Climate Change

Scott of the Antarctics

Posted by jamie — 2 July 2008 at 12:05pm - Comments

We received an email from Harvey Parkes, one half of the film production company Balti and Havana, promoting their new short Scott of the Antarctics so I'm giving it a plug here. Not merely because they've kindly given Greenpeace a mention at the end (thanks guys!), but because it's a rather gorgeous little piece about penguins, swimming pools and the antarctic ice cap.

It's been entered for the Virgin Media Shorts competition, so if you feel inclined you can cast your vote or just enjoy the film.

Article tagged as: climate change, penguins, short films, videos

Brown's green revolution?

Posted by jossc — 26 June 2008 at 5:23pm - Comments

Offshore wind - at the heart of MR Brown's energy revolution?

Offshore wind - 3,500 new turbines by 2020?

Although the PM has taken a few verbal pastings from us over the past few months on key climate issues like airport expansion and new coal-fired power stations, in a new speech today he did much to redeem himself by announcing an ambitious plan to ensure Britain generates 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020.

To be sure, the government has promised as much in the past and failed to deliver, but there seemed to be something different about today's Renewable Energy Strategy Consultation - some meat on the bones which indicated that the plan might just be more than empty rhetoric. The government is consulting on ambitious plans designed to allow the UK to meet its share of an overall EU target to generate 20 per cent of energy (electricity, heat and transport) from renewables within 12 years.

Article tagged as: biofuels, climate change, co2 emissions, energy efficiency, offshore wind, renewable energy

An open (cast) and shut case?

Posted by jossc — 18 June 2008 at 5:48pm - Comments

Leave it in the gound: climate campaigners occupy Lodge House open cast mine site

Hot on the heels of Friday's 'Great coal train action' which halted coal shipments to Drax power station for the best part of two days, comes news of more anti-coal activity. Early this morning climate campaigners from 'Leave it in the Ground' occupied UK Coal's Lodge House site in Derbyshire where a new open cast coal mine is planned, and the rural lanscape is about to be devastated by huge earth-movers.

Article tagged as: climate camp, climate change, co2 emissions, coal, uk coal

Leave it in the ground!

Posted by jossc — 13 June 2008 at 4:21pm - Comments

Coal protesters stop a train of the black stuff on its way to Drax, the UK's largest coal plant

Thirty climate campaigners today stopped a coal train on its way to Drax power station in Yorkshire, Britain's single largest source of CO2 emissions. Dressed in white overalls and canary outfits, they used safety signals to stop the train at a bridge on a branch line used exclusively by the power station, before jumping aboard and shovelling coal off onto the tracks. Some used climbing ropes to suspend themselves under the bridge from the train, making it impossible to move the train while the protest continues.

Article tagged as: climate camp, climate change, co2 emissions, coal, drax, eon, kingsnorth
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