Fwd: London 21 October 2000 Bulletin

Thu Nov 9 20:09:50 GMT 2000

>Reply-To: <admin at london21.org>
>From: "Keith Patton" <admin at london21.org>
>To: <keith at ethicalmedia.com>
>Subject: London 21 October 2000 Bulletin
>Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:05:22 -0000
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>Hi everyone,
>
>It's been a while since the last mailing in July, so please find attached a
>list of forthcoming events, conferences, and campaigns.
>
>This includes conferences on ending world debt, transport and poverty,
>corporate power - who can we trsut?, the mayor's strategies, Legal Practice
>in the Millennium Year: Environmental Injustice equals to Human Rights
>Violations. New sites on climate change online action, electric tbuses for
>London, a new global warming solutions centre. And a campaign against a
>proposed Incinerator in Battersea or East London.
>
>The London 21 site will be changing soon to incorporate your feedback, and
>in particular, you will be able to browse the directory using a 'Yahoo'-like
>interface with relevant social and environmental categories. Also, the
>events calendar is being improved to allow easier retrieval and browsing of
>forthcoming events.
>
>Please keep the suggestions coming, and let us know of any events,
>conferences and campaigns that you would like us to publicise through the
>London 21 network.
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>Lastly, here are this month's plugs!!
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>New Economics Foundation website - www.neweconomics.org
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>Maidstone Green Guide Online - www.mgg.org.uk
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>Smartchange - www.smartchange.org - "smart solutions for social change"
>
>Ethical Media (mid-november) - www.ethicalmedia.com - ethical media
>solutions (London 21's web partners, evolving from Connective IT)
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>Keith Patton
>Webmaster
>admin at london21.org
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>1. ENDING WORLD DEBT
>Wednesday 1st November, 7.30 for 8pm
>'Ending World Debt, Is it all Talk?'
>Speakers: Ann Pettifor - Jubilee 2000,
>Jeremy Corbyn MP, Jessica Woodroffe -
>World Development Movement
>
>VENUE: St Luke's Church, Penn St, London, N7
>CONTACT for more information:
>e-mail p.pickard at unl.ac.uk
>tel    0171-607-2789 x 7006
>fax    0171-753-7009
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>2. TRANSPORT AND POVERTY
>Thursday 2nd November,
>'Public Transport and Social Exclusion'
>Organised by the Centre for Independent Transport
>Research in London (CILT)
>Speaker: Juliet Solomon, University of North London
>Refreshments from 6pm, CILT AGM 6.30 to 7pm, speech from 7pm
>VENUE: Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, E1
>2 mins walk from Aldgate East tube (TRAVEL TIP ; if travelling eastbound
>use the platform exit nearest the back of the train)
>
>YOU NEED TO BOOK IN ADVANCE with David Hurdle
>telephone 020 7247 1302 or e-mail: cilt at dial.pipex.com
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>3. CORPORATE POWER
>Wednesday 8th November, 7.30 for 8pm
>Who Can We Trust?
>David Sears - Oil Company Executive
>Ian Willmore - FOE's Media Coordinator
>Muswell Hill Friends of the Earth public discussion meeting
>VENUE: Friends' Meeting House, Church Crescent, (off Muswell Hill Road)
>Highgate then 43 bus or any bus to Muswell Hill Broadway
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>4. THE MAYOR'S STRATEGIES
>Thursday 9th November, 6.30 to 8.45pm
>'Developing the Mayor's Strategies for Planning,
>Transport and the Environment'
>A London Forum discussion with the GLA with speakers:
>Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron,
>Darren Johnson, Mayoral Environment spokesman and
>Keith Gardner, GLA Transport Manager
>VENUE: GLA offices, Romney House, Tufton Street entrance,
>parallel to Marsham Street, SW1
>
>YOU NEED TO BOOK IN ADVANCE with Jim Nicolson of the London Forum
>on 020 7250 0606. Say you are attending on behalf Friends of the Earth
>London as we are associate members of London Forum and get free entry.
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>5. CONFERENCE - "Legal Practice in the Millennium Year: Environmental 
>Injustice equals to
>Human Rights Violations - Has Europe the answer?"
>
>contact: Dr Kartar Badsha
>contact email : ksb at ele.org.uk
>
>Environmental Law Centre is organising a conference on the 24th November
>which will focus on key issues of injustice in the UK Legal system and
>whether the Human Rights Act will make any differences.
>Venue :Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London.
>
>Bonafide law students/ NGOs Free on first come basis - donations invited
>towards the cost of lunch/wine.
>Others £50 includes lunch/wine
>Visit our website for more details : www.ele.org.uk
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>6. News of the Latest Climate On-line Action
>
>Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Worldwide Fund for Nature and 17 other
>groups have recently launched a new web-site to step up pressure on world
>leaders in the run up to COP6. The site aims to raise ten million
>signatures globally by the time the The Hague Conference gets underway on
>13 November this year.
>
>Please can you:
>
>1. Visit the site and sign the on-line petition. Over one million people
>already have.
>
>2. Ask lots of your friends and colleagues to do the same via email and the
>web. (The site has colourful postcards for this.)
>
>You can link to the site from here: http://www.climatevoice.org
>
>Each person visiting the site is asked to indicate the country in which
>they live so, in turn, all the signatures in that country can be forwarded
>to the respective government. We will let you know of the success of this
>petition in early November.Thank you very much again for your support.
>
>Friends of the Earth International Climate Campaign
>
>Links
>http://www.foei.org      http://www.foe.co.uk
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>
>7. Electric TBuses for London
>As a group of concerned people who want to see better quality public road 
>transport in London, we would like to draw your attention to an important 
>new campaign website at
>
>www.tbus.org.uk
>tbus at uk2.net
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>
>8. Global Warming Solution Centre
>
>The first commercial Global Warming Solution Centre has been opened in
>Dorset offering all renewable energy and water technologies under one roof,
>with phase two providing education and training in the installation of both
>solar thermal, PV, wind power and Heat pumps.
>
>Full details soon available on our web site
>
>erh at solar.org.uk
>http://www.web-shop.co.uk/
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>9. REQUEST FOR ACTION - Proposed Incinerator in Battersea or
>East London.
>
>This is particularly relevant to residents of Lambeth, Kensington&Chelsea, 
>Wandsworth, Hammersmith & Fulham, but also other parts of London.
>
>Western Riverside Waste Authority want to build a super-incinerator in
>Battersea or East London, and are likely to sign a 30-year contract with a
>waste disposal contractor based on this premise.
>
>Regrettably the authority seems to have made up its mind irrespective of
>public consultation.  This officially ends tomorrow, so could people
>either fax a response to the firm handling the public consultation, or
>send an email direct to the WRWA.
>
>The consultation is handled by BJM Research & Consultantcy Ltd.
>4-5 Bonhill Street London EC2B 2DA
>020 7891 1200  fax  020 7891 1299
>
>If you live in one of the Boroughs a survey form was "distributed" to
>residents and others.  So if you didn't get one why not ring the
>consultants and ask for one.
>
>Alternatively you can email the authority:
>consultation at wrwa.gov.uk
>
>or write to
>The General Manager
>Western Riverside Waste Authority
>Smugglers Way Wandsworth SW18 1JS
>020 7622 6233    fax 020 8871 7511
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