Today marks the last day of protest for British climate change campaigners near the Kingsnorth Power Station. Climate Camp has attracted lots of coverage, with multiple videos circulated on YouTube, and the media descending on this remote part of the Kent region. At stake? Wanting to prevent the firing up of a new coal fire station. The week long event went beyond the usual one day demonstration, and instead transformed the fields around the old coal plant, into a temporary eco-village, entirely powered with renewable sources:
Climate Camp gives new meaning to the word ‘demonstration‘. Not just protesting against, but also demonstrating positive alternatives. Burning Man with a purpose, I love it!
La Marguerite 
We could lead the world in clean coal. We have 100 years + of it and as it is getting colder we will be forced to use it as it takes a lot longer to build a nuclear station than a coal-fired one.
Good job CO2 is a life-giving component of the carbon-based-kife-form-cycle and the world has seen far greated concentrations than currently.
I agree, I think it’s really important we demonstrate to people how living sustainably is feasible right now and really isn’t a technological problem. Negativing protesting and direct action can only take us so far. I blogged about it in more detail here: http://orangejon.com/blog/?p=74
Jon, thanks for visiting! I have enjoyed both your personal and professional blogs, and left comments on both. I really love how you are integrating your personal activism with your professional practice as a creator of new social network paradigms. Keep up the great work!
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