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C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture PLATFORM and collaborators present C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture, a major exhibition and season of 50 events in the run-up to COP 15, at leading contemporary arts centre Arnolfini, Bristol, 3.10.09 - 29.11.09. Follow developments on the C Words Blog. |
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Unravelling
the Carbon Web
Research, advocacy
and public education on oil corporations; with a particular focus
on Iraq, the former Soviet Union and Nigeria. |
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Remember
Saro-Wiwa Creating a living memorial for Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian writer and activist who was executed in 1995 for highlighting the impact of oil companies in the Niger Delta. |
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The Desk Killer By shining a light into the world of the bureaucrats, planners and businessmen who contributed to the Holocaust, The Desk Killer raises critical questions as to whether the psychology and behaviour that enabled genocide to occur then, exists in the institutional culture of transnational corporations today. |
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Museum
of the Corporation The Museum of the Corporation is a proposal for an open space where people can debate one of today's most powerful influences on social and ecological justice in daily life and global politics, the transnational corporation. |
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SEA-Renue PLATFORM established Renue as a community renewable energy initiative, in 1996. It has now merged with Sustainable Energy Action to form SEA-Renue, working with businesses, local authorities, schools and the wider community to deliver practical and affordable solutions to London's environmental challenges. |
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NEWS Towards a Royal Bank of Sustainability: protecting taxpayers' interests; cutting carbon risk: This report has been commissioned by People & Planet, World Development Movement, PLATFORM, Friends of the Earth Scotland, and BankTrack to investigate whether and how the Government should align its recent investment in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) with social and environmental objectives, in particular to combat climate change. Government faces environmental legal challenge over RBS 20th October - the High Court : Oral hearing for the application for a judicial review by PLATFORM, People & Planet and the World Development Movement over the Treasury's lack of adequate environmental and human rights considerations in the investment mandate set out for RBS. click on the link below to see the Guardian article 'Treasury taken to court for RBS loans to Vedanta Resources'. Art Not Oil's 2010 diary is now available!
Calling artists/designers: Redesign the Royal Bank of Scotland for Sustainability!
Amelia's Magazine and PLATFORM announce a design competition, deadline 2nd November. Finalists to be exhibited as part of C Words season at Arnolfini, Bristol
Shifting Sands: How a changing economy could bury the tar sands industry. The second update of the Rising Risks report by PLATFORM, Greenpeace and Oil Change International on the Alberta tar sands. ‘Earth Matters on Stage’. In collaboration with Ashden Trust - ‘What can be asked? What can be shown?’ British theatre & performance in a time of climate instability – for University of Oregon’s conference: ‘Earth Matters on Stage’– Dan Gretton participates. Panel discussion: arts and ecology - Robert Butler, Michaela Crimmin and Jane Trowell in discussion. Panel discussion focusing on issues related to arts and ecology with Jane Trowell, Director of Platform, Michaela Crimmin, Head of Arts and Ecology at RSA and Robert Butler, writer for the Economist's Intelligent Life. Result of the Wiwa v. Shell trial in New York. Royal Dutch Shell forced to settle out of court as the landmark case is resolved in favour of the plantiffs.
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