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.
One Giant Leap for Sandbag (one small step for Ed)
Posted by annied in DECC, campaign, climate change on 29. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
“The West needs to do more or it’s an excuse for everyone else not to do more.” Though Worthington laments, “They’ll probably do it anyway just embarrass them.” She is confident about non-Western’s countries, in particular China’s ability to adjust their carbon emissions, “When China says it’s going to do something, it generally does it.”
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?
Too many climate campaigns?
Posted by annied in DECC, Oxfam, UNEP, WWF, campaign, climate change on 16. Sep, 2009 | 7 Comments
green.tv has featured campaigns by all of our partners and some non-partners soliciting action on climate change– from signing petitions to convince government leaders that they should not leave the Cop15 without a deal to individual action campaigns. And yet, we still aren’t doing enough. What’s the point of all these campaigns? Are there too many that we have now become saturated with climate change that we have been spurred past action to continued inaction? Has anything really changed?
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.
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.