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Getting Off-Grid 2 - Nick Rosen

10-06-2011 17:00

Journalist and documentary film maker Nick Rosen has toured Europe and N. America to find off-grid living. His site off-grid.com is a centre for those moving toward a fossil-fuel free life. Why do they do it? We talk motivation and tech in the interview from Radio Ecoshock 110608 29 min.

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Getting Off-Grid 1 - Cam Mather

10-06-2011 16:43

Living off grid 14 years with family, Cam Mather publishes how-to books, including The Renewable Energy Handbook. He loads up this interview with lessons-learned, tips for starting out, solar, all seasons solar hot water heater, geothermal, wood & wind.
From Radio Ecoshock Show 110608 29 min

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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

07-06-2011 13:27

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front will be screened twice during the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival:

Thursday 9th Jun at 15:30 - 17:29 Sheffield Central Library Theatre

Saturday 11th Jun at 13:35 - 15:49 Showroom 3, screening with UK Uncut + Extended Q&A (129mins)

There will also a discussion of the film on Saturday 11 June 2011 at 11:45 in The Crucible Studio.

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Fukushima 3 meltdowns confirmed

07-06-2011 12:02

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
07 Jun 2011

http://www.legitgov.org
All links are here:

http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms 06 Jun 2011 Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday.

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Decision Day for Minorca Opencast Mine Application

06-06-2011 05:28

Leicestershire County Council has announced that a decision on whether UK Coal's application for an opencast mine on the Minorca site can go ahead will be made on Thursday 23rd June. The Minorca Opencast Protest Group in, PR 104, gives more information on this and what MOPG is planning to do to prevent this application from succeeding.

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PAUL WATSON Eco-Pirate

04-06-2011 18:56

Update from Captain Paul Watson, founder of Seasheperd, in this short speech plus Q and A recorded after the Premiere in Vancouver, Canada of new biographical feature film: "Eco-Pirate: The Paul Watson Story". With Trish Dolman writer/director. Victory over Japanese whaling in Antarctic? On to Libya. Lawless seas, overfishing, protection of marine mammals. From Radio Ecoshock 110603 25 minutes.

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US Reactors as Dangerous as Fukushima

04-06-2011 18:38

From the Union of Concerned Scientists, nuclear engineer and whistleblower David Lochbaum explains his testimony to Congress on priority steps to avoid similar melt-downs and radiation in the United States (applies to all nuclear reactors, world-wide). Most U.S. reactors have HALF the battery backup Fukushima had, many more unprotected spent fuel rods, and unknown emergency plans. Interview from Radio Ecoshock Show 110603 24 minutes.

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More Disinformation From The Fleshmongering Drugpushers of the World Health Org.

04-06-2011 03:44

Recently the World Health Organization has blamed ecoli on vegetables, in an attempt to shield the animal flesh industry.

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UK Screenings of 'The Pipe'

03-06-2011 19:57

Film about Rossport to be screened in UK over next few days.

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GM Potato Decontamination in Belgium

02-06-2011 12:19

On Sunday 30th May, 2011 over 250 people gathered and successfully decontaminated a GM potato field in Wetteren, Belgium. Despite heavy-handed policing, demonstrators from all over Europe joined with locals and representatives of the farming community. As well as decontaminating the GM tatties, there was even a debating area and fresh veg stalls!

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Forget shorter showers -- Why personal change does not equal political change!

01-06-2011 21:07

Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?

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400 peasants, clowns, and reapers liberate Belgian GM potato field

30-05-2011 23:57

The "battle of the potato" field in Wetterem, near Ghent, Belgium, was a resounding victory for anti-GM activists on Sunday (29 May) as members of a crowd of around 400 people broke through police lines and barbed wire fences to destroy an experimental Genetically Modified potato crop.

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From Hiroshima to Fukushima

30-05-2011 12:40

From COMMUNIST LEFT review of International Communist Party

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Mass Seedbombing - Brighton Mound

30-05-2011 10:08

More than 20 guerilla gardeners seedbombed the community garden they were evicted from recently in a show of defiance and creativity

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Rossport: The Pipe Film Screenings

29-05-2011 14:47

'The Pipe', a documentary film which charts the battle between the tiny village of Rossport and the Oil Giant Shell, is coming to cinemas in the UK.

The film is also available for screenings at social centres, gatherings and festivals.

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Stop New Nuclear. Blockade of Hinkley Point on 3 October 2011

27-05-2011 15:06

Stop the next generation of nuclear power stations with a blockade at Hinkley Point. Join us at Hinkley on 3 October 2011.

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Flood Fire Wind - Climate Shift

27-05-2011 05:02

From The Weather Underground, Jeff Masters explains killer tornadoes, record floods, Texas drought, with an eye to the climate. From Climateprogress blogger Joe Romm on weather & climate, plus new science. Canadian wildfire expert Mike Flannigan on Boreal and Tundra fires.

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Shell Belmullet office shut down again -join the continuous protests!

25-05-2011 20:49

Shell's Belmullet office was once again shut down by protesters to highlight the ongoing concerns by local residents and supporters about Shell's proposed Corrib gas project. This morning (wed 25th may) the blockade began at 7.30am and for 2 1/2 hours protesters were able to stop Shell workers entering the building. IRMS arrived around10am to end the blockade.

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Green Festival 20th yr. Arboretum Park. Nottingham

25-05-2011 13:55

Sunday 22 May 2011

The 20th Green Festival, Arboretum Park. Nottingham

Exhibits, Info, Stalls, Bands etc

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Saving Iceland on Mark Kennedy Report

23-05-2011 17:16

Statement from Saving Iceland regarding the recently published report by the National Commissioner’s ‘National Security Unit’. The report was requested by the Minister of the Interior and was supposed to answer the questions if the Icelandic police were aware of and collaborated in British police spy Mark Kennedy’s infiltration of the Saving Iceland network. (Translated from Icelandic.)