Prosperity without growth, in a tent on Blackheath

I attended David Fleming’s talk at the Climate Camp Is economics without growth possible?. The place was packed. It was really interesting to hear someone playing with big ideas, and asking difficult questions.
I’m the first to admit that I was out of my depth at this talk. The Wind Turbines talk was [...]

Those hooligans, they’re a menace!

Oh no, it’s ok, don’t panic Mayor Steve… They’re having a tidy up:
Climate campers clean up the Commons

Things to do at Climate Camp on Monday

Here are my suggestions if you fancy attending a workshop at the climate camp today.  More ideas here.
Future Scenarios: Science, Permaculture and Economics
London, 10:30-11:30
Exploring future scenarios in the context of climate change. Various futures as predicted through three lenses: science, permaculture and economics. Based on the work of Six Degrees author Mark Lynas, permaculturalist David [...]

The Mystery Sundial

Anyone know where the mysterious sundial has appeared from?
Jo says “It’s near Vanbrugh Park – very nearby to Royal Standard area and pub. It’s on the side of the road where the number 53 and number 380 buses go towards the Standard”.
Is it GMT or BST? :)
Photo taken by twitter user @JoBrodie

Less of a Cornish Rebellion than a Welsh Outsourcing

From WalesOnline news:
Welsh cops have been drafted into London to deal with up to 3,000 environmental protesters.
Nearly 30 officers from North Wales Police were sent to the Climate Camp at Blackheath in east London, overlooking the capital’s Docklands and Canary Wharf, earlier this week.
Dafauxdils photo by flickr user Zimpenfish

Cinema in Blackheath?

Sort of… There is a strange brown tent in the Climate Camp, with a van poking out of the front of it, furnished with two solar panels! It appears to be a mobile cinema, showing various eco-movies! Sunday 9.30pm Doctor Strangelove anyone?

The optimists

A couple of much more upbeat pieces in The Times:
Giles Hattersley: Why we are all climate camp followers now
(which wins the Bugle award for least imaginative headline).
As I walked up there, I did hear a load of people shouting “get a job” from the safety of their cars as they drove past the camp… Didn’t [...]

A Better Class of Nutter

Well written analysis of the Climate Camp in the Torygraph, obsessing over class again.
It might appear typically British to obsess about class while the earth burns..
Yes, it does, now you come to mention it actually…
…but what seems to distinguish the colourfully attired protesters at the Climate Camp set up in south-east London from previous revolutionaries [...]

Wind Turbines Talk on Blackheath

I’ve just been to the wind turbines talk at the Climate Camp on Blackheath. It was really well attended. The organisation who ran the talks are called v3power.co.uk. They often run courses explaining how to build your own wind turbine, but they’ve never held one in London. If anyone is interested, [...]

More maps of the Climate Camp

Looking at the ad-hoc maps of the climate change camp in Blackheath is really interesting – here are some overlays of the hand-drawn maps versus the GPS trail that I made yesterday:
Here’s the hand drawn map overlaid onto Google Maps:

And here it is overlaid onto the GPS trail that I made yesterday: