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UK Ecology Newswire Archive

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Global Climate Change March, London Dec 8, 2007

10-12-2007 10:29

Picket at Tecso Metro, Lower Regent St. (C) Peter Marshall
The march showed growing public concern about climate change with over 6,000 marchers and several hundred cyclists making their way through the centre of London. It was a one of over 50 world-wide actions before the UN Climate Change talks in Bali. Images are copyright.

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Come to Tasmania! (Rainforest Protection)

10-12-2007 08:04

Angel
Untouched rainforest, 'old-growth' is being logged for paper, woodchips and profits at an alarming rate. Trees turn carbon into oxygen, rainforests are perhaps our greatest ally against global warming and considered by scientists and ecologists alike to be Planet Earth's 'lungs'. In Tasmania you have
people turning the most beautiful land into a temporary desert for profit, ignoring public opinion, changing laws to suit themselves and a line drawn in the sand.

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Pictures from Campaign against Climate Change march in London.

10-12-2007 02:26

Parliament cares nothing for the world
Around 10,000? climate campaigners marched from Millbank to the American embassy in Grosvenor square despite the pouring rain.

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The Death Knell for Nuclear Power

08-12-2007 21:22

THE LEAN GUIDE TO NUCLEAR ENERGY - 1ST EDITION
David Fleming, creator of the concept of Tradeable Energy Quotas and author of the forthcoming and rather wonderful “Lean Logic”, has just published The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy, which is a thorough demolition of the case for nuclear power being a solution to peak oil. and climate change. You can down load the pdf. for free here  http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/downloads.html#Nuclear or you can order printed copies here  http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/nuclear/buy.htm . Like much of David’s writing, it patiently yet assertively builds its arguments, backed up by exhaustive research, to build a case against nuclear power that looks pretty much bulletproof to me.

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Peak Oil And The Vision In The Mirror

08-12-2007 15:21

If you don't know what peak oil is, then, first of all, you are not alone. Most people don't seem to have a clue about it. And, even some that do, don't seem to get the full implications. Let me lay it out for you as succinctly as I can...

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90% Emissions Reductions by 2030? Easy!

08-12-2007 11:18

I was in the middle of writing an article and, you know how things are, you get stuck on an idea and try a different way of looking at things. In this case I wanted to show how moving our electricity consumption to the night time could reduce the overall generating capacity needed, but I also needed to say this in the context of the startling, but real need to reduce Western greenhouse gas emissions by 90% (at least) by 2030.

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Plane Stupid activists shut down travel agents on route of climate marc

08-12-2007 10:38

Environmental activists from direct action group Plane Stupid have shut down travel agents and airline offices along the route of today’s National Climate March in London as part of the Global Day of Action against climate change.

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All Manchester city centre Flight Centres & Hummer dealership targetted

08-12-2007 01:15

For people interested in something a little more direct than the big climate demo in London tomorrow...

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Please Sign Al Gore's Petition, it takes ten seconds

07-12-2007 19:11

Please send this to everyone you know!

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UK Emission-free transport cooperative needs your support

07-12-2007 12:58

We are now asking the people of Sheffield UK to register their support to gain a license to operate a FREE, emission-free transport service in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

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German Atomic Forum wins Worst EU Greenwash Award

07-12-2007 07:19

protest demonstration against german atomic forum last year
The Worst EU Lobby and the Worst European Greenwash were
being awarded in the Botanique in Brussels.

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Audio: Peak Oil & Climate Change - Twin Crises?

06-12-2007 11:32

The relationship between Peak Oil and Climate Change was discussed, during a joint meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Peak Oil and on Climate Change, in the Grand Committee Room in Parliament on 5th December 2007.

Speakers:

Jeremy Leggett, author of `Half Gone' and CEO of Solar Century.

Martyn Williams, Parliamentary Campaigner, Friends of the Earth.

Chris Vernon, the Oil Drum, Europe.

mp3 file (100mb) of the meeting:  http://www.appgopo.org.uk/events/02_051207/APPGOPO2_PO_CC.mp3

 http://www.appgopo.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18

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Peakfood in the Yorkshire Post

05-12-2007 22:26

Yesterday  http://www.Peakfood.co.uk/ had an article published on pages 10 and 11 of The Yorkshire Post’s Country Week (thanks to Michael Hickling!) It mainly discussed price increases and the threats to future food production.

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Activists chained to bulldozers to prevent work on open-cast coal mine

05-12-2007 09:53

9am - More than thirty climate activists and local residents this morning took mass direct action to prevent excavation work on Britain’s biggest ever open-cast coal mine at Ffos-y-fran in South Wales. (1)

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Photos released from fur farm liberation

04-12-2007 15:24

--- 20,000 mink released in Sionlla [Santiago de Compostela], Spain
"It is the time of year when the owners of mink prisons begin their slaughter. We considered it necessary to stand against this in an effective and direct way-- without hesitation.

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Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 24

04-12-2007 11:48

Work is continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building. The whole building is very nearly fully enclosed now.

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Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 23

04-12-2007 11:43

Work is continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building. The walls for the whole building are now up!!

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What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?

04-12-2007 10:17

Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.

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Science, Sustainability, and Distributed Generation in the Information Age

03-12-2007 23:50

This is an extended version of a speech given to the Ontario NDP Socialist Caucus Conference held at the Ontario Institute for Science and Education held on October 13, 2007.

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Documentary Film Festival Spain

03-12-2007 21:57

Call for entries for CINESTRAT 08, competition for docs about climate change, peak oil, ecology, nature, etc. Deadline febr. 29 / 2008. Check regulations and get more info at www.cinestrat.es.
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