There seems to be a universal assumption, even among environmentalists, that we all have an inalienable human right to use a car in the first place. All the suggested solutions to this number one carbon emitter are merely tinkerings with our practice of using cars without need.

I suggest two actions.

First, it is about time that environmentalists recognize that the biggest cause of greenhouse emissions is the individual's use of the car, not governments and corporations. YOU are to blame, not them.

Concerned Citizens against Climate Change (www.stopwarming.eu) is circulating an international appeal/petition: "Global warming threatens the future of the earth. Act now, before it is too late", which we invite you to sign. We believe that the immediacy of this threat has been grossly underestimated in the international negotiations devoted to it until now.

Dear friends,

My name is Ben Beaton and I am trying to raise as much money as possible for the World Land Trust, a charity which helps purchase and protect the most critically endangered habitats that remain in the world. Supported by Sir David Attenborough and working with local organisations in Central and South America, the Philippines and India, the trust has helped protect over 350,000 acres of threatened wildlife habitats since its foundation in 1989.

The Synergy Project clubnight, SEOne, London Bridge (admission £20.00), see here.

Line-up includes the following talks:

Climate Abuse - "getting over the addiction!” by Jonathan Essex (02:00-02:40)
As well as speaking for Talk Action Jonathan works for bioregional who focus on "One Planet Living" - creating the possibility from buildings to community actions for sustainable communities based on a visioning framework developed jointly with WWF.

action against climate change in africa

Dear Campaigners,

My name is Emre Soyer.
I would like to let you know about a global, non-profit project that aims to help those who are working on issues regarding climate change and those who organize events about global warming. Its main purpose is to make possible a global collective action.

The project is a web platform called www.inthemorningofaday.com , which consists of two main parts, a Global Calendar of Events about Global Warming and a Song for Earth:

3pm Friday 25 January, outside E-On London offices, 100 Pall Mall, nr
Trafalgar Square

E-On is the company behind the new drive to coal and is a classic corporate
polluter - its coal and gas plants specialist in pumping out CO2 into the
atmosphere. It is the world’s 53rd largest company, with assets worth a
staggering $168 billion and in 2006 it made a cool $6.4 billion in profit.
E-on have recently one planning permission from Medway council for a new
coal fired power station at Kingsnorth and the application is now sitting on

E-On is the company behind the new drive to coal and is a classic corporate
polluter - its coal and gas plants specialist in pumping out CO2 into the
atmosphere. It is the world’s 53rd largest company, with assets worth a
staggering $168 billion and in 2006 it made a cool $6.4 billion in profit.
E-on have recently one planning permission from Medway council for a new
coal fired power station at Kingsnorth and the application is now sitting on
Gordon Brown’s desk awaiting his approval. We say no to a new coal power

Hi All

Here’s a link to a great little film: “The Story of Stuff”. http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html
It’s from Free Range Studios, makers of the acclaimed “The Meatrix”.

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