Live the Cool Life! -> -> Climate Action in Sheffield -> -> Nov 2009This e-newsletter brings you a regular update on climate action in Sheffield and how to get involved. To subscribe, email our mailing list scacc-subscribe@lists.riseup.net MEET >> MEET >> MEET >> MEET >> MEET >> MEET >> MEET >> MEET >>Sheffield Campaign against Climate Change http://sheffield.campaigncc.org
Our next meeting is Tues 10th November 7.30 – 9.30pm at Highfield Library, London Rd. All are welcome! COUNTDOWN TO COPENHAGEN >> COUNTDOWN TO COPENHAGEN >>
Copenhagen: Roll up for The Wave!
Come to The Wave – the UK's biggest ever demonstration in support of action on Climate Change -on Sat 5th December in London. Get there by train on The Wave Express, a special train leaving Doncaster at 8am and returning from London at 7pm. The cost is £30, or £20 for low waged/unpaid. Book online: http://www.leedscopnet.info/ or by post using the form attached to this newsletter. Book now to avoid disappointment! SCACC will co-ordinate travel to Doncaster by train or car - please let jenny.patient@blueyonder.co.uk know if you're coming. Copenhagen: Be there?
Climate Camp are organising coaches to Copenhagen from Leeds and London - see www.climatecamp.org.uk
Copenhagen: See what Ed said...
Read the Government's responses to Sheffielders' letters to Ed Miliband about the UK's role at Copenhagen: http://sheffield.campaigncc.org/ - see the Actions and Events page
FOOD >> FOOD >> FOOD >> FOOD >> FOOD >> FOOD >> FOOD >> FOOD >>
FOOD: Be the CSA…Help Transition Heeley/Meersbrook to launch their Community Supported Agriculture co-operative at The Grapevine Centre, Northcote Road, Heeley on Mon 2nd Nov at 7.30pm. Become a founding member, choose the name and logo... be part of history!
FOOD: Learn Organic!Heeley City Farm are offering opportunities to volunteer and learn organic food growing - no experience necessary! Mondays at Meersbrook, Tuesdays and Thursdays at Wortley (transport available) and Fridays at Heeley. Contact hcflocalfood@gmail.com, call Darrell on 07768932613 or see http://www.organickitchengarden.co.uk/
ENERGY >> ENERGY >> ENERGY >> ENERGY >> ENERGY >> ENERGY >> ENERGY >>ENERGY: And the Politics of the Future…The final of three lectures hosted by Sheffield Cathedral and SCACC: Political Realities: Wednesday 11 November - Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, formerly Director of the London School of Economics. This will draw on his recent influential book The Politics of Climate Change. In Sheffield Cathedral 7 pm Tickets £2 (concessions £1) Available in advance by post from Julia Alder at Church House, 95-99 Effingham Street, Rotherham S65 1BL or from Blue Moon café or on the door. Contact Michael Bayley on mjbayley@btinternet.com See slides and hear audio of the two previous lectures at http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2009/10/439428.html and http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2009/10/440314.htmlENERGY: Plan for 2050?Plan 2050: Election 2010 is a campaign which demands that our political parties produce energy policies that add up, so that voters can make an informed choice at the General Election. The campaigners in each constituency may have many different views but will be united in this - to make the politicians face the hard policy decisions that they alone can make. If you can work with them in your constituency, email plan2050@gmail.com or see http://omegaclimate.wordpress.com/. And... pass this on to your friends and relations in every constituency nationwide!ENERGY: Say No to Biofuels!Sheffield City Council is considering a planning application for a power station in Ecclesfield that could use palm oil causing rainforest destruction and the extinction of orang utans. If you agree this is not what we mean by sustainable energy, come to a campaign meeting with BiofuelWatch at Quaker Meeting House, St James St (near Cathedral tramstop) at 6.30pm on Mon 2nd Nov and register your own objection at http://planning.sheffield.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=KQJ3PONY09700 - by 6th November.ENERGY: Invest in Renewables!Sheffield Renewables' pledge database has reached £15,000 - this helps their credibility when talking to banks and funding bodies. Add your own investment pledge at: http://www.sheffieldrenewables.org.uk/index.php?id=30
TRANSPORT >> TRANSPORT >> TRANSPORT >> TRANSPORT >> TRANSPORT >>TRANSPORT: Be part of the Airplot…Don't rely on the Tories' saying they won't build a Third Runway at Heathrow... join up as one of thousands of beneficial owners of a piece of land in the middle of it! Get your friends involved and start planning what you'll do as Airplotters... see http://www.airplot.org.uk/toolkit.htmlYOU DO IT! >> YOU DO IT! >> YOU DO IT! >> YOU DO IT! >> YOU DO IT! >>YOU DO IT! Plan for 2050? Plan 2050: Election 2010 is a campaign which demands that our political parties produce energy policies that add up, so that voters can make an informed choice at the General Election. The campaigners in each constituency may have many different views but will be united in this - to make the politicians face the hard policy decisions that they alone can make. If you can work with them in your constituency, email plan2050@gmail.com or see http://omegaclimate.wordpress.com/. And... pass this on to your friends and relations in every constituency nationwide!
YOU DO IT! Go for 10:10… 10:10 is an ambitious project to unite every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together we can achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010. Don’t just support it, do it, become it: join thousands of other people, businesses and organisations making simple changes to cut their emissions at http://www.1010uk.org/ See photos of South Yorkshire Energy Centre's 10:10 and 350.org action on 24th Oct at: http://wiki.transitionsheffield.org.uk/File:Sheffield_10-10.jpg YOU DO IT! See the Age of Stupid... At the Lescar, Sharrowvale Road, on Mon 9th Nov at 7pm, £Free - supported by Transition Porter Valley - see www.ageofstupid.net/venues/2126 YOU DO IT! Climate Solidarity... A training session in Sheffield, Friday 20th November (12pm - 4.30pm) to inspire workplace and community action! YOU DO IT! Be an Eco-team leader! Leeds 7th November 2009, The Met Hotel. Register for an event or join online anywhere in the UK at www.ecoteams.org.uk YOU DID IT! You stopped Kingsnorth! Thanks to thousands of campaigners like you, E.on have shelved their plans for a new coal power station at Kingsnorth emitting 6 million tonnes of CO2 per annum - well done!! Celebrate by signing RSPB's Letter to the Future, which says invest in a healthy economy and a healthy environment, see http://www.rspb.org.uk/lettertothefuture/ What’s your inspiration? Tell us about your campaigns, events and ideas for a low-carbon Sheffield, and we’ll pass them on!The text for this page comes from the Live the Cool Life newsletter edited by Jenny Patient. Previous newsletters are available on the What We Do page. |
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