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jenny wrote a new post, Austerity uncovered in Calderdale Sunday 23rd June 3 hours, 36 minutes ago
jenny wrote a new post, Calderdale Council tells DECC that Green Deal is “cause for concern” 14 hours, 23 minutes ago

A Calderdale Council Report on home energy conservation plans for the next two years is critical of the new Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation policy. It advocates “more equitable”, publicly-funded home […]
jenny wrote a new post, BIg Switch and Coop Energy set to save customers £25 million on energy bills 14 hours, 51 minutes ago

Using shared buying power to drive a harder bargain with energy companies can work.

The Big Switch bid to get cheaper gas and electricity prices for households has accepted Cooperative Energy’s offer. This was […]
jenny wrote a new post, Oven ready Gove-thank goodness for Steve Bell 23 hours, 38 minutes ago
jenny wrote a new post, Greenpeace – Running With the Arctic Hare and Hunting With Washington Hounds 2 days, 3 hours ago

Greenpeace support for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has allied it with US national interests and oil companies that stand to benefit from an underwater land grab of around 1.5 million square […]
jenny wrote a new post, The Agricultural Wages Board has gone, but a Hebden Royd Councillor fights on for fair farm wages 2 days, 3 hours ago

Hebden Royd Councillor Jonathan Timbers reports on why the Council wants fair farm wages and a proper career structure for farm workers.

In a post on the Incredible Edible Mytholm blog, there is a photo of […]
jenny wrote a new post, Local environmental groups, organisations & businesses 2 days, 5 hours ago

This Who’s Who has two main sections:

Mostly businesses and community groups
Local government – councillors and officers

There’s some overlap between the two groups – for example through Calderdale […]
jenny wrote a new post, IncredibleEdible Mytholm’s comments on HB Partnership Draft Action Plan – 2020: A better place for all 3 days, 5 hours ago

The IEM Management Committee recently sent Hebden Bridge Partnership its considered collective comments on the Partnership’s Draft Action Plan for the town. The comments are posted below.

Now that the deadline […]
jenny wrote a new post, Leeds Urban Food Justice- Free Agroecology event June 27th 4 days, 2 hours ago

Dr Chiara Tornaghi, ESRC Research fellow and Teaching Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, invites everyone to the next Urban Food Justice event, for either the morning or afternoon session, or […]
jenny wrote a new post, If you go down to Knott Wood today – well, on Sunday 16th June… 4 days, 10 hours ago

If you’d like to attend Treesponsibility’s Knott Wood Open Day, meet outside Riverside School, Holme St., Hebden Bridge at 11 a.m. on Sunday 16thJune to join Dongria on a walk to the wood (approx 1 mile).

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jenny wrote a new post, It costs less to tackle climate change than to do nothing 6 days, 7 hours ago

There is a conventional view that global action to reduce climate change is a cost to society. But a 2012 Report, Guide to a Cold Calculus for a Hot Planet, outlines how tackling climate change through coordinated […]
jenny wrote a new post, Twitter from Calderdale’s Flood Recovery Steering Group 1 week ago
jenny wrote a new post, Not The G8 – Sat 15th June, Leeds 1 week ago

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With the G8 up to all kinds of nefariousness, it’s time to gather and come up with ways to stop their horrible rips offs. This is what the Not the G8 is about, in Leeds this Saturday. There are […]
jenny wrote a new post, Feral: the pathetic fallacy, but not as we know it 1 week ago

Midway along his life’s path, George Monbiot found himself on a dreary moor with no track to show him the way.

Lacking a poet ghost to guide him on the necessary descent into the circles of hell, through […]
jenny wrote a new post, Feral – Monbiot goes where the wild things are 1 week ago

Going where the wild things are stops Monbiot being bored – a problem for him, given his humdrum life of raising a kid, working and paying the bills – and he wants the rest of us to experience the same thrills. He […]
jenny wrote a new post, New batch of Growing Futures site plans and drawings 1 week, 1 day ago

Incredible Edible Mytholm’s NIck Green has just emailed a new set of site plans and drawings for the cooperative Growing Futures project which IEM is planning. Incredible Edible Mytholm hopes you will let them […]
jenny wrote a new post, Nearly 32 million people displaced by climate and weather disasters in 2012 1 week, 1 day ago

In 2012, 31.752m people were displaced by climate and weather disasters, according to figures gathered by Norway’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

That’s around half the UK population – think of half […]
jenny wrote a new post, Petition: No Evictions in Calderdale – Axe the Bedroom Tax 1 week, 3 days ago

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The Bedroom Tax will affect over 1,500 families in Calderdale occupying social housing. Because they have a “spare” bedroom they will either have to accept a […]
jenny wrote a new post, Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group meeting 10th May 1 week, 3 days ago

This was the first Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCCG) meeting after the House of Lords approved the NHS ‘section 75’ regulations on 24th April. These hotly-opposed regulations open up the NHS to far […]
jenny wrote a new post, Hebden Royd Primary School children plant small orchard 1 week, 3 days ago

On Monday 29th April, Hebden Royd Primary School gardening club planted 16 apple trees at the edge of their sports field on King Street.

Incredible Edible Mytholm and Incredible Farm in Walsden organised the […]
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