UK Ecology Newswire Archive
Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 26
18-12-2007 21:39
Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 25
18-12-2007 21:31
Shell Oil and the Institutions Greenwashing them feel the ‘Heat’
18-12-2007 20:04
Fossil Fools Day, April 1st 2008
17-12-2007 14:56
FOSSIL FOOLS DAY!
Bali climate conference ends in farce as US vetoes emission targets
17-12-2007 05:50
The UN-sponsored climate change conference held on the Indonesian island of Bali ended on the weekend without any agreement on combatting global warming other than vague generalities. A last-minute, face-saving communiqué was issued but, at the insistence of the Bush administration and its allies, it made no mention of specific carbon emission reduction targets. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had recommended a cut in carbon emissions of 25 to 40 percent in the advanced industrial countries by 2020 and a total world emissions reduction of 50 percent by 2050.US Intransigence Waters Down Climate Change Road map Agreement
15-12-2007 18:01
Beyond The Point Of No Return -- It's Too Late To Stop Climate Change
14-12-2007 20:36
As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world's most prominent climate scientists, is preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise.The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem.
We can't.
We have failed to meet nature's deadline. In the next few years, this world will experience progressively more ominous and destabilizing changes. These will happen either incrementally -- or in sudden, abrupt jumps.
Under either scenario, it seems inevitable that we will soon be confronted by water shortages, crop failures, increasing damages from extreme weather events, collapsing infrastructures, and, potentially, breakdowns in the democratic process itself.
Bush administration isolated at Bali climate conference
14-12-2007 08:14
The two-week UN-sponsored conference on climate change on the Indonesian island of Bali has been dominated by the intransigence of the Bush administration and the mounting conflicts among the great powers, particularly between the United States and the European Union.Future for beech in a changing climate - a change of perception?
13-12-2007 21:20
Fuel protest locations revealed
13-12-2007 14:31
Fuel protesters have revealed the locations of their 'legal' protests on Saturday 15th Dec. They are likely to be small, but may gain media coverage. Campaigners against cliamte change may wish to go and hold banners about how climate change is the real crisis, and to talk to the media? Campaign for Better Transport has produced a myth-buster factsheet about fuel tax, which is here:
http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/climate_change/roads/facts
Growing Food When The Oil Runs out
13-12-2007 12:43
Most people in modern industrial society get their food mainly from supermarkets. As a result of declining hydrocarbon resources, however, it is unlikely that such food will always be available. The present world population is nearly 7 billion, but food supplies per capita have been shrinking for years. Food production will have to become more localized, and it will be necessary to reconsider less-advanced forms of technology that might be called "subsistence gardening."From Oil Wars to Water Wars
13-12-2007 08:43
The world's leading scientists are predicting climate change to cause water wars and mass migrations from rural to urban areas.Hunreds of mink released in the Netherlands
12-12-2007 23:04
anonymous communique from Bite Back Magazine: "In the night from sunday 9 - monday 10 december 2007, we released all mink from an illegal mink farm. The building was not ventilated. We opened all cages and destroyed a lot of breeding cards. We think there were about 400 mink; the official numbers say that there were 200. We don't believe this. The mink didn't look healthy and were crawling in their own shit."You're Fired !
12-12-2007 18:36
An Aberdeenshire councillor whose committee recently rejected a Donald Trump mega-development on an environmentally sensitive site has just been fired. This news carefully overshadows the embarrassing news that Alex Salmond met with Trumps flunkys the night before Scottish Government broke precedent, was probably illegal to subsequwntly take a disallowed project back into consideration.Peak Oil: Tar Sands vs. Clean Water: Eating the Earth for Cars
12-12-2007 16:26
The tar sands production center in northern Alberta in Canada is one of the clearest signs that the easy-to-get oil is on the wane. Tar sands are a low grade hydrocarbon deposit that requires enormous energy input to process and convert it into something resembling petroleum.Seeing REDD
12-12-2007 13:09
Critical mass
11-12-2007 13:01
this saturday to show the fuel protestors that pedal power is the way forwardSeeds of Destruction: GM Food for Fuel
10-12-2007 18:33
Genetically modified seeds to grow biofuel crops threaten the food supply.Fuel protests on Saturday
10-12-2007 18:17
Fuel protests have been threatened for Saturday 15th Dec at 10am at refineries and storage depots. If people want to, it could be an opportunity for climate campaigners to attend the demos and talk to them and the media about climate change? Campaign for Better Transport (formally Transport 2000) have produced a myth-buster about fuel duty in readiness for the protests - see http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/roads/facts.
Petrol price protests planned for Saturday
10-12-2007 16:14
Remember the chaos that the fuel protests caused in 2000? There is a call for more protests of this type on Saturday:"Transaction2007 have decided to release the date and time of protest action earlier than scheduled. This is to enable the motorist and public to better prepare themselves for the coming action."
"A date of Saturday 15th December 2007 at 10:00am has been decided for protest action. This date was decided by members as the best possible to enable those who would normally be working during the week to attend. This action will be initiated at a refinery or storage depot somewhere near you. Anyone wishing to support action is requested to make your way there at the alotted time. Transaction again wish to emphasise the importance of legal protesting."
http://www.transaction-2007.com/