Biofuels (Agrofuels)- The false solution

Recieved via LUU Green Action email list.

There will be an anti agrofuels (biofuels) demo on May 2nd at 3pm at a location in Leeds as part of the May Day of Action on technofixes and false capitalist solutions.

The simple message is 'food not fuel' and 'greenwash/false solutions' so be creative with banners and placards

We hope to have street theatre with a cardboard car being fed food! plenty of banners and publicity and some hilarious 'greenwashing' action.

You can find out more in person at the climate camp yorkshire neighbourhood meeting on the 30th, or be at WHSmith at leeds train station at 2pm on May 2nd where there will be someone to meet you.

Climate Change Bill Week of Action- please get involved.

Text taken from Stop Climate Chaos Leeds circular emails.

Saturday 5^th April, 11am

Climate Bill Week of Action Demonstration

This week, April 1-5, is a week of action on climate change. Campaigners across the country are taking action to publicise the importance of including international aviation emissions in the Climate Change Bill.

Friends of the Earth Leeds group will now be holding a lobby/photo stunt on Briggate in Leeds of Saturday 5th April - If you're free please pop along, the more people that turn up, the bigger the effect!

The details are as follows...

We'll be meeting outside the Leeds church institute (www.leedschurchinstitute.org/) in Leeds city centre at 11am on Saturday morning.

We'll sort ourselves out, take the photos, hopefully with the press in tow, and it will all be done by noon! Please bring banners/leaflets/action cards, etc.

For more information contact James McKay on 07968854696 or email j.mckay690@btinternet.com

FoE have the mask, and the planes, and I am more than happy to dress up in a dark suit and red tie to play Gordon, unless anyone else is very keen! I will also be bringing things to hand out to the public, if we have lots of people, and a digital camera, so we can take our own photos.

The more the merrier!

All the best,James

Tell Gordon and David to make the Climate Change Bill Count

With your help and support we won at getting the government to concede on annual milestones – one of our top 3 changes to the Climate Change Bill! So that’s one down and two to go – and there’s still time to see our two remaining changes made to the bill, which are…

- an increase in the emissions reductions target to at least 80% by 2050

- the inclusion of the UK’s share of international aviation and shipping emissions.

Go to http://www.icount.org.uk/personal_actions/459.asp

(To check who your MP is go www.theyworkforyou.com and type in your postcode)

On a related theme:

Wednesday 9^th April – Climate Chaos Café

Leeds/Bradford Airport expansion (Leeds/Bradford Airport Campaign)

The Common Place, 23-25 Wharf Street, LS1 7ED. Climate Chaos Cafe is all about discussion, information, food, chat and action on climate change in friendly and informal surroundings. We open at 6.45pm, with then about an hour of talk/open discussion from 7pm with a cheap, delicious (vegan) meal.

For more about what is currently happening on local action on climate change see:
http://www.leedstidal.org/sccleeds/sccnewspage.php

Transition Town Leeds- 19th April.

Transition Town Leeds.

Fowarded via Leeds Ecovillage yahoo group.

Hi everyone,

We are a group organising a public meeting to launch Transition Town Leeds - an umberella project for supporting, creating and networking between all sorts of local initiatives aimed at creating a sustainable future for Leeds.

The idea is to hold a full day public event - we hope to attract about 200 people - where people can learn about how they might be affected by the problems of climate change and peak oil, and then take part in open space discussions to explore how they can be part of creating local solutions, and develop ideas about how to take the transition town idea forward.

Our ideas for the day are quite ambitious, & to make it work really well it would be brilliant to have a team of helpers to provide food and clear up whilst the event is going on, and also to help rearrange chairs as we move into the different parts of the day. We will have the use of a kitchen at the venue, so we could either bring food in ready made and heat it up, or make it on site. We thought of serving soup made from locally-sourced produce as the main part of lunch. We will also need to serve drinks at various points, and it would be good to have a range of snacks on offer too.

The meeting will be from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 19th April, at Centenary House, which is at the top of Vicar Lane We will need people there at all times (not necessarily the same people!), and it woud also be great if a few people could help set up beforehand, or the night before, and stay to clear up afterwards.

If anyone is willing to help with this and can spare time on that day, or even help with food preparation beforehand, can they please give me their contact details; perhaps we can then set up a short meeting nearer the time to sort out the logistics of the day.

Thanks ever so, & sorry to anyone receiving multiple copies of this!

Ellen

Ellen Robottom contact: ellenrobottom@hotmail.com

For More on the Transition Town see: http://transition-city-leeds.wikispaces.com/