The Guardian comes up with a very useful Website to inform yourself about Clmate Change & related Matters

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/10-10

The Bailout in under 10 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfo9sFYULEE&feature=player_embedded

This is a brief but cogent explanation of some of the points about the US Bailout of the big banks & how it might play out over the next 12 months or so. Most of us are bewildered & need to make ourselves more aware in my opinion.
Try this - i'ts quick & easy to understand - I did, so you can too !

Pro Food

http://everytable.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/what-the-heck-is-profood-anyway/

Help send John to Copenhagen - apparently he can't afford to go - I say he can't afford NOT to go !

The Brixton Pound - use it, exchange it, copy it.

This helps explain what local currencies are all about.

An example to us all

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/a7b2ee8e45551c138525735900404444/da43f909a556e633852576350055d408!OpenDocument

It's a long read but worth it !

This is an example of the 'Total Environmental Approach' which I have always encouraged. We must always think of the total effect our habits have on our environment & stop just thinking of say ' Climate Change' as an isolated result of some discrete action we may or may not be taking. When we look around us every day we see some effects of our littering ways by the amount of rubbish left on our streets.

What we don't see are the effects of our room thermostats being set too high for example. The effects are still there but we ignore them because they aren't obvious. Similarly we ignore the outflow of our other practices like land development say or packaging waste.

Take a look at your total environmental consequences not just the obvious ones.

Also, as we might pick up rubbish on our own doorstep so as to be 'tidy' & impress the neighbours, we should do the same regarding our other polluting ways & take action !

Just do it !

Will we look back & wonder why we all didn't take heed ?

Now this is sustainability !

Watch as business wakes up from their long sleep (nightmare !)

or perhaps the la lapins cretin Haka

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits !

watch the 'Gingerbread Haka'

Go get em Wallabies ! Eat em up !

this is a great idea - look !

Buy Carbon Credits & remove them from the market - sandbag - a good way to offset your flights or any other CO2 you personally produce.

Plantations as a means of confronting Climate change

http://www.foei.org/en/publications/annual-report/2008/what-we-achieved-in-2008/member-groups/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/colombia-detrimental-forestry-law-struck-down-in

Climate Change Action - Do It.

Join me at this Climate Change event on Monday 21st Sept on the Avon Bridge in Chippenham.

Beautiful Streams like this one may hide Danger

Polluted streams often go unreported & continue to carry dirty run-off from 'Industrial' Farming in New Zealand. For example the beautiful Waikato River is too polluted to swim in for a lot of it's length. Lake Taupo receives polluted run-off from dairy farms in it's catchment area - the outflow goes into the river system & endangers swimmers. Pollution from Tanneries in Hawkes Bay is allowed to flow practically unrestricted into nearby rivers & is 'disposed' of in the ocean. These are but a few examples of the hidden results of extensive industrial farming in NZ, contrary to what we are told by the Tourism Industry - a vision of Clean, Green New Zaland !

Learn about the effects of farming on greenhouse gas output in New Zealand.

http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/smartfarming/

Of course this applies in good measure to all stock farming world-wide. Encouraging it's growth is a disaster - it should be curtailed ! Learn about it and ACT !

Don't forget Climate Action Day

Google It !

Read a detailed report from Various agencies on funding the World Bank provides for 'development'

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How most Third World Workers look at the finish of their day !

A little fun with 'Financial Meltdown'

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A message to Wall Street.