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Oil Is Not The Worst Part of British Petroleum's Gulf Gusher!

Lloyd Hart | 23-06-2010 01:57 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield | World

It is bad enough that British Petroleum (BP) doesn't want to attempt to use high explosives drilled deep down into the bed rock beside the pipe to bend it closed. It is incredibly psychotically cynical of BP to collect 15 to 20 thousand barrels of oil a day from the well head and sell that oil into the market at $77 barrel as a means to save the company from bankruptcy while 90 percent of the rest of the oil and gas from the well head leak into gulf waters.

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Dark Conspiracies of the Gulf

Alex Smith | 18-06-2010 17:24 | Analysis | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

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Rumors, myth, and conspiracy pour out of the Gulf Gusher. Alex investigates. Is it possible this leak can never be contained? From the crazy to the all-to-true.

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HEAT STROKE: When Heat Kills

Alex Smith | 13-06-2010 16:20 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Health | Sheffield | World

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Scientists predict more deadly heat waves. Now they have found the upper limit our bodies tolerate - and we'll get there without stopping our emissions. The "skeptical scientist", John Cook, and Stuart Staniford, the technical investigator, talk it through. From Chicago to Europe's deadly 2003 heat wave to cooking our grandkids.

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Peace In The Park

2%Human | 12-06-2010 23:10 | Culture | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Audio Ponderosa
Interviews and chats at Peas In The Park

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Life grows on at the Earth Centre

welovetheearthcentre | 01-06-2010 22:21 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Guerilla gardeners jumped the fence and took action to reclaim herbs and cuttings from the closed and wasted Earth Centre google welovetheearthcentre blog for images of the swoop and the abundant plant and wildlife

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Is Humanity Unsustainable?

Alex Smith | 31-05-2010 05:55 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

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Are we too stupid to survive? Co-inventor of "the ecological footprint" now calls for a planned contraction of the economy, to save the biosphere and promote world fairness. Speech by Canadian biologist Dr. Bill Rees.

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BP Gulf of Mexico Spill Special

Radio Ecoshock | 06-05-2010 18:11 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Ocean Defence | Sheffield

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The Gulf of Mexico "spill" is really a man-made underwater volcano of oil. This accident taps a primeval fear in the human mind. Something dark and uncontrollable rushes out of the Earth, poisoning the global oceans. Could that really happen? Richard Heinberg, Anita Burke, Riki Ott, Antonia Juhasz, and new song "Corporate Catastrophe".

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Sheffield: International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day

incurable hippie | 29-04-2010 20:52 | Mayday 2010 | Culture | Ecology | Free Spaces | Sheffield

May 1st is International Sunflower Guerrilla Day, where people all over the world (well, probably the northern hemisphere) go out and plant sunflower seeds in places around where they live.

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Audio: What way out of the economic and ecological crises?

Chris | 24-04-2010 20:48 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation | Sheffield | World

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Attached are recordings from a meeting organised to discuss and debate the origins of the global economic and ecological crises, and progressive policies to address them, which was held in Sheffield on 24th April 2010 and was organised by the Sheffield Workers Educational Association (WEA).

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Peat Bog Extraction halted in Greater Manchester

Pete Marsh | 15-04-2010 13:02 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Activists shut down extraction on a Peat Bog extraction site by locking onto a lorry and a digger. Work was still halted at the time of writing.

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Earth First! Summer Gathering

Bunny | 12-04-2010 23:59 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Education | Sheffield

Earth First! Summer Gathering
Ecological Direct Action without Compromise
Wed 4th Aug - Mon 9th August 2010, Derbyshire

5 days of workshops, skill sharing and planning action, plus low-impact living without leaders.

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Class War Greece updates 7th & 8th of March 2010

Carlos Marxos | 08-03-2010 21:34 | Ecology | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | World

clashes in Volos and Xanthi, NationalBank Occupations in Komotini, Occupations in Athens (note: as long as the "measures" law isn't published it's not legal, therefore the workers of the NationalPrintFactory occupied their workplace, the other one is occupied by the sacked workers of olymic airs)
AND SO ON, strikes continue, bigger one on 8th and General Strike on 11th

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Public Meeting: Is Clean Coal An Act Of Faith?

Sheffield Humanist Society | 16-02-2010 12:42 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Talk by Terry Fox and Jenny Patient about the promised new technology to save the world from climate chaos. Organised by Sheffield Humanist Society, all welcome.

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Peak soil

Ugo Bardi | 14-02-2010 22:14 | Analysis | Ecology | Sheffield

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
"Dirt" (2008) by David Montgomery deals with the relation between soil erosion and civilization collapse. It is neither the first nor the only book that examines this subject. It is, however, written by a soil scientist, and it brings to a deeper level the understanding of how soil disappears and how this affects agriculture and, in turn, society.

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Earth First! Winter Moot location announced, 6pm Fri 5th - Sun 7th Feb 2010

EF! Winter Moot Collective | 01-02-2010 11:59 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Free Spaces | Liverpool | Sheffield

"A weekend of networking, reflection, strategic discussions & campaign planning for anyone involved in ecological direct action who believes in non-hierarchical organisation and directly confronting the forces responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants"

6pm Fri 5th - Sun 7th Feb 2010
Dipton Community Centre, Front Street (A692), Dipton, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 9DR

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Climate Camp Reader

Dysophia/Shift Magazine | 09-01-2010 20:51 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Dysophia and Shift Magazine have joined forces to put together a Climate Camp Reader, “Criticism without Critique”, published in January 2010. This reader hopes to encourage and faciliate debates at the next climate camp gatherings. To download it follow this link:
 http://dysophia.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/cca_reader.pdf
The editorial is posted below:

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Reclaiming Power in Copenhagen.

R. Power | 29-12-2009 23:54 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

A decisive step towards a global climate justice movement.

A political analysis of where we stand post-Copenhagen.

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Uncivilized - Paul Kingsnorth on Copenhagen & Decline

Alex Smith | 19-12-2009 22:42 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

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We ARE climate change, says deep green author & broadcaster Paul Kingsnorth, in this Radio Ecoshock interview. Copenhagen never had a chance - because the comfortable millions using fossil fuels aren't ready to give it up - until forced by a crumbling climate and economy. Revisioning a civilization on the edge, through The Dark Mountain Project.

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Consumer Virus Outbreak! Buy less, live more ...

Outbreak Control | 27-11-2009 15:45 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

A customer service announcement ...
The dead are rising and taking to the shops this Saturday to support Buy Nothing Day, using zombies as a metaphor to illustrate how unrestrained consumption is leading society towards blindly consuming itself.

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3 Gory Necklaces: Hollywood Pushing Pate, Rabbit Flesh, Under Guise Of Art

Animal Rights Movies | 31-10-2009 16:24 | Animal Liberation | Culture | Ecology | Sheffield

The films Australia, Julie and Julia, and No Reservations glorify genocidal live shipping
of animals, pate de foie gras, and in general cadaver consumption.

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