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Oil Exec Promises over Notts Oil Find

A notts based, canadian oil company, Newton Energy, has said it wants to rip up some ground and start drilling and testing and various other crap in the nottingham countryside...He has actually published his number and title, so maybe a few phone calls from concerned residents telling him to shove it where it dont shine?

The Need for a 500m Buffer Zone around future Opencast Sites

This article provides a link to the 1st article Andrew Bridgen MP has published in support of his arguments for a 500m Buffer Zone around future opencast sites in England

Calling All Future-Eaters

The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with the help of smallpox, decimated the native populations in the Americas. Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians. And now we sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species. Homo sapiens, as the biologist Tim Flannery points out, are the "future-eaters."

Saving Iceland Mobilisation Call-Out 2010!

Join our resistance against the industrialization of Europe’s last remaining great wilderness and take direct action against heavy industry!

350.org - Circle this Date: 10/10/10

Bill McKibben | 02-07-2010 10:01 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield | World

Dear World,

It’s been a tough year: in North America, oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico; in Asia some of the highest temperatures ever recorded; in the Arctic, the fastest melting of sea ice ever seen; in Latin America, record rainfalls washing away whole mountainsides.

So we’re having a party.

Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

An MP through a Private Members Bill is aiming to restrict further the possibility of opencast mining in England

After the oil rush: BP news

Doubt rises that BP relief wells won't work. Beyond oil, is transition to a clean economy - if we don't crash first. Dr. Kessler just back from the Gulf talks methane. Will the BP spill damage the climate, as much as the oceans? Alex wraps up the big picture - including record heat, extreme floods, record Arctic ice melt, & the dying economy.

The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse

We live amidst multiple crises -- economic and political, cultural and ecological -- that pose a significant threat to human life as we understand it.

There is no way to be awake to the depth of these crises without an emotional reaction. There is no way to be aware of the pain caused by these systemic failures without some experience of dread, depression, distress.

To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse.

Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy

Steve Leary | 29-06-2010 20:01 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

A Member of Parliament is about to introduce a Private Members Bill, which if successful, would significantly reduce the amount of opencast coal produced in England. It will also reduce impacts on local communities by bringing policies in England into line with those operating in Scotland and Wales by introducing the need for 500 metre Buffer zones between opencast sites and areas of settlement.

Transition Network Conference: Closing Session

Chris | 25-06-2010 16:13 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of the closing session of the Transition Network Conference which was held on 12-14th June 2010.

Transiton Network Conference: Energy Descent Planning Workshop

Chris | 25-06-2010 14:18 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of a Energy Descent Planning Workshop held on 13th June 2010 at the Transition Network Conference, which was run by Jacqi Hodgson and Shaun Chamberlain. It was advertised with this description: the workshop will explore and discuss some of the methods and strategies used in starting out and designing a framework for research, gathering material for the timeline and responsive thinking in communities to create ideas and involvement in developing a locally based Energy Descent Action Plan, using some aspects of the Totnes and District experience for reference.

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

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.

What is the future context for Transition?

Chris | 14-06-2010 21:44 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of a session titled, "What is the future context for Transition?", which was run by Sophy Banks on Sunday 13th June 2010 at the Transition Network Conference.

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Centre for Alternative Technology: Zero Carbon Britain 2030

The attached audio of Bruce Heagerty presenting the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Zero Carbon Britain 2030, report was recorded at the Transition Network Conference on 14th June 2010. The slides from the presentation are also attached as in Power Point and PDF format (a smaller file).

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Rob Hopkins: Transition as a Pattern Language

Chris | 13-06-2010 11:01 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of Rob Hopkins talking at the Transition Network Conference on Sunday 13th June 2010 about the re-framing of the 12 Steps of Transition and Transition Handbook as a Pattern Language.

Transition Network Conference 2010 Open Space Introduction

Chris | 12-06-2010 13:21 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of the session to sort out the open space sessions at the Transition Network Conference 2010 and photos of the boards with the timetable on that came out of the session.

Transition Network Conference 2010 Opening Session

Chris | 12-06-2010 11:14 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of the opening session of the 2010 Transition Network Conference which is taking place in Devon and started on 12th June 2010.

Sheffield World Naked Bike Ride - Saturday 19 June

A peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body. A symbol of the vulnerability of the cyclist in traffic. The world's biggest naked protest: 50+ cities and thousands of riders participate worldwide, including more than 1500 in the UK in 2007.

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Is Humanity Unsustainable?

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.

The Coming Greenhouse World

Alex Smith | 20-05-2010 19:31 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

We are drilling, mining, and burning our way to a horrible climate shift. Can Gaia save us? Dr. Melanie Lenart, U of Arizona on her book "Life in the Hothouse." Plus clips from "What Awaits Us In the Greenhouse World" by Prof George Kennedy, & review of book "The Cretaceous World"

Sheffield Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

Oil Exec Promises over Notts Oil Find

The Need for a 500m Buffer Zone around future Opencast Sites

Calling All Future-Eaters

Saving Iceland Mobilisation Call-Out 2010!

350.org - Circle this Date: 10/10/10

Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

After the oil rush: BP news

The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse

Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy

Transition Network Conference: Closing Session

Transiton Network Conference: Energy Descent Planning Workshop

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

What is the future context for Transition?

Centre for Alternative Technology: Zero Carbon Britain 2030

Rob Hopkins: Transition as a Pattern Language

Transition Network Conference 2010 Open Space Introduction

Transition Network Conference 2010 Opening Session

Sheffield World Naked Bike Ride - Saturday 19 June

Is Humanity Unsustainable?

The Coming Greenhouse World

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