UK Ecology Newswire Archive
US Candidate Positions on Animal Rights
03-02-2008 03:39
The presidential candidates in the US with the worst records toward animal rightsare Mitt Romney, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and Hillary Clinton.
London Protesters target UK’s largest biofuel supplier, Greenergy
01-02-2008 18:36
This was part of a National Week of Action on Agrofuels in which different groups and organisations across the UK are organising protests against the deforestation, high food prices, human rights abuses and faster global warming caused by biofuels from large-scale monocultures. Over 40 people were present.
Whale Slaughter Resumes as Sea Shepherd Prepares to Refuel in Melbourne
01-02-2008 10:01
Cambridge biofuels protest this Saturday Feb 2
31-01-2008 22:58
Everyone is welcome to come and join a protest against unsustainable biofuels, which will be held at the filling station in front of Tesco in Milton this Saturday Feb 2 from 1-3pm. We will display our nifty 'FOOD NOT FUEL' banner and hand out leaflets, as part of a UK-wide day of action called by biofuelwatch (biofuelwatch.org.uk).Big Business + Biofuels = Disaster
30-01-2008 19:16
As part of a week of local actions against Bio-fuels Rhythms of Resistance Manchester played Samba and gave out leaflets outside Tesco on Upper Brook Street, around rush hour, on the 25th January.Stop Kingsnorth - No New Coal
28-01-2008 18:03
Sea Shepherd: Greenpeace should Refuel and Continue harassment of Whaling Fleet
27-01-2008 10:38
Teenager arrested after tying herself to Japananese Embassy
25-01-2008 12:54
A British teenager has been arrested after tying herself to a staircase at the Japanese Embassy in London in a protest over whaling, she said. Sophie said last night: "I honestly think that me having a criminal record is not a big price to pay when what the whales are going through is so much worse."North West Vegan Festival - a reminder
25-01-2008 09:47
The NW Vegan Festival is happening on Sat 26th Jan at Sachas Hotel, Tib St, Manchester. We have over 40 stalls, a list of talks and films, free food samples, and loads more. Free admission.The Problem With...Hope
24-01-2008 16:38
I need to talk to you about hope. I need to warn you about having it, for merely by having hope you could become nothing more than a bundle of ineffectual good intentions. Hope could, in fact, be the single most dangerous thing to have in the environmental struggle we need to face up to.BP: Climate Policy Will Cause Peak Oil
24-01-2008 15:23
In a unbelievable presentation to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas on 16th January BP's Special Economic Advisor Peter Davies (no other oil company was prepared to address this group) claimed that "there's a distinct possibility that global oil consumption could peak as a result of climate policies" -- in other words NOT because supply problems but because of a reduction in demand! If you believe that governments around the world are going all out to reduce oil demand and switch to renewables then perhaps you might believe this... Of course they are not...The APPGOPO Press Release on this presentation, which links to a MP3 of the event, follows, this presentation is being discussed on the PowerSwitch forum:
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6231
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Mr Tesco avoids a green wash
23-01-2008 17:56
Chief Exec. of Tesco, Terry Leahy, today evaded various campaigners at Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery who were anxious to discuss his company's recent £25 mil. investment in Manchester University's "Sustainable Consumption" Institute, yet another Tesco green-wash...............Zapatista eviction imminent
23-01-2008 00:50
Chiapanecan authorities announce plan to evict Zapatista camp at the Huitepec.CO 2 'Follows Temperature Rises' in Past Climate Changes
21-01-2008 18:05
This is unequivocally true. The three ice cores of Greenland and the Antarctic have all shown this to be a fact.Cirencester Sanctuary Urgent Appeal For Help
21-01-2008 10:31
Help Prevent Possible Closure Of Animal Rescue Centre.Police use starvation tactics against Oxford tree protester
20-01-2008 22:56
Last week Oxford police and city council resorted to cutting off food and water from a protester who was occupying a tree in Bonn Square to prevent it being felled. Videos published recently show this was part of a concious policy not a string of co-incidences.Ready Steady Skip - Get involved
20-01-2008 13:44
We're making a short film to highlight the issues surrounding food waste. It will be a gameshow style cross between Ready Steady Cook and Scrapheap challenge!Open Letter to the World from the Exxon/Haliburton Administration
20-01-2008 04:33
[With the Bali Conference being diminished by the Bush Administration's political appointees to a waste of the world's time by refusing every attempt of a global emissions treaty, it may help people to remember the Apollo 13 mission. That is the one where the lunar vehicle's oxygen tank exploded and it took a herculean effort of the NASA ground crew to come up with a CO2 scrubber to keep the crew alive long enough to return to Earth. They had only a very limited amount of material to work with and a very short time to devise a system of removing the CO2 from the capsule........but THEY DID IT!!!!! Miraculously they came up with a make shift device, out of nearly nothing, to take the harmful carbon dioxide from the air in that little spacecraft and saved the crew's lives.With that knowledge, and the record of the US delegation in obstructing the Bali Conference on Climate Change searing in our memory, the letter below is the only conclusion that makes sense of it all: I realize the scale of the problem is beyond exponential......my point is that scientists can do some very amazing things, if they are allowed to.]
Trees 'spiked' in Oxford
19-01-2008 16:18
The campaign against the felling of 42 mature London Planes clearly isn't over...