Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
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- CSG's last stand? In Narrabri everyone has a stake in the farming v mining fight Tue, 23 May 17, 6:16amIn the first of a series of investigations into issues facing regional Australia, we report on how locals in a north-western New South Wales town are bracing to learn the fate of the state’s last coal seam gas project
- Environmental activists deface Trumps California golf course Wed, 15 Mar 17, 9:33pmUnder the cover of darkness early Sunday morning, a group of anonymous environmental activists broke into one of Donald Trump’s golf courses and defaced the green in an act of civil disobedience...
- 16-year-old activist demands US gov end fossil fuel use by 2026 Thu, 28 Jul 16, 8:00pmAn online petition by 16-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez has attracted over 100,000 signatures demanding that the 2016 presidential candidates commit to ending the use of fossil fuels in the next decade in...
- The third man: Greens leader Richard Di Natale campaigns his own way Wed, 1 Jun 16, 8:13amHe may have been excluded from the leaders’ debate but that hasn’t kept his party out of the media spotlight this election campaign – far from it
- Fracking protesters gather in North Yorkshire as crucial planning meeting begins Fri, 20 May 16, 7:48pmRyedale residents tell councillors they do not want to be the first place in the UK to allow fracking
- Greenpeace activists scale British Museum to protest BP sponsorship Thu, 19 May 16, 7:54pmMuseum temporarily closes as activists hang huge banners renaming the new BP-sponsored Sunken Cities Egypt exhibition as ‘Sinking Cities’
- 'Break Free' fossil fuel protests deemed 'largest ever' global disobedience Tue, 17 May 16, 4:22amCoalition of environmental groups call for oil, coal and gas to be kept in the ground during mass protests around the world over the past two weeks
- Dozens arrested as anti-fossil fuel protesters join Australian coal blockade Sun, 8 May 16, 5:03pmPolice arrest 66 people after climate change activists block train tracks and entrance to Newcastle harbour as part of global Break Free From Fossil Fuels actions
- Hundreds of anti-fossil fuel protesters join Australian coal blockade Sun, 8 May 16, 2:25pmAt least four arrested as climate change activists block train tracks and entrance to Newcastle harbour as part of global Break Free From Fossil Fuels actions
- The time has come to turn up the heat on those who are wrecking planet Earth | Bill McKibben Wed, 4 May 16, 12:43amBreak free and join the biggest global action against fossil fuel companies the world has ever seen
- The time has come to turn up the heat on those who are wrecking planet Earth Wed, 4 May 16, 12:43amBreak free and join the biggest global action against fossil fuel companies the world has ever seen
- Climate protesters occupy UK's largest opencast coalmine – in pictures Wed, 4 May 16, 2:41amThe biggest coordinated global action against fossil fuel companies began with early morning demonstrations at the Ffos-y-fran coalmine, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales...
- Climate protesters invade UK's largest opencast coalmine Tue, 3 May 16, 8:11pmHundreds of activists take control of vast site and bring operations to a halt as part of a coordinated global direct action against fossil fuel companies
- Rowan Williams calls on Cambridge University to divest from fossil fuels Fri, 29 Apr 16, 12:48amFormer archbishop of Canterbury says the university should withdraw its £5.8bn fund from from oil, coal and gas on ethical and financial grounds
- California's coal war pits economic survival against environmental justice Thu, 21 Apr 16, 10:00pmProposed terminal to export coal to Asia creates tense showdown in port city as key players cite potential health risks, yet industry could provide needed jobs