Carbon Detox
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
George Marshall in - Carbon Detox … a provocative and entertaining approach to climate change. It challenges conventional thinking and offers fresh ways to understand and respond to this global crisis.
Dukes Theatre Saturday October 11th 8.30pm
Tickets £5 / £4
George Marshall has created the world;s first stand-up climate change routine. It is hilarious, and really challenged me to change the way I thought.
Roman Krznaric, The Oxford Muse
This show proves that carbon is more addictive than smoking”
Jamie Hartzell- Ethical Property Company
George helped me to see how to be cool over global warming
Nigel Cooper - chaplain to Anglia Ruskin University
Fantastic show. If you are scared this will turn it all around.
Lizzie Gillett, Film producer, McLibel:
Two Worlds Collide.
PUPILS returning to school today across Lancashire will find only free range eggs on the dinner time menu. From the start of the school year, Lancashire’s catering staff will be cooking up their usual treats using only free range eggs. The decision will affect more than half a million eggs each year.
A leaflet entitled – The Heroin Trade; A crime against humanity has been pushed through doors around Halton. The leaflet purports to be from a group called the Preston Pals, but it is believed that members of the far-right British National Party (the BNP) have taken over the veteran’s organisation. In it Muslims are blamed for the heroin trade, and it talks of an ‘Islamic invasion’ and claims that heroin was ‘almost impossible to find’ in Britain before Muslims arrived here. 
Lancaster & District Conservation Volunteers
The challenge by a Torrisholme resident to the Secretary of State’s decision to uphold the planning application for the Heysham M6 link road will be heard in the High Court on the 28th/29th August.The case against the road is being brought by Mrs Davies, a former teacher at Lancaster & Morecambe college, who has lived in Torrisholme for 40 years. 
If the government was to be serious about renewables and energy efficiency, Britain doesn’t need to build major new power stations to keep the lights on, according to 
Negotiations which would have seen eight of the UK’s nuclear power stations sold to French state-owned energy firm EDF have broken down. EDF had been expected to announce a £12bn deal to buy British Energy, however, it is understood that shareholders were holding out for a higher offer. The rejection is a major setback to the UK’s plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations. The British Energy’s sites are considered prime locations for any new power stations.
With the promenade developed all the way to from Morecambe to Heysham, the promotion of the district as a cycling town and more and more visitors arriving a new cycle hire business has launched itself opposite the recently reopened Midland Hotel.