UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

Australia - the Climate Has Changed

04-01-2008 20:16

Auzzies are not worried about the climate changing in the future.......it has gone and changed already.

Gas Flaring- giving Shell a taste of its own medicine

04-01-2008 16:30

This morning some Shell to Sea activists made their way to Shell's Dublin HQ to mark Ogoni Day (January 4th). Please have a look at the two minute video on youtube:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=597hkm9MuTo.

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greenwash guerillas hit shell hq

04-01-2008 01:19

at lunchtime yesterday, a small band of greenwash guerillas entered the lobby of the london shell hq to highlight the massive amount of toxic greenwash emanating from the building. once ejected they continued their work outside, warning the public of the dangers of greenwash

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Local skill sharing for environmental and social change.

03-01-2008 12:56

‘SUST-EDUCATION’
COMMUNITY SUSTAINABLE
EDUCATION IN SUFFOLK.
A new grass roots project will be launched January 2008 at Ringsfield eco study centre nr Beccles, Suffolk.
The project involves local community skill sharing plus experts from across the country coming together to run workshops for environmental and social change. (this is a non profit making project. )All sessions will be run as cheaply as possible and be open to all.
Sust-education have been lucky enough to be able to use the beautiful Ringsfield Hall eco study Centre as a venue, 14 acres of amazing parkland........

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Will the Children's Revolution Save the Human Race from Extinction?

31-12-2007 20:58

Proposals for the Eco Warriors to try to save humanity from extinction in a global warming catastrophe by lending support to a Children's Revolution in the villages near Heathrow Airport that are being threatened with demolition to make way for the planned third runway have been circulated by the Earth Aid Environmental Campaign.

An appeal has been issued for all the environmental campaigners in Britain to come together urgently and work with the local people in the Sipson Harmondsworth and Harlington villages to create a futuristic high tech eco-village to set an example of the way forward to ensure the survival of future generations.

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Friar Louis Cappio must live

28-12-2007 14:36

The Brazilian semi-arid is immense: 912 thousand square km. It is populous: 22 million people in rural areas. It is the most rainy of the planet: 750 mm / year, on average, which corresponds to 760 billion cubic meters of rainfall per year. It is not true, therefore, that there is no water there. The nature provides it, but it is wasted: the waters evaporate quickly, under the strong sun, or go soon away, running on the crystalline waterproof ground.

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6 Things You Must Do

28-12-2007 11:36

Another list? Well, yes, but one that actually addresses the root of the environmental degradation we are causing. This is one new year's resolution that is worth keeping.

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Email alert against rainforest destruction for palm oil biodiesel in PNG

28-12-2007 10:50

Ecological Internet are running a new email alert against plans by the
Malaysian company Vitroplant Ltd to destroy the rainforests of Woodlark
Island, Papua New Guinea for palm oil biodiesel:

http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=png_woodlark .

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Arctic melt

27-12-2007 16:48

Nordic countries alarmed by Arctic melt

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Stop Stealing Our Forests: Plant an Illegal Tree

27-12-2007 12:15

The last couple of weeks, FONT COLOR Milieudefensie planted illegal trees in Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. These actions illustrate the absurd situation that planting trees is illegal while the European trade in illegal timber stays unpunished.

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Potatoes to Heavy Industry - Xmas blockade in Iceland with video

25-12-2007 22:04

Xmas greetings and action from Saving Iceland, fighting Iceland's heavy industrialisation.

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Bali: A Missed Opportunity

25-12-2007 01:47

The gap between the urgent threat of global warming and the collective will to do something about it has never been greater. The recently concluded Conference on Climate Change in Bali was a grand opportunity to act. Instead, it was another missed opportunity. Unfortunately, the United States played a very negative role, standing in the way of consensus at every turn. And unfortunately, the rest of the world thought that seducing the US into a new agreement on climate action was top priority, resulting in a Bali Roadmap that was very sketchy.

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The Post-Oil Economy: After The Techno-Fix

23-12-2007 20:12

"Even when grappling with the idea of economic disintegration, Americans attempt to cast it in terms of technological or economic progress: eco-villages, sustainable development, energy efficiency and so on. Under the circumstances, such compulsive techno-optimism seems maladaptive." — Dmitry Orlov, "Our Village"

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Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population

23-12-2007 15:11

Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned December 17 that the changes represent an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift in the global food system, threatening billions with hunger and decreased access to food.

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Save the Woodhead Tunnel//Climate Change demonstration

20-12-2007 11:41

Save the Woodhead Tunnel have organised a demonstration to further our campaign.
DATE: Saturday, 12th January 2008
TIME: 1.00 p.m. until 3.00 p.m.
PLACE: Woodhead tunnel, Western entrance (map link below)
Speakers (to be confirmed) plus Samba bands. All we need now is clement weather!

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Aldermaston bike ride March 2008

20-12-2007 10:12

Bikes not bombs are planning a bike ride from London to Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment and back again, as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the first Aldermaston march

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Shell to Sea occupy Natural Resources Minister's office in Dublin

19-12-2007 20:16

Shell to Sea protesters occupied the department of Natural Resources in Dublin today. Teh new Minister for Natural resources, Eamon Ryan, has done nothing to help the campaign of which he was once a leading member.

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Veg*n Climate March report

19-12-2007 16:50

On Saturday 8th December 2007, the Campaign for Eco-Veg*nism set out to coordinate the "biggest ever mobilisation of vegetarians and vegans on environmental grounds" at the National Climate March in London. We called on veggies and vegans to join a Veg*n Climate March, which in effect would be a `veg*n block` within the main march. See report below.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for more about CEV and the shocking facts regarding meat/dairy production which reveal that our diet is critical to the survival of the planet!!

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Welcome to Fantasy Air

19-12-2007 14:12

Airlines and the government agencies that oversee them are projecting stunning growth for air travel and air freight over the next couple of decades. That seems to fit with the story of the amazing rise of the Asian economies, particularly China and India. And, it is consistent with the clear-sailing-ahead outlook of several prominent energy forecasters. The U. S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actually predicting a 1 percent annual drop in the price of aviation fuel between now and 2020.

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"World Heritage Org"

19-12-2007 09:45

Many of us have been hearing
much about being bared from many of our National Park regions.