Planning for The National Climate March on December 6th 2008

If the points below mirror your thoughts then there is a meeting you should be going to.

No - New Coal
No - Heathrow / Aviation expansion
No to Agrofuels

Yes to renewable energy, energy efficiency, low carbon transport, deep and rapid emission cuts, green jobs.

The National Climate march is going to be a big mobilisation of people concerned about our climate. There is a meeting on 4th October 2008 in London to plan for the demo as well as the year ahead.

Venue: Room G2 in SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London. SOAS is off Thornhaugh street, off Russel Square – otherwise approachable from the other side from Malet street.

Nearest tube : Russel Square. G2 is in the main building where the Students Union is, up the stairs from the central courtyard.

Date and Time: London, Saturday 4th October, 11.00 am to 5.00 pm

The meeting is organized by the Campaign Against Climate Change who announced in a recent email:

"The National Climate March on December 6th is also part of a Global Day of Action on climate – last year more than 70 countries were involved. Help us build this international campaign still bigger- both for the Poznan Climate Talks this year and the all important Copenhagen 2009 Talks next year.

As well as joining other countries around the world to demand urgent action and climate justice from world leaders the National Climate March will be pushing 3 major issue/demands to the government

No New Coal

No Heathrow / Aviation expansion

No to Agrofuels

While these negatives are balanced by a positive

Yes to renewable energy, energy efficiency, low carbon transport, deep and rapid emission cuts, green jobs..."

http://www.campaigncc.org/

Big Goes Green

Being environmentally friendly is easy in your head; putting it into practice needs commitment and with that the individual can achieve a certain amount of success by just recycling paper, bottles and cans.

But how can big things like football stadiums be green when they are so, well, big?

Apparently they need about 20,000 litres of water a day to keep the pitch in tip top condition. That amount of water makes a big demand on the system and if you want to be friendly to the environment then a new approach has to be found..

And a great example of ‘new’ thinking is the stadium recently built by Urban Edge Studio for Dartford Football Club in Kent.

The designers have designed a system which collects water from almost every flat surface that the stadium has and then stores it in two purpose built lakes near by.

This means they should never have to take water form the mains and could survive a drought for two months before they’d have to turn on a tap.

It’s an exciting development and you can discover what else they have achieved by visiting:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/first_eco_footb.php