Climate Campaigns 2010 Archive

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“Climate Change and Livestock Farming” slideshow by http://www.planetdiet.org/

Please support the campaign for a Nottingham Veggie Day

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Which causes more greenhouse gas emissions,
rearing cattle or driving cars?

According to a ground-breaking report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport. It is also a major source of land and water degradation.

“It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that the only sustainable and socially just option is for the inhabitants of of the rich world to become, like most of the earth’s people, broadly vegan.”
George Monbiot, journalist and environmentalist [article]

Think you can be a meat-eating environmentalist? Think Again!

The clock is ticking. There is no time left for diet deniers. By not referencing livestock issues, many environmental groups and climate campaigners are ensuring that all possible steps to mitigating climate chaos are not being pursued.. Join the debate to Change Your Diet, Save the Climate at http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/10/439771.html

Veggies Catering Campaign is pleased to be part of the Network for Climate Action supporting the Camp for Climate Action

and

…helping thousands of groups and individuals to cut their carbon by 10% in 2010 and beyond.

… and … and a whole lot more.

Print Veganism & Climate Change Flier from here: front (pdf) / inside (pdf).

Climate Campaign events supported by Veggies Catering Campaign

At every event we attend Veggies provides information for action in support of campaigns to tackle climate change, as well as helping people take the easiest and most immediate step in reducing their personal climate footprint, by simply eating delicious vegan food!

To get to an event 10 miles from our Nottingham base Veggies will emit approx 12kg CO2.

However by helping each 100 people Eat Vegan up to 200kg CO2 can be saved.

If ONE customer (or climate campaigner) goes Vegan For Life, they could save 1.5 tonnes CO2 every year, as well as saving 4022 animals lives, and helping all the world’s peoples to receive a Fair Share of the world’s resources. [ refs ]

See all our current tour dates: Veggies Events

Past Events (2009)

This Climate Change Campaign blog ran until 2010. Our campaigning continues, but we have not had the opportunity to check/update the links below.

This Climate Change Campaign blog ran until 2010.
Our campaigning continues, but we have not had the opportunity to check/update the links below.

• 5th December: We chose not to travel to Copenhagen for the COP-15 Summit (7-18 December); we supported others travelling there and to the Stop Climate Chaos Rally in London, and provided facilities for the Climate Camp in Trafalgar Square.
• 12th December: The 6th East Midlands Vegan Festival at Nottingham’s Council House was co-organised by Veggies to mark the Copenhgen process by tackling livestock production, which is held responsible for more climate damaging emissions than the entire transport sector.
• Dec 1st/2nd: Dinner/breakfast for Climate Chains, cycling from Bradford, via Nottm’s Sumac, to London for Saturday’s Climate Rally. Ironically received a marketing call from Greenpeace whilst doing so, so had a nice ‘chat’ re their ‘diet denier policies’.
• Nov 12th: Participated in ‘How Can We Make Copenhagen Work?’, a panel discussion on the Climate Change crisis, arranged by the Nottingham-Copenhagen Steering Group.
• Oct 17th – 18th: As part of our 25th Anniversary Weekend, Veggies’ Green Bloc’ kept refreshments flowing at The Great Climate Swoop.
• Aug 17th – 23rd: Earth First! Summer Gathering – the place where people involved in radical ecological direct action – or those who want to be involved – get together to talk, walk, share skills, learn and play. Veggies ran daily climate friendly Vegan Cake Baking Workshops.
• June 24th – 28th: Glastonbury Green Fields
• April 24th – May 4th: The Coal Caravan traveled through communities threatened by opencast / new power stations, working with communities to highlight the issues surrounding new coal. Veggies provided resources to assist with catering along the route.
• April 24th: The climate change blockbuster The Age of Stupid opened in Nottingham with a Nottingham Not Stupid exhibition and discussions at Broadway Cinema. Veggies used extensive networking links to promote the event and continues to host the Nottingham Not Stupid!! website, listing forthcoming screenings.
  
• April 1st: Climate Camp In the City of London. Veggies were pleased to assist with the feeding of the masses. Respect to ‘Central Kitchens’ for getting it together – you know who you are.
• March 7th/8th: Climate Camp Gathering to held at the Sumac Centre, with catering co-ordinated by Veggies, to continue planning process for the action/camp to be held later in the year.
• Sumac Saturday Skill Share is a program of free workshops run by volunteers, to build the confidence of people in our community by sharing the skills we already have, to prepare us for dealing with climate change and peak oil.
• Into the archives: 2008 and beyond

More climate campaigns supported by Veggies and the Sumac Centre

This Climate Change Campaign blog ran until 2010. Our campaigning continues, but we have not had the opportunity to check/update the links below.

• 10:10 is helping thousands of groups and individuals to cut their carbon by 10% in 2010 and beyond.
• Animal Aid say “Go Vegan, Fight Climate Change “
  • The main source of methane – one of the major greenhouse gases – is farmed animals and there are now three times as many farmed animals as people on this planet.
  • Farm supplies, animal feed and farmed animals are transported great distances, producing carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide.
  • Heat and electricity used by slaughterhouses and farms further increases energy demand – currently met by carbon emitting power stations.

• Bicycology is a collective formed during a weekend meeting at the Sumac Centre in November 2005. By focusing on cycling we aim to pursue our vision of a just and sustainable world through a combination of education, entertainment and creative direct action.
• Climate Action Network Nottinghamshire links groups working on climate issues in Nottm and is supported by East Midlands Friends of the Earth .
• Eastside Climate Camp Collective, meets at Sumac to continue campaigning against the causes of Climate Change, preparing for Nottingham’s input into the Climate Camp, and supporting the Network for Climate Action.
• The Movement for Compassionate Living has been promoting simple living and vegan self-reliance as a remedy to global warming since 1985. MCL publications are printed and distributed by Veggies.
• No M1 Widening! Campaign, took part in a co-ordinated banner drop along a length of the M1, alerting the public to the need to resist widening of the M1, which will simply lead to more traffic & more carbon chaos. Nov’07: M1 Widening in Notts Looms
• Plane Stupid set up a Climate Camp on the runway at East Midlands Airport and held a national day of action against short haul flights on November 6th 2006 during the UN international climate talks in Nairobi.
• Redditch Veggies have designed and produced 5 full colour A2 size posters, an excellent resource for educating the public of the massive environmental damage caused by the meat/dairy industries. They cover Global-warming , Rainforests, Energy, Water and Pollution. They are available in PDF format to download, edit (eg with Photoshop) and print off from http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk/downloads/index.html

  Full Colour A2 posters on heavy-grade high quality art paper now available from Veggies. Details on pagemaker file.

• TransitionNottingham was established in the summer of 2007 to provide a grassroots response to the problems of peak oil and climate change by turning Nottingham into a city that is less reliant on fossil fuel energy and is a better place for all of us to live in.
• The Vegan Organic Network has published ‘A Growing Solution’ to show how Stockfree-Organic farming systems can help combat climate change, without reliance on animal by-products.
• Vegan Society publications include Are Your Means Costing The Earth?” available as a PDF file download.
• VIVA! has launched a HOT! campaign. Its central theme is that the most effective action individuals can take to reduce global warming and other environmental catastrophes is to change their diet – move away from meat, dairy and other animal products and move towards a plant-based diet.
• Veggies Catering Campaign and Vegan Campaigns in London, raise the profile of the message that ‘one of the most important lifestyle changes people can make to stop global warming is to become vegan’.

For other Local and National campaigns and contacts see the Network for Climate Action .

Climate Campaigns Menu

This Climate Change Campaign blog ran until 2010. Our campaigning continues, but we have not had the opportunity to check/update the links below.

• Campaign events supported by Veggies
• Think you can be a meat-eating environmentalist?
• Other Groups / Campaigns
• Global Warming and Livestock – Web Resources
• ‘Do It Yourself – A handbook for changing our world’
• Nuclear Power – No Thanks!
• Eco Power Campaign
• Jump … back to top

  Elsewhere on Veggies Website:

• See how we calculate our carbon emissions for attending Veggies events.
• Veggies:10:10 Climate Campaign.
• See United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report.
• Download, print and distribute the Climate Action flier: “Fight Climate Change – Go Vegan”: [pdf . html ]
• Flier for the June 3rd 2008 Food & Climate Action day: [pdf]

Veggies Climate Change Campaigns

-2008-

Jan’08: The Climate Movement Building, meeting at the Sumac Centre was for anyone wanting to share ideas, experiences and plans for movement building, promoting direct action on climate change, building on networks which have emerged from the Camp for Climate Action and the G8, from local grassroots campaigns to international movements. Minutes here

-2007-

Dec’07: In support of the National Climate Rally , Veggies Catering Campaign hosted the East Midlands Vegan Festival, to highlight that changing one’s diet is the single most effective thing that an individual can do to reduce their impact on the climate – a simple move that all too few organisations are willing to promote. We used our networking resources to urge support for a ‘virtual’ march demanding that world leaders take the urgent action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate. See Indymedia feature

Aug’07: The 2nd Camp for Climate Action, (at which Veggies Catering Campaign again provided catering support), saw eight days of low-impact living, debates, learning skills, and high-impact direct action tackling the root causes of climate change, near Heathrow Airport. Download, print and distribute the Camp for Climate Action flier “Fight Climate Change – Go Vegan”: [pdf . html ]

Nov’06: Just before UN Climate Talks in Nairobi, there were demonstrations all round the world, including London, demanding urgent action on climate change. Some 70 people overflowed the coach from Nottingham, filling a minibus and VeggiesVan too. Up to 20,000 marched from Grosvenor Square to join another 10,000 in Trafalgar Square. Food by Veggies with Samosas for Social Change was well received on the streets! See reports & pics at Indymedia

-2006-