UK : LDN : London is Europe’s most polluted capital.. Since 2006 I had perceived the air visibly getting greyer on the rare occasions I take the Liverpool Street train, but had dismissed it as my own prejudices having moved away from the capital to a less crowded part of the country - until seeing this report today I had no idea things were that bad!
The City of London has been found to be one of the most polluted places in Europe after monitoring equipment recorded dangerous levels of minute particles for the 36th time this year. Under EU rules, Britain is allowed no more than 35 "bad air" days in the whole year, and now faces court cases and unlimited fines by Europe.
The breaching of the EU levels after just six months will embarrass the government, which was sent a final warning only three weeks ago from the European commission to improve air quality. Many other places in central London are close to the limit and can be expected to break the law within weeks.
The government has applied to Europe for a time extension until 2011 to comply with daily particulate pollution from traffic, but is not certain to be granted it because it has been flouting EU air quality laws since 2005 and is perceived by the environment commissioner Janez PotoÄnik to have done little to address the problem.
London air pollution 'worst in Europe' | Environment | The Guardian
US/INT : The most dangerous wild animal in the world.. Most Americans may not realize it, but already we are trappedâsurrounded by an ever present danger that threatens our health, our lives, and even the very environment in which we live. This danger comes in the form of a creature more perilous than any other to have walked the earth before it.
It can take as much as $150,000 or more to raise just one of them. Many caretakers are ill equipped to handle such a creature, resulting in the deaths of around 2,000 of them every year in the United States alone due to abuse or neglect. In 2002, a little over 800,000 of these creatures were determined to have been abused or neglected in the United States by their caretakers.
Training is a vital part of raising this creature, yet many caretakers implement little or no training. In the juvenile stages, these creatures are capable of destructive and erratic behavior, and behavior that is dangerous both to themselves and to those around them. This can carry over into adolescence and even adulthood despite proper training. When maturing, many have been known to âturnâ on their caretakers. The vast majority of those raised in captivity will have escaped from their caretakers by the time they reach adulthood.
On the loose, the destructive habits of these creatures costs taxpayers, local businesses, and local governments millions of dollars every year. The environment has suffered even moreâover the past ten years alone, over half of the world's wetlands and original forests have been destroyed as a result of intrusion by this creature. Even the ocean biomes are left vulnerable. This creature has been both directly and indirectly responsible for the destruction of 11% of the worldâs coral reefs. The loss of native plants and animals is just as staggering. Since 1600, an estimated 50 species of mammals and 125 species of birds have become extinct, and today, around 20,000 different species of plants and animals are facing extinctionâall almost entirely because of the destructive and intrusive nature of these creatures.
Humans have been paying a price as well. This creature is known for its potentially aggressive and often unpredictable behavior. Every year in the United States, approximately 6.9 out of every 100,000 Americans are attacked and killed by these creatures. In addition to this, there are a host of diseases capable of being carried by this creature, many of which are contagious to humans.
Influenza is one such disease, which afflicts 10 to 20 percent of the American population per year and is responsible for the deaths of approximately 36,000 Americans per year.
You may think zoos or specialized personnel would be the only ones capable of legally possessing a creature this dangerous and hard to care for, yet this is not true. As many as 4 million of these creatures are born in the United States every year--most under the care of private âowners.â A startling 17% of these owners are under the age of 20! It is all completely legal.
By now you may be wondering, what can be done to prevent people from getting a hold of such a creature? What can be done to stop this startling trend and protect human lives and the environment? The answer is simple: ban Homo sapiens.
http://www.dogster.com/dogs/983191/diary/Here_comes_trouble/626849
The Wave – The UK’s Biggest Climate Change March On Saturday 5 December 2009, ahead of the crucial UN climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people from all walks of life will flow through the streets of London to demonstrate their support for a safe climate future for all.
Part of a global series of public actions, The Wave will call on world leaders to take urgent action to secure a fair international deal to stop global warming exceeding the danger threshold of 2 degrees C.
The Wave, organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition, will show mass support by people from all backgrounds for a better, low carbon future for the UK and the world.
We want the UK Government to show leadership at Copenhagen. We want them to Protect the Poorest, Act Fair & Fast, and to Quit Dirty Coal now, to inspire the deal the world needs.
Join The Wave - the UKâs biggest ever demonstration in support of action on climate change.
Please also add The Wave as an event to your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Anyone heading down? Or up for that matter.
Climate Camp hits London town THIS WED… Yes yes.
Hello people. Long time no speak. As some of you know the reason I've not been around is because I've been getting far too involved in the Camp for Climate action.
I know you've ben chatting a lot about poor Ian and all the G20 stuff. It's time to put your money where your mouth is and come get involved in the next action!
Climate Camp London sets up on Wednesday for a week. There'll be 1,000s of people swooping into a squatted site in London at midday on Wed, where we will stay for a week of workshops, entertainments, activist training and learning how to survive the coming apocalypse!!
For more info check out Home » Camp for Climate Action
See you in the fields!!
raaa12
UK : Scot : Mainshill Wood Occupied URGENT: No Open Cast Here! Join the fight against open cast coal mining, climate chaos and community destruction! Come to the Solidarity Camp
Last night activists occupied the site of Mainshill Wood in solidarity with communities in the UK suffering from the impacts of open casting and resisting new mines.
Scottish Coal have been given permission to mine 1.7 million tonnes of coal from Mainshill in South Lanarkshire, a decision by South Lanarkshire Council and later Scottish Ministers that enraged local residents who for years have campaigned against this mine. There are four other mines in the area, making it one of the most heavily mined areas in Europe.
This new coal mine is only one of 20 such others to have recently been given planning permission in Scotland. If we are to have any chance of limiting dangerous climate change and protecting communities from carbon-intensive industries we must take matters into our own hands.
We have taken this autonomous and free space for those who wish to create positive, creative and egalitarian solutions to ecological collapse, climate change and environmental injustice. Profiteering companies, land owners and governments will not mine for new coal here!
Support Us
We need:
People â to hold this site we need people to join us. The site has a safe spaces policy and welcomes all who share our desire to live in a space free from hierarchy, oppression, discrimination and coal mines!
Climbing equipment â any you can donate will be put to good use
Building materials - suitable bits of wood, rope, polyprop, pallets
Food - lots of it!
Money - running a camp can be expensive, if you can donate to us please do
Other equipment - head torches, tools, containers, tarps, waterproofs, sleeping bags
How to get to the camp:
Buses run to Douglas from Lanark and Hamilton. Both Lanark and Hamilton have train and bus stations and are easy to get to from either Glasgow Central Train Station or Buchannon Street Bus Station. From South of the border, going to Glasgow is the easiest way to get to Douglas. Buses from Lanark to Douglas are much more frequent!
Bus from Lanark:
The Service Number 9 (William Stokes & Sons) runs from Lanark - Glespin, stopping in Douglas (service every 49mins past each hour). Get off at the Eggerton Bridge stop just before Douglas - youâll see the camp on your left just after the M74 underpass!
Bus from Hamilton:
The X50 (Henderson Travel - The web site for henderson travel) Hamilton-Glespin runs Hamilton, Interchange - Lesmahagow, Church Hall - Rigside - Douglas, leaving Hamilton at 17:05 (one service per day)
From Douglas:
The bus will stop before Douglas at Eggerton Bridge and you will see the camp on your left after the M74 underpass. If you miss this stop get off in Douglas and walk North East back up the A70 for 1km and the camp will be on yout right just before the M74.
Hitching:
If you hitch, the camp is right next to the M74 which runs from Glasgow to Carlisle. Get dropped of at junction 12 and walk South West down the A70 towards Douglas and the camp is a few hundred metres on your left. Happendon services are close to junction 12 - if you end up therewalk South down the B7078, turn right onto the A70 towards Douglas, which takes you under the M74 and as above.
If you need a rideâŠ
âŠfrom somewhere close by call the site phone and weâll try to sort you out.
Contact Us
Call the site phone on: 07806 926 040
Wolf at the Door (at last, a decent UK based peak oil site!) a well written (not overly technical or confusing) and pragmatic (no tinfoil helmet) site about peak oil and how to prepare for it - written for and by someone in Britain raaa
Wolf at the Door
Algae, Power Plant / Source of the Future? I can't remember what book i was reading but this came up in it. Now the book was a work of fiction but i decided to delve deeper and do a little research. Watched a couple of Discovery episodes about this subject and i think it's quite an exciting prospect, Non polluting energy for all. raaa
These sites will explain it better than i can though, im tired and can't be arsed to type! :weee:
Algae: Power Plant of the Future?
New power generation: Alternative energy sources - Science, News - The Independent
The promise of algae
:bounce_g:
Floods, Drought, Pollution and Survival: Climate Camp Talk on the 5th Feb Not sure if this is the right forum- please fell free to move if so:
Climate Camp invites women from the Global South to speak about how they are organizing to survive the Climate Change that is affecting their lives now.
Hear what women are doing to protect their homes, land, water supplies, and communities. Discuss what we can do in London to build our resistance worldwide.
More info can be found here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/263887294
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=48236403506
Help Needed: Climate March – 6th December 2008 We nelp manning stalls, fundraising and stewarding! If you're up for it call: 02078339311...
Campaign against Climate Change
Global Climate Campaign
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Environment / wider world issues how many of you are concerned about these as well as the fun aspects of life/partying?
even if you are sceptical or just confused over the many conflicting arguments over peak oil/global warming etc, there are still obvious changes and issues affecting everyones life - traffic congestion and pollution of the countryside, higher petrol and food prices
I know people who are unwilling to drive to raves not because of paranoia over feds, but simply because they can't afford the petrol like they used to...
when i first started raving it was just hedonism until the mid 90s, then (perhaps because of the CJA?) we started teaming up with environmental groups, other activist groups... but now it seems to have gone back to just hedonism...
perhaps its time for everyone to look at the wider picture?
(especially as this time "normal society" seems to be getting more on the
environmentally friendly bandwagon!)
as well as partying, how many of you do something (however small) to help the environment or make society a better place?12
ATTN: Binge, or other brainy people who studied environmental science do any of you know why weather fronts keep changing so its sunny during the week and rainy/cold at the weekend? I'm sure I saw some rational scientific reason for this but forgot what site it was on :cry:
and is there any way to combat this?
Oil prices to hit $250 per barrel The chief executive of the world's largest energy company has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel "in the foreseeable future".
The forecast from Alexey Miller, the head of the Kremlin-owned gas giant Gazprom, would herald the arrival of ÂŁ2-per-litre petrol and send shockwaves through the economy. His comments were the most stark to be expressed by an industry executive and come just days after the oil price registered its largest-ever single-day spike, hitting $139.12 per barrel last week amid fears that the world's faltering supply will be unable to keep up with demand.
This could do more than the police for stopping people going to parties i reckon. or maybe not, but it will certainly make it a lot more expensive!
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article3788934.ece12
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