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Monday, November 25, 2024
Weymouth Town Council is helping to tackle the climate crisis by stepping up efforts to eliminate the use of Single Use Plastic (SUP).  At a meeting of the council’s Services Committee on Wednesday 1st December, members approved a new policy that would remove or replace SUP across Weymouth Town Council’s daily operations and services.   Examples of single use plastic used in the day-to-day operations include items such...
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole have been listed in this year’s highly acclaimed CDP A List of Cities, with BCP Council named as a leading international authority for environmental transparency and action against climate change. The prestigious accolade, which has just been announced, confirms that BCP Council has been awarded the...
The festive season is one of excitement, enjoyment and especially excess – with an estimated 3 million tonnes of extra waste created at this time of year. Planning ahead and making small changes such as reducing the amount of waste created, reusing and recycling can make a big difference. This...
Emma Smart, 44, from Weymouth, Dorset, who has today been in prison on hunger strike for 13 days, was moved out of her cell onto the hospital wing at HMP Bronzefield on Friday. The prison is becoming increasingly concerned about her health.  On 17th November Emma, an aunt and biologist...
Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts. Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all its restrained and diplomatic language, looks like a suicide pact. After so many squandered...
ocean plastic detritus
Development of a more sustainable approach at the seafront across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole is the focus of a new report out today. The first of its kind, the report has been commissioned by BCP Council as an investment into our seafront. It has been undertaken by environmental not-for-profit organisation City to...
“It’s now day 7 and although I’m inside I can feel the weather changing, chilly air blows through the vent below my cell window. https://dorseteye.com/weymouth-imprisoned-following-insulate-britain-protests/ One week in on my hunger strike, my thoughts are with those vulnerable, elderly and young families, who as the temperature drops, have to choose between...
This afternoon, over a hundred people have sat down on Lambeth Bridge to break the National Highways super injunction in solidarity with the at least 34 people who have broken these injunctions so far, 9 of whom received prison sentences this week on 17th November. The group of over...
George Monbiot
Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich? Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. The way governments have allowed democracy to be eroded by lobbyists (including politicians with lucrative private interests); the deregulation that lets corporations, oligarchs and landlords squeeze their...
Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts. Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all its restrained and diplomatic language, looks like a suicide pact. After so many squandered years...