Come and see us at our stall at the Go Greener Apple Day event
Sunday 12th September, 12-4pm, Rouken Glen Park
It’s all part of East Renfrewshire Food Festival – see http://www.gogreener.org.uk/ for more details about the Festival and Go Greener
Camp for Climate Action
The climate camp will be in or near Edinburgh this year, 21-24 August, and it’s going to be targeting the ‘oil and gas bank’, the Royal Bank of Scotland. It’s a great chance to share skills, create a positive vision for social change and turn up the pressure on public investment in coal, oil, gas and tar sands via RBS.
And there’s a gathering this weekend in Glasgow to do some final planning :
31st July and 1st August, 9-6pm
3rd Floor, 18 Albion St, Glasgow G1 1LH
No New Coal at Hunterston
Ayrshire Power have now submitted their planning application for a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston in Ayrshire. This is a mad plan and we need to stop it now!
- It’s completely unnecessary – ‘The Power of Scotland Renewed’ showed that Scotland can meet 60-143% of its energy needs from renewables by 2030. See http://bit.ly/cQtqC9 for the full report
- It will completely undermine Scotland’s world-leading climate change legislation – even Ayrshire Power are only claiming that 15% of the CO2 will be removed from day one with Carbon Capture and Storage. And they haven’t even said how they will do this!
- The proposal is being handled in an anti-democratic way – it was shoe-horned into the National Planning Framework after the public consultation period, Ayrshire Power are doing everything they can to avoid proper consultation, and the Scottish Parliament has already voted by 66 to 26 calling on the Scottish Government to throw the plan out.
Take just a couple of minutes to send in an objection and stop this madness – http://www.wdm.org.uk/scotland-campaign-actions or go to the Communities Opposed to New Coal at Hunterston website for lots more info and a sample objection letter – www.conchcampaign.org/
And a win for Spain…
A late rally from Spain led them to victory in the West End Festival mini-football World Cup. Thanks to the ingeniously designed ‘moving goalposts of justice’, the trophy was always more likely to go to a country with a better social justice record. And Spain’s position at number 9 in the ‘Who Should I Cheer For?’ league table ensured them plenty of support, although there were strong challenges from Brazil and Cameroon.
Despite strong support on the day (who said Glaswegians would rather support anyone but…) England only managed a parlous 3 wins, hampered by their position at number 27, whilst the USA at number 31 only managed one win all day.
Now all we need is for FIFA to recognise the result…
West End Festival…of football?
We’ll be at the West End Festival, helping people to decide who to support in the World Cup
Sunday 13th June, 12pm until we run out of energy
The World Cup sets large countries against small, rich against poor, but how do you decide who to cheer for? If you’re tired of just cheering for whoever England are losing to, come along to our stall and find out about another way of deciding who to support.
For more info, see http://whoshouldicheerfor.com/
1.4 billion reasons…
The Global Poverty Project is bringing their groundbreaking presentation, 1.4 Billion Reasons, to Glasgow. Based on leading research, the 90 minute presentation clearly articulates the facts of extreme poverty and demonstrates that by making simple changes everyone can be a part of the solution.
For more information and a trailer for 1.4 Billion Reasons, visit www.globalpovertyproject.com
Tuesday 25th May, 7pm, Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow
see a map here http://bit.ly/arUPwb
and register for a place here http://bit.ly/d5BuWD
