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We've produced this leaflet (right) to help draw people to the website and into active involvement with us. (It also carries a hefty plug for Leeds CRAG, following our recent agreement to work alongside them in promoting carbon reduction.)
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Walk Off Your January Blues on Sat 10th
Leeds City Council is about to take a decision of significant importance within the UK’s climate change and energy debate – whether or not to approve an open cast coal mine next to Fairburn Ings Nature Reserve near Leeds. If the council proceed to approve the application, it will undermine the efforts made by Leeds City Council to tackle climate change and will seriously undermine the UK’s aspiration of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Yorkshire Against New Coal (YANC) and Residents Against Greenbelt Exploitation (RAGE) are inviting people to join a protest walk of the site on Saturday 10th January 2009. The walk will start at midday and the route will follow public rights of way around and through the proposed open cast site and the walk should take no more than an hour. Stop Climate Chaos Leeds and Leeds Friends of the Earth are organising a bike ride to the site from Leeds City Centre. Some banners and placards will be available but please feel free to make and bring along your own!
See www.yanc.org.uk and www.savefairburnings.org.uk for more info.
National Climate March - 6th December
The National Climate March is nearly upon us, and Stop Climate Chaos Leeds has organised a coach to help protesters get down there. Packed with activists from across the region, and with tickets at megre £16 waged and £12 concession, the coach is easily the cheapest and most enjoyable way to get the demo. For more info and to book your ticket, check out our Climate March webpage.
Green New Deal
Some of the biggest names in the green and development movements have come together to write a report outlining the policies which could solve the “triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices”. They’re calling it The Green New Deal, in an allusion to Franklin D Roosevelt’s courageous programme to rescue the American economy after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 which marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
The report has received widespread national media attention because of the high profile of the authors. It is a collaboration between some familiar names, including Tony Juniper, who until recently was director of Friends of the Earth, Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP, Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation and Ann Pettifor who gave us the Jubilee 2000 campaign and is now Campaign Director of Operation Noah.
Two of these authors will be in Leeds on 4th October as speakers at the Schumacher North Lectures, along with Susan George. Our parent organisation, TIDAL is one of the partners working with Schumacher North to organise the lectures. You can book tickets now by ringing 0113 8125263 or visiting www.schumacher-north.co.uk
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