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NEWS
Here is a flavour of this months news plus below some interesting events planned and what's in the blogs this month - for the full stories, reports and background go to our website:
CAROLINE LUCAS: ETHICAL POLITICIAN OF THE YEAR COMES TO STROUD - Caroline will speak at 7.30 at Sub Rooms on 11th April on 'The Future of Food'. See:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2063/126/
STAVERTON AIRPORT: News on the candlelit demo outside Gloucester City Council's Scrutiny and their surprise decision to not recommend expansion. There is now hope that plans to expand can be scuppered:
See 450 words 'Comment' in The Citizen: http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2051/126/
GREENS ANGER AT PO CLOSURES: 200 march in Stroud and Greens write to local papers. See:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2047/126/
GOVT ATTEMPTS TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY ON RENEWABLES: See:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2065/126/
CITIZEN JOURNALIST FAILS TO TAKE CLIMATE SERIOUSLY: See:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2060/127/
CLIMATE CHANGE: Many letters and comments as usual including:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2061/127/
BUDGET RESPONSE: Brown's failure to tackle climate change. See:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2055/126/
POPULATION DEBATE: See letters:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2042/127/
COMMUNITIES WANT STREETS NOT TRANSPORT CORRIDORS: See letter in Stroud Life with cartoon specially created by local 'Scribbler Russ":
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/content/view/2056/127/
BIOFUELS: FRIEND OR FOE? The next Coffee House Discussion, See more:
http://www.glosgreenparty.org.uk/coffeehouse
The website also carries news items on: Seal Cull, Role of Transition Towns, Nuclear nonsense, PCS Union, Stroud's new Food Festival, Thrups Blue Tin Church, Greens joining the T5 Heathrow protest, the Labour/Green pact in the Mayoral elections, Philip Booth and John Marjoram listed as Eco-Warriors by The Citizen, Marjoram on ID Cards, Kirklees election video, Green party Conference in Reading, EU Treaty, Town Council developing a vision for Stroud, fuel poverty set to rise, John Meadley's talk at Stroud District AGM, Rachel Carson's play in Stroud, anger at compulsory water fluoridation, £5m withdrawn from canal, SW Greens gather in Cheltenham, where are decent knickers by Molly Scott Cato and 100 year old joins Green party.
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PLUS THE BLOGS
Read Ruscombe Green (2000 monthly visitors) and Cllr Philip Booth's look at a vast range of issues including Parkour/Free Running, ancient yews, the number 46 bus service cuts, local traffic, HGVs, drains and grit bins, waste news, Haresfield beech trees, Clarkson on ID cards, Afghanistan, community farms, coal, Purton hulks, a radio base station for Randwick, bees, biofuels, shipping, Olympics, Tricorn House and much more including a video of Caroline Lucas talking about the new Transition Handbook.
See: http://ruscombegreen.blogspot.com/
Read Molly Scott Cato's top Green UK blog - the last two months include how she is accused of being an anarchist, the British Car Industry, the politics of the Bank of England, home-grown hats, slow travel and Doreen Massey.
See: http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.com/
Read Jonathan Porritt looks at procurement in the public sector, holding the Government to account, Alice in Wonderland economics and more:
http://www.jonathonporritt.com/pages/
Read Cathy Green in Cheltenham on the agrofuel protets, Slo-travel to Munich and glaciers melting faster:
http://theonetonners.blogspot.com/
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QUOTES OF THE MONTH
"At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet gazing in amazement at the cold and yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable. Life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor eternity, only being." Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
"I support the view that mankind might be contributing to global warming, but there is little evidence to support the view that the correct response at this time should be rapidly to decarbonise the economies of the world." Andrew Tyrie MP (Chichester) (Con) March 2008
"You can't find peace by avoiding life" Virginia Woolf
"If we all face the same way and march ahead on the same path, predators will sneak up behind, devouring us one at a time." African proverb
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Oliver Goldsmith
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