What on Earth 59

Friends of the Earth Scotland’s supporters’ magazine Issue 59 Autumn / Winter 2012

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Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) is: • Scotland’s leading environmental campaigning organisation • An independent Scottish charity with a network of thousands of supporters and active local groups across Scotland

• Part of the largest grassroots environmental network in the world, uniting over 2 million supporters, 77 national member groups, and some 5,000 local activist groups – covering every continent.

Our vision is of a world where everyone can enjoy a healthy environment and a fair share of the earth’s resources.

Friends of the Earth Scotland is an independent Scottish charity SC003442.

What on Earth is published by and copyrighted to: Friends of the Earth Scotland 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh EH2 2PR T: 0131 243 2700 E: info@foe-scotland.org.uk W: www.foe-scotland.org.uk

Editor: Per Fischer Picture Editor: Per Fischer Design: www.triggerpress.co.uk Cover: Graphic by Pauline Verloso

The views expressed in What on Earth are not necessarily those of Friends of the Earth Scotland. FoES accepts no liability for errors, omissions or incorrect data in advertisements.

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Contents 3 Community gardens in Falkirk Friends of the Earth Falkirk's award winning community gardens.

4 Campaigns Update Good news! We won the battle for no new coal at Hunterston.

6 Corporate accountability Our new corporate accountability campaing is up and running.

7 ‘Just Banking’ success The Just Banking conference was surely one of the highlights of the year.

8 Dear Members An update on the FoES restructure progress.

14 Energy-inspired art We talk to two new art school graduates.

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What you are holding in your hand is the completely re-designed What On Earth magazine. The re-design is for a good reason, however, namely to cut down on costs where possible. While we will maintain the quality of the magazine’s content, this format will mean cheaper printing and lower postage costs, which we think is better use of our supporters’ donated funds.

Please let us know what you think of the smaller magazine in the member survey www.foes.do/supportersurvey2012

Editorial

If you would like to change your subscription to a digital format instead of a print version, lowering costs even further, simply contact the office on 0131 243 2700 or send us an email to tell us.

With best wishes Per Fischer Editor whatonearth@foe-scotland.org.uk

View from the street

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By Matthew Crighton, Chair, Friends of the Earth Scotland

e live in interesting times – the system that governs our economy is clearly broken, from the point of view of both environmental and economic objectives, but none of the suggested remedies seem likely to fix it. They all share the same, wrong, assumptions about what the economy is for, what markets can do and what regulation can’t do – and about what is possible.

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Three exciting events that Friends of the Earth Scotland organised recently have given me confidence that we can find an alternative.

In April the Just Banking conference, reported in more detail on page 7, brought us some brilliant speakers with a devastating critique of the ways banks work today, and specific ideas about what we can do if we want a banking sector which builds social justice and environmental sustainability.

In May I was asked to organise the launch of the Climate Jobs Caravan on its tour of Britain, to bring the message that we can and should create one million ‘climate jobs’ to tackle both climate change and unemployment.

On the back of this we called a meeting on Climate Action, Climate Jobs in June. It was attended by the STUC, five trade unions, Oxfam and Stop Climate Chaos and agreed to work together to put specific proposals to the Scottish Government and local councils which will create jobs and help meet emissions targets.

Each of these events show the massive potential there is for a strong and wide alliance, which can fight for a popular, socially just and economically viable alternative. They also show that Friends of the Earth Scotland will play a vital part in making that happen. As was clear at our recent AGM, we face substantial challenges as an organisation but if we keep focused on the vital campaigning tasks I am sure we can rise to those challenges.

Matthew Crighton was elected as Chair at the AGM. He has a professional background in economic development and many years experience as a trade unionist and environmental campaigner.

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Local groups

By Norman Philip, Friends of the Earth Falkirk

riends of the Earth Falkirk volunteers established their first community garden in early 2011 on a triangle of land on Arnot Street Falkirk.

The project was part of the local group’s campaign to highlight the issue of abandoned “orphaned land” sites within the town – sites that have no evidence of an owner, look abandoned and where litter gathers. The group was looking at ways of providing an environment which would attract insects and evolve as the seasons change. The aim of the initial garden was not to do a one-off garden make-over, but to provide a space where the group can experiment with planting to encourage wildlife and promote environmentally friendly gardening.

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With the success of the initial garden, the group identified three other sites, all within walking distance of Falkirk High Street, and approached land owners to get agreement to use the land. The second garden was a piece of land next to a bus stop, which was being used as an ashtray.

The group turned this space into a herb garden, replacing the smell of discarded cigarette butts with the smell of mint, lavender, rosemary and thyme. The third garden on Bean Row was an opportunity to

link the group’s campaign issues of local food and composting with a practical project to highlight that food can be grown anywhere.

All four gardens are now well established with donations from many sources, both from

individuals and organisations. In August the vegetable plot was harvested and soup and stovies were produced from the bounty for a Soup and Stovies Day at Bean Row in September.

Everyone involved in the success of all four gardens was able to celebrate the combined effort, which has resulted in a “Thriving” award from Keep Scotland Beautiful this year. foefalkirk.blogspot.co.uk

Campaigns

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By Mary Church, Campaigner

No new coal at Hunterston!

Campaigners from RSPB, Friends of the Earth Scotland and WWF announce 16,000 signatures against Hunterston with Lewis MacDonald MSP.

ur campaign victory of the year came in June, when Ayrshire Power announced the withdrawal of its planning application for a coal-fired power station at Hunterston in Ayrshire.

Scottish Government‘s high level planning policy, the National Planning Framework (NPF). This means we could see another similar plant being proposed in the years ahead.

Ayrshire Power’s decision signals an important victory in the fight against damaging new fossil fuel developments.

However, the site at Hunterston still remains earmarked for this kind of development in the

We believe that if there is a realistic threat of communities pursuing bad decisions all the way to court, this will lead to better decisionmaking by the government, public authorities and developers.

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FoES has been part of a campaign against the development of a new coal fired power station at Hunterston for three years, working alongside the local community group CONCH (Communities Opposed to New Coal at Hunterston) and a broad coalition of NGOs and civil society. We could not have done this without the support of our members and supporters.

But a brave legal challenge against the government’s decision to include this in the NPF is pushing ahead for an appeal at the Court of Session. We are supporting this challenge through our Access to Environmental Justice campaign, which calls for changes to the legal system to enable communities to challenge poor decision making that impacts on their environment.

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Access to Environmental Justice

e are delighted to announce that we recently secured funding to continue our Access to Environmental Justice campaign. We would like to thank the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for their generosity in supporting this work for a further 18 months.

At present our work is focussed on engaging with ongoing civil justice reforms, and liaising with government officials and MSPs. We have also been working with the Scottish Environment LINK network to establish a Legal Governance Group – which we chair – to help support key strands of our campaign.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

Find out more by visiting foe-scotland.org.uk/access-to-justice, or search for ‘justice’ in our resources section to find briefings, consultation responses and evidence.

Unconventional gas and fracking

ver the past six months we have been making contact with communities faced with unconventional gas developments in their area, creating briefings and resources and linking up with other concerned organisations. Funding for our pilot project has come to an end, but while we explore options for future funding and work we are keeping an eye on what Dart Energy, the main player in Scotland, is up to with its development at Airth and recent acquisition of Greenpark’s licenses in the Canonbie area.

We have also launched a new website as a

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first port of call for people who want to get better informed about the issues, what’s happening in Scotland and find out how to engage with developments in their area.

WHAT YOU CAN DO Visit the website at: www.frackfreescotland.org.uk

Free West Papua

e would also like to share with you the good news that Benny Wenda, a West Papuan tribal leader and campaigner for independence from Indonesia, has been removed from the Interpol “Red Notice” wanted list. Some of you may remember Benny as a most inspiring speaker at our 2011 AGM.

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Benny was granted asylum in the UK in 2002 following his escape from a brutal Indonesian prison. The Indonesian Government wanted to put Benny on trial for a number of alleged offences, but in August this year Interpol recognised that the request was politically motivated and removed the Red Notice against Benny’s name.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

You can find out more about Benny Wenda’s work and the campaign to free West Papua at http://www.bennywenda.org/

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By Paul Daly, Corporate Accountability Campaigner

e have launched a new campaign targeting Cairn Energy, pushing for the Edinburgh-based oil company to withdraw from its operations in the Arctic.

Cairn has been unsuccessfully exploring for oil in the Arctic for two years. It involves using techniques similar to those employed by Shell in their infamous Deepwater Horizon well.

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Iceberg alley Comparisons between the two operations are easy to make, but what we must remember is that the Arctic is a much more remote, fragile, dangerous and difficult to access environment.

A clean up operation in the Arctic would be hampered as the Arctic winters may make accessing the leak impossible for months. The likelihood of a spill is increased as the oilrigs are situated in ‘iceberg alley’. Cairn’s contigency plans have been exposed as inadequate, and involve towing away icebergs.

We are standing up to Cairn and telling them to pull out of the Arctic, as the environmental price is too high for the possibility of some oil.

The RBS The other company we focus on is The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The banking sector and RBS in particular have been in our spotlight the last two years. We held the acclaimed “Just Banking” conference that examined the sector, and we have been campaigning to clean up RBS, who is still investing in tar sands and other carbon intensive energy. Since the UK taxpayer owns 84% of the bank, we should be able to push the bank to become far more sustainable.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Sign the petition and support our appeal to stop Arctic drilling: www.foes.do/cairn-appeal

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Just banking

By Per Fischer, Communications Officer

o highlight the problems with banks and their role in financial booms and busts, Friends of the Earth organised a two-day “Just Banking” conference in Edinburgh in April 2012, in partnership with a number of other organisations. The event saw economic experts from the UK and abroad, attracted huge media interest from financial media, and attracted over 300 people to an evening lecture before the main event. To say it was a huge success is entirely an understatement.

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Ways forward The purpose of the event, which was a public evening lecture at Edinburgh University’s Business School followed by a full day conference, was not to just point the finger of blame for the financial crises at the banks. It was just as much a two-fold strategy of on one hand understanding how the financial sector works and what role the banks play within it, and on the other offering practical and sustainable solutions.

Size matters Both understanding the banking system and finding ways to free society from the sector’s

credit grip on our economy is a huge undertaking, and this article can only scratch the surface of the implications. Since the 1980s we have seen massive financial deregulation, and the power to create money has now effectively passed from public institutions to the banks, and the monetary system has become digital. The UK bank sector is concentrated on a few companies that are so massive that they cannot be allowed to fail.

Friends of the Earth Scotland Chair Matthew Crighton has written a more detailed analysis in the Scottish Left Review: www.scottishleftreview.org/article/reformingthe-debt-creators

The economist Professor Richard Werner, one of the main speakers, argued that small and local, and indeed regulated, is better when it comes to banking. He called for alternative models, like credit unions or locally owned banks.

Ann Pettifor (see interview in WoE58) repeated her call for a green new deal, and handing money creation back to the Bank of England.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

View the interactive summary from the whole event: www.justbanking.org.uk/summary.

Support our campaign: www.foe-scotland.org.uk/corporate-accountability

The future of Friends of the Earth Scotland

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Our Annual General Meeting in May presented a turning point as we faced up to a difficult financial situation, reported the plan for a smaller staffing structure and agreed that the Board should report back to the members within six months.

We also took steps, however, to set Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) on a path which adapts to the new funding and campaigning environment and which aims to maintain or increase our influence – the problems we want to combat have not gone away!

The AGM agreed that we should be increasing the contribution from the members, volunteer activists and local groups to the work of the organisation. We also decided to promote membership of FoES to organisations which support our objectives, for example gropus which are campaigning actively on issues of environmental justice and climate change at local level.

FoES is now in the process of recruiting a new Director who we will be able to introduce to you in the next issue of What on Earth.

About our financial situation: For many years FoES has been funded by trusts and grants, as well as membership income and donations. Our budgets were reliant on trusts and grants funding contributing to our running

costs. Prior to the financial downturn FoES was able to access large grants, as well as legacy income in the earlier stages of the recession. However, trust and grant funding has increasingly dried up for the type of work we do.

We were able to use financial reserves to make up for shortfalls of income when times

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The future of Friends of the Earth Scotland

Landrights conference 2011, with West Papuan tribal leader Benny Wenda. One of many member and supporter events organised by Friends of the Earth Scotland.

moving to a structure where there will be a core permanent staff of five, with additional campaigners being brought in when we have grant funding to pay for them. This will enable us to be financially secure and flexible according to the income levels we have each year.

Our income from members and donors is more important than ever as it is only with your support that we have been able to create a new, more sustainable structure.

We have had a kind offer from a donor to match fund any donations given to us for a limited period of time. Please make a donation to help us secure the future of Friends of the Earth Scotland and help it build strong campaigns and a higher profile by visiting www.foe-scotland.org.uk/join

got tough more recently. However, last year we faced a significant deficit and we were no longer able to continue funding the same size of operation as we used to.

The Board has therefore decided to downsize the staff structure to a size that is not reliant on large scale grants but is based mainly on our membership income. FoES will shortly be

Please also help us to decide upon our future campaigns within a smaller organisation by completing the membership survey online at www.foes.do/supportersurvey2012 or please contact the office on 0131 243 2700 or email info@foe-scotland.org.uk for a paper copy.

With many thanks for your support.

Davina Shiell

Interim Operational Director

Matthew Crighton

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Staff and Board

Teresa Martinez

ver the summer we said goodbye to the following staff members: Stan Blackley, Chief Executive; Francis Stuart, Parliamentary Officer; Hannah Kitchen, Volunteer and Activism Development Officer and Clare McKeown, Fundraiser.

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At the time of going to print, we are also about to lose two more staff members.

Davina Shiell, Interim Operational Director, is leaving to continue pursuing her career in communications. Fiona Brown, Finance Officer, has been made redundant in the recent restructure.

We also want to thank our office volunteers Natascha Deininger and Ana Dragalina, who have moved on.

Paul Daly, who has also been volunteering for some time now, is our new Corporate Accountability Campaigner. Paul is working three days a week on this campaign which targets Cairn Energy and RBS and is funded by the Isvara Foundation.

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Jim Orr

The new Board At our AGM Matthew Crighton was elected Chair and Eurig Scandrett was elected Vice Chair. The Board would like to thank former Chair Chris Revie and board members Hugh Wormersley and Gavin Strang, who stood down.

Teresa Martinez, Jim Orr and Daya Feldwick Teresa is a former Friends of the Earth Scotland staff member and worked for the Community Action team for six years.

Currently she works as Project Coordinator for the Fife Diet, the largest Local Food Movement in Europe.

Jim Orr is a City of Edinburgh councillor and vice-convener of the transport, infrastructure and environment committee.

Daya is a community worker and activist, and currently works for the Loanhead Organic Garden, as well as volunteering for different organisations.

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Your support

Annual Prize Draw e are extremely pleased that the first prize is the same as last year.

Cruenbeg Highland Holiday Cottages and Active Outdoor Pursuits very kindly agreed to give us the prizes again. See page 1.

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Other prizes kindly given by: Green People www.greenpeople.co.uk • Cairn o’Mohr www.cairnomohr.com • FirstScotrail www.firstgroup.com • CrossKase crosskase.com • BioD www.biodegradable.biz • New Internationalist Magazine www.newint.org • Clipper Tea www.clipperteas.com • Superjam www.superjam.co.uk • Current Cost www.currentcost.com.

If you don’t have a book of tickets with this what on Earth and would like to buy tickets you can either do it online by going to foescotland.org.uk/prizedraw2012, or call the office and we will send you a book.

Gift Membership for Christmas

his year why not think about giving a gift that keeps on giving. A membership to Friends of the Earth Scotland. We will send a year’s membership to the recipient along with a Christmas card wishing them all the best from you. Please call 0131 243 2700 and we call get all the details from you. Minimum membership £12.

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Recycle your Jewellery

re you having a clear out of your old jewellery? Did you know it can be recycled and we will receive a donation?

It is very simple to do. You can either send it

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free of charge in an envelope to jewelleryrecycling.org at: Friends of the Earth Scotland, FREEPOST, License RSKJ-AJABGSYA, Fundraising, Sutton Coldfield, B75 5BH. Or telephone the free phone number 0800 633 5323 and a FREEPOST envelope will be posted out to you.

Change your bank and change the world f you open a savings account with Triodos Bank with £100 or more they will donate £40 to us. See inside back page.

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Double your Donation

hank you to everyone who donated recently to allow us to ‘Double your Donation’. There is still time if you wish to donate and the generous donator has informed us that each donation will be matched. www.foes.do/double-your-donation.

Your support is very much appreciated.

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Corporate capture

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By Paul Daly, Corporate Accountability Campaigner

wo decades ago governments across the globe were so concerned about the deteriorating state of the environment that they converged in Rio to find common solutions to ensure that we did not destroy the planet. During the original Rio conference, countries signed up to Agenda 21, ‘a blueprint to rethink economic growth, advance social equality and ensure environmental protection’.

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So where did it all go wrong?

Recently a debate has opened up about corporate takeover of the United Nations (UN). Friends of the Earth International argues that corporations now exert a disproportionate amount of influence over the outcomes of debates, and in doing so only aim to get the best outcome for their profit line, regardless of damage inflicted to the environment. Corporations are also accused of undertaking ‘green washing’ to make their

activities look as though they really are acting in the best interest of the environment.

How do corporations exert influence over the UN? One method of exerting corporate influence on the UN is through a process known as ‘revolving doors’, when corporate senior executives change job roles to become UN officials and vice versa.

The danger of allowing corporations into such high level summits is that they will propose solutions to problems completely lead by their own requirements, while advocating that these are legitimate green solutions.

Friends of the Earth Europe believe that corporations are pushing for industry to be seen as possessing the solutions to environmental problems. The fear is that corporations have increasing influence over the UN and government bodies and will gain

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control and begin to divide up our resources with no real regard for environmental or social concerns.

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“Governments no longer consult business, business consults with governments” – Friends of the Earth International

Criticism is often levied the UN for moving away from solutions to the financial and environmental crises and instead focussing on the short term needs of large corporations.

This is based on the belief that we can buy our way out of the financial crisis and that for our future prosperity we need to continue down the path of ongoing financial growth.

The Future: brought to you by our sponsors 20 years on from the original Rio summit, world leaders met again in 2012 for the Rio+20 summit. Outside the conference there were demonstrations about corporate takeover of the UN process. The campaign was an alliance of over 100 groups from both the global North and South which consisted of peasant, labour, women’s, environmental

and faith based movements, including Friends of the Earth International.

Henry Saraghi, General Coordinator of la Via Campesina talked about a ‘re-branding of capitalism through the design and implementation of the corporate green economy… a clever way to cheat nature and continue business as usual’.

The future we want We call on the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to revisit the founding principles and ask if its current processes are still in line with these values.

As campaigners we must remain vigilant and ensure that our corporations are acting in the common interest, not in their shareholders.

For more about the Corporate Accountability Campaign in Scotland, see page 6 Donate to support the campaign: www.foes.do/double-your-donation

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PHOTO: PHILIP LONGSTAFF

Feature

unications Officer

By Per Fischer, Comm

he Glasgow School of Art (GSA) degree show is a showcase for the coming generation of young artists from all over the world. What On Earth went to the 2012 show, where at least two of the graduate exhibitions dealt with environmental issues, albeit in very different ways.

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Collecting coal dust Philip Longstaff’s work “As Long As It Lasts” was a thought-provoking dark room filled with coal dust, and a video showing himself

scraping the dust off the sand on North Gare beach, where he normally walks his dog.

Philip got the main inspiration for the work when travelling to New Mexico to study American land art, realising that it is possible to use the landscape as a medium.

“The history of the North East of England has been based on its coal resources, and industry has dominated its landscapes since the industrial revolution,” Philip says. “Some people assume that the coal waste is from

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Video installation, GSA (main photo) Coal dust (right)

the industry This was maybe true in earlier years when they pumped the slag from the mines into the sea. The sea coal you see on the beaches today is a natural rift in the sea bed that is eroded away by the tide and brought into land. This natural occurrence will end at some point, just as the industry has slowed down in the area. This idea for me has a poetry; the way that this material has formed this area of the UK and is now being eroded and disappearing is why I titled the work, As Long As It Lasts.”

Philip thinks that environmental issues should not only be covered in GSA's environmental art course, but that it should be something all art students and artists should be aware of.

“Recycling is a great skill to have, using your materials in the best possible way and making sure they are suitable for the job. My degree show was de-installed, the wood salvaged and has been made into a storage unit for my new business.”

Tracing power Sam Dransfield graduated in Photography this year, and his show “From the Mouth to the Source” was inspired by the simple wonder of

looking at your bedroom light switch and thinking about where electricity comes from, and how. “I thought about the distance each unit of charge travels across every day,” Sam says. “My goal was to re-trace the path of electricity from a light switch in my Glasgow flat back to its source at the power station.

Following overhead power lines through the landscape, I travelled by foot and stayed as close to the line as possible, going over each obstacle or difficult terrain I encountered. I began each leg before the sun rose, and ended once the sun had set.”

The result was a series of 250 photographs showing power lines hovering above different landscapes, and Sam selected five of these images for his final exhibition. He explains that the lightboxes displaying the photos were built by the same company that manufactured the pylons he had been following on his photographic journey. “I got in touch with the company to build the galvanized steel frames for the fronts of the boxes.”

Sam’s degree show included a map of the changing sky colours, “to provide a sense of scale and an overview of the journey.”

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As the appetite for alternatives to the current financial system increases, more and more people have moved their money to join Triodos Bank. This bank doesn’t have a bonus culture and only lends money to ethical enterprises.

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Recently Triodos Bank has moved its offices to the heart of Bristol and Edinburgh to buildings that reflect their values and meet the same rigorous environmental standards as the organisations they finance. Triodos Bank offers a range of sustainable savings accounts for individuals, including ISAs and fixed-term bonds. It also offers a range of investment opportunities from investing in the UK’s growing renewable energy industry to a microfinance fund supporting people in developing countries.

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FILM REVIEW his new documentary about carbon offsetting had its European premiere at the Take One Action film festival in September 2012. The screening was outdoors at the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, and ‘cycle-powered’. Sandra Burt and Les Wallace went along to see it.

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Sandra: “It was my first visit to the Botanics in Edinburgh and my first experience of a cycle-powered film – I’d heartily recommend both. The film itself was brutal, not at all easy to watch. I was waiting for the happy

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ending but there was none. Everyone should watch this film, these people deserve their stories to be heard.”

Les: “The shocking environmental and social costs of ‘carbon offsetting’ depicted included everything from assassination of local activists fighting palm oil plantations in Honduras to recycling workers in India losing income and jobs to waste incineration. There was no positive, upbeat ending to the film – that’s for us to do by taking action and spreading the word.“

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