| Bridgend Green PartyMeeting Thursday 26th May 2011 at the Haywain Function Room. Coychurch Road, Bridgend, CF31 2AP. 8.00pm AGENDA
Policy Discussion Topic – Nuclear energy. |
Agenda – Bridgend Green Party Meeting 26th May
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Impassioned video re the Fracking threat to New South Wales,
| This may be about New South Wales , but we need to heed it here in old South Wales. Whatever your views on the style or the content, what is indisputable is the passionate concern that lies behind it. The consequences are potentially dire and there will be no turning back once it is done. |
See spOiLt at the National Eisteddfod in Swansea
| From our friends at the Co-operative:On behalf of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, and The Co-operative Cymru/Wales, we would like to invite you join us to launch spOiLt, a new film documentary about climate change made by pupils at Ysgol Bro Ddyfi in Machynlleth.
The launch will be held during the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Swansea at 11:00am on Wednesday 1 June in the Annedd Wen function room on the Maes ( Eisteddfod site) During the function there will be an opportunity to view the film and listen to the views of the young people involved. Following the reception youll be able to enjoy everything the Eisteddfod has to offer. Tickets are available from Sarah Wood (mention Andy Chyba pointed you in her direction): sarahwoods@phonecoop.coop |
Renewable energy – new technologies and new applications!
| As most of you will know, Bridgend Green Party has been playing a prominent role in the burgeoning anti-fracking movement, in part because the methane produced is far from the ‘green’ (or even ‘transitional’) fuel it is purported to be.
The ‘No Fracking UK’ group, which has evolved from ‘The Vales Says No’ group, are looking into putting together a ‘pro-renewable’ strand to their campaigning to sit alongside the ‘anti-fracking’ campaign – so that we can be seen to be offering positive alternatives and not just be ‘against’ shale gas and coal bed methane. Any good links to local organisations or companies in the renewable energy sector would be appreciated – especially those in the local area. The new school being built in Brackla, while preaching Dark Ages dogma, is at least demonstrating some enlightened thinking in terms of energy and water consumption. One of the contractors is Cardiff based Natural Power (Wales) Ltd, who specialise in solar technologies, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps and rainwater harvesting. See: http://www.naturalpoweruk.com/ Personally, I want to explore the vast potential of tidal energy along the Severn Estuary. Any leads on this topic would be especially welcome. On a much smaller, and more intimate level, it amazing where the technologies are being used these days: “The Solar Power Bullet Vibrator is a brand-new Eco-friendly vibrator with a lot of power behind it! Harness the power of the sun, and look after the earth – and your pocket!” |
Diary dates
| Next Bridgend meeting:THURSDAY 26TH MAY – 8.00pm – HAYWAIN Function Room.
Items for the agenda to me by the end of the weekend please. How Green Economics could transform Wales? With Molly Scott Cato, Reader in Green Economics, Cardiff School of management and author of Green EconomicsTuesday 7th June @ 7:30pm, The Environment Centre, Pier Street, Swansea, SA1 1RY Entry is Free – All welcomeOrganised by Swansea Green PartyLet me know if you would like a lift.FINALLY: CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE – SATURDAY 21ST MAY 4PM “We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film. HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.” Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Director) TRAILER: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/home/trailer SEE IT (FOR FREE) IN ITS FULL CINEMATIC GLORY AT THECHAPTER ARTS CENTRE – SATURDAY 21ST MAY 4PM Alternatively, you can see the whole film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1 |
UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL – CARDIFF – 20-22 MAY
The national Green Film Festival is using The Chapter Arts Centre Cinema in Cardiff as one of its featured venues this year.Over the 3 days, it is showing NINE films with a strong ‘green’ message:
Unfortunately, Gasland, although part of the festival, is not being shown in Cardiff, but both GASLAND and AGE OF STUPID, another featured film at other venues, are both available to borrow from Andy on DVD. We are also hoping to get GASLAND screened in a local cinema soon as part of the Anti-Fracking campaign. UK GREEN FILM FESTIVAL website: http://ukgreenfilmfestival.org/ The Chapter Arts Centre Cinema website: http://www.chapter.org/cinema/index.html
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How to fight Fracking and win
| This little video from the USA parallels the ‘Say No to Fracking in the Vale’ campaign.
The vital point is that local success acts as a stepping stone to a broader campaign. http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/community/how-to-fight-fracking-and-win.html |
Johann Hari catches up with the fracking story and backs our stance all the way
Up In Flames: Cameron’s pledge to lead the greenest government everJohann Hari on an environmental disaster in the making: On the front page: Blackpool uneasy at prospect of ‘fracking’ boom on its coastline |
Uganda abandons anti-gay bill
| The international pressure has worked! Uganda has abandoned the Kill the Gays bill, closing parliament in the face of an unprecedented global outcry. By adding our voices we’ve joined over 500,000 people around the world to send a powerful message that the Ugandan government could no longer afford to ignore.Thank you.
This is an important step, but the fight isnt over yet – while we stopped the Kill the Gays bill from passing in this session of parliament, conservatives in Uganda are vowing to bring it back later this year. But the tables have begun to turn. Together we’re a movement of more than half a million people ready to ensure hundreds of thousands of Ugandans and others around the world are able to live their lives without fear. |
UN’s climate change science body says renewables supply, particularly solar power, can meet global demand
| Renewable energy can power the world, says landmark IPCC study
(A solar power plant in the Mojave desert. Photograph: AP) Renewable energy could account for almost 80% of the world’s energy supply within four decades – but only if governments pursue the policies needed to promote green power, according to a landmark report published on Monday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of the world’s leading climate scientists convened by the United Nations, said that if the full range of renewable technologies were deployed, the world could keep greenhouse gas concentrations to less than 450 parts per million, the level scientists have predicted will be the limit of safety beyond which climate change becomes catastrophic and irreversible. Investing in renewables to the extent needed would cost only about 1% of global GDP annually, said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC. FULL STORY HERE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/09/ipcc-renewable-energy-power-world |
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