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Population Overload

Three voices with solutions for the population crisis. Lisa Hymas, co-founder and Senior Editor of Grist.org on GINKs, Green-Inclined, No Kids. Clinical psychologist Dr. Ellen L. Walker - the good and the bad of going childfree. Plus the grand-daddy of the whole population movement, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. His 1968 book "The Population Bomb" woke us up. Now he's got a surprising new tool that could help us survive the multiple crisis we face.

beware the Nuclear Rennaisance in doncaster

PROTEST AGAINST THE 'Nuclear Rennaissance' event

This thurs 17th at Doncaster Racecourse 9am onwards

Hello Hard Times

Starts with a rant welcoming the new business Master of Washington. Then to Greenpeace Brazil, interview with Kiko Brito on the climate floods there. Feature interview with Nafeez Ahmed, author of "A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization." Ends with a speck of hope. Radio Ecoshock 110128

Weather goes off the charts: is it climate change?

In the space of a few weeks, Australia and the world have been rocked by devastating weather events, from huge snowstorms across the US to flash flooding and cyclones in Australia. Many of these events have not just been catastrophic, but have set new records for weather.

The Real Facts Regarding Mark Kennedy’s Infiltration of Saving Iceland

Kennedy had no role in the birth of Icelandic environmentalism

Kennedy did not provide training to Icelandic protesters and did not play an important role in actions

Kennedy was never a key decision-maker in Saving Iceland

Kennedy did act as an agent-provocateur

Illegal Icelandic collaboration with British services?

Sheffield Humanist Society meeting: Population 101

The next Sheffield Humanist Society meeting will be "Population 101 - An introduction to global population dynamics" with Mike Freedman, director of the documentary Critical Mass (

http://www.criticalmassfilm.com/ ). You will also be hearing soon about the Sheffield Humanist Society campaign for Census 2011 and the April meeting on Secularism with Terry Sanderson from the National Secular Society.

Help Stop an Opencast Mine Application on Tuesday

Durham County Council are due to decide on UK Coal plc's Bradley Opencast Mine Application on Tuesday 15/2/11. Read how to join those who are planning to demonstrate against DCC approving the Application.

5OOm Buffer Zone Bill Vote on FridaY

The 2nd reading of the 500m Buffer Zone Bill takes place this Friday. This press release gives information about the reasons why this is an important Bill, provides information about a new Briefing Note (B6) that explains the Bill and provides info about how to get involved.

Exposed: police spy in Worthing

A POLICE spy pretending to be an environmental campaigner targeted the Save Titnore Woods! campaign in its early years, The Porkbolter can exclusively reveal.

Rapid Population Decline - Or Bust

The population of Egypt doubled since 1980. Mexico, India too. Dr. Jack Alpert says it is time for extreme measures, before civilization falls. With three responses by Rex Weyler of Greenpeace fame, Dr. William Rees (co-inventor of "ecological footprint") & ecologist Vandy Savage.

The Great Unravelling: Tunisia, Egypt and the Protracted Collapse of the American Empire

The toppling of dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia in the wake of mass protests and bloody street clashes has been widely recognized as signifying a major transformation in the future of politics and geopolitics for the major countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). There is little doubt that the Tunisian experience triggered the escalation of unprecedented protests in Egypt against the Mubarak regime. The question on every media pundit’s lips is, ‘Will events in Tunisia and Egypt have a domino effect throughout the Arab world?’

John Pilger: Floods Australia‘s ‘Katrina’ moment

When you fly over the earth’s oldest land mass, Australia, the view can be shocking.

Scars as long as European countries are the result of erosion. Salt pans shimmer where once native vegetation grew. This is almost impossible to reverse. The first to die are the most vulnerable species.

Sheffield Seed Swap!

Grow Sheffield | 28-01-2011 10:17 | Ecology | Sheffield

20th Feb

Old Sharrow Junior School

1pm - 4 pm

More Woeful Financial News about UK Coal plc.

New information has come to light that suggests that any promises UK Coal plc make about providing Community Benefits when it works Opencast Sites need to be backed up with the assurance that a Banker's Guarantee underwrites that promise.

Australia Floods - Climate?

Alex Smith | 24-01-2011 03:08 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Terrible floods in Queenland, Australia - with record rapid rainfall. Another extreme precipitation event, like caused by warming oceans, from climate change. Says Professor Matthew England from the Climate Change Research Centre, at The University of New South Wales, in Sydney. 13 min interview with Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock.

The Food Bubble - Lester Brown

You have seen food prices going up at the local grocery store. That could be just the beginning. According to Lester Brown, a leading expert in both the environment and world agriculture, those bulging supermarket shelves are part of a "food bubble", which could crash. Radio Ecoshock interview. 24 min

helestine visits advanced manufacturing death park

Lordy Lord Helseltine the old wrinkly had a party with his chums at the Advanced Manufacturing (Death) Park last week...

UG#534 - The Lightbulb Conspiracy (Planned Obsolescence, Bottled Water etc.)

Did you know that in Livermore, California a bulb has been lit constantly since 1901 and is still going strong? This week's headline piece is a radio adaptation of The Lightbulb Conspiracy, a film about how the first international cartel not only increased prices but to decreased the lifetime of lightbulbs. We also hear Juliet Schor on overproduction and radio adaptations of Annie Leonard's The Story of Bottled Water, The Story of Cosmetics and The Story of Stuff, plus Heather Rogers' The Hidden Life of Garbage.

Chinese Go Shopping!

"As China Goes, So Goes the World. How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything." That's the title from a new book by Karl Gerth. He's a fellow at Merton College, teaching modern Chinese history at Oxford University, in Britain. We talk how big name brands and their knock-offs, plus cars as status symbols, invaded China. Why didn't they take the green energy route? Did the Chinese government know Western consumer culture was failing, unsustainable, and damaging the world?

How close are you to a potential opencast site?

A by product of the work done to suggest that 553m metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide from escaping into the atmosphere is the revelation that most of this coal lies so close to where people live. read more here.

Sheffield Ecology Newswire Archive

Population Overload

beware the Nuclear Rennaisance in doncaster

Hello Hard Times

Weather goes off the charts: is it climate change?

The Real Facts Regarding Mark Kennedy’s Infiltration of Saving Iceland

Sheffield Humanist Society meeting: Population 101

Help Stop an Opencast Mine Application on Tuesday

5OOm Buffer Zone Bill Vote on FridaY

Exposed: police spy in Worthing

Rapid Population Decline - Or Bust

The Great Unravelling: Tunisia, Egypt and the Protracted Collapse of the American Empire

John Pilger: Floods Australia‘s ‘Katrina’ moment

Sheffield Seed Swap!

More Woeful Financial News about UK Coal plc.

Australia Floods - Climate?

The Food Bubble - Lester Brown

helestine visits advanced manufacturing death park

UG#534 - The Lightbulb Conspiracy (Planned Obsolescence, Bottled Water etc.)

Chinese Go Shopping!

How close are you to a potential opencast site?

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