Hola Climate Changers,
Larger than life, Step It Up will step into your lives this Saturday.
Get this - thousands and thousands of Americans will be involved, all
over the United States - and loads of Brits too.
Grab a piece of the stepping action - call on the UK Government to
make 80% Carbon Cuts by 2050 - or we're all toast !
Don't forget now - Step It Up on Saturday - and Watch your Carbon Weight :-
http://www.planet-positive.org.uk/img/yournumber_20070412.doc
And if there's no event local to you, follow the Greenhouse Party
Rules (see below).
jo.
+44 77 17 22 13 96
http://www.workface.org
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/climate-energy
http://www.planet-positive.org.uk
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/planetpositive
http://www.blackoutbritain.org.uk
http://www.blackoutlondon.net
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EVENTS
STEP IT UP 2007
Saturday 14th April 2007
Step It Up 2007 : Call for 80% Carbon Cuts by 2050
Step It Up UK : http://www.carbon-info.org/stepitupuk/StepItUp2007Index.htm
Step It Up USA : http://stepitup2007.org
STEP IT UP 2007 : GREENHOUSE PARTY
Saturday 14th April 2007
To mark your support for Step It Up, go to your local meeting. If there is
no
local event, get some friends together to follow the Greenhouse Party Rules
:-
1. Do your Carbon Footprint with friends
http://www.planet-positive.org.uk/img/yournumber_20070412.doc
2. Take in some big Media
Watch the film "An Inconvenient Truth" featuring Al Gore.
Or the film "An Incontestable Truth" from the Global Commons Institute :-
http://www.climatejustice.org.uk
3. Hold a peaceful discussion
Over Fairly Traded, organic tea, coffee and chocolate
BLACKOUT BRITAIN
Saturday 14th April 2007 8pm 20:00
http://www.blackoutbritain.org.uk/html/blackout_stepitup_2007.html
Part of the International Day of Climate Action, literally thousands
of people are taking part in Step It Up 2007 and doing something about
Climate Change. People are good. People do care. We can protect out
planet. Are you in ?
http://www.blackoutbritain.org.uk/html/signup.html
ENJOY your BLACKOUT adventure...A moment of climate calm.
BLACKOUT SPRING
4th May 2007
To coincide with the next IPCC report, we want to BLACKOUT to show we
can live without Carbon Energy, if that's going to be the road to
recovery :-
http://www.blackoutbritain.org.uk/html/blackout_spring_2007.html
CLIMATE CONFERENCE LSE
Saturday 12th May 2007 - Sunday 13th May 2007
http://www.campaigncc.org
London School of Economics, Houghton Streeet, London WC2
Organised by the Campaign against Climate Change with the London
School of Economics
and Political Science : The biggest climate change talk-in, learn-in
and plan-for-action of the
year ! Following the great success of our Conference last year - now
with an international
flavour. Speakers include Colin Challen MP (Lab); Norman Baker MP (Lib
Dem); Jean
Lambert MEP (Green); Ashok Sinha, Director 'Stop Climate Chaos'; Mark
Lynas; George
Marshall, Co-direcor COIN; Andrew Simms, New Economics Foundation;
Joss Garman, Plane Stupid...and Planet Positive !
TAKE HEART
Saturday 12 May 2007 10.00am - 5.00pm Sunday 13 May 2007 10.00am - 12.30am
A participatory workshop : Creative, fun and challenging ways to
strengthen our connection with each other, our community and our
world. Denial, despair, anger or numbness about our futures ? How do
we turn painful feelings into positive energy to sustain ourselves and
heal the Earth ? Facilitated by Maitrisara, Rowan Tilly and Miche
Fabre Lewin. For more information and to book a place, contact
Maitrisara telephone 01865 7777297 or email [log in to unmask]
CLIMATE CAMP STRATEGY GATHERING
25th May 2007 - 28th May 2007
Climate Camp have planned a Strategy Gathering for the climate direct
action movement, which will take place at the 491 Gallery in
Leytonstone, London from Saturday 26 to Monday 28 May (the Bank
Holiday weekend). There will be an introductory session on the evening
of Friday 25th May. We will also be producing a publication containing
information and ideas which will be distributed at the Climate Camp
itself and at the July organising meeting. Speakers and workshop
leaders so far confirmed include Larry Lohmann from
the Corner House, Charlie Kronick from Greenpeace, James Marriott from
Platform,
Paul Mobbs, author of Energy Beyond Oil, Kathryn Tulip from Corporate
Watch, Naresh Giangrande from Transition Town Totnes and Jutta Kill
from Fern. Seeds for Change will provide facilitation.
LONDON LOCAL CLIMATE ACTION WORKSHOP
Saturday 16 June 2007 : Planet Positive
As part of London Sustainability Weeks, Planet Positive will be
hosting a London-wide Climate Action Group workshop. We want to
encourage and inspire community groups who are new to environmental
concerns.
http://www.planet-positive.org.uk
http://lovelondon.london21.org
LIVE EARTH
7th July 2007
http://liveearth.org
http://sos.msn.com
BLACKOUT LIVE
7th July 2007
http://www.blackoutlondon.net/html/blackout_live_2007.html
STORM OF HOPE
7th July 2007
Operation Noah
http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/stormhope/index.htm
CLIMATE CAMP
14th August 2007 - 21st August 2007
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk
Unpack your mouldy old canvas tent from the junk cupboard, and dust
down your walking boots.
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DO SOMETHING
Climate Change Bill Consultation : One Click Letter to DEFRA :-
http://climatechangenews.org/campaign/climate-change-consultation.html
Climate Change Bill Consultation :-
http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/climatechange-bill/
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LAUGHS
Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Staying Alive : Arnie Says Tackling Climate Change
Should Be As Hip As Disco :-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6546975.stm
The environmental movement must become "hip and sexy" if it is to
succeed, California's
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said. Speaking at a conference in
Washington, he
urged campaigners to focus on the positives of cutting carbon
emissions rather than
making people feel guilty. The movement must change its image just as
he helped transform the "sketchy" reputation of bodybuilding, he said.
Mr Schwarzenegger said he
was optimistic attitudes to the environment were changing. But, he
said, campaigners on
climate change needed to shake off the image of being "tree-huggers"
and "fanatics".
"Environmentalists were no fun, they were like prohibitionists at a
fraternity party," he
said to laughter. The Republican governor - the former body-builder
turned film-star turned
politician - invoked images of pumping iron to make his point.
Weight-lifting was once
considered a pursuit for weirdos, he said, carried out in dungeon-like
gyms by people
embarrassed to admit to doing it. But with positive marketing "it
became mainstream, it
became sexy, attractive, and this is exactly what has to happen with
the environmental
movement", he said. The same thing happened when the John Travolta
film Saturday Night
Fever made disco-dancing hip and sexy, he added, reaching even his
little village in
Austria...
Humourific YouTube On The IPCC Report :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Kghh2HewE
Free power meters : From the Labour Party :-
http://www.labour.org.uk/index.php?id=news2005&ux_news%5Bid%5D=elecmonitors&cHash=94c970edea
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MEDIA
One Planet Agriculture : Richard Heinberg on Climate Radio :-
http://www.climateradio.co.uk
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NEWS
Large Insurance Company Covers Itself Against London Flooding :-
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2054494,00.html
Three of London's world heritage sites - the Palace of Westminster,
the Tower of London
and the riverbank buildings of Maritime Greenwich - face a significant
threat from "more
intense and frequent flooding" of the River Thames, the Unesco report
warned. Scientists
predict rising sea levels and changing North Sea storm patterns could
combine, leaving
the Thames barrier unable to cope with the effects of climate change
after 2030. The Unesco report featured 26 case studies, focusing on
five areas likely to be affected by
climate change - glaciers, marine biodiversity, land biodiversity,
archaeological sites and
historical settlements. Meanwhile, it emerged that a $150m (£76m) bond
has been issued
by an arm of the German insurer, Allianz, to protect itself from
claims that could arise from
companies affected by floods in the City of London and Canary Wharf.
"The chance of a
UK flood is lower than a US hurricane ... but our models show that
there [would be] a
bigger loss exposure," Amer Ahmed, the Allianz Global Corporate and
Speciality chief
risk officer, said, according to the Financial Times.
Storm Warning :-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6524017.stm
Warning of bad hurricane season : Experts are again predicting a busy
Atlantic hurricane season, with up to 17 named tropical storms forming
- nine of which could become hurricanes. At least one major storm is
expected to make landfall in the US during the 1 June-30 November
season, Colorado State University forecasters said. Last year, leading
forecasters wrongly predicted a bad hurricane season. However the
record-breaking 2005 season saw 15 hurricanes, including Katrina which
devastated New Orleans. Another forecaster, London-based Tropical
Storm Risk, has likewise predicted 17 tropical storms, nine of them
hurricanes, for the 2007 season.
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