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Wednesday 10 Mar 2010
Dear Friends of the
Earth Activists,
FOSSIL FOOLS DAY is less than a month away!
The international Rising Tide network and its allies are calling
for a day of action against the fossil fuel industry on April 1st
2010. We would like to invite you and your supporters/members to
get involved in this day of action.
Fossil Fools Day:1st April
2010
Climate change is no laughing matter - but that doesn't mean we
can't confront the Fossil Fuel Empire with subversive humour.
WHAT: Direct actions, practical jokes and throwing a spanner in
the works to stop the fossil fools.
WHERE: Your street, town or city.
WHEN: April 1st, 2010.
Last December in Copenhagen, the politicians sold us out to the
fossil fools, corporate lobbyists and big banks. Now we're left
with "green capitalism," a deeply unjust carbon market
and continued assaults on our communities and ecosystems. If
we're going to stop climate chaos, the only real solution is to
keep fossil fuels in the ground.
The stakes couldn't be higher: de-stabilisation of the global
climate, local communities destroyed by dirty energy extraction
and combustion, devastating freak storms, droughts, floods, the
list goes on.....
This April 1st, join Rising Tide in some creative direct action.
Use the simply subversive to the downright disruptive: office
occupations, banner drops, clownish parades, road blockades,
spoof websites, subvertising, street theatre, leaflets, lock-ons
or laugh-ins. Whatever works for you and your group.
Join us this Fossil Fools Day (FFD) and hatch some harebrained
schemes that will strike a blow to climate criminals everywhere!
WANT MORE? Fossil Fools Day also marks the launch of the BP
Tar Sands Fortnight of Shame: a two-week campaign
culminating in actions surrounding BP's AGM on April 15th. The
goal? To stop BP from going into the Canadian Tar Sands - the
biggest, dirtiest, fossil fuel project on earth. Find out
more:
www.tarsandsinfocus.wordpress.com and a word to BP: be afraid. be very
afraid.
NEED A HAND? If you would like ideas for actions, graphics for
leaflets or websites, advice on dealing with the press, a generic
FFD 2010 leaflet, etc., visit our Fossil Fools Day resources page
http://risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday/resources or send us an email and
we'll do our best to help out: info@risingtide.org.uk.
To download the FFD 2010 graphic to put on your website or in a
leaflet just click here -
http://risingtide.org.uk/files/rt/Final%20FFD
%202010%20Graphic%20-%20M%20Size_0.jpg
If you want to see
what people around the world got up to last year, you can read an
action round-up here -
http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2009/category/frontpage/.
If you are organizing a public action email us the details and
we'll advertise it on the Rising Tide website. Lastly, once your action is
over email us a photo and short write-up and we'll put it on
the website.
For more information see:
http://risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday
www.fossilfoolsday.org
Or email - info@risingtide.org.uk
In the words of that
master of pranks: "That's All Folks".
Tuesday 09 Mar 2010
Dear friends,
In 5 days, 2 African governments will try to pry open the
worldwide ban on ivory trading -- a decision that could wipe out
whole elephant populations and bring these magnificent
animals closer to extinction.
Tanzania and Zambia are lobbying the UN for special exemptions
from the ban, but this would send a clear signal to the ivory
crime syndicates that international protection is weakening and
it's open-season on elephants. Another group of African states
have countered by calling to extend the trade ban for 20 years.
Our best chance to save the continent's remaining elephants is to
support African conservationists. We only have 5 days left and
the UN Endangered Species body only meets every 3 years. Click
below to sign our urgent petition to protect elephants, and
forward this email widely -- the petition will be delivered to
the UN meeting in Doha:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/no_more_bloody_ivory_hh/?vl
Over 20 years ago, the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES) passed a worldwide ban on ivory
trading. Poaching fell, and ivory prices slumped. But poor
enforcement coupled with'experimental one-off sales', like the
one Tanzania and Zambia are seeking, drove poaching up and
turned illegal trade into a lucrative business -- poachers can
launder their illegal ivory with the legal stockpiles.
Now, despite the worldwide ban, each year over 30,000
elephants are gunned down and their tusks hacked off by poachers
with axes and chainsaws. If Tanzania and Zambia are
successful in exploiting the loophole, this awful trade could get
much worse.
We have a one off chance this week to extend the worldwide
ban and repress poaching and trade prices before we lose even
more elephant populations -- sign the petition now and then
forward it widely:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/no_more_bloody_ivory_hh/?vl
Across the world's cultures and throughout our history elephants
have been revered in religions and have captured our imagination
-- Babar, Dumbo, Ganesh, Airavata, Erawan. But today these
beautiful and highly intelligent creatures are being annihilated.
As long as there is demand for ivory, poaching and smuggling will
happen, but this week we have a chance to protect them and
crush the ivory criminals' profits -- sign the petition now:
As long as there is demand for ivory, elephants are at risk from
poaching and smuggling -- but this week we have a chance to
protect them and crush the ivory criminals' profits -- sign the
petition now:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/no_more_bloody_ivory_hh/?vl
With hope,
Paul, Alice, Iain, Ricken, Graziela, Ben, Raluca, Luis, Paula
Benjamin, David and the rest of the Avaaz team
More information:
Partners at Bloody Ivory and Born Free:
http://www.bloodyivory.org/
http://www.bornfree.org.uk/
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species:
http://www.cites.org
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Monday 08 Mar 2010
Plymouth Transition
Professor David Wheeler,
Pro Vice Chancellor University of Plymouth
8th March 2010
Dear Professor Wheeler,
RE:-Letter of support for the Transition Movement
Following the failure of the intergovernmental climate change
talks in Copenhagen last year to come up with a binding agreement
to cut greenhouse gas emissions, it has become increasingly
clear that climate change will need to be tackled from the ground
up, with grassroots initiatives, such as Transitions, playing an
important part. Indeed since that failure, indifference to
climate change among the public has grown, as sceptics have
sought to exploit a few relatively minor mistakes by climate
change scientists to suggest that the danger is exaggerated or
intractable.
Plymouth is the largest city in south west England, after
Bristol. It is relatively isolated city, whose spectacular
coastal setting belies significant problems of poverty,
deprivation, low wages and economic dependence upon a narrow
range of employers, notably the military. It was one of the major
navel bases from which the task force sailed to retake the
Falklands/ Malvinas. As has subsequently become apparent, that
war had more to do with securing the estimated 60 billion barrels
of remaining oil under the South Atlantic for the British state
than protecting the right of a few hundred Falkland residents.
Dependence on oil was evidenced when the oil tanker drivers
closed the Shell distribution deport at Cattedown a couple of
years ago causing forecourts throughout the Peninsular running
dry.
The legacy of hundreds of years of military history, combined
with a low wage economy, makes Plymouth a challenging place in
which to establish and embed a transition group. Many residents
face what they perceive to be more immediate problems. However,
paradoxically it is precisely in Plymouth, and places like it,
that the Transition movement is most required. As the navy
shrinks, Plymouth is first choice for scraping and cutting up the
redundant cores of nuclear powered submarines. This is a local
existential threat to current and future generations of
Plymothians that parallels and is interconnected to, the threats
from peak oil and climate change.
Since last June a Plymouth Transition group has been established
with the aim of raising awareness of the twin challenges of peak
oil and climate change and promoting a sustainable, non nuclear,
future for Plymouth. The Transition Plymouth group fully supports
the application for the research grant to explain the impacts of
the transition movement in unlocking energy dependent behaviours.
Yours sincerely,
On behalf of Transition Plymouth
Sunday 07 Mar 2010
Tony Brown and Wendy Miller have been announced as the
Plymouth Green Party’s first ever Prospective Parliamentary
Candidates. At the forthcoming General Election, Tony will
contest the Sutton & Devonport constituency, while Wendy will
stand for Moor View in the north of the city.
"This is a big step for the Greens," said Tony Brown.
"People say it's always a Labour seat, but look at their
record - the rich keep getting richer, leaving the rest of us in
a right economic mess. Greens stand for social justice and
environmental justice. You can't have one without the other. All
Plymouth voters should look at our policies and think again about
whom to support".
Tony currently works in Higher Education, having taught in
primary schools and as a science teacher in secondary schools.
When living in Cornwall he was a primary school governor, and he
has also worked as a counsellor for Relate (the family and couple
counselling service).
"Real Green policies would benefit Plymouth," said
Tony. "Our plans for more renewable energy and waste
reduction would create a lot of jobs. Our support for local
businesses would keep wealth in the city. We would convert the
dockyard into socially useful industries and remove the nuclear
threat from the city."
Tony is committed to personal and local action. He is a great
supporter of public transport, and has turned his small garden in
Keyham over for the growing of vegetables. He believes in small
changes at a personal level that add up to big and effective
change when people work together.
Wendy has lived in Plymouth for a decade. She worked for a
national health charity for many years before joining the staff
of the University of Plymouth. She has recently been campaigning
against building development on urban green space, and is an
active member of community organisations.
Speaking on her vision of a fighting for a fairer society, Wendy
said, “The Green Party supports a citizen’s income for
everyone. This will end the ridiculous benefits trap that many
are caught in.” She further commented, “We will recoup
taxes avoided by super-rich individuals and companies and limit
the foolish gambling activities of banks that jeopardise our
economy, jobs and homes.”
Wendy believes in protecting the NHS from pursuit of private
profit and in providing care for the most vulnerable –
children and elderly – in our communities. “Whilst
other parties perpetuate fear and mistrust amongst those who have
the least - the oldest trick in the political book of 'divide and
rule' - people in the Green Party see that there is more than
enough money in our society to provide decent, warm affordable
homes for everyone,” she said. “We only need to
redirect funds away from people who have indecent if not obscene
wealth whilst others lack enough to cover their basic needs.”
A record number of Green candidates will be standing at the next
election. There is a real chance of the first Green MPs being
elected - a Green vote is a vote for a fairer future.
For more information, visit the Plymouth Green Party website at: http://plymouth.greenparty.org.uk
or email David at: davidwildman.plymouth@yahoo.com
Thursday 04 Mar 2010
[From site:
http://unreportedworld.blogspot.com/ ]
Spring season of Indy documentaries revealing hidden truth. These
films seriously challenge the massaged messages from the BBC
& global media.
SUNDAY 11th April 2:30 pm ....
FREE SCREENING ...
Ground Floor Studio.
Money as Debt
by Paul Grignon, artist and videographer, exposes the
International banking cartel’s control over our lives
through usury & the power of private money creation as debt.
(55 mins)
Financial crisis - credit crunch - taxpayers bail out "free
market" bankers.. Hmmm . Just what's going on?
Who creates money? - Government, corporate and household debt has
reached astronomical proportions, how could there be that much
money to lend? in truth there isn’t. Today money is debt. A
seriously revealing film. You owe it to yourself to find out how
we are being duped.
Film followed by opportunity for open conversation. What do you
think?
SUNDAY 18th April 2:30 pm ....
FREE SCREENING ...
PIG BUSINESS
a film by Tracy Worcester
The Phoenix is delighted to be able to welcome the muddy booted
Marchioness renown as a tireless campaigner for justice, freedom
from cruelty and a sustainable environment for humans &
animals alike. Tracy will introduce her film bringing us up to
date on the campaign for sound farming practice and sustainable
local communities.
Reveals the impact of factory farming
Abusing animals : 1.2 billion pigs worldwide slaughtered for meat
yearly, more than half have been reared by intensely cruel
methods giving rise to new and potentially deadly viruses that
can infect human kind.
Destroying small farmers : Small independent farmers are
relentlessly driven out of business by the economies of scale
which large pig production systems can command.
Jeopardising lives by polluting the environment: It is not only
animals which are harmed by factory pig farms. Intensive farming
puts human health at risk not only by infectious diseases
transmitted to human populations
SUNDAY 2nd of May 2:30 pm ....
FREE SCREENING ...
Ground Floor Studio
Outfoxed by Robert Greenwald
Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism
Examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox
News, have been running a race to the bottom in tv news. The film
provides an in depth look at Fox new and the dangers of ever
enlarging corporations taking control of the public’s right
to know .... (55 mins)
More information visit http://www.outfoxed.org/
SUNDAYS Afternoons at 2.30
April 11th ... Money As Debt
What is money?
What could the world be like
with an equitable money system?
April 18th ... Pig Business
Corporate trashing of communities ...
torturing humans & animals in pursuit of money & power.
Intro & Q&A by the film's director & eco campaigner
Marchioness Tracy Worcester
May 2nd ... Outfoxed
The danger of corporations controlling the public’s right to
know
MONDAYS Evenings at 7 o/c
May 10th ...
Farm For The Future
Forest permaculture in the 21st century
May 17th ... Press For Truth
911 Families challenging the official conspiracy theory
May 24th ... Iron Wall
The "separation barrier" around land annexed by Israel
Glimpse through modern media’s fog
See beyond the shopping crowds
Check perceptions of reality
Peer beyond the spin
Be more knowing
Monday 01 Mar 2010
Devon Wildlife Trust is running its first Milling Day of the
year at its Cricklepit Mill home on Exeter’s quayside. The
aim of the event is to give people an exclusive look at a grist
mill in full working order right in the heart of the city.
The event will take place on Saturday 13 March from 1pm until 5pm
to tie in with the Festival of Social Science. During the day
there will be chance for the public to find out more about the
process of milling. Mill volunteers will be on hand to answer
questions and there will also be the chance to look around the
building and surrounding grounds.
To tie in with the theme of the Festival, DWT has produced a
recycling trail to guide people around its grounds showing how
over the generations people have employed various methods of
recycling.
Devon Wildlife Trust’s Marketing Manager, Rod Birtles said:
“'Cricklepit Mill is a great example of how people, wildlife
and technology interacted through the ages: the same stream that
provides power to grind the corn also acts as a highway and food
source for otters, kingfishers and other creatures. And all in
the heart of the city. A place like this has a particular beauty
- both because of the elegance of its operation and the way it
has been lovingly restored.'
Due to limited spaces, booking is essential. To book a place on
one of the tours, call Devon Wildlife Trust on 01392 279244 or
email contactus@devonwildlifetrust.org
For more information about the Mill visit www.devonwildlifetrust.org.
The visitor area and gardens are open 9am-5pm weekdays,
throughout the year.
Sunday 28 Feb 2010
Druid, Coach and Author Reveals Ancient Wisdom for Lasting
Love: Beauty, Kindness and Good Sex Help - But There's More!
Are you tired of ending up with the wrong person? Are you with
the right person but fearful of things going wrong? In either
case this new book, written by a leading UK executive coach and
practicing Druid, is for you.
In 'Learn to Love & Be Loved in Return', author Dr Paul Burr,
sets out a practical, emotional and spiritual path for developing
successful and lasting relationships in all areas of your life.
You can start by improving your relationship with yourself.
Paul says, "This book will not double your dating rate nor
make your more seductive or better at chatting people up. Instead
you will discover and build upon the roots at the heart of all
successful relationships. It's about becoming authentic through a
commitment to, and understanding of, real truth so that your
relationships can blossom."
Paul wrote this book because he's keenly aware that whilst love
undoubtedly brings great joy to many lives, it can also be the
source of the most suffering.
"In my executive coaching practice, people would come to me
with 'performance' issues or goals they wanted to achieve.
Invariably what mattered most to them was their relationships
with loved ones, colleagues and friends. By helping them to get
the relationships in their life on track, they achieved massive
breakthroughs in other areas."
The book is big on personal responsibility. It is packed with
self coaching tips and easy-to-follow steps for entering into and
nurturing healthy, productive and happy relationships.
Paul continues, "When relationships go sour we often blame
someone, something or ourselves. Alas when we do, we limit our
learning. Life becomes a spiral of negative patterns in
relationships that repeat themselves again and again. The simple
act of taking responsibility for the results we get is the first
step on the way to finding joy."
So, if you're just looking for recreational relationships then
this book is not for you.
The author warns, "You will not get love quick with this
book - although the dialogues, when explicit, may well quicken
love. They may also bring a relationship - or put more correctly,
its purpose - to an end, depending on
the answers you get. The overall goal is to help you find and
nurture relationships for mutual, and long-term joy."
~~~
"Learn To Love & Be Loved in Return: Making
Relationships Last" ISBN 1907498036 by Dr Paul Burr is
available to buy from Amazon and all good bookshops.
Sunday 28 Feb 2010
We are holding a couple of workshops at Trill Farm (www.trillfarm.co.uk),
for professional growers, that are being run by Iain
Tolhurst.
Integrated
Conservation Seminar, with Iain Tolhurst, 16th March
An opportunity to learn more about utilising conservation
management as a whole farm/garden policy, not just bolting
bits on but actually making conservation work for the health
of your farm/garden and the environment. The aim is to
improve the flora and fauna of your farm improve your yields
and reduce the need for inputs and energy use.
The seminar is inter-active you will be expected to do some
work and participate in the workshop sessions.
The day will include discussions of your own farm's
conservation and how it has to work for you; what you need,
what you can realistically achieve and how to establish and
look after it.
There will be a workshop on what conservation features can
you develop on your farm/garden, and a farm walk to study
conservation in action.
The day runs from 10am - 4pm and includes tea, coffee and a
delicious three course organic lunch prepared from fresh farm
produce.
Cost: £65 per person or £45 for commercial growers.
Pest and
Disease control using a systems approach, with Iain Tolhurst
15th June
An interactive seminar, you will be expected to do some work,
taking an in depth look at the problems and benefits of weeds
pest and disease in your crops. The emphasis will be on the
importance and practicalities of developing an all
"systems approach" to management of natural systems
to allow for positive control measures in conjunction with
habitat enhancement.
Weeds, pest and disease are often considered in a wholly
negative way, this seminar will encourage delegates to look
beyond the negative at how working with nature can reap
positive benefits. A greater understanding of natural systems
will encourage growers to design appropriate growing systems
to control any problems they may have.
The day will include presentations and workshops on
cultivating positive health, Why do we have pests?, Diseases:
what is their role? and how to interpret, control and benefit
from weeds.
We
will also tour the farm looking at bio-diversity in action
with opportunity to ask questions.
The day runs from
10am - 4pm and includes tea, coffee and a delicious three
course organic lunch prepared from fresh farm produce.
Cost: £65 per person or £45 for commercial growers.
Iain
Tolhurst (IOTA accredited)
Iain Tolhurst is
an independent organic horticulture consultant specialising
in advice and training in horticultural business development
and vegetable box schemes, with a specialisation in Stockfree
Organic systems. He is a practicing organic vegetable
producer on 18 acres and has been a Soil Association symbol
holder since 1976. Iain's advisory career began in 1984 as
senior horticultural advisor with Elm Farm Research Centre.
He works closely with a group of clients delivering on farm
advice and specialises in a "systems approach" to
deal with the problems of fertility, pests and diseases.
www.tolhurstorganic.co.uk
<http://www.tolhurstorganic.co.uk>
Many thanks,
Zoë
Zoë Haigh
Project Development Coordinator
Trill Farm
Musbury
Axminster
Devon
EX13 8TU
01297 631113
www.trillfarm.co.uk
Wednesday 24 Feb 2010
Hi everyone,
I'd like to introduce you to a new project for this year:
2020 Vision Exeter
The project aims to galvanise Exeter to deal with its own share
of the upcoming climate emergency.
It has 6 elements:
(1) Setting a local target that is commensurate with the
crisis: 45% cut in CO2 by 2020. 90% cut before 2030.
(2) Creating an attractive vision for a low carbon Exeter.
(3) Developing a community-wide Carbon Descent Action Plan
which is created and delivered by the community.
4) Measuring progress and inspiring individual action by
setting up Carbon Rationing Action Groups
(5) Creating momentum to ensure that the low carbon ethic
becomes an integral part of Exeter life.
(6) Doing all this under a "Local Agenda 21"
style community led process.
The development of the project -
so far - has been the result of a Facebook
group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=224685473481&ref=ts
The thinking here is that this allows a new family of people to
get involved in the process of building a low carbon
Exeter.
In addition Facebook groups have
recently elevated Rage Against The Machine to the Christmas
Number 1, and also ensured that Rod Liddle was not appointed as
the new Independent editor.
Now we need to unleash the power of Facebook to stop
Climate Change. So please join our Facebook group....
... http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=224685473481&ref=ts
ACTION: Our first action of the year is this weekend
... We are setting up
stall outside Boots, and asking people to
"Get Serious About CO2".
- Saturday
- 27th February from 10am to 2pm
- Exeter High Street - Outside Boots.
Our main
campaign is to collect postcards supporting the 45% by 2020 target, which we will send to Exeter City
Council
Also - Have your photo taken to go onto our
Supporters Wall.
- Pledge Wall - Let us know what you can do in your community.
- Hug a penguin.
I hope you will visit us on Saturday and see what we
are up to.
Thanks
Maurice
Maurice Spurway
Co-ordinator - Exeter Climate Action
http://www.exeterclimateaction.org.uk
su3052@eclipse.co.uk
07801 136937
http://www.2020visionexeter.org.uk
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