Saturday 4th July
11am-4pm
drop by anytime, but we usually start cleaning up around 3:30pm
map:
http://www.kebelecoop.org/images/flyer_permaculture_may...8.pdf

Everyone is welcome, regardless of knowledge or experience read full story / add a comment

Somerset County Council wrecks beauty spot with PFI initiative read full story / add a comment

Stop Hinkley has referred Sedgemoor Council's recent donation of public land for the nuclear energy centre to the Audit Commission. It has also reported the donation of £1.9 million by the South West Development Agency (SWRDA) as unfairly subsidising the nuclear industry. read full story / add a comment

We have arranged a public meeting for Wednesday 17th June, in Batheaston Methodist Hall in Northend (just past Wayfield Gardens, on the right), from 7.30pm-9.30pm. Please come along and encourage others to attend in order to find out what you can do to stop the scheme going ahead. There will be representatives from a range of organisations present that are fighting to stop the application from being approved, but they all require your support and assistance. read full story / add a comment

I went to the first public meeting of transition Montpelier earlier. It was an interesting evening.

Topics discussed included;

· Picton Square
· Solar power
· Home improvements
· Living Streets and 20s Plenty
· A Montpelier festival
· Developing Montpelier Park
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"Energy giant E.ON is on schedule with plans to build a biomass-fired power generation facility in the Royal Portbury Docks at Bristol and will begin construction next year if permission is granted." read full story / add a comment

On Tuesday night at the Cube Cinema there will be a free night of talks vaguely related to greenness and politics. Speakers from Green Arts Network (on non hierarchical decision making), Campaign for Democracy (on how a direct democracy in the UK could help with long term problems like climate change) and a Bristol University postgraduate student on resource scarcity and conflict resolution. read full story / add a comment

Sustainable Thornbury is holding an indie showing of The Age of Stupid on
June 19th at the Cossham Hall in Thornbury. Details on the Sustainable
Thornbury website: www.sustainablethornbury.org read full story / add a comment

Bristol's Biggest Bike Ride takes place on June 21st, why not take part and get pedalling! read full story / add a comment

The Executive of Sedgemoor District Council has secretly agreed to donate a plot of publicly owned land to the Energy Skills Centre at Bridgwater College. The centre aims to provide training in nuclear skills. read full story / add a comment

Bristol Question Time for Euro candidates read full story / add a comment

Yet another encounter with an idiot in a filthy belching 4X4 today while riding my bike along Coronation Road.

It made me angry enough to do a little more Climate Change researching instead of working for money ............ as you do.

I found this brilliant piece by Indigenous Peoples working together.

I also came across this new MIT thingy.

JOHANNESBURG, 21 May 2009 (IRIN)

New projections by the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) show that mean global temperature could increase by as much as 5.2 degrees Celsius this century if "rapid and massive action" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is not taken, according to a press release. Previous studies have indicated an increase of 2.4 degrees Celsius.

Various studies have shown that a rise of 2 degrees Celsius in global temperatures would probably destroy 30 percent to 40 percent of all known species, generate bigger, fiercer and more frequent heat waves and droughts, more intense weather events like floods and cyclones, and would raise the sea level by at least a metre, displacing millions.

The new projections, published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate, indicate a 90 percent chance of the temperature increasing by between 3.5 degrees and 7.4 degrees Celsius during the next 100 years. read full story / add a comment

Bristol September 12th – 20th, 2009

Social Change not Climate Change read full story / add a comment

Films night and Q&A read full story / add a comment

"''We are standing at the tip of a problem - it is just like where we were with HIV 25 years ago'' read full story / add a comment

The locations for the next round of nuclear power is being discussed. Oldbury is very close to Bristol, Your children and grandchildren will have to deal with the consequences of this decision. Comment on the application here:
http://www.nuclearpowersiting.decc.gov.uk/nomination/ol...bury/

Hinkley is also nearby
http://www.nuclearpowersiting.decc.gov.uk/nomination/hi...oint/

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i have discovered a large amount of trees cut around tesco read full story / add a comment

The council plan to remove the mound along with the mature trees down at what they are calling the 'Cabot Circus' end.
They plan to cut new pathways - Queens Square style, through our green.

Air quality, health, recreation including relaxation all of which amount to quality of Bristol life, are all once again. under threat.
If you intend to vote this June bear this in mind.
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Welcome to South West Watch - keeping a beady eye on all that matters in this great region. This update from our Media Watch desk... read full story / add a comment

We are part of the Rising Tide network of autonomous groups taking action against the root causes of climate change.
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