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

If you live in or near Bristol and can help in any way with campaigning against this planned biofuel power station, please email us at info[at]Biofuelwatch.org.uk.
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A conference to promote a sustainable manufacturing recovery with our environment at its heart.
A free conference for union members and representatives, union officers, manufacturing employers, and support organisations. read full story / add a comment

At 6-8pm today there will be a film screening of 'Zdroj' (Source, 2005, 77 mins). The film documents civil rights abuses by the Aliev regime of Azerbaijan during the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.

6pm in the Reading Room, upstairs at Arnolfini, Narrow Quay.

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@ Hawks Gym, 11 Roman Rd, Easton, BS5 6DH

THIS IS A MEETING TO HELP BUILD TOWARDS THE NATIONAL CLIMATE MARCH IN LONDON ON 5TH DECEMBER, AND THE DEMONSTRATION IN COPENHAGEN ON 12TH DECEMBER AS PART OF THE GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION. read full story / add a comment

Researching into Co2 emissions here in bristol, and wondering how to reduce my own carbon footprint to whatever is 'sustainable' - I came across some interesting stuff. read full story / add a comment

There is increasing evidence that the plans by foreign companies EdF and Eon to build nuclear reactors in the West Country may be on the wane. read full story / add a comment

At last night's BCC Cabinet meeting the following public representations were made. read full story / add a comment