Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’

Operation Bike Bloc: Designing the Resistance Machine!

The designing and building of the Bike Bloc prototypes in Bristol and what's in store for Copenhagen.

An interview with artist and activist John Jordan: Find out how the designing and building of the Bike Bloc prototypes went in Bristol last week, and what is in store for Copenhagen.

After ExtInked: An interview

A chat with one of the ExtInked projects animal ambassadors

The ExtInked project dreamt up by the Ultimate Holding Company to mark Charles Darwin’s bicentennial birthday is no doubt one of the most unique and amazing projects I’ve heard about …

Ghost Forest: Trafalgar Square au natural

Angela Palmer‘s ecological art is a wake-up call for those still absent from the Climate Change argument

Ghost Forest in Trafalgar Square is a well-timed art-installation taking place ahead of the UN conference on Climate Change from December 7 to 18, involving 11,000 delegates from 192 countries. …

Earth Listings: 16th – 22nd November 2009

Time to put some pressure on RBS, start preparing for Copenhagen and get engaged with some of the most important issues of our time!
RBS Tar Sands Action
Tuesday 17th November 2009

Representatives …

Reclaiming power at Copenhagen!

Creating Social change at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit

COP15 is the next major convening of international governments to reconcile international protocol on climate change.
That’s a lot of long words, what it boils down to is that we are …

The Confessions of a Vegetarian

The trials and tribulations of turning veggie

‘So why are you vegetarian?’ I seem to have been asked this question a lot in the last two months since I stopped eating meat. It makes for quite …

Earth Listings: 2nd – 8th November 2009

Check out the range of talks and discussions this week, there is a chance to vent some anger at some cops in a more legitimate manner than normal as well …

Oxfam taking action with a city of tents and Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz lending a hand

Putting pressure on the Government and getting people up for the wave...

If you walked over the Millennium Bridge today you might happen upon a small city of tents, this is in fact not a new city of borrowers or a miniature …

350 International Day of Climate Action!

A massive global spectacle, but is that all it amounts to?

Last Saturday was the 350 International Day of Climate Action, tens of thousands of people gathered around the world in hundreds of countries to raise awareness about the risk of …

The Great Climate Swoop 2009: A retrospective

Laying a power station to siege; fences, dogs, police and direct action

Last weekend a thousand protestors descended on Ratcliffe-On-Soar power station to protest against the continued use of coal power, which is one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions.

The weeks …

Teach-In ‘The 2012 Imperative’ – How designers and the education system can respond to Climate Change

An inspiring day, it's imperative you sign up!

The Teach-In was held last week at the V&A and a packed hall of students, faculty and staff  - as well as 22 institutions around the world tuning in to …

The Millennium Seed Bank – Helping to stop the decline of our future ‘civilisation’

Freeze chambers, micro layered intricacies and an over priced coffee shop.

Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank is on a mission to conserve the world’s plant species, focusing regions most at risk from climate change. The partnership aims for the safe storage of …

The Tipping Point – Your handy local eco-shop

A place where eco coffee mornings coincide with direct action training.

Tipping Point is an info-eco-swap shop on Gillingham High Street, which at first entrance resembles your Gran’s front room…if she’d taken a sudden interest in Climate change and decorated accordingly. …

Climate Rush

Rambling gypsy caravan with the climate suffragettes

I’ve been on the road with Climate Rush, with 3 horses, a couple of caravans, plenty of publicity and a heck of a load of energy. We’ve been on a …

Blackheath Climate Camp 2009

Spiky Fluff

Climate Camp was held over last week on Blackheath Common at a site with a history of English protest, notably during the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. This time there was …

Camp for Climate Action

One week to go!

Image by Mia Overgaard
The Camp for Climate Action 2009 is almost upon us – now’s the time to gather ourselves and prepare to swoop. Convinced that the response to …

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Vivienne Westwood & Climate Change

The reason the expression ‘fashion victim’ exists is because it rightly verifies the tendency of much of the fash crowd to often blindly follow trends – is it too simplistic …

Earth Hero: Clemmie James

Telling the world about Tuvalu.

Clementine James in Tuvalu.
I met up with Clemmie James at Coffee@ on Brick Lane. Until recently, she was about as far away from this part of noisy, urban East …

Earth Day

Earth, The Budget

Happy Earth Day, Amelia’s Magazine readers!
April 22nd is Earth Day (mainly for America, but we can still take part in celebrating it – it is everyones Earth after all!) If …