The Tories, EU bashing, and your food supply
Posted by annied in DEFRA, Environment Agency, Green News, climate change on 06. Oct, 2009 | Comments Off
As the Tory Conference continues in Manchester, and David Cameron trashes the EU, let’s take a minute to remember just what the EU has done for the UK. There is a common myth in food and drug regulation that just because a problem isn’t evident in a lab, there won’t be a problem in (uncontrolled environment) the real world.
Campaigns DO Make Change. The clock is TckTckTck-ing
Posted by annied in Oxfam, WWF, campaign on 25. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Our friend Erica Grigg of carbonOutreach.com has a response to our query: Too Many Climate Campaigns?
FoE UK: Maria of Kiribati will fight at Cop15
Posted by annied in FoE, climate change on 07. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Maria from the Kiribati Islands in the Pacific came to see us at Friends of the Earth recently. She told us that her islands could be underwater within ten years. Crops and wells are already contaminated with salt water and the mangroves where she used to play as a child are disappearing.
Kathmandu to Cop15 &… India
Posted by annied in climate change, water on 03. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
On Monday and Tuesday this week countries of the Himalayan region met in Nepal to agree a regional consensus for the Climate Change talks in December. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka all participated.
Legacy of .tv as .bd becomes the focus
Posted by annied in Oxfam, climate change on 31. Aug, 2009 | 1 Comment
The irony isn’t lost on us at green.tv that our domain is defined by one of the world’s first nations that will be wiped out by climate change. A lot of people aren’t aware that .tv is the country designation assigned to the Pacific Island nation Tuvalu. As Oxfam launches its cooperation with the TckTckTck campaign this last weekend, it releases two films on green.tv about Bangladesh (see below). We thought it appropriate to remind you about Tuvalu and places like it*, and the imperative for legal international recognition of climate refugee status.
World Water Week– the Stockholm Statement, just hot air?
Posted by annied in UNEP, climate change, water on 27. Aug, 2009 | Comments Off
World Water Week from Stockholm: are you thinking what can be more boring and ineffectual than a room full of officials agreeing to agree to manage water and sanitation better? Well actually, the end result, the Stockholm Statement, is worth shouting from the rooftops about.