Browsing Category »Environmental Campaigns«
→ May 13, 2009
As the furore about Heathrow’s third runway continues Greenpeace are hoping that people will get behind their Airplot campaign. The environmental pressure group have bought a piece of land slap bang in the middle of the proposed runway site and need 100,000 people to each sign up for a plot of land and become beneficial [...]
→ November 6, 2008
B.L.A.S.T (Bringing Leamington Allotment Societies Together) are holding a ‘Welly Walk’ on 23rd November to publicise their campaign to save Leamington Allotments and local green belt land which is under threat from developers. B.L.A.S.T represents over 1200 people involved in and benefiting from four Leamington allotments: Binswood, Cliffe, New Milverton and Old Milverton who also [...]
→ November 4, 2008
As scientific research revealing a “frightening” fall in the numbers of common seals around the UK coast, wildlife campaigners are calling on high street retailers to help protect them by insisting their Scottish salmon suppliers stop shooting seals. Scientists from the Sea Mammal research Unit (SMRU) have described the decline in seals as ‘frightening’ but [...]
→ October 10, 2008
Reminding the presidential candidates that there’s an even bigger meltdown underway than the one on Wall Street, global warming activists today launched a drive to urge John McCain and Barack Obama to pledge that they’ll travel to Poland even before they’re inaugurated to reassure the rest of the world that America plans to resume active [...]