Wednesday 24 July 2013

One Skyscraper. Six Women. No Permission.


"Behind-the-scenes film captures the build-up and the experience of six ordinary women who climbed the tallest building in Europe to protest against Shell’s plan to drill for oil in the Arctic."

Friday 19 July 2013

An Extreme Weather Primer

A good short documentary introduction to current extreme weather events, presented by Anja Taylor.

Thursday 11 July 2013

British Eco-Activists Scale the Shard in London

Re-blogging this from Climate Progress, information on an amazing protest climb in London. Online signatures requested in support here.
 Six environmental activists began scaling the tallest building in London on Thursday morning in a symbolic protest against the oil company Shell and its practice of arctic drilling.
The activists, who Greenpeace identified as Sabine, Sandra, Victo, Ali, Wiola and Liesbeth, picked the building — named The Shard — because it is “modelled on a shard of ice” and “sits slap bang in the middle of Shell’s three London headquarters.” They started their “ice climb” at 4:00 am London time, and plan to “unveil a massive art installation at the top.”
At time of publishing, the climbers had reached 230 meters on their 72-story journey. You can watch a live feed of the climb here.