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Join Countdown to Zero screenings across the UK for Demand For Zero day

Posted by Louise Edge — 20 June 2011 at 12:16pm - Comments

A mind boggling $1,000 billion will be spent by the world’s nine nuclear-armed powers (including Britain) over the next decade on modernising nuclear weapons, says campaign group Global Zero - while UK budgets for social and environmental spending are slashed. 

But, you can do something: learn more about the issues by heading to your local cinema tomorrow, Tuesday June 21, to join the UK premiere of Countdown to Zero for Demand Zero Day.

Article tagged as: Countdown To Zero, Dogwoof, global zero, Inconvenient Truth, Lucy Walker, nuclear, Screenings, video, weapons

Save the Arctic? No thanks, says UK Energy Minister

Posted by bex — 15 June 2011 at 12:37pm - Comments
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli
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Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilling

While our campaign to save the Arctic from risky oil drilling has been playing out in Greenlandic waters and Dutch courtrooms over the past few weeks, the UK government has stayed fairly quiet on the question of deepwater oil drilling in the Arctic.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic18, climate change, go beyond oil, oil, oil spill

'My Barbie is naked!': tales from the treasure hunt

Posted by jamie — 15 June 2011 at 11:38am - Comments
Chainsaw Barbies
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Some of the Chainsaw Barbies that have been apprehended

All over the country, Chainsaw Barbies are being searched out and snapped up as part of our Barbie treasure hunt. St Ives, Hexham, Dundee, Malvern, Scarborough, Newtown, Loughborough – they've all been invaded by malevolent mannequins who, not content with savaging Indonesia's rainforests, have gone awol across the UK.

Article tagged as: barbie, Barbie hunt, deforestation, indonesia, mattel, rainforests, Treasure Hunt

Is it about time fish-eaters were more adventurous? Sainsbury’s think so.

Posted by Willie — 13 June 2011 at 2:47pm - Comments

In Africa, safari-bound tourists are usually keen to bag ‘The Big five' - species which once people wanted to shoot with bullets, but are now ones we want to shoot with cameras. However, we're so keen to ‘bag’ these species, that tourists often overlook the other amazing wildlife all around them.

Article tagged as: consumerism, fishing, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, jamie oliver, richard benyon, sainsburys, supermarkets, sustainable fishing, waitrose

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