New Conservative administration drop key Council pledge from Climate and Ecological Emergency declarationThey misrepresent former Unity Alliance decisions to justify shelving plans for broader public participation
At the full Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) Council meeting on Tuesday 24 November, portfolio holder for ‘Transport and Sustainability’ Councillor Mike Greene confirmed the new...
Researchers from Bournemouth University have recently put forward solutions for environmental breakdown.
Professor Rick Stafford and his team studied past scientific proposals and came up with a combination of what is called the ‘New Green Deal’ and ‘Nature-Based Solutions’ as a way of solving the problem.
It is Hoped, the research will influence ‘think tanks’ and finally find its way...
Following on from Weymouth council's descion to object to a waste incinerator on Portland
https://dorseteye.com/weymouth-town-council-votes-to-object-to-monstrous-incinerator/
protesters are determined to communicate the reality to local people.
https://dorseteye.com/the-portland-waste-incinerator-proposal-is/
Calling out Powerfuel for the ‘truth benders’ they are – full of greenwash and spin!
A real 21st Century solution is to stop making waste so there is nothing...
Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between society and the individual.
In the mid-1950s, his book The Sane Society suggested that insanity referred not...
Director of Powerfuel, Giles Frampton, should certainly feel deflated. His response is captured here when last night Weymouth Town Council voted overwhelmingly to object to his proposal to build a monstrous incinerator on Portland.
The meeting heard that extremely rare lichens which need clean air and grow on Portland will...
The government’s newly outlined approach to green finance has already come under criticism for relying too heavily on market-based approaches to tackling the climate crisis. A joint-letter to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, co-ordinated by the New Economics Foundation and Positive Money, has...
A huge fire at a haulage lorry depot in Chickerell has lead to families being evacuated and the main road from Weymouth to Chickerell... being closed.
Emergency services are on the scene as can be seen below dealing with the fire. Locals have reported explosions.
Black smoke can be seen from...
Dorset Council declared a climate and ecological emergency in May 2019. Sincethen they have been gathering facts and writing a strategy and action plan. The Strategy and Action plan are now out for public consultation until 20th January 2021.
Dorset Action with a range of partner organisations have come together to hold online People’s Assemblies to help people have...
A Dorset-based organic recycling specialist has won a multi-million-pound waste handling contract with Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP).
The exclusive four-year deal, with an option to extend to up to ten years, tasks Eco Sustainable Solutions with processing all the organic wastes generated in the BCP region.
The annual amounts...
Members of Extinction Rebellion held banners and ‘stop’ signs outside Portland Port entrance this morning, Tuesday 3 November, to draw attention to the proposal for a huge waste incinerator at this site that is set to burn 202,000 tonnes of refuse derived fuel (black bin waste) per year.
Portland resident,...
