrupted a Parliamentary inquiry going on inside the House of Commons. Protestors from climate action group, Plane Stupid, disrupted the proceedings of the Transport Select Committee who were hearing evidence from BAA boss, Steven Nelson and Aviation Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick.

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Peak Oil Activists Gather, Plan for Hard Times, Will Lead the Way

28-11-2007 14:49

YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO – Former professor and author David Korten told close to 300 applauding peak oil activists that they are not a fringe minority but the leading edge of a super-majority "and it's time we start acting like it."

Korten issued his rallying call in October at the "Fourth U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions" where activists from 30 some states discussed ways to respond to declining oil production and other coming planetary woes. Korten joined a dozen other speakers in "Planning for Hard Times," the theme of the three-day conference sponsored by Community Solution at Antioch College.

"The day of reckoning for our profligate ways has arrived," Korten said. "Peak oil, climate chaos, exhaustion of freshwater, species extinction, financial collapse, and social disintegration are causing a great unraveling." Now is the time, Korten said, for a great turning from a 5000-year history of empire, driven today by a suicidal competition over the earth's remaining resources, to a cooperative earth community which shares resources to maintain healthy communities, families and natural systems.

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Climate Disasters Have Increased 4 X in Past 20 Yrs

27-11-2007 16:25

The Oxfam International Organization has released
a new report:

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Think Not 'Global' Warming - Think 'Oceans' Warming

26-11-2007 19:20

Global warming seems mysterious to most of
us. A 1 degree rise in annual global temperature
sounds minuscule, doesn't it....... until you
remember that the oceans are involved ........
... very heavily involved.

The oceans are simply unfathomably immense!
Their mass is actually incomprehensible, being
70% of the earth's surface (310 million cubic miles).
If you could stack water 100 cubic miles long and
100 cubic miles wide, that column would reach
31,000 miles into outer space. That is truly an
astronomical amount of water!

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Dec 8th Climate March - Autonomous Bloc

25-11-2007 19:36

Greetings!

As you may be aware, there's a global day of climate action on the 8th dec, including a national march in london. Given the expected size of the march, it seems fair to have a nice autonomous bloc.

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Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima

25-11-2007 17:23

By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.
So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed."

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Activists target Boar restaurants and farms - South Lakeland

24-11-2007 18:21

A spokesman at Sillfield farm, which is famous for its stocks of wild boar, said that a number of vehicles had their tyres slashed and were daubed with slogans relating to animal rights such as "No Boar."

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The Indians of the Concrete Jungle sabotage 1'000 SUV's in Sweden

24-11-2007 17:54

A new group calling itself The Indians of the Concrete Jungle has claimed credit for vandalizing more than one-thousand SUVs in order to draw attention to climate change and discourage motorists from driving vehicles that create such a high impact on the environment

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Heathrow Expansion - Plane Stupid consultation report

23-11-2007 16:14

At a packed meeting yesterday afternoon the combined forces of the anti-Heathrow expansion movement heard something they'd always suspected. The consultation, due out today, will be a sham. The Government has made its mind up; like it or not, Heathow expansion is going ahead.

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How eco are Ecotown built by opencast mining companies?

23-11-2007 13:19

So The ministry of Truth want a ecotowns built by opencastminers like H J Banks ltd & councils like nottingham city are spending tax payers money to susidise incinerators owned by billionaire Guy hands of WRG because of contracts made decades ago before toxic emissions were known.

what next? will they employ the bnp as equal ops consultants?,

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Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima

23-11-2007 02:35

By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.
So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed."

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Leave the Oil in the Soil

22-11-2007 20:05

Leave the Oil in the Soil: Yasuni, ITT, the Huaorani people and the Amazon.

There is a potentially radical process unfolding - keep the oil in the soil:

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Screw Wildlife - Let's Play Golf!

22-11-2007 15:39

I have just got off the phone after speaking to Neil Hobday, the Project Director for the proposed Trump Golf links golf resort development in eastern Scotland. I would like to say that he seemed a reasonable man, but that would be untrue because despite trying to interest him in the views of the rest of life on the irrepairable damage that will be caused to 1400 acres of pristine sand dune habitat, he was clearly stuck in the lie that the economy was far more important than our life support system.

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London Rising Tide invade the Aviation Emissions Trading Summit 2007.

22-11-2007 11:27

London Rising Tide today gave an award to aviation delegates who were discussing how to make the most of the ETS.