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Climate actions in Gatwick, Essex and... Legoland?
Posted by jamie on 8 August 2008.
The Lego replica of Kingsnorth power station complete with 'Stop Climate Change' banner © Hans Bricks
Not one, not two but at least three climate change-related happenings popped up around the country yesterday, many of them carried out by Climate Camp attendees. Although the camp is primarily focused on coal and the proposed new power station at Kingsnorth, today's activities also highlighted other climate threats such as aviation and biofuels. Here is just a taste of what's been happening:
Read more »Gordon's sticky moment with Plane Stupid
Posted by saunvedan on 23 July 2008.
Gordon Brown's been in some sticky situations over his Heathrow expansion policies but yesterday he found himself super-glued to the sticky hand of Plane Stupid activist Dan Glass.
Read more »Guardian: Britain is stealing the US crown of No 1 climate villain
Mark Lynas, author of 'Six Degrees 'Our Future on a Hotter Planet', argues that if it fails to stand up to BAA on Heathrow, Labour will be cast as the enemy in the environmental battle of the decade.
Which is the real security threat?
Posted by jossc on 28 February 2008.
Two audacious and well executed climate actions have deservedly grabbed headlines this week - Plane Stupid's 'No third runway' banner drop on the House of Commons yesterday perfectly complimenting our own Heathrow Airport plane protest on Monday. Both sets of activists involved spoke eloquently to the media about why they were there: to expose the government's 'public consultation' as a sham, and to remind us all that climate change is the greatest threat that we face, and we have little time to start getting serious about it.
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