Welcome

Could you contribute to a study day on being greener in beautiful Beverley on March 30th 2019? Speakers currently booked will be discussing the Circular Economy; Solar PV and battery storage; following a vegan diet;  plastics and how to make an eco bricks, individual responsibility for lifestyle changes; EcoChurch etc. There will be a vegan lunch.

Stall-holders include Friends of the Earth, A Rocha/Climate Stewards/Eco Church, Green Christian, Friends of the Earth; Tropic vegan make-up, EcoShed green products and a company which makes plastic alternatives. It would be fabulous is the Green LibDems could also have a stall or be involved in some way - the local Green Party is knocking at the door!

If you are keen to be involved especially if you could fly the flag for Green LibDems, please Contact Linda Johnson lindajanejohnson@gmail.com. 

If you are a Green Liberal Democrat and a Trade Unionist you may wish to accept the invitation below to attend the launch of TUCAN - the Trade Union Clean Air Network - on Wednesday 6th February at 2.00pm. Air Pollution has been described as a Public Health Emergency that affects every sity and most, if not every, workplace. It is not only a Trade Union issue it is an issue for everyone. We should not forget that Air Pollution is associated with 40,000 premature deaths each year in the UK.

Green Liberal Democrats Conference, May 2018, Nottingham

Agriculture & Environment - Counter-Intuitive Truths

A presentation by Phillip Bennion

Biography

After leaving school Phillip took a degree in Agricultural Botany at Aberdeen followed by a PhD on oilseed rape, agronomy and plant breeding at Newcastle University.

As Liberal Democrats and Green Liberal Democrats we are all aware that Climate Change is the number one issue facing humanity. The IPCC Report in October 2018 made it very clear that we only have twelve years left to radically alter our impact on the planet to limit the climate change dangers of extreme weather, drought, floods and poverty.
Inevitably Air Pollution is linked to climate change most obviously through the burning of fossil fuels to power cars, planes, buses, motorbikes and other forms of transport. Air Pollution is not a new problem it has been with us for decades, you only have to read about the reasons for the introduction of the original Clean Air Act in 1956 to know that (Life before the Clean Air Act - your memories and pictures: The Guardian 05/07/16 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/05/life-before-the-clean-air-act-your-memories-and-pictures

Nottingham GLD Conference - 15^th June 2019

Please see webpage here

It is clear that developing an unconventional oil and gas industry in the UK will result in unacceptable negative impacts on local communities, local democracy, energy security, jobs, the climate, health and the environment, and that the government should instead be urgently developing an energy policy and infrastructure that provides the clean renewable energy future that our country - and the planet - so desperately needs.

In October there was a very interesting briefing by UNCTAD of its report on Debt Vulnerabilities in Developing Countries: "A New Debt Trap? and its Trade and Development report." It was the first of these reports that interested me most due to its coverage on the alarming trends in debt and extent of the debt crisis.

Welter is an old word which Almona Choudhbury (hoping to be the next MP for Newbury) introduced me to - its meaning has transmogrified over the centuries into a confused mess, tossed around in mud and blood in the bilges of language, becoming in 2004 "A dumpy who enjoys non-sports and likes to argue and can't let the argument go and is an idiot."

This ninth annual fossil fuel finance report card grades banks
on their policy commitments regarding extreme fossil fuel
financing and calculates their financing for these fuels from
2015 to 2017.

Not good, but essential reading: https://www.banktrack.org/download/banking_on_climate_change_2018_fossil_fuel_finance_report_card/banking_on_climate_change_2018_web_final_1.pdf