March against wind farms at Mont Saint Michel

Got to this website for video footage of the march on Saturday.

Geoengineering

From the New Scientist :

Read more as well here about the Royal Society's review of geoengineering

Adam Smith Institute

An important article by Dr Fred Hansen highlighting the vast amounts of land that would be needed to meet renewable energy targets

Send a postcard!

The painting on this postcard is by Marion Chapman, our Featured Artist from Australia. If you love Australia's wild places, look at her paintings and read what she has to say about the Bald Hills Wetland Reserve.

Wherever you live, if you care about saving the world from the wind turbine blight, send a Postcard to the address on the sosmontsaintmichel website (scroll down and click for English version) before the weekend, to add to the garland of postcards that will be presented to President Sarkozy.
Read what he said about wind turbines back in 2007 . Let us keep reminding him of that fact.

Such drastic climate therapy could make things worse

A timely warning from my father this Sunday - read it at this link (Guardian online)

A greener world

There is some food for thought in this New Scientist article, and not just about food...

Brentor and Mont-Saint-Michel

Saved from turbines, the church of St. Michael de Rupe at Brentor near Dartmoor is under a threat of a different kind now. You can read more about this in the Western Morning News

Until I did my "Walk round Devon's Wind Farm Sites" I hadn't noticed the fact that Churches named after St. Michael are often built on the tops of hills. This has left them especially vulnerable to the wind farm menace.

As mentioned earlier, September 26th is the date for the International Protest March against the numerous turbine projects that threaten world famous Mont Saint Michel.
Read more about it at these links:

Information in English on the EPAW website
S.O.S. Mont-Saint-Michel