On Tuesday night, Cinema Klandestino open their Cine Rebelde mini-season and kick off Enironmental Justice week with 'Our Oil and Other Tales', a look at oil geopolitics in Venezuela.

On Wednesday afternoon, explore the concept of Environmental Justice with Bolivian activist and trade unionist Cristian Domínguez, Professor Malcolm Eames from the Low Carbon Research Institute at Cardiff University and Judy Ling Wong, director of the Black Environment Network.

On Wednesday evening, hear Colombian social movement activist Isaac Marin explain BPs social and environmental devastion in Casanare in Colombia, with Yasmine Brien from Bristol Rising Tide re-contextualising climate change and global energy politics in terms of climate justice, including a look at so called “green” solutions such as biofuels, at an event entitled "What Does Climate Justice Look Like? Copenhagen & The Energy Crisis: The Case of BP in Colombia". read full story / add a comment

Are you a qualified solicitor or paralegal ? Do you want to get involved on some current legal challenges concerning green space use in Bristol.

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Regular bi-monthly workday at Royate Hill Community Orchard and allotment
Saturday 7th November
11am-4pm (drop-in)
map:
http://www.kebelecoop.org/images/flyer_permaculture_may...8.pdf
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Sat 7th and Sun 8th Nov: Immerse yourself in issues around race, climate and justice with African Writers Abroad, Virtual Migrants, and Remember Saro-Wiwa; 2 writing workshops, two performances, and discussion on race, climate and resource justice. read full story / add a comment

Jamie Hewlett limited edition prints for sale read full story / add a comment

I've been researching and looking at UWE courses to take in Bristol in order to learn more about the facts of climate change / global warming / climate destabilisation and likely effects.

Just looking at which course to take throws up some pretty scary stuff, this from UWE's Climate Change: Implications for the planning process course ...... "By 2100, as a consequence of global warming, global temperatures may have risen by up to 6.4 degrees Centigrade"

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Allen Coates - Bee Keeper read full story / add a comment

A day of climate action involving a climate camp-stylee swoop in a secret location in the Centre of Bristol! Day starts off with a trash Carnival meeting at the fountains in the Centre @ 2pm. Please bring rubbish costumes, instruments, tents and food for the mass picnic! And spread the word! read full story / add a comment

A day of climate action involving a climate camp-stylee swoop in a secret location in the Centre of Bristol! Day starts off with a trash Carnival meeting at the fountains in the Centre @ 2pm. Please bring rubbish costumes, instruments, tents and food for the mass picnic! And spread the word! read full story / add a comment

Coach tickets are now available for those wishing to go to the National Climate March in London on December 05. The coach will be leaving Anchor Rd ( near @Bristol) in central Bristol at 8:30 am on Saturday 05 December, arriving back at the same place at about 7:30pm on the same day. Tickets cost £14 or £7 unwaged / children. Contact Lucy for tickets on 07790106055. read full story / add a comment

EdF, who plan to build two giant reactors at Hinkley Point, have insisted upon a series of supposedly legally binding agreements with Sedgemoor, West Somerset and Somerset Councils allowing EdF to exclude certain planning information from the Freedom of Information Act. (1) This move has occured despite legal advice to councils that they cannot 'contract out' of the Freedom of Information Act. (2) read full story / add a comment

As part of C Words, come to a rare screening of H2OiL on 25 OCT, 7pm, followed by discussion with campaigners from PLATFORM.

This will give you the background for an incredible opportunity to hear from Canadian First Nations themselves. here in Bristol, on 13th November, 7pm, Arnolfini, FREE. read full story / add a comment

See if you can spot any of your mates...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/ read full story / add a comment

@ Millennium Square 3-9pm Saturday 24th October***
On the 24th October some of Bristol’s top musicians, including Babyhead, Kid Carpet and Bizali, will join Jonathan Porritt to call on global leaders meeting at December’s UN climate change talks in Copenhagen to take strong action to keep global warming below 2° and protect the world’s poorest. read full story / add a comment

Bristol Council is considering a planning application from W4B to build a power station in Avonmouth that will burn approx 90,000 tonnes of virgin vegetable oil per year, including palm oil.

Several hundred objections have already been submitted. At the public meetings, speakers will explain why burning biofuels is bad for the climate, bad for biodiversity and bad for people in the global South.

We need more local people to actively campaign and persuade councillors to refuse permission for this development.

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The US safety regulator has deemed that the containment structure of a reactor, possibly destined for Oldbury and other UK sites, 'may not withstand a tornado, earthquake or even high winds'. read full story / add a comment

As the rumour goes disposing of car tyres isn't so cheap nowadays, for years avonmouth shipped out tyres to india for profit (with bold tread) , maybe that market's dried up, but why have the people who live around the m32 area have to choke on burning tyres from sims metal ltd , who want to dispose them in a cheap way (for themselves), but wasting resoarces like the fire-fighters ,who could be saving lives or getting cats out of trees for old ladies. A home-made poster was stuck to their gates in gatton rd, st werburgh's on the night of 15/10/09 reading: ....... NO MORE FIRES read full story / add a comment

Royate Hill Community Orchard & Kebele allotment
Regular bimonthly workday
Saturday 17th October
11am-4pm (drop-in, but we usually start cleaning up around 3:30pm)
Hand tools and gloves provided
Please bring your lunch and snacks to share

map: http://www.kebelecoop.org/images/flyer_permaculture_may...8.pdf

It's supposed to be a lovely sunny day...
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First of three Trapese dayschools this Saturday, Start Producing the Future, Experiments Against Enclosure, Tools to Reclaim the Commons: "Everyday, everywhere, through spontaneous and planned actions, people are changing the world, together. These everyday actions come from the growing desire to do it ourselves – plant vegetables, organise a community day to get people involved in improving where we live, expose exploitative firms, take responsibility for our health, make cups of tea in a social centre, figure out how to install a shower powered by the sun, make a banner, support strikers, pull a prank to make someone laugh, as well as think", (Do It Yourself, A Handbook for Changing our World, Pluto 2007 www.handbookforchange.org) read full story / add a comment

Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. A climate hearing is an opportunity for those who are experiencing the impact of climate change to make their voices heard, locally, nationally and globally. Bristol's climate hearing will feature witnesses from Malawi, India and the UK’s South West region. Their testimonies will be presented to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December as part of an undeniable and global body of evidence that climate change is affecting us all here and now. read full story / add a comment