Brighton Peace and Environment Centre
A Global Day of Action: On 8 December not only can you travel to London to join a global demo on our generations most urgent issue, you can also do so on a special eco coach service organised by Brighton Climate Change and Brighton Peace And Environment Centre. Add your voice to this now-or-never protest and do so from a local perspective, travelling together from Brighton on buses provided by Big Lemon Buses, Brighton's environmentally friendly bus service ( (External) www.biglemon.com ). Tickets are available for £5 (or more if you can afford it) from BPEC, Sussex Students Union, Guarana Bar and Cowley Club. The main pick up points are St Peters Church at 8.30am and Sussex University at 8.45am.
Sustrans, the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity, has launched the Connect2 project aimed at improving sustainable local travel for communities across the UK.
Connect2 aims to improve local travel in 79 communities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by creating new walking and cycling networks for everyday journeys, thus reducing the number of unnecessary car journeys. This reduction in traffic will improve air-quality, help reduce carbon emissions, encourage people to get exercise and generally improve the safety and quality of life of people living in these areas.
A new not-for-profit bicycle workshop has opened up in Brighton enabling bike owners to learn how to fix things themselves. CRANKS is run by a small team of volunteers who love bikes, love learning more about them and like collectively run spaces.
They want to encourage everyone, whatever age, gender or knowledge to learn to love their bike too. They run on donations, either monetary or material, and use second-hand and donated parts. So you can take in your old unwanted bikes and accessories and get them recycled. They say "We think bikes are great. They produce endorphins while beating traffic and reducing pollution. We feel independent when we ride them and even better when we know how to look after them".
Hi I got the bus from Brighton to Glastonbury on Thursday and Sunday and just wanted to thank you for a really good service - took a lot of hassle away and at a good price. I was also chatting to a guy about the poetry tent and wrote a poem below about watching poets talk about climate change at Glastonbury, thought you might be interested.....
A poet’s tent
The world is dying, you’re not crying, okay well maybe sometimes sighing but your flying and excessive buying means you're just not trying!
Petition signing will stop the mining and reduce the icing on the world’s silver lining
Buy fair-trade and organically laid, support Wateraid to prevent those crops that fade
Eco-bikes, recyclable mic's, corporate dislikes for the likes of Nike
Economics and politics and non-gas emitting glow sticks
You don’t need expensive scent to vent, and when you go be a gent, make a dent, and leave your tent.
Leave my tent? 80,000 tents made by the Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese and maybe even some Geordies
Made by coal, gas and oil that spoil and soil and make those farmers toil?
Made with fuel that chokes and soaks the coasts? But allows us the tokes a festival prevokes
Surely it's best for all if the call is to have NO tent at all?
But how can I gaze at the Pyramid stage if I have no tent to raise?
I can't admire my fire if I have to use a bush to change my attire
I can’t strum my guitar if I’m sleeping in the car
Or take a trip if I have nowhere to kip or a front door to unzip?
Things would get so low if I couldn’t drink under my gazebo
And how about a poet's tent?
Did they muse over the abuse that will produce?
How many emissions did they use to say those premonitions and in what condition are African missions after their renditions?
Are their clothes environmentally protected and has the world been affected by the poem they just projected?
I say take down your signs, leave your lines and your chimes on people’s crimes
Don’t donate or try to create a world that you don’t tolerate
I don’t want to hate or discuss the G8 or get irate on a low carbon date
I want my footprint to be as small as possible…..
I think it’s best if I just stay at home and meditate.
Ta
Jonathan
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