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May 25, 2008 - Charlotte, NC Today, activists with Asheville Rising Tide
broke ground on a new 800 Mw clean energy power plant in Duke Energy CEO
Jim Rogers front yard. The power plant will tap into a previously
unexplored energy source known as hot air which has been found in large
concentrations at Roger's residence, 330 Eastover Rd, Charlotte, NC.
"The hot air emitting from Jim Rogers mouth has been around for quite
some time, but the last couple of years has seen an exponential growth
of this untapped energy source as Rogers parades around the country
calling for greenhouse gas reductions while building the dirty Cliffside
coal plant. This was simply an opportunity we couldn't pass up," said

VIA CAMPESINA JOINS BIODIVERSITY DAY CELEBRATIONS:
Via Campesina Disrupts CBD

This afternoon activists from all over the world have hung a banner, banged on
teacups and handed out messages by Via Campesina during the official
celebrations of Biodiversity Day at the 9th Conference of Parties (COP-9) of
the UN convention on Biodiversity. They did so at the end of a message by UN
secretary general Ban Ki Moon read by the Programme Officer of the Secretariat
of the CBD to the distinguished delegates of the Convention.

The banners read "No Agrodiversity Without Farmers" and "Nature for People Not
for Business". The written message was brought to the attention of the

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior today blocked coal shipments at the Pagbilao coal-fired power plant in Quezon province, 150 kilometers southwest of Manila to protest the impending expansion of the said plant. The Rainbow Warrior anchored alongside the coal ship Medi Firenze unloading a cargo of coal at the Pagbilao plant's loading pier, and prevented a bigger shipment of coal--from the 223 meter vessel Sam John Spirit standing by to unload--from approaching.

A giant banner reading "Quit coal" the Rainbow Warrior's masts to drive home the message that the Philippine government should stop building and expanding harmful coal-fired power plants.

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We recognise that an economy is like a pyramid of champagne flutes, and that only by filling up the vessel at the apex can wealth trickle down to those on the lower echelons.

Climate camps are taking off around the world!

AUSTRALIA: In July (10-15) A Camp for Climate Action will take place in the coal port of Newcastle, Australia. Organised by Rising Tide and Friends of the Earth, it follows on from a week of environmental teaching and learning at the 2008 Students of Sustainability Conference also to be held in Newcastle.

http://www.climatecamp.org.au

http://www.studentsofsustainability.org

 Here's a link to the entire 2007 movie in which director/narrator Leonardo DeCaprio, numerous scientists, scholars & visionaries outline our relationship to our environment and our effect upon it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5684889615378087510&q=the+11th+hour+romana&ei=j4ogSPO3LYPoqgPBwoXBAQ&hl=en

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