Pete Smith @ April 20, 2008 # One Comment
Today, Tuesday April 22nd, is Earth Day, an annual event that was founded in 1970 and has grown into an international celebration of our collective commitment to building a safer, healthier and prosperous world for all of us, starting in the communities where we live. There are many ways to get involved and no action [...]
Pete Smith @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Here in the London Borough of Bromley, de facto capital of the People’s Republic of Suburbia, the environmental bush telegraph is throbbing. Change Alley has received a personal invitation from the local branch of Friends of the Earth (FoE), printed on “rescued, redundant office letterhead paper”. Tony Juniper, retiring Executive Director of FoE, is coming [...]
Pete Smith @ December 12, 2007 # 7 Comments
From the Avaaz website: Climate negotiations in Bali are in crisis. Things were looking good till now: near-consensus on a delicate deal, including 2020 targets for rich countries, in return for which China and the developing world would do their part over time. IPCC scientists have said such targets are needed to prevent catastrophe. But [...]
Pete Smith @ December 7, 2007 # 2 Comments
Last month The Coffee House drew your attention to the Worst EU Lobbying and Greenwash Awards 2007. The winners were announced at a festive awards ceremony in the Witloof Cellar in Brussels on 4 December 2007. Winner of the Worst EU Lobbying Award 2007 BMW, Daimler and Porsche – nominated together in the worst EU [...]
Pete Smith @ November 26, 2007 # 2 Comments
Photo: ‘Kivalina Sunrise’ by Vision Aerie An island in a moonlit sea. A thin sliver of sand 6 miles long, under pressure from rising seas and erosion. A place with no future, named in an IPCC report as an example of the costs of relocating coastal communities. An indigenous community of 400 who desperately want [...]
Pete Smith @ November 21, 2007 # 8 Comments
Buy Nothing Day is almost upon us once again. On November 23rd in the US and Canada, the 24th for the rest of us, thousands of people around the world are planning to mark one of the busiest shopping days of the year by not spending any money. You too can take a break from [...]
Pete Smith @ November 16, 2007 # 2 Comments
Spinwatch, in conjunction with Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe and LobbyControl, are running The Worst EU Lobbying and Greenwash Awards 2007. This is your chance to vote for the “most deceptive, misleading, or otherwise problematic lobbying tactics in attempts to influence EU decision-making”. Nominees in the ‘Worst EU Lobbying’ category are: BMW, [...]
Pete Smith @ October 9, 2007 # 5 Comments
Now this is what I pay my Greenpeace membership fees for, not wittering on about low energy light bulbs. In the early hours of Monday morning, a group of 50 Greenpeace activists occupied the Kingsnorth power station on the Medway estuary in Kent. One group immobilised the conveyor belts carrying coal into the plant then [...]
Pete Smith @ July 11, 2007 # 13 Comments
Thousands of badgers will be gassed or snared if the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) gets its way. Until the 1980′s, gassing of badger setts was routinely employed as a means of controlling the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB). British farmers and successive UK governments have long believed that TB was spread by badgers and infecting [...]
Pete Smith @ July 8, 2007 # 15 Comments
There’s been a lot of disagreement about the Live Earth project, its motivation and usefulness. There’s always room for a bit more. Off-Grid journalist Brendan Montague tells the tale of how British environmentalists who first conceived the idea of a climate change concert were forced into the margins and their attempts to reduce carbon emissions [...]
