UK Ecology Newswire Archive
Direct Action; Italy, Netherlands, Spain & Mexico
26-02-2009 15:45
VEHICLES SABOTAGED AT WAGENINGEN UNIV. (Netherlands)
CIRCUS TRUCK DAMAGED IN FIRE (Italy)
NEW MAXMARA COLLECTION GREETED WITH A BRICK (Spain)
ELF TORCH EARTH-DESTROYING MACHINES (Mexico)
FUR FARM RAID - CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY (Italy)
Digger diving back in fashion! Work stopped at Shipley Open Cast Coal Mine Site
26-02-2009 14:52
Nepalese Parliament Orders End To Monkey Exports!!!!
25-02-2009 22:48
Nepalese Parliament Orders End To Monkey Exports!!!!
http://groups.google.com/group/AR-News/browse_thread/thread/230ee091fd6050bc We welcome the Nepalese Parliament's decision to order a ban on monkey
exports, however there are still some fundamental points which we utterly
oppose.....
Nuclear energy is a red herring
25-02-2009 10:49
GM will save the world (and Tesco's bank balance)
24-02-2009 16:30
Tescos have really outdone themselves this time. At the London 'City Food Lecture', Chief Executive Terry Leary has announced that Tescos will be willing to 'back' GM foods, due to changing consumer attitudes and some sort of misguided belief that people starving in Africa are only doing so due to the UK's and Europe's lack of acceptance of GM foods.A453 Widening consultation
24-02-2009 13:53
A reminder : the Highways Agency has published details of proposed widening to dual carriageway of the A453 (between M1 J24 and Clifton, basically). There are public exhibitions / consultations THIS WEEK - let's go along and comment on this road expansion.Work Stopped at Rosewell Open Cast Coal Minse Site
23-02-2009 14:47
residents.
Action against Scottish Coal open cast mine this morning
23-02-2009 11:52
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to disrupt theoperations of Scottish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the
Midlothians. Some of the 10 activists stopping work today are local residents.
They climbed onto digging machinery to prevent works and climbed onto trucks to prevent
coal from leaving the Rosewell site for 2 hours this morning. Then police arrived but no-one were arrested.
Swedish activists remanded over fur/leathershop arson
22-02-2009 14:57
Urgent ELP! Bulletin (21st February 2009)Dear Friends
ELP has just heard that two Swedish boys/young men have been remanded into custody today accused of an arson against a fur/leathershop in Orebro.
Direct Action; Estonia, Mexico, Germany, France, UK & USA
21-02-2009 21:25
FUR STORE COVERED IN RED PAINT (Estonia)
FREEDOM FOR TWO HENS (Mexico)
DIRECT ACTION AGAINST THE FUR TRADE (Germany)
TELMEX PHONES GLUED SHUT (Mexico)
GRAFITTI IN SUPPORT OF DAN WADHAM (France)
HOME VISIT FOR ANALYST AT HLS INVESTOR (UK)
FAST FOOD RESTAURANT LOCKS GLUED (USA)
BOOBY-TRAPPED LETTERS SENT TO VIVISECTORS (USA)
Earth Day 2009
21-02-2009 16:45
I want you to forget about April 22, 2009. Just do whatever you normally do on that day; don’t write anything in your diary; don’t put a circle round the date on your calendar; don’t make a special effort to talk about the environment. Why should you? If you are not a hypocrite then Earth Day will mean nothing special to you because like all other days it will just be sustainable living as usual.Reduce Repair Reuse Recycle - Transforming Oil Rigs into Eco-Resorts
21-02-2009 16:03
Once we complete the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, there’ll be a lot of unused oil rigs sitting around. One architecture firm, the Morris design team, already has an idea that’s making waves: turning them into oceanic eco-resorts. Their ‘Rig Hotel’ concept reuses an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, transforming it into a luxury resort offering amenities like boating, snorkeling, and diving as well as acting as a destination for conferences and business meetings.
I’ll Get Arrested to Stop the Burning of Coal
21-02-2009 14:35
Coal is killing the planet. It’s as simple as that – so it’s easy to understand why 350.org founder Bill McKibben is willing to risk getting arrested in order to participate in a major act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired power plant next month.nuke mark lynas
20-02-2009 22:53
Mark Lynas is a seriously well informed person. While many of us use broad phrases like 'climate change impact', he has very precise knowledge.To show that climate change isn't something that's going to happen but is already here, he visited many parts of the world already affected, reporting it in the book High Tide: Notes From A Warming World.
As the global temperature is likely to rise up to six degrees this century, he wrote Six Degrees. Six chapters, each detailing the results of extensive research on what the next degree of warming is likely to cause.
He's also a prolific writer of articles, and has spoken out in favour of radical activists such as the Camp for Climate Action.
So it was surprising when, in May 2005, he came out as a convert to the idea of nuclear power using some questionable lines of thinking.
BBC Covers Peak Oil: A Farm for the Future
20-02-2009 18:14
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hs8zp Fri 20 Feb 2009, 20:00 on BBC Two, repeated Sun 22 Feb, 17:00 on BBC Two (and also available on iPlayer).
Third Runway - For and Against in Westminster
20-02-2009 16:42
Square around 20 people turned up for the Modern Movement event, along with a few from Plane Stupid to add a little interest, while on Whitehall around a thousand took their message "3rd Runway - NO WAY!" to Gordon Brown. Pictures Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved
Three Cheers for the Recession & How to Self-Publish Your Book
20-02-2009 13:13
http://www.bcfm.org.uk/
Upcoming action dates, activist gatherings, & the official meetings en route to
20-02-2009 00:40
Upcoming action dates, activist gatherings, & the official meetings en route to the Copenhagen climate summitCompiled at the recent EF! Winter Moot:
Invitation to the Great Green Film Festival '09
19-02-2009 21:50
*** The Great Green Film Festival 2009! ***
Saturday 14th March, 10 AM
C11, Portland Building, University Park Campus.
Free entry, no need to book, all welcome.
Why I’m hardline on environmental issues
18-02-2009 17:51
A lot of the time, I quote other people simply because they’ve said what I wanted to but never got around to it. I frequently get criticised on here for taking a hardline stance on environmental issues, especially on supporting groups like Plane Stupid, because they’re seen as too alienating. Because Middle England won’t agree, the argument goes, these people are a danger to the cause. I always disagree.