Scotland’s first national celebration of all things reuse will take place on Saturday 5 June, 2010. This is a day to get out there and pass on your unwanted items for others to use, pick up a bargain for yourself, do some swapping, and to simply discover what’s going on the world of reuse and why reuse matters.
For more information go to the Pass it on Day web site
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Posted by Rishi on 28 April 2010
SEAD along with other protesters from Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth Scotland, People & Planet and the World Development Movement gathered outside the Edinburgh International Conference Centre for the Royal Bank of Scotland AGM to raise concerns about unsustainable investments. More to follow later from the alternative RBS AGM.
Posted by Jeni on 26 April 2010
Since the Government bailout of the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008, UK taxpayers now own an 84% share. Yet the Government is ignoring its own guidance by allowing RBS to continue using our money to finance projects and companies who actively ignore and exacerbate the dangers of climate change and human rights abuses, for short term profit.
RBS is holding its Annual General Meeting in Edinburgh on 28th April 2010. But we are not invited, despite being the majority shareholder. We want RBS to listen to the public, so we are holding an RBS Public Shareholder Meeting at the Mercure Point Hotel, Bread St, Edinburgh at 6:00pm, on the same day, which anyone can attend.
Read all of ‘RBS 28th April – Public Shareholder Meeting: Because It’s Our Bank Now’
Posted by Rishi on 26 April 2010
Tar sands extraction in Canada is devastating Indigenous communities, wildlife and vast areas of boreal forests, as well as being many times more carbon-intensive to produce than ‘conventional’ oil.
“We are seeing a terrifyingly high rate of cancer in Fort Chipewyan where I live. We are convinced that these cancers are linked to the Tar Sands development on our doorstep. It is shortening our lives. That’s why we no longer call it ‘dirty oil’ but ‘bloody oil’. The blood of Fort Chipewyan people is on these companies’ hands.” – George Poitras, former chief of Mikisew Cree First Nation. Read all of ‘New report reveals RBS is UK bank most involved in financing loans to tar sands companies’
Posted by Karen on 15 June 2009
Today we’re launching a new report which shows trailblazing Scottish climate education projects building community action to tackle climate change – and highlights the different kinds of support needed by communities who want to take action.
The report entitled ‘Are we Switching On? Challenges and Opportunities for Climate Change Education’ identifies and profiles projects which empower people to take action to tackle climate change in their own lives and communities, rather than those which simply give information without an action-based focus. It serves as a dynamic overview of some of the key approaches to creating behavioural change through climate education, as well as an inspiring bank of ideas which organisations large or small can use to develop their own work. Read all of ‘Developing the tools to tackle climate change’