Monthly Archives: June 2013

IncredibleEdible Mytholm’s comments on HB Partnership Draft Action Plan – 2020: A better place for all

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The IEM Management Committee recently sent Hebden Bridge Partnership its considered collective comments on the Partnership’s Draft Action Plan for the town. The comments are posted below.

Now that the deadline for comments has closed, the Partnership has put a summary of all the responses on its website.

IEM looks forward to attending the Partnership’s 8th July meeting, where the Partnership will review and discuss all the comments it has received on the draft Action Plan. The meeting is open to all members of the public and all HB organisations.

Here are IEM’s comments.
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Leeds Urban Food Justice- Free Agroecology event June 27th

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Dr Chiara Tornaghi, ESRC Research fellow and Teaching Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, invites everyone to the next Urban Food Justice event, for either the morning or afternoon session, or both. It’s on Thursday 27th June, at Armley Mills Museums, from 10.30 to 4.30. Lunch is provided and it’s free to attend

If you go down to Knott Wood today – well, on Sunday 16th June…

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If you’d like to attend Treesponsibility’s Knott Wood Open Day,  meet outside Riverside School, Holme St., Hebden Bridge at 11 a.m. on Sunday 16thJune to join Dongria on a walk to the wood (approx 1 mile).
It is helpful to book, but not necessary. Treesponsibility can be contacted for further details about the event on 07847 815926 or email treesponsibility@yahoo.co.uk

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It costs less to tackle climate change than to do nothing

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There is a conventional view that global action to reduce climate change is a cost to society. But a 2012 Report, Guide to a Cold Calculus for a Hot Planet, outlines how tackling climate change through coordinated efforts between nations would produce much-needed benefits for all, and cost less than sticking with business as usual in the global carbon-intensive economy.

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Feral – Monbiot goes where the wild things are

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Going where the wild things are stops Monbiot being bored – a problem for him, given his humdrum life of raising a kid, working and paying the bills – and he wants the rest of us to experience the same thrills. He is an evangelist for rewilding, the modish conservation concept that calls for the reintroduction of top predators like wolves, bear and lynx to certain regions where they have become extinct.
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Nearly 32 million people displaced by climate and weather disasters in 2012

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In 2012, 31.752m people were displaced by climate and weather disasters, according to figures gathered by Norway’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

That’s around half the UK population – think of half your town or village being made homeless and desperately needing to find somewhere to go, and then multiply that by every town and village in the UK.

It’s pretty unthinkable, but that’s the reality.
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Support African groups’ rejection of G8 corporate food plan – no return to colonialism!

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Join UK campaigners calling on Cameron to withhold £395m in so-called ‘aid’!

African farmers’ movements and civil society groups have rejected the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition as part of a “new wave of colonialism” targeting their food systems for corporate profit.

War on Want explains that this warning comes in a statement that the African Centre for Biosafety sent to G8 leaders on 3 June 2013 in advance of the `hunger summit’  hosted by David Cameron in London today (8 June). This includes a meeting of the G8‘s New Alliance.
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Feral: the pathetic fallacy, but not as we know it

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Midway along his life’s path, George Monbiot found himself on a dreary moor with no track to show him the way.

Lacking a poet ghost to guide him on the necessary descent into the circles of hell, through purgatory and on to paradise, Monbiot’s new book Feral conjures an Edenic fantasy of re-forested uplands, prowled by wolves, beavers and other top predators. In his dreams, he has banished the pesky sheep and hill farmers who between them have degraded this once and future biodiverse ecosystem.
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