Do what Emma tells you

Parliament votes on the 3rd runway on Wednesday, and between now and then Greenpeace is targeting Labour MPs. 57 of them signed an EDM against airport expansion last autumn, so the plan is to encourage those 57 to be consistent and vote against the third runway too. It’s not a binding vote but opposition from [...]

And more on transport.

How are you all, by the way? Good? Happy and healthy and enjoying the new Obama universe? Good good. I like to check in on my readers every so often. All 7 of you.
Anyway, if you’re short of anything really, really long but QI to read this evening, have a look at the DfT’s Delivering a [...]

Also on the Greenpeace website…

…is some work they are doing on mapping the damage being caused by soya production in the Amazon.
Any mention of soya pokes my somewhat-overused guilt button, because, as a vegan, soya makes up around 100% of my diet. However it’s actually a good example of the efficiency of veggie diets over meaty ones: if all [...]

Grace clambers somewhat belatedly onto the Heathrow band…plane

Actually it’s not that belated, I did post last week about how I am, in fact, one of the beneficial owners of a small piece of land within the site of the proposed third runway at Heathrow. But the post didn’t work and then I had to leave the house (this unfortunately happens sometimes).
Anyway,  as [...]

New Year, same old….

Yes, I’m back. Sorry I haven’t posted in a month, winter makes me depressed. Israel also makes me depressed. I’m sure I have nothing to contribute to any Gaza debate beyond the same outrage everyone else is expressing (and also the cheerless footnote that the crisis is even starting to ruin Obama for us) except [...]

Things from the Manchester Oxfam minutes

Kept meaning to put this up – this is from the event at the Town Hall on the 16th October, where all the knitters who contributed to the blanket met up for a launch event to celebrate their hard work. There was also a film documenting the process of creating the blanket which (lest ye [...]

Give Coal The Boot

No new coal!
Grace

Do I bring you the awesomest online campaigning activities or what?
Greenpeace are still keeping the pressure on Gordon Brown to say no to a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth – click here to add your non-carbon footprint to the map and give coal the boot!

Rather late in the day…

…nevertheless it is still just about Blog Action Day, which I found out about via Oxfam, and they would like people to blog about poverty.
I had a think about which aspect of poverty to talk about, and decided that, although child poverty in the UK is probably on my mind more often, the issue of climate poverty [...]

Awesome news

The government have agreed to shelve 42 days – thank Christ (or, more accurately, Liberty) for that. There is hope for the country yet.
Also, big shout out to any Manchester homies (or anyone else I might know) involved in the climate change action at Westminster today – I know from a Facebook message I got [...]

Tour the Rainbow Warrior!

If you’re a Greenpeace member you can go on board the Rainbow Warrior at two locations in the South-East later this month and in the beginning of November. Sounds like a really exciting opportunity – just wish it wasn’t all in the South!