Adapt to Climate Change Quickly Say Welsh Greens
Climate change is no longer in dispute. It is here. Even the climate change deniers can no longer justify themselves. We must learn to adapt, and quickly, if our food and energy supplies are to be...
View ArticleStatement by Pippa Bartolotti
The scale of rape in the UK, as in the world, is the tip of an ugly iceberg of violence. Rape often comes as part of a package of abuse. Institutional abuse, cultural abuse, domestic abuse. Rape is...
View ArticleHelp Homes and Businesses Adapt to Climate Change
A report to John Griffith, Welsh Minister for the Environment, from Lord Deben, Chair of the Committee on Climate Change, makes depressing reading. Having now made the subtle change from avoiding...
View ArticleGreen Party - No More Nuclear
Cumbria County council has given a resounding 'No' to creating an underground nuclear waste dump in the Lake District. This has massive implications for the construction plans in the pipeline for new...
View ArticleIncinerator Fight Not Over Yet
The badly devised Prosiect Gwyrdd plan to bring incinerators to Wales has taken one more step into the darkness. Whilst Veolia in Newport has been dropped from the project in favour of Viridor in...
View ArticleGreen Party Backs Insecticide Petition
At 2.00 pm on Thursday 21st February Pippa Bartolotti of the Wales Green Party will be handing in a petition of 40,440 signatures to John Griffiths, Minister for Environment and Sustainable...
View ArticleBees Need Urgent Help
Some insecticide products have been increasingly implicated in the decline of honeybees over the past decade, and there is serious concern that they pose unacceptable risk to wild bees and...
View ArticleNo Incinerator for Newport!
Members of the Stop Newport Incinerator Campaign are ecstatic that the company planning to build an incinerator in Newport have today withdrawn their appeal. Year of hard work by local campaigners...
View ArticleCon Dem-ing the Future
“We must do the right thing, and not worry about whether or not we will be successful. For if we do not do the right thing, we will be part of the problem, not part of the solution”. Schumacher C02...
View ArticleA Holocaust on Nature
Whilst politicians of almost every hue are trying to persuade us that growth will be the salvation of all our ills, the RSPB, together with 25 other partner organisations, has shown us exactly what...
View ArticleWales Green Party Press Release
The latest document on Energy from Waste from Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) puts the entire subject of large incinerators in doubt. The report backs up the concerns of...
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A Green home for unhappy Labour voters
What kind of Labour Party would people like to vote for? The latest suggestions for a Labour manifesto put forward by John Walton sound very familiar. In fact, almost without exception they are long...
View ArticleStay Cool, Go Green
Today the IPCC published its long awaited report on climate change. This is the most comprehensive report on climate change ever, and leaves little doubt that greenhouse gases are causing the world...
View ArticleThe Chartist Spirit Lives
There will be a public display of mourning at 12.00 on 5thOctober as hundreds of Newport residents gather in John Frost Square to mark the demolition of one of the city’s historic landmarks....
View ArticlePress Release: M4 extension is Pricing the Priceless
The risk of putting a pound sign on priceless ecosystems is too high. Whatever the cost of building the M4 across the Gwent Levels – it’s too high. Building a wall of concrete and tarmac across this...
View ArticleCor Cochion sing for Chartist Mural
At 1.00pm on Saturday 2nd November Cor Cochion (The Red Choir) will be singing outside the Westgate Hotel in Newport to raise money for the New People’s Mural as a replacement for the Mosaic Mural...
View ArticlePress Release: Minister puts Money before Welfare
Greens have reacted strongly to a decision by Planning Minister Carl Sargeant, which deliberately puts money before animal welfare. The planning application for a 1000 herd dairy farm in Powys had...
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How to help the Philippines
The terrible events in the Philippines have prompted thousands to send money, and that is good. But really the best way to help these people, and so many millions like them facing the effects of...
View ArticleWales Leader is Green Euro Candidate
The Wales Green Party has announced today that their Leader, Pippa Bartolotti, is their candidate for the upcoming European Elections to be held next May. The Euro candidate said, “I want everyone in...
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