Hannah, you might be right about the Lib dems giving a steer. The third runway has been scrapped!!! I go this this morning. but i know they won't scrap trident.
Shane
Dear Shane, Fantastic news - climate-wrecking
plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport have been axed. The new government confirmed yesterday that it will scrap
Heathrow expansion, and also refuse additional runways at Gatwick and
Stansted. This is a huge victory in our fight for genuine action against
catastrophic climate change - and a recognition of the impact aviation
is having on the climate. This wouldn't have been possible
without you and your name was on the first petition delivered to the new
government this morning. Greenpeace campaigners and Sipson
residents presented Airplot's legal Deed of Trust at 10 Downing Street
with all 91,317 of us who 'benefically own' the plot. It may no longer
prove necessary, but shows the new PM the huge number of us who are
prepared to stand in the way of the bulldozers should he change his
mind. The announcement happened so quickly it took us a bit by
surprise. Our aim was to use the Airplot to create a significant legal
headache for any government trying to build the runway, but now it seems
that it won't be needed. Particularly since the new Deputy PM Nick
Clegg and all of the Liberal Democrat front bench are also beneficial
owners of the one acre plot, and David Cameron agreed to have a tree
planted on the land in his name. Great though this news is, it's not
the end of the campaign. Neither the Tories nor the Lib Dems have yet
ruled out expansion at other airports around the country - so we'll keep
going until the new government recognises that all airport expansion
has to stop. With that in mind we also announced the winners of the
Airplot Contest today - our competition to find the ideal structure to
fortify the Airplot against the bulldozers should it come to that. We wanted an exemplary piece of sustainable design: a
practical solution with cultural and aesthetic power to match the depth
and importance of what's at stake. We had some wonderful entries, and
even though winning design Groundswell won't need to be built at Heathrow now,
the structure could be built anywhere it is needed to defend the
climate. Come and see the best designs at the public exhibition. It
takes place at the Bargehouse Gallery on London's South Bank from 2-6
June. If you can't make it, or want a sneak preview, you can view the
winning designs and the best shortlisted entries over on our Flickr site. Thanks so much for all your continued
support,
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Subject : RE: conservatives rank Climate change 19th out of 19 most important issues
Date : Wed, 12 May 2010 11:22:12 +0100
From : Hannah Thorogood <hannah_t...@hotmail.com>
To : Transition Bedford <transitio...@googlegroups.com>
When I first heard they were entertaining talks I was furious. How could they?? They have such opposing views?!
But then, with time, I am wondering... this is actually very interesting... It kind of smacks of those wise words that we cannot get out of our mess with the same thinking that we have got into it with. Is t possible that we face a new era...? It feels like overnight our political system seems to have grown up a little bit - from dualing boys in the play ground shouting at each other to potentially something else.
It may be a ridiculous thing to say or feel but I have a bit of hope in Nick and Vince to steer the public school boys through some interesting times.
I agree so much with what you say though Shane about taking our own route through this all, it all feels a bit like a parallel world. To a massive degree, what happens in Westminster has little bearing on us, how we choose to live our lives, if we decide to cycle or drive, if we decide to talk to our neighbours and invite them round for dinner, if we grow our own salad. Something different is happening, change is afoot, it is a big gushing tide when you look at all the allotment plots filling up, sales of bikes, rising numbers of farm shops and veg box schemes. We have decided we want something different on this little island and it seems we are doing it. So let that wonderful volcano that no-one can spell, keep gushing is ash all over our air space, let those boys in suits play around with figures in the theatre of money, I'm off to pick some lovely salad and herbs for lunch and grab some leaves from the verge to add to it and have a lovely lunch with the kids.
Hannah Thorogood, M.Sc., Dip.Perm.Des.
* Earth Care * People Care * Fair Share *
Permaculture Teacher, Diploma Tutor & Event Co-ordinator
Member of the Permaculture Council for Europe
http://designedvisions.com
From: shane...@lycos.com
To: transitio...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: conservatives rank Climate change 19th out of 19 most important issues
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 03:10:12 -0400
so i walk to work today feeling slightly
emotional and confused almost tearful. Last night i caught, i don't know
who, from the labor party saying on the box that;
"of course we were taking the negotiations seriously, we'd agreed to
scrap trident, the third runway and identity cards"
did I misunderstand? is this political spin? or WAS WE REALLY THAT CLOSE TO
CHANGES THAT SOME OF US HAVE CAMPAIGNED FOR FOR DECADES????
Gutted! Difficult not to have a heavy heart.
Well here's one of many twists for me about our current regime change and the
confused irony in my cocktail of emotions and tailspin mind..... I’ve never
voted! I believe our political systems, all be it one of the best in the world,
to be one of the fundamental causes of all our problems. So surely reform is a
silver lining, even a profoundly, perhaps, more important win.
I’ve never voted because i refuse to endorse a system that is fundamentally
flawed, faulty, passed its sell by date, with voiceless people, subtly
oppressed, disempowered and in my mind a system that is complicit in problem cuasing not solving, a system that we should give historic
praise, an improvement on kings and queens, but not one fit for present
purpose. Political reform has been high on my agenda for a long time. Not in a
"change them from the inside" type way but living on the radical
fringe and a "be the change" heavily engaged in community type
approach. BUT four or five years back i came to terms with the notion
that environmentalism as usual and protest as usual wasn't going to be good
enough, we, the alternative society were as dangerously dogmatic as the
business as usual proponents and so i decide to reevaluate all that i held dear
and all that i was/am passionate about and one of the things that i gave into
was the fact that with the ticking time bomb known as a climate change,
resource depletion, ecosystem breakdown etc etc... reform to a political system making it open, engaging and inclusive was a luxury that would be better
left for a decade or two because as it would make our collective decision making
too slow and inconclusive in a time when we needed brave and decisive
leadership. So at a time when i put political reform to the back of my mind and
agenda here it is front and centre on the political and national agenda. Maybe a
demonstration of political lag but certainly confusing for me! I’m not sure i want it
now. NOT RIGHT NOW. But then again on a deeper level it's exactly what we need.
I know many will say that we won't get the reform. That's all a bit black and
white for me. I think it's more about igniting the creative consciousness of
the many towards the possibility of a system that empowers, unites and
nourishes, scary in the totality of individual and collective responsibility
and freedom from governors.
Shane
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