UK Indymedia - Sheffield Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

The Crisis of Civilization January Screenings

Details of January screenings of The Crisis of Civilization: a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.

We will be adding yet more screenings as they are confirmed, so keep an eye out for further details!

Oil Shock - The No Growth World

The price of oil hits you at the pump, in your food bill, and everything you buy. What if you can't afford it? Radio Ecoshock 120104 Oil Shock the Post-Growth World with Jeff Rubin, Charles Maxwell from ASPO 2011 and interview with Italy's Ugo Bardi on climate change vs. peak oil.

Green Music

Alex Smith | 20-12-2011 06:28 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

The annual Radio Ecoshock Green Music Festival. Best of eco-music, many you won't find on Itunes. Some sent in by listeners, or the artists, not on albums, etc. Playlist at ecoshock.info. Plus 2 new Occupy songs ( Makana and David Rovics). A little inspiration for the heart.

Climate Down in Durban

Alex Smith | 12-12-2011 09:45 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Spineless politicians have sold out our grand kids future at Durban. Hear Prufal Badwai, Indian analyst on why failure was a better option than the window-dressing we got at the UN COP17 Climate conference. A few clips of new James Hansen at the AGU 2011 in San Francisco. Good call on Durban empty promises by Janet Redman of Institute for Policy Studies. Ends with more carbon science interview with Dr. Michael Raupach, CISRO Australia (the national science agency) re increases in emissions and the path we're on. Radio Ecoshock 111214

Winter Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening

Alex Smith | 07-12-2011 19:57 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

As hard times close in, learn how to grow veggies even in UK winter. We'll also need an edible landscape instead of ornamentals and crappy lawns. Tips from Guerrilla gardener Chris Tomlinson to plant public and private spaces.

Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed spent the first half of the post 2001 decade analysing the West's Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period (2005), The Secret History of International Terrorism (2006) and the role of the West in Creating Terror (2006). Following this he moved on to analysing the The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis (2008) and the Food Crisis & Peak Oil (2008). His latest book is A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), has now been adapted into a documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011) and it had it's first UK screening in Leeds, in November. Read on for an analysis of the multiple global crisis's facing humanity and the hope that a movement to change the course the 1% have society set on can be changed by the 99%, Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.

Climate Solution: Air to Soil

Alex Smith | 01-12-2011 17:58 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Alex interviews Allan Savory of the Savory Institute. His project to capture carbon into the soil, using intelligent herd management in Zimbabwe, is on the short-list for the Virgin Earth Challenge. We follow up with Abe Collins, a carbon farming leader in Vermont, USA. Plus organizing for local food in North Carolina (even in hard times) - Aaron Newton at ASPO 2011.

Fracking Gas = Climate Crash

Shale gas emissions as bad as coal. New science from Cornell University Professor Robert Howarth and team: a speech at Peak Oil And Gas conference in Washington; plus a follow-up interview with Howarth by Alex Smith. Then the billion dollar climate gas fraud. Samuel Labudde of the Environmental Investigation Agency explains how European ratepayers are being blackmailed by China and India - for nothing.

5 Years to Climate Hell

We have 5 years to move away from fossil fuels. After that climate catastrophe is unavoidable. Who says? The International Energy Agency, conservative voice of 28 countries. Interview with Diana Bronson, ETCgroup, on geoengineering & climate genes. Press teleconference clips with Lester Brown of Earth Policy Institute, saying U.S. emissions are falling. Interview with Emily James, maker of new film on climate activism in the UK "Just Do It". Ends with clip of Occupy movement song "We Are the Many" by Hawaiian singer Makana, played at the APEC Summit dinner.

Plane Justice - Banned In America

Why don't you hear about the extra cancer deaths, & global warming impacts from airports? Because UK activists are prevented from speaking in the U.S. Hear British aviation activist John Stewart (campaigner of the year) & Dan Glass from aviationjustice.org Plus Debi Wagner from Seattle. She fought off SeaTac (2nd largest global warming polluter in Washington State), tells about horrible health impacts, & the battle to halt airport expansion (Chicago, NYC, and more).

New Dan Glass Plane Stupid Interview

Famous Plane Stupid activist Dan Glass, interviewed in Vancouver, Canada while on the Aviation Justice Tour to link up activism in the UK with expanding airports in North America. We talk climate change, health impacts, and suppression of civil rights by police and secret services. Bonus audio from Radio Ecoshock 111109 32 minutes.

Q and A following UK Premiere of The Crisis Of Civilization

The Crisis Of Civilization was screened for the first time on Leeds on 16th November 2011, attached is a recording of the questions and answers session afterwards with Nafeez Ahmed, Dean Puckett and Lucca Benney.

Durban Conference of Polluters 1

From South Africa, Professor Patrick Bond lays out the awful truth, where climate talks have gone into the dead zone. Will it be safe to protest in Durban? Bond is from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and director of the Centre for Civil Society in Durban. A wide-ranging interview on how UN talks became the "Conference of the Polluters" - and the world-wide climate justice movement pointing us in the direction of survival. From Radio Ecoshock 111102

Greedy Lying Bastards - The Movie

How do big oil companies frack the world? Let me count the ways in this interview with film-maker Craig Rosebraugh. For his new movie "Dirty Lying Bastards" Craig went to more than a dozen countries, filming the victims of oil spills, pollution, and poisoning. From the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf to Uganda and beyond. Cutting through the PR and the BS, a disturbing look at major oil companies behavior. From Radio Ecoshock Show 111012 21 min

Just do it: the film Sheffield Screening 18th Oct

Aaron | 13-10-2011 21:50 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Dates: 18 October 2011
Times: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: Presentation Area on level 4 (upstairs), University of Sheffield
Students' Union, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TG

Sheffield University host a free screening at 6:00pm on 18th October as part of our nationwide day of Campus Screenings.

Anti-Frackin Music Sample

A quick sample of great anti-frackin songs from a new Australian CD. Find them and use them - from

http://www.wholelottafrackingoingon.com

Abrupt Climate Change - Has Is Started?

Alex Smith | 06-10-2011 19:19 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Sure it was great at the beach in October. BUT science shows the climate can shift as much as 4 degrees C in less than a decade, with violent weather. Has this already begun? Learn about abrupt climate change, and what we might do to survive it, from Dr. Alder Stone Fuller, in this two part Radio Ecoshock interview.

How A Far Away Island Can Rock Your World

The peat fires have returned to Indonesia. Last time that happened, a carbon burst larger than car emissions staged the hottest year on record (1998). Peat and forest fires in this one country can help tip climate. Plus Indonesia is world's largest shipper of coal for electricity generation. Interview with Dr. Florian Siegert from the GeoBio-Centre of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. India has huge coal scheme and is the biggest buyer of Indonesia coal. We talk with Shankar Sharma, electricy expert. With 173 new Indian coal plants approved this year, is it a Ponzi scheme?

Youth Climate Event "Power Shift" Returns to UK

So many inspiring campaigns are taking place at the moment in the climate change movement: Moving Planet (a global day of climate action), campaigns on gas fracking and tar sands, and new climate campaigning films. Now is an exciting time to get involved.
That is what many young people will be doing this October at Power Shift: coming together to build the youth climate movement and take action on issues surrounding climate change. Power Shift will bring together hundreds of young people in Salford, Greater Manchester, for a weekend of workshops, inspiring speakers and cutting edge bands. It will give them the skills, inspiration and knowledge to campaign and communicate around the youth climate movement, and transferable skills for use in other social action campaigns.

For more information and to book tickets (from £10) please go to powershift.ukycc.org

Extreme Rain, Dengue Fever, R.F. Kennedy Jr.

Pakistan is flooding again, millions more homeless. Panic about Dengue fever. Dengue in the Caribbean now, 12 cases reported this year in Florida. Learn what Dengue is, what to do. New diseases with global warming. Then a powerful speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at the Commonwealth Club of Calif. How coal poisoned us all, & fish too. How corporations control media, stifling Progressive radio. Plus a vision of fossil-free America.

Sheffield Climate Chaos Newswire Archive

The Crisis of Civilization January Screenings

Oil Shock - The No Growth World

Green Music

Climate Down in Durban

Winter Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening

Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power

Climate Solution: Air to Soil

Fracking Gas = Climate Crash

5 Years to Climate Hell

Plane Justice - Banned In America

New Dan Glass Plane Stupid Interview

Q and A following UK Premiere of The Crisis Of Civilization

Durban Conference of Polluters 1

Greedy Lying Bastards - The Movie

Just do it: the film Sheffield Screening 18th Oct

Anti-Frackin Music Sample

Abrupt Climate Change - Has Is Started?

How A Far Away Island Can Rock Your World

Youth Climate Event "Power Shift" Returns to UK

Extreme Rain, Dengue Fever, R.F. Kennedy Jr.

Kollektives

Sheffield Topics

Sheffield [navigation.actions2016]

Sheffield [navigation.actions2015]

Sheffield [navigation.actions2014]

Sheffield Actions 2013

Sheffield Actions 2012

Sheffield Actions 2011

Sheffield Actions 2010

Sheffield Actions 2009

Sheffield Actions 2008

Sheffield Actions 2007

Sheffield Actions 2006

Sheffield Actions 2005

Sheffield Actions 2004

Sheffield Actions 2003

Encrypted Page

IMCs

Page 20 of 24

24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1

IMCs

Page 20 of 24 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1

Page 20 of 24

24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1