Our December meeting starts at 7:30pm on Tuesday 10th at Oxford Town Hall. We’ll have a short “business” meeting in the (wheelchair-accessible) Ploughman Room to wrap things up for the year, then we’re all heading to the Mitre for a meal and a few drinks. If you would like to join us for the meal, please contact griffinkate@gmail.com before Friday 6th so she can confirm our booking with the correct numbers! Non-members very welcome.
News
Should Lord Browne resign?
Cabinet Minister Lord Browne has been appointed a Non-Executive Director in the Cabinet Office. This gives him influence in the government – but he is also Chairman of fracking company Cuadrilla. His company is currently exploring fracking sites in Lancashire and West Sussex. There is a change.org petition calling on Lord Browne to resign his Cabinet Office post on the grounds that this represents an unacceptable conflict of interest. Please sign if you agree. (This petition was created by Young Friends of the Earth, not WDM.)
Want to know more? The WDM “fracking web of power” is a useful guide to conflicts of interest between government and the fracking (hydraulic fracturing) industry.
Climate science explained in four minutes
Do you prefer your info in video form? New Internationalist has teamed up with carbon footprint analyst (and poet!) Danny Chivers to create a series of short videos explaining climate science. The first one attempts to explain the basics in just four minutes.
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Nov meeting: we meet Nick Dearden
Our guest at the Oxford WDM November meeting (Tuesday 12th Nov) will be Nick Dearden, the new director of WDM. This isn’t a big public speaker meeting; it’s a chance for existing WDM activists to meet our new director and talk about the future in a small, informal setting. It should be an exciting chance to hear about his vision for the organisation.
This meeting will be in a different venue from usual: the Friends Meeting House on St Giles, OX1 3LW. The meeting will take place in the Long Room. We very much regret that this room is not wheelchair-accessible. We will have a short “business” meeting at 7:30pm, then Nick Dearden will speak at 8pm and there will be the opportunity for lots of questions.
One World Fair: Sat 16 Nov
We’ll have a stall at the One World Fair on Saturday November 16th in Oxford Town Hall. Please do say hello and sign a postcard or two. We’ll be the ones in the maroon WDM t-shirts!
