Save the planet – a message from another world

The first member of a remote Colombian tribe ever to set foot in Britain brings a stark ecological warning.Jacinto Zarabata sits in a suburban back garden in north London and unselfconsciously uses a stick to probe the inside of a gourd, which is shaped like a rather phallic mushroom with a bright yellow cap. The first member of the Kogi people of Colombia ever to visit Britain is wearing traditional rough cotton clothes and has a cloth bag slung over each shoulder as he chews toasted coca leaves.

Tamwed Barn Dance in Lydford

Tamwed links with and supports communities in isolated areas of rural South India. One of our projects is helping people to produce food crops and medicinal herbs that can adapt to the changing climate.

Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now it’s dead

George Monbiot writing in the Guardian, 20 Sep 2010. The closer it comes, the worse it looks. The best outcome anyone now expects from December’s climate summit in Mexico is that some delegates might stay awake during the meetings. When talks fail once, as they did in Copenhagen, governments lose interest. They don’t want to be associated with failure, they don’t want to pour time and energy into a broken process. Nine years after the world trade negotiations moved to Mexico after failing in Qatar, they remain in diplomatic limbo. Nothing in the preparations for the climate talks suggests any other outcome.

10:10:10 – A global day of doing

10:10:10 – A global day of doing. 10 October 2010.

The Sky is Falling

“The Sky is Falling!”
Henny Penny calls. An acorn has just landed on her head and, panicking, she hurries of to warn all her friends of the impending doom. The beginning of this well known children’s story has passed into the English language as indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. There are some that believe the news of recent years about global warming and climate change and how it will effect peoples around the world is just one such mistaken belief. They deny it is happening and even if it is, we had nothing to do with it and couldn’t change things even if we wanted to.

World Environment Day 2010 – Sat 5 June

Westden endorses the United Nations’ World Environment Day (WED) 2010 which is aimed to be the biggest, most widely celebrated, global day for positive, environmental action.

Question Time hosted by Fairtrade Callington

2.30 – 4pm, Saturday 6 March 2010, Callington Community College. With the General Election coming up soon, this will be your ONLY change to quiz ALL the Prospective Parliamentary Candidates for the South East Cornwall constituency.

13 million people sign up to Avaaz petition – why don’t you?

The Copenhagen climate summit ended up in failure: an unambitious, non-binding accord that leaders themselves admit won’t come close to tackling climate change. Sign the petition.

Act on Copenhagen updates…

Click on the banner above for updates from the Copenhagen conference.

Dynamite or Democracy? World at Lunch in the Global Centre, Exeter

Westden takes a sandwich to the World at lunch: Dynamite or Democracy? All at the Global Centre, Exeter.