Monthly Archives: January 2011

Europe’s Common Fisheries Policy laid bare

Posted by Nyla Sarwar on January 24, 2011
EU, UK / No Comments

Over the past few weeks, some of Britain’s most high profile chef’s have tackled the issues of unsustainable fisheries across the EU and beyond. While Gordon Ramsay highlighted the issues and inhumanity of the illegal shark finning trade – all destined for the coveted shark fin soup – from locations including Taiwan and Costa Rica; [...]

“Paris Invented” under Global Warming Scenario

Posted by Jennifer Helgeson on January 08, 2011
France, urban areas / 1 Comment

Many people think of climate change in the mode of skepticismor despair, but a group of architects called Collectif et Alors has teamed with the Mairie de Paris to introduce another response: optimism. This group of architects has imagined how Paris would respond to a rise in temperature of 2 degrees Celsius in the next [...]

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Climate Defence – A Wild Way Forward

Posted by El Coombs on January 06, 2011
Laws, UK / No Comments

At 2pm today 18 defendants were sentenced after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass. Their crime was to attempt the shut-down of Ratcliffe- on- Soar, the UK’s third largest coal-fired power station. Yet, they argue that they are not criminals but defenders of the very future of the planet. Their defence raised [...]

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