We certainly live in troubling times. Hardly a day goes by without us hearing about terrible news, cataclysmic predictions concerning the future of our environment, and our very species’ survival. But that’s hardly surprising: we know bad news sells. Australian director Damon Gameau’s second feature documentary is trying to tell the same story, but in […]
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Swansea Council’s Climate Emergency declaration meeting on Thursday evening was well attended. The Chair referred to it as the ‘best meeting’ in a long time. The Climate Emergency was duly declared unanimously following a motion brought by Councillors Mary Sherwood and Peter Jones after Extinction Rebellion’s April event. Among those in the public gallery were […]
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The Swansea Planning Committee decided against Biffa’s planning proposal of a new waste incinerator in Llansamlet today. The plans were rejected unanimously by the Council, who now have the task of finding alternative disposal for the 21,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste, currently going to landfill in Merhyr Tydfil, that the incinerator was going to burn. […]
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Education, Environment, Politics
15th April marks the beginning of two weeks of International Climate Emergency Activism. A large and fast-growing number of people are now prepared to take part in climate activism, to go on school strikes, to directly confront authority that isn’t on message. Cities and Towns across the UK have been making the demand […]
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