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Parking the Car... for Good!

08-05-2012 22:33

Radical cycling collective Bicycology is heading to the midlands this week on a journey by bicycle exposing the dark side of our obsession with cars and investigating better ways of living and getting around. Come along to our events in Birmingham, Coventry and Leicester!

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Is It Too Late for Environmentalism?

08-05-2012 22:23

Alternative energy expert Robert Rapier explains the oil crisis, & why climate will hit us like a hurricane. Seth Moser-Katz and Justin Ritchie interview law Professor & Greenpeace icon Professor Michael M'Gonigle on "exit environmentalism". Are we leaving Green, or leaving the system?

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Hundreds vote with their feet by disrupting UK Energy Summit

03-05-2012 15:45

Today hundreds of people took part in the Big 6 Bash, an action targeting the UK Energy Summit.

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Arrests as climate activists and anti-cuts protesters disrupt UK Energy Summit

03-05-2012 11:42

Today is the Big 6 Energy Bash- an action against the Big 6 energy companies and the government raking in billions of pounds while people suffer from fuel poverty, climate change and the cuts.

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A Report on Sizewell Camp 2012

25-04-2012 16:36

The fourth annual camp at Sizewell nuclear power station took place from Friday 20th to Sunday the 22nd of April 2012. The aim of the camp is to make information available to local people about nuclear power, and to oppose the building of the two planned reactors, Sizewell C and D, and the dry fuel storage dump. The camp takes place in April to commemorate the Chernobyl disaster which occurred on 26th April 1986.

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Trouble, but NOT end of the world

24-04-2012 22:26

Economic collapse will come before peak oil or climate disruption, says investment guru Chris Martenson, author of "Crash Course". Matthew Stein, author of "When Technology Fails" - how a solar flare could cripple society & set off 400 Chernobyls, and how to fix it. Alex rants against 2012 mythology.

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The CDM in Africa Cannot Deliver the Money

19-04-2012 13:07

At a time the carbon markets face a profound crisis, this report provides critical policy analysis and case documentation about the role of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Africa. Instead of providing an appropriate flow of climate finance for projects related to greenhouse gas mitigation, the CDM has benefited large corporations

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First Declaration of the Hambach jungle

15-04-2012 13:26

The Forest is now squatted!

A part of the Hambach forest has been squatted in order to save it from the excavators send by the giantic energy coperation RWE digging up the coal.
Alongside a cultural happening/fair in the woods (Waldfest) „Wald statt Kohle“ Forest, not coal! the squatting commences. Even though the
Under the slogan „Forest, not coal!“ („Wald, statt Kohle“) a festivity is celebrated in the forest. Alongside that happening the squatting has started, though both activities remain independet of each other.
At the „Waldfest“ people from different groups meet up forming a broad coalition to get active in saving the Hambach Forest and stopping the extraction as well as the production of energy out of the fossil coal.
Hambach forest, near Cologne, shall be completly destroyed making space for the largest digged out hole in Europe „Hambacher Tagebau“ according to the plans of RWE.
During the festivity people get the chance of taking responsibility by godfathering their special tree thus protecting the trees their way(s).
By squatting we are also taking over responsibility godfathering our trees, protecting them our own way.

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Scandal of the Tar Sands

12-04-2012 03:22

A top Canadian scientist exposes a scandalous government cover-up of poisons moving from the Tar Sands to dying aboriginal people. David Schindler speech excerpts. Radio Ecoshock 31 min

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Energy Relapse and Recovery

04-04-2012 19:11

In a UN tour of Japan, green city expert Warren Karlenzig reports on recovery attempts after tsunami & nuclear melt-down. Anti-nuke activist Helen Caldicott at Occupy EPA rally (with Gerri Williams). Susanne Moser on "Getting Real About It" (a troubled future, including a damaged climate).

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The Real Transition Handbook

31-03-2012 19:38

The Real Transition Handbook offers an more realistic guide to coping with transition.

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Shell targeted in anti-greenwash stunt at international conference

27-03-2012 10:17

“No-one will want to listen to me after that!”

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IPC Preliminary meeting slammed as a shambles

22-03-2012 15:03

Report from the Sham Infrastructure Planning Commission process which began yesterday

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End:Civ film screening April 17th Wagon N' Horses Birmingham

20-03-2012 00:57

END:CIV film screening followed by talk with Director & Producer Franklin Lopez
When: April 17th, 7:00pm
Where: Wagon 'n Horses, 28 Adderley Street, Digbeth Birmingham, B9 4AD
Entry: Voluntary Donation

This culture will eat you alive
Fight back; resist & survive

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Camp and Demonstration at Sizewell nuclear power station April 20th to 22nd

16-03-2012 15:46

Some folk in East Anglia would like to invite people to come across to the beautiful Sizewell beach in Suffolk for our fourth annual camp. We have the camp at this time of year to commemorate Chernobyl and to show our opposition to nuclear power. The pictures included here are from last years camp

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anti-fracking protest at gas conference today

14-03-2012 22:55

$frack off$

a small group of protestors gathered outside the marriott hotel in swiss cottage this evening where the 'unconventional shale gas conference' is taking place today and tomorrow.

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Anti-nuclear activists claim double record at Hinkley Point demo

13-03-2012 14:07

Press release: 11 March 2012

On the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, anti-nuclear campaigners claimed two records in two days. The mass protest at Hinkley Point nuclear power station on Saturday attracted more than 1,000 people from all over the UK – the largest protests against a the construction of a nuclear power station in four decades.

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Successful anti-nuclear rally at Hinkley Point on Fukushima anniversary

13-03-2012 14:02

Press release: 10 March 2012

The Stop New Nuclear alliance has hailed today’s mass rally at Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station as the largest anti-nuclear protest in three decades.

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Fukushima 1 year on: Hinkley Point to be surrounded and blockaded

10-03-2012 14:55

Leading environmentalists Jonathon Porritt and Caroline Lucas MP will join demonstrators at Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset to mark the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster - and to call for a halt to the development of Hinkley C

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Fukushima 1 year on: Hinkley Point to be surrounded and blockaded

09-03-2012 12:35

Jonathon Porritt, Caroline Lucas MP and CND’s Kate Hudson to join anti-nuclear protest on eve of Fukushima anniversary: programme of events on Saturday March 10th 2012

Leading environmentalists Jonathon Porritt and Caroline Lucas MP will join demonstrators at Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset to mark the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster - and to call for a halt to the development of Hinkley C. Kate Hudson, chair of CND will also be speaking at the event.