BAD09: Blog Action Day – Joni Mitchell

Trafigura Postscript

Claire Thompson, Waves PR.

A surge of outrage helped restore reason to British politics today.  I am grateful – and proud –  to live in a country where our views have been taken into account. Trying to prevent the media from printing information about a question being tabled in Parliament was reprehensible. Our anger should be directed at the court that allowed that one to happen.

I felt a little note by way of postscript was in order.

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Trafigura

Waves PR: October 13, 2009

The blogosphere is alive with it. The attempts of a firm of solicitors (Carter Ruck) to gag the Guardian are backfiring. The hashtag #trafigura (and those related) is unlikely to disappear from Twitter screens today, and a number of people have more than egg on their faces.

Yesterday, the Guardian reported that it had been prevented from reporting on Parliament.

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Taking Action on Climate Change

Blog Action Day, 2009

On December 7, 2009 in Copenhagen, World leaders will be gathering to discuss climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The importance of the conference cannot be underestimated. Minute by minute what’s left of the world’s precious resources is being stripped away.

Ahead of this, 350.0rg is calling on us all to take a stand for a safe climate future. Unless politicians realise the passion that people have for a better world, they cannot be expected to take drastic enough action.

So, quickly, what is 350? In their own words:

350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere.

Accelerating arctic warming and other early climate impacts have led scientists to conclude that we are already above the safe zone at our current 390ppm, and that unless we are able to rapidly return to 350 ppm this century, we risk reaching tipping points and irreversible impacts such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and major methane releases from increased permafrost melt.

On October 24, across the planet, people will be organising ’350′ actions.

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