The application for development of the walkway at Bristol International Airport using a certificate of legality (i.e., not going through proper planning permission process and not evaluating environmental impacts) is to be decided at a meeting of North Somerset Council next Wednesday 12th November at 6pm at the council house in Weston super Mare. read full story / add a comment

Tuesday, 4th November, Avon Organic Group Meeting - 7.30 p.m. - Horfield Friends Meeting House, Gloucester Road

The Organic Debate - is it still relevant and necessary?
Speaker: Emma Hockridge, Soil Association

Talk and discussion around organic growing and current trends - do we stil need to promote organic food, is the argument won now that organic food is becoming mainstreamed e.g. in supermarkets or is there organic "wash" that we need to be wary of. What are the current concerns of the organic movement?

The meeting is open to all (entrance contribution to room hire) - come along and join in. read full story / add a comment

The store manager at Golden Hill Tescos has requested that the Tetra-Pak recycling bin be removed due to the littering it has encouraged read full story / add a comment

Shelter Film Screening and Discussion Evening at the Watershed. Part of Shelter’s 'Now is the Time' campaign. The event will take place at the Watershed Media Centre, with food and refreshments being served from 6pm. This couldn't possibly be an invite only event? read full story / add a comment

Yet another would-be summer blockbuster screening this weekend, at the Porter Cellar in Bath. read full story / add a comment

Energy Question Time’ which takes place at the Bristol City Council House, College Green. Thursday Oct 23rd 7.30 pm. Should we build the Severn Barrage? Will we have more local Nuclear power plants? How do we stop Climate Change? read full story / add a comment

SWRDA has come in for a lot of flack of late. A new Tory government may see it stripped of power, but in the meantime is SWRDA busy looking to nuclear power? Answers are needed. read full story / add a comment

THE graphs climbing across these pages (see graph, right, or explore in more detail) are a stark reminder of the crisis facing our planet. Consumption of resources is rising rapidly, biodiversity is plummeting and just about every measure shows humans affecting Earth on a vast scale. Most of us accept the need for a more sustainable way to live, by reducing carbon emissions, developing renewable technology and increasing energy efficiency.
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Things are hotting up at Bristol International Airport (BIA) and we urgently need your support to prevent its uncontrolled expansion. There are two things we need you to do, details below, and you can find more on our website at http://www.stopbia.com read full story / add a comment

As part of The Meaning of Food festival, Bristol Food Hub and Fair Trade Network bring you an expert panel of speakers to debate the ethics of what we eat and where it comes from. read full story / add a comment

Bath & North East Somerset Council (BANES) propose building a Park and Ride facility on Bathampton Meadows, adjacent to Mill Lane, around 100 yds from Bathampton Church and The George Public House read full story / add a comment

Kebele Permaculture Group Cafe and Film Night
Sunday 12th October
Food served at 6:30pm
Black Gold screening at 7pm
Kebele Social Centre
14 Robertson Road
Easton, BS5 6JY
http://www.kebelecoop.org/collectives_permaculture.html
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The UK's leading independant nuclear consultant will speak about his concerns over planned new reactors at Hinkley Point.

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The UK’s leading independent nuclear engineer, John Large of Large & Associates, will speak at a public meeting in Bridgwater on Monday 13th October.

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Stop Hinkley (Shut Oldbury) campaigners have welcomed a five year Cardiff University study that shows only qualified support for nuclear new build in communities near potential sites. read full story / add a comment

Bristol group to lobby MPs over plans for 'development' of green field sites. read full story / add a comment

Squarepeg have already committed outrageous vandalism by felling a magnificent ash tree on the verge of the cyclepath that caused no threat to anyone and was enjoyed daily by hundreds of people read full story / add a comment

Do you, like us, want a future that's clean and green, where wildlife and people can thrive in a safe climate and we get our energy from truly sustainable sources?

This autumn, the RSPB is asking the UK Government to tackle the greatest source of climate pollution in our economy: our power sector. If the UK could do one big thing to slash its carbon emissions, it would be to transform the power generation sector from one that is wasteful and heavily dependent on traditional fossil fuels to one that is highly efficient and relies on the UK's abundant renewable resources of wind, sun and surf.
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SouthWestWatch - fast gossip that and pleasing smell of afterburning comment. This is from our EnergyWatch department; a confusing policy mess on energy. read full story / add a comment

We're all looking forward to Thursday's opening of Babylon Towers (aka. Cabot Circus) Bristol's grand temple to the gods of consumerism and this is the price Bristolians have to pay for the Bristol Alliance's frantic 'fire brigade' management (no slight on the FBU of course). read full story / add a comment