http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/global_security/climate_change_window_to_act

Ingrid Betancourt, Green/ Oxygen presidential candidate kidnapped by Columbian FARC guerillas, has been freed after years in captivity in the jungle. BBC Her release comes after a long campaign by her supporters and family.

The UK BERR department of Business Enterprise Regulatory Reform and DETINI have launched a consultation on renewable energy, as DETINI develops a new energy framework for Northern Ireland. DETINI Renewables Obligation

Climate change, desertification, soil erosion, and flooding are now displacing more people than wars, according to the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) in the run up to World Refugee Day on June 20. Edie Net

Thousands of trout have been killed in the Six Mile Water river as low water levels increase fish deaths from pollution. This is the most severe of many recent incidents. BBC Many incidents in Northern Ireland are due to the water company NIW. Belfast Telegraph

Sunday 22nd June 2008 12.30 – 3.00 pm
City Church University Avenue
Bar-B-Que?, Bouncy Castle, Face Painting
and entertainment. All welcome

Wednesday 25th June 2008
Ulster Hospital to Royal Victoria Hospital for Children (10am – 11.30am)
Royal Victoria Hospital to Antrim Area Hospital (12 noon – 3pm)
Friday 27th June 2008
Antrim Area Hospital to Altnegalvin Hospital, L/Derry (10am – 3pm)
Monday 30th June 2008
Altnegalvin Hospital, L/Derry to Omagh Hospital (10am – 2pm)
Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Omagh Hospital to Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry (10am – 3pm)
Friday 4th July 2008
Daisy Hill Hospital to Belfast City Hospital (10am – 3pm)
To enter contact William Johnston on 028 91 27 13 12

Start Time/Place: Sat 15 June 11:00am from the Big Fish at the Lagan Lookout. We will also stop at Macedon Point in Newtownabbey to pick up other riders at 12:00pm Free. Bikeweek Or visit Crom Castle and rent a rowboat for £5.00 Crom Castle

Kilcranny House Coleraine 3 & 4 October. The workshop on green/ecological/environmental campaigning will be led by Joanne Sheehan from the USA who has been a nonviolence trainer for 35 years. £35 waged and £25 unwaged. INNATE.

Environment Minister Arlene Foster, influenced by the Ulster Farmer's Union. has rejected commission recommendations for an independent Environmental Protection Agency. This has been condemned by Tom Burke, chair of the commission: Belfast Telegraph

Woodbrook Eco-village in Lisburn has been launched. It has a willow chip biomass-fired community heating for its low energy homes and has been given a Code for Sustainable Homes award for its reduced impact on the environment. Transport has also been considered

Food is inextricably linked to many of the toughest sustainable development challenges faced by today’s population – from obesity and climate change to waste and global poverty. Professor Tim Lang 29th May 2008 QUB RSVP Biofuels not guilty