newsletter november 2009

We are teaming up with anti-poverty organisation ActionAid and global farmers networks to show our governments that we refuse to accept a world where people die every minute from hunger. Sign the petition to the Rome Summit  - every signature will be represented at a stunning delivery event at Rome's Coloseum: SIGN HERE to support END THE HUNGER SCANDAL petition. 

350 Aotearoa newsletter #4! Catch up on all the 350 action going on in New Zealand.  More info...  An excellent animation explaining the campaign GLOBAL action on OCTOBER 24th -350 on YouTube!  And a second excellent animation.

THE AGE OF STUPID runs for one more week at Cinema 5.  More details..... Also on at Cinema 5, check out THIS IS IT, a behind-the-scenes look at Michael Jackson's last production, with a strong envionmental message.........and lots of dancing!

Plenty of inspiration at the NOT STUPID site! The Stupid Show will be webcasting live from the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in Dec 2009. Their mission: to make "the most important meeting in human history" comprehensible for ordinary people. Read MORE

 

The world is on the brink of runaway climate change and it’s time to get serious.  That’s why this year, Greenpeace is launching the most urgent, most ambitious and most important campaign it has ever run.  It’s called Sign On..... read more.   

 

FOOD, INC.

FOOD,INC the movie: "You'll never look at dinner the same way!" Food, Inc. lifts the veil on the food industry and reveals surprising—and often shocking —truths about what we eat and how it's produced. 

[planned to be showing at Cinema 5 in December - sign up for Green Screening notices at Eastbay REAP for details]

 

 

 

WOW!! AT LAST!! A seriously good campaign for the eradiacation of slavery in the production of Chocolate.  Read more.  FUNDRAISE with Fairtrade Chocolate from Trade Aid HERE.

BAN ENDOSULFAN campaign - Send an online letter calling for the Indian Government to support a global ban on deadly pesticide endosulfan.

local news

COMMUNITY GARDENING Wairiki Institute, Cutler Crescent on Thursdays.  Time to catch up and plant. From 12.30 pm. Please bring spare seed trays if you have any? 

NEW!! Fresh Market, Lovelock Street, has started selling Scarborough Fair (Fairtrade) tea and coffee. 

KOANGA INSTITUTE July 2009 Catalogue is now available to members for on-line ordering of Heritage Seed.  Koanga Gardens Seeds are also available at Michelle's Health and Nutrition shop on Boon Street.