UK Indymedia - UK Ecology Newswire Archive

At the Birmingham 'Climate Change festival'

07-06-2008 16:41

Anticapitalist climate activists visited the 'Climate Change Festival' in Birmingham this week to protest at the sponsorship of the event by E.On, the very company which this years climate camp will be targeting, and by Crest Nicholson, a major development company known for it's dodgy developments of cheap, and utterly environmentally aggressive build, and to raise awareness of Climate Camp.

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Protesters target the last downtown Portland fur shop

07-06-2008 14:46

With Schumacher Furs and Outwear gone, anti-fur activists are now working to drive the last remaining fur salon out of business in downtown Portland. On Saturday the Portland Animal Defense League protested outside Nicholas Ungar Furs at 1137 S.W. Yamhill St., a campaign which has been intensifiying in recent weeks.

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Campaign to raise awareness of 350ppm C02 target

06-06-2008 22:24

The implications of James Hansen and co's paper, Target CO2: Where should humanity aim?

http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126 and it's supporting documentation,

http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1135 are probably not yet well known, though it did make the front page of The Guardian,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/07/climatechange.carbonemissions

A campaign has now been launched to raise awareness of this target -- currently we have over 380ppm of CO2 and it's going up faster than ever before --

http://www.350.org/

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Solidarity Protest for Martin Balluch & Austrian Activists

06-06-2008 17:49

Video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4gQgu4Z3ozs

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$3.5 million luxury home torched in South Carolina

06-06-2008 16:23

Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. - 16 partially or recently constructed luxury homes have been intentionally burned down in southeast Charlotte, western Union County, and Lancaster County, South Carolina since 2001. Authorities have yet to find who is responsible for the fires, but now believe that radical environmentalists may be behind the arsons. The most recent development to go up in smoke was a $3.5 million mansion destroyed Monday evening, see pictures below.

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Saved from landfill or stolen? Garden chair update

06-06-2008 08:52

Has the farcical police investigation into the alleged theft of four unwanted green plastic garden chairs from a skip destined for landfill been abandoned yet? Of course not! A file on the case is currently with the Crown Prosecution Service for their consideration.

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The Greenhouse Problem; The refusal to recognise the situation

05-06-2008 15:18

The greenhouse problem has rapidly moved to the centre of official and public attention. Virtually every one accepts that there is a serious problem and that urgent action is required. Two fundamental beliefs underlie the discussion, the first being that the problem can be solved by conservation effort, technical advance and renewable energy, and the second being that the cost will be negligible. Both of these beliefs have been confirmed emphatically by the recent Stern Report[1] and the working Group 3 Reports of the IPCC.[2]

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Update on the 10 anti-fur activists in prison, Austria

05-06-2008 13:56

Information Update from the Legal Support Team: 05/06/08

See also details on hunger strikes:

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/399991.html

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Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 29

04-06-2008 23:37

Work has been continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building in Nottingham. The building, now being fully enclosed [short of the main doors], and all window frames fitted, this last weekend saw the lime rendering of the walls.

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Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 28

04-06-2008 22:43

Work has been continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building in Nottingham. The building is now fully enclosed [short of the main doors]. Window frames have been fitted in the main part of the building and now in the kitchen extension.

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Day of Action on Food and Climate Change: food giveaway & anti-Tesco demo

04-06-2008 21:07

From 12-2pm on Tuesday 3rd June, There was a free vegan food giveaway & anti-Tesco demo. People gathered at Victoria Centre clocktower.

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Kangaroo saved from slaughter in Australia

04-06-2008 19:35

Press release (visit kangaroolives.com to learn more about the recent slaughter of over 500 kangaroos in Canberra):

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Press and Govt Propaganda food and electricity shortages = GM and nuclear power

04-06-2008 11:32

Like the US, the British press and UK Government are engaged in a propaganda exercise using food shortages to push GM foods and harmful cheap production in the developing world while using false energy problems to push the case for expensive and harmful nuclear solutions without debate. Nuclear power is very expensive and will allow industry led by Adrian Montague to fix electricity prices at higher levels. Please note the similarities in tactics employed in the US with the UK.

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Camden Green fair selling meat - contact them

04-06-2008 00:18

Global warming. Overexploited natural resources. Deforestation. Wasted land. Water and air pollution. The most serious environmental problems of our time are all directly linked to eating meat.

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Actions against: fur, leather, meat, pet stores & breeder

03-06-2008 15:36

29th May - 3rd June:

ALF VISIT COCKFIGHTER AT HOME (Mexico)
FUR SHOP WINDOWS SMASHED WITH STONES (Spain)
MORE ACTIONS AGAINST THE FUR TRADE (Sweden)
MEXICO CITY LEATHER COMPANY PAINT-BOMBED (Mexico)
FUCK MCDONALDS (Sweden)
MEAT MARKETS, PET STORES PAINTED (Mexico)
FUR SHOPS GLUED (Spain)

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Science Museum, London: Letting Corporations Control Young Minds

03-06-2008 12:26

Take one major museum, a childrens exhibition about the environment and add three sponsors who between them represent three of the most environmentally destructive industries on Earth, and you have The Science Of Survival...

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Rally For Badgers - Stop The Cull!

03-06-2008 12:05

Stop the Cull!: Viva! National Rally for the Badgers
Cardiff, Saturday, June 28 2008
1pm outside the Welsh Assembly Building (Debating Rooms)

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Activist occupy labs associated with GM trials

02-06-2008 13:47

Activist hang banner at UK GM trial lab; activists opposed to the BASF trial of GM potatoes have hung a banner and occupied part of the grounds of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge.

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From Prison to Paradise - 225 bears, one incredible journey

02-06-2008 12:02

Please join Jill Robinson, the founder of Animals Asia,at the Opium Chinese restaurant in Nottingham on 23 June 2008, to hear about our work in rescuing endangered Moon Bears from bear bile farms in China and Vietnam, as well as our campaigns to end the cat and dog meat and fur trades.

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Brazil, Traffic of Wild Animals, Amazônia, Bahia

01-06-2008 18:04

The Brazil lives of the traffic of birds and wild animals.

The Traffic of Wild Animals is the biggest source of income of Brazil, the financial greater of campaigns politics of presidents and governors.

The money sent for other countries to fight these crimes only serves to enrich ambient owners of Ongs.