http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Green Liberal Democrats en-GB Green Liberal Democrats http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2009 Green Liberal Democrats 2009-07-04T05:59+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000425/green_lib_dem_conference_programme.html SATURDAY 2009-06-10T16:52+01:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000424/green_lib_dems_annual_conference__2728_june__islington_ecology_centre_london_n5_1ph.html Early booking is strongly recommended in order to secure a place. 2009-05-28T21:53+01:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000423/campaign_to_protect_rural_england_on_the_budget__green_around_the_edges.html Commenting on the Budget statement by the Chancellor, Ben Stafford, Head of Campaigns at CPRE, said: 2009-05-03T10:00+01:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000422/greenpeace_on_the_budget__not_green.html If climate change is great challenge of our time, as ministers regularly tell us, then why is the new money announced for renewables and energy efficiency only marginally more than the Chancellor found earlier this year for RBS bonuses? And while Mr Darling admittedly has urgent economic issues on his mind, surely he can see that concerted investment in renewable technologies, energy efficiency and green manufacturing are the best way to meet our joint climate and economic crises head-on. 2009-05-02T10:00+01:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000421/friends_of_the_earth_on_the_budget__not_green.html According to Friends of the Earth Alistair Darling has squandered a huge opportunity to create a low-carbon economy and create thousands of green jobs by investing in renewable energy and cutting energy waste on the scale required. 2009-05-01T10:00+01:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000420/sustrans_on_the_budget__not_green.html A 'green budget' was anticipated this week, but Sustrans, the sustainable transport charity, says Budget 2009 was a series of missed opportunities. 2009-04-30T10:24+01:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000419/wind_farm_to_be_nuclear_site_just_say_no.html A successful wind farm close to the Lake District national park is one of the sites recently approved by the UK government for a new generation of nuclear power plants. 2009-04-29T02:33+01:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000418/diesel_is_sending_us_all_to_an_early_grave.html After years as a BBC war correspondent and an environmental campaigner I really thought there was little more that could shock me when it comes to man's ability to destroy, but what I heard at last week's meeting of the Camden Council's all-party Sustainability Task Force appalled me. 2009-04-28T16:01+01:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000417/put_people_first__a_march_for_jobs_justice_and_the_climate.html This Saturday (28 Mar) London plays host to the "Put People First" march for jobs, justice and the climate. 2009-03-26T10:43+00:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000416/will_adapting_to_climate_change_be_harder_than_preventing_it.html George Monbiot's latest column in The Guardian, on how it will be a lot hard to adapt to climate change than to prevent it, should be compulsory reading for all Green Liberal Democrats... 2009-03-20T09:00+00:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000415/ten_reasons_to_continue_to_say_no_to_nuclear_power.html There are rumours, as yet unsubstantiated, that the Lib Dem leadership is considering reversing the party's long-term opposition to nuclear power. Here are ten reasons why nuclear power is a mistake: 2009-03-19T10:10+00:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000414/why_clean_coal_is_the_ultimate_greenwash.html Following on from yesterday's story about carbon capture and storage not working until 2030 it's worth reading Fred Pearce's latest Greenwash piece in the Guardian on why 'clean coal' is the ultimate climate change oxymoron. 2009-03-01T10:02+00:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000413/carbon_capture_for_coalfired_power_stations_wont_work_until_2030.html The government is gearing up to grant planning applications for a new generation of coal-fired power stations like Kingsnorth in Kent, site of last summer's Climate Camp. The Lib Dem national position is that new coal-fired generating capacity - which has the capacity to completely derail any attempts to reduce our greenhouse gases - should not be commissioned without carbon capture and storage technology being fitted. 2009-02-27T12:03+00:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000412/dont_miss_the_premiere_of_the_age_of_stupid__this_years_must_see_climate_change_film.html "The Age of Stupid" stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?" Catch the trailer here: www.ageofstupid.net/video . 2009-02-27T00:27+00:00 http://www.green.libdems.org.uk/news/000411/please_ask_your_mp_to_support_david_heaths_fuel_poverty_bill.html Liberal Democrat MP, David Heath was drawn second in the ballot for a Private Member's Bill in December and has decided to adopt the Fuel Poverty Bill that aims to insulate the homes of the least well off and limit the exposure of vulnerable households to high energy bills. 2009-02-25T17:41+00:00