Ecocide on trial  On 30th September 2011, London’s Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will be the venue for a Mock Trial, played out as though the crime of Ecocide is already law.
The case will be based on facts taken from real events. A fictional CEO will be on trial alongside a fictional Bank Exec charged with aiding and abetting Ecocide. A Judge will preside over the Court with top barristers and QC's acting for the prosecution and the defence, and a jury will decide the outcome. Click here to get involved. Footage from the trial, the deliberations of the jury, together with interviews with the expert witnesses on both sides, will be edited and made available to the media, government, businesses and social networks and be used as part of information packs for schools, universities and business schools.
You too can be part of the Trial and help raise the much needed funding for this momentous event. Michael Mansfield QC and Vandana Shiva are two of the names involved. Click here to join in the crowd-funding and spread the word. For further information on the trial and the Hamilton Group (the organisation coordinating the trial) click here. Back to top^  A renewable powered world is possible  A world powered by 100% renewable energy is possible within the next 20-40 years, claims Stanford Report.
"Based on our findings, there are no technological or economic barriers to converting the entire world to clean, renewable energy sources," says Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. "It is a question of whether we have the societal and political will." For a more in-depth assessment of the report click here and for an article outlining the numbers involved click here. Having ecocide recognised as the 5th Crime Against Peace will be key in ensuring governments and corporations can transition to a renewable world. Criminalising ecocide will ensure that no company can profit from large scale environmental destruction. This will ensure the playing field for energy production is levelled and all companies will have to pursue a more environmentally benign alternative. Back to top^ Eradicating Ecocide announced as Top Finalist  Eradicating Ecocide a finalist for the People's Book Prize.
Click here to cast your vote. Last month thanks to all your votes we made as a finalist. Now we need your vote again. Please help us give it the final push. We have 1 week left. The winner will be announced on Wed 20th of July at the Awards Ceremony in London. You can help us make it happen, and lets eradicate the ecocide! Click here to cast your vote. Back to top^ Events - - -Friday 22nd July: Polly will be speaking about the Crime of Ecocide with Aghogho Okpako from the Niger Delta, chaired by Jane Davidson, the former Environment and Sustainability Minister for Wales and Director of INSPIRE. 6pm - 8pm, Metropolitan University, Building K, Swansea - - - Planetary Leaders: change-agent skills for building a just and sustainable world. 28 August to 2 September 2011. Click here to find out more and apply. - - - September 24th is Moving Planet day - a day of action by people around the world to call on their governments to move beyond fossil fuels. Help make it a huge rally for the Earth on that day:you can join an event or organise one of your own. Click here to find out more. Back to top^ Multimedia  - - - FREE FILM: Click here to watch for free the award winning film by the Graf Boys, Poisoning Paradise: Ecocide New Zealand. The film is showing free of charge for a limited time only on the online Green Unplugged Film Festival.
- - - FILM TRAILER: Common Healing. Click here to watch this super 20 minute pre-documentary trailer on why we need to create a gloabl commons. - - - PODCAST: Click here for a podcast of Polly speaking at LSE. - - - ARTICLE: Click here to read this exciting article outlining how Bolivia will be giving legal rights to the Earth. - - - TREEHUGGING: Tree Sisters is calling on all women to help reforest the world and USA tree campaigner Julia Butterfly Hill joined Polly and friends up a tree to call for an end to the ecocide of the Khimki forest. Read more here Back to top^ | 
