Yes… the simple way to change the climate – build an incinerator! In fact build lots of them! Incineration involves the release of high levels of CO2, the main climate warming gas. Incineration creates toxic emissions and hazardous ash which are potentially harmful. Reduce the incentive to recycle […]
The floods have changed how I see the world. Whenever it rains you think ‘is it all going to happen again?’ These words from a school student in Hull sum up the fears of thousands of people in Hull and Holderness whose lives were dramatically affected by the […]
It is Blog Action Day tomorrow and the Hedon Blog will be posting about Climate Change and particularly the increased threat of flooding. This is a subject that local folk in Hull and Hedon are likely to have first hand knowledge or experience of. Join the conversation tomorrow […]
As explained in an earlier post the Hedon Blogger attended Talk About Local in Stoke on Saturday 3rd October. The event was aimed at those who make hyperlocal community websites and blogs happen. It was indeed an inspiring event and I’m still feeling the buzz now. But what […]
The Talk About Local “Un-Conference” takes place in Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday 3rd October 2009. The event is a marvellous opportunity to bring together some of those people in the country who are trying to create local community websites as vehicles to inspire community action. “Talk About Local is […]
Following blogging about the bad smells from Yorkshire Water’s waste water treatment facility in June this year I registered to receive updates from YW about these. The first e-mail notification of update to Hull and Saltend News duly arrived by e-mail today. The number of complaints received by […]
An unashamed plug for Blog Action Day on 15th October 2009! Click to play: Can you do this in less than a minute?
East Riding Councillor Peter Turner was recently interviewed by Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart about the HOTI campaign against the waste incinerator being built at a Saltend site near Hedon. That interview has been posted on YouTube. Don’t forget that the March and Rally against the incinerator […]
Blog Action Day 2009 takes place on Thursday October 15th and Bloggers across the globe are asked to unite on that day in blogging about Climate Change. The Hedon Blog will be ready for this challenge! [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3486462&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the […]
The advantage of a blog is that you can canvass opinion in the virtual world before deciding to spend money on printing in the real world! So I’m seeking comments and views on this flyer before getting thousands circulated to the HU12 post code area. What do you […]
March and Rally A call to action has been issued to people in Hull and Holderness to join a protest march and rally against the building of a waste incinerator at Saltend near Hedon. The march will assemble in the Co-op car park at 10.30am on Saturday 3rd […]
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s September issue of East Riding News comments on the authority’s efforts to promote local jobs. Council leader Stephen Parnarby explains that the council has to abide by EU regulations on procurement but within that framework is doing everything it can to encourage […]
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