The Council are preparing to cut down all the trees on the ramparts of the Iron Age fort around Observatory Hill next winter (2009). To quote BCC:
" Such large scale work will attract a lot of attention including from the media and it is proposed that a well planned information dissemination exercise be carried out before work starts to explain the reasons for the work and to explain the benefits of carrying it out." read full story / add a comment

BP + car + Hit and run + TV documentary + Climate Destabilisation under-estimated = headache! read full story / add a comment

World-famous forager Fergus Drennan is back! read full story / add a comment

He's a story that will run and run - the Seven Barrage - potentially the source of lots of power but also the home of lots of wildlife. To dam or not to dam (and where and how) - that is the question. read full story / add a comment

Monthly meetings on the world economy and the environment.
At the Albert Inn, corner of West St and Sheene Rd Bedminster.
Free, everyone welcome - intended to be interesting and comprehensible - none of us are experts!! read full story / add a comment

If you live in Bristol you probably live less than 20 miles from Oldbury nuclear power station.

How safe is that?

"Studies we commissioned in 2001 showed an eleven-fold increase in leukaemia in nearby Chepstow, fifty percent extra breast cancers downstream of Oldbury and 37.5 percent extra prostate cancers downwind of the plant."
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Forwarded from StopBIA campaign: Bristol International Airport are holding a pre-planning consultation with an exhibition at the airport this week (details below). StopBIA don't not believe that this consultation will change any significant detail of the actual plans that will be submitted in a few weeks time. read full story / add a comment

Course in building your own ecohome read full story / add a comment

Network Rail, in their wisdom, without consultation or announcement have seen fit to destroy all the trees running along the Malago Road side of the railway embankment at the bottom of Windmill Hill in Bedminster. read full story / add a comment

A Sedgemoor District Council officer made a secret request for three-quarters of a million pounds from two nuclear companies to help with planning issues for Hinkley C, raising questions of conflict of interest and triggering a row with neighbouring West Somerset District Councillors. read full story / add a comment

Spring is about to spring and its time for Tinkers Bubble's coppicing weekend again. It is on the weekend of 21st/22nd February 2009 at Tinkers Bubble community near Yeovil, Somerset. Lots of sumptious food provided, cider, and accomodation (not quite so sumptious but adequate). We work from 9am ish to dusk on each day, coppicing hazel - some old derelict stools and some cut some years ago, working with hand tools in teams of 3-5 with at least one experienced coppicer per team. read full story / add a comment

While many believe that the redevelopment of the Elizabeth Shaw Chocolate Factory in Greenbank will have positive benefits for the community overall, many are increasingly concerned about the sale of a strip of publicly owned land along the Bristol and Bath Railway Path, currently the subject of a consultation by Bristol City Council. If the sale is approved, the 170m long strip of mature hedgerow- habitat for foxes, badgers, and birds- would be destroyed and developed into a 7-storey tower block and “cycle houses.” There is also concern about the 250 parking spaces proposed for the development, likely to generate a significant amount of traffic in this currently quiet corner of Easton.

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Next People and Planet meeting will be held this Thursday 15 January at 7pm at Jacobs Ladder. read full story / add a comment

The Earth First! Winter moot is an opportunity for people who feel affiliation with the ideas behind Earth First! to network, discuss and reflect on the ecological direct action movement and to plan for the future. In contrast with the yearly EF! Summer Gathering, which is held outside for around five days, the winter moot is a shorter weekend meeting, inside, less aimed at skill sharing and more at looking where we are at as movement and where we want to be going. read full story / add a comment

The absence of ongoing global warming over the past decade and pronounced global cooling of the past year cannot credibly be dismissed as simple local variability in weather. It is clearly global and contrary to all predictions of carbon dioxide governed global warming.

The media are beginning to find news value in anthropogenic global warming doubts and the costs of ill-conceived countermeasures. Skeptical scientific opinions are increasingly being heard and conflicting new evidence appearing.

The alarmists have gone too far out on a very long limb for any retreat. A cooling trend in climate would be disastrous for the whole anthropogenic global warming ideology and result in a catastrophic loss of credibility for a large sector of the scientific community. The escalating fears they express appear to be based not so much on any important new evidence as on their own increasingly desperate hopes. read full story / add a comment

The final day of the hearing took place this morning read full story / add a comment

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Royate Hill Community Orchard regular monthly workday
Saturday 3rd January
11am - 4pm (drop by any time, but we usually start cleaning up at 3pm)
map: http://www.kebelecoop.org/images/flyer_permaculture_may...8.pdf

Tools and gloves provided
Hot drinks available
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An event for people who have been growing there own food and for people who want to start too, a day too swap seeds, get a pack of free seeds for the first time and find out why we should be saving seed. read full story / add a comment

Campaigners are astonished that the UK's oldest operating reactor has been permitted to continue operating past its planned closure date at the end of this month and despite safety concerns for the past six years. read full story / add a comment