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Foley's Folly

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 22/04/2012 - 8:46pm

There’s a certain satisfaction that comes from knowing that the former South Australian treasurer for Mike Rann’s ALP government, Kevin Foley, is the now head of Foley Advisory - a consultancy firm for the development industry. A post-parliamentary career ‘advising’ developers (advising what exactly? How to assimilate development aspirations with government policy? How to cut re…) certainly seems to confirm criticisms that the Rann Government was resolutely pro-development industry. Maybe call this the ‘We told you so’ affectation.

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First Declaration of the Hambach jungle

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 19/04/2012 - 8:08pm

The Forest is now squatted!

A part of the Hambach forest has been squatted in order to save it from the excavators send by the giantic energy coperation RWE digging up the coal.
Alongside a cultural happening/fair in the woods (Waldfest) „Wald statt Kohle“ Forest, not coal! the squatting commences. Even though the
Under the slogan „Forest, not coal!“ („Wald, statt Kohle“) a festivity is celebrated in the forest. Alongside that happening the squatting has started, though both activities remain independet of each other.

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Launch of Fin Free Ranges to save the sharks

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 17/04/2012 - 2:51pm

On April 13th 2012, Fin Free Ranges was launched in Belgrave with a showing of the documentary Sharkwater The aim of Fin Free Ranges is to work with local government, businesses and the community to help rid the Shire Of Yarra Ranges of the ecologically destructive delicacy of Shark Fin soup and to raise awareness of the plight of the worlds Sharks
Related:Fin Free Ranges on Facebook -- Sharwater Documentary

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Bob Brown on Global Democracy and World Parliament

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 8:05pm

Fellow Earthians,

Never before has the Universe unfolded such a flower as our collective human intelligence, so far as we know.

Nor has such a one-and-only brilliance in the Universe stood at the brink of extinction, so far as we know.

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the Universe exploded into being.

So far, it seems like we are the lone thinkers in this vast, expanding Universe.

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sustainable development

Olive branch offered on Ta Ann markets campaign in Tasmania

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/04/2012 - 4:07pm

Environment groups have offered to suspend their markets campaign in Japan for one month while forest peace talks proceed, on the condition that logging ceases in the 572,000 ha of verified high conservation value forests whilst negotiations about protecting them take place.

“It’s a moratorium for a moratorium,” said Peg Putt of Markets for Change.

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Huon Valley Environment Centre

Film Festival about Uranium and Nuclear Energy invites to Rio de Janeiro

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/04/2012 - 10:26pm

Film Festival about Nuclear Energy invites to Rio de Janeiro

2nd INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL - from June 28th to July 14th, 2012, Rio de Janeiro, MAM

By Marcia Gomes

A few days after the Earth Summit (Rio plus 20) the 2nd INTERNATIONAL
URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL of Rio de Janeiro invites to the Cinema of the Museum
of Modern Art (MAM). The Uranium Film Festival has selected 40 films about
nuclear power, uranium mining, depleted uranium weapons and nuclear

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International news and opinion

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Hiroshima survivor: 'People of the world, stand together to oppose nuclear energy"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 29/03/2012 - 9:15am

Hashizume Bun, 80-year-old author of “The Day the Sun Fell - I Was 14 Years Old in Hiroshima”, poses in front of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on March 25, 2011. Bun, who has spoken in 70 countries about her ordeal, was less than 1.5 kilometres from the hypocentre of the explosion over Hiroshima at the end of WWII.

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International petition to ban live hare coursing in Ireland

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 25/03/2012 - 6:10am

Dear Friends,

Please sign this petition (it takes only a few seconds) seeking support for the upcoming Bill to ban the horribly cruel practice of live hare coursing in Ireland.

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Greenies obsessed with old trees

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 24/03/2012 - 10:21am

In a startling rebuke to “greenies” in the south west, Dr Chrissy Sharp, former Greens MLC, fired both barrels at greens and forest managers at a World Forestry Day dinner held in Bunbury last night.

Dr Sharp stated that the real risk facing WA’s native forests was climate change and that drying out of the forest was a potential calamity. Her concern was that greenies were totally focussed on reservation of old trees, totally ignoring the far more pressing need to manage stands of young regrowth trees.

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Forest Rescue heighten protest actions to save forests - however many arrests

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 21/03/2012 - 10:38pm

Gerry Georgatos
Forest Rescue Australia (FRA) has heightened its protest actions halting Warrup logging on an almost daily basis - however at the price of arrests. A Forest Products Commission (FPC) spokeswoman confirmed that protestors had entered work areas on three separate days in the last ten days and on two occasions had locked themselves on to two logging machines while work continued in other parts of the operation.

On Monday 19, FRA protestors entered the Warrup logging area and one protestor managed to lock himself on to a logging machine for 15 hours.

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