CHINA DEPENDENCE
October 10, 2007 at 12:54 pm | In China, Earth, Economics, Financial, Globalization | Leave a Comment
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Wed, 10 Oct 2007
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Explore your Interdependence… Interdependence Day 2007 – Saturday 20 October, Royal Geographical Society…
Chinadependence going up for life in the UK reveals new nef report
Clone Town Britain II: We need your help…
climatespace – a new nef website
nef publications
Explore your Interdependence, Saturday 20 October,
Royal Geographical Society, London
In a host of talks, workshops, music, film, art and games, Interdependence Day will explore what it means to live in an interdependent world. For anyone who cares about the earth and the people we share it with. The new and extraordinary challenges that lie before us at the start of the twenty-first century – creeping globalisation, climate change, seemingly unstoppable and impossible to fully comprehend – can appear beyond the control of any one person. Finding ways to take a fresh approach to the defining questions of our time are the inspiration for Interdependence Day 2007.
Speakers: Mark Lynas, author of High Tide: the truth about our climate crisis, Anuradha Vittachi, co-founder of the Oneworld Network, Andrew Simms, policy director of nef and author of Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters, Ann Pettifor, Executive Director of Advocacy International, Co-founder of the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign, Raj Patel, activist and author of Stuffed and Starved, James Marriott, founder of Arts Activist network PLATFORM, Heather Ackroyd, of Acrkoyd Harvey, the artists who this summer grassed over the national theatre, and Jon Plowman, BBC Head of Comedy.
Tickets: 10 / 7.50 concessions, more on the door, 0871 424 4444,
online bookings or call nef on 020 7820 6300
Chinadependence going up for life in the UK reveals new nef report
Released on Saturday 6 October – the day that the world as a whole went into ecological debt for this year -Chinadependence, revealed the many ways in which Britain is becoming increasingly dependent on the rest of the world to fuel our high-consuming lifestyles. This comes as other research shows that a high quality of life is as easy to achieve at very low levels of consumption as at high levels, and as awareness is growing that the pursuit of high-consuming lifestyles undermines well-being. In particular, Chinadependence reveals a striking rise in our dependence on a wide range of Chinese imports. And, because the greenhouse gas pollution that results from their manufacture is blamed on China, not the consumers in the UK, we are turning China into our ‘environmental laundry’ with devastating consequences for the planet.
UK exporting emmissions to China, BBC
Today is ecological debt day, the Telegraph
World moves into the ecological red, Scientific American
Clone Town Britain II: We need your help…
Since nef released the results of the first Clone Town Britain Survey just over two years ago, the debate on the health of our high streets has barely left the spotlight. London’s Evening Standard launched a campaign to save the capital’s small shops, the regulators have been forced into a new inquiry into our biggest supermarkets, and some local authorities have begun to use the powers they do have to stem the march of the Clones, but the take-over of our towns and cities by clone retailers seems to have continued apace. Consolidation in the grocery sector has had knock on impacts in other areas, triggering a spate of mergers in chemists, book-sellers and record shops. It is time to take stock, evaluate, and assess whether Britain is any closer to becoming a nation of clone towns. nef is launching the a new clone town britain survey to find out, and we need your help. download the clone town britain survey form and help us take-stock on the cloned state of the nation
Please return completed survey forms to us as soon as possible, but no later than the end of December 2007.
climatespace – a new nef website
A new website, hosted by nef is setting out to build an online community of people, groups and organisations finding their way in a warming world.
The user generated site allows people to share and search for information. Climatespace enables you to meet others who are taking steps, large or small to cut their carbon emissions, and share your experience. You’ll find useful short cuts and information, personal stories, news, requests for help, cutting edge thinking and a little inspiration.
Log on and add your own ideas to climatespace
nef publications
Chinadependence: The second UK interdependence report
Going green? How financial services are failing ethical consumers
The European Happy Planet Index: An index of carbon efficiency and well-being in the EU
Taking the temperature: Towards an NHS response to global warming
Measuring real value: A DIY guide to Social Return on Investment
Detrimental effects: defending consumers from distorted markets
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