WHERE TO HIDE RADIOACTIVE WASTE?

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged Breckland Council, danger, department of energy and climate change, east anglia, energy, environment, Gordon Brown, High Level Waste, hinkley point, local, Ministry of Defence, Mod, NCC, norfolk, nuclear power, radioactive waste, Sizewell, Somerset, Suffolk, Thetford, waste.

by Joe Burns

Radioactive waste is the solid, liquid, or gaseous waste produced by nuclear power stations, fuel production, weapons manufacturing and nuclear plant decommissioning. Small volumes of radioactive waste products are also created by industrial, research and medical institutions.

This waste has been constantly produced in this country since the 1950s, and the debate about what to do with the radioactive waste products from military, civil, medical, and scientific uses has caused frustration and fear for an equally long time.Continue Reading

EASTER EGGS AND THE CAMPUS CONVENIENCE CONSUMERISM CONUNDRUM

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged beauty, berlin, bins, chocolate, climate change, coffee, coffee cups, consumerism, convenience, Easter, Easter eggs, environment, environmentalism, excess, food industry, food waste, future generations, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, individualism, life, luxury, Milena Glimbovski, nature, NUA, on-the-go, Original Unverpackt, packaging, plastics, recycling, Sara Wolf, spring, student life, students, UEA, universities, Wake Up and Smell the Waste, waste, young people.

By Laura Potts

As spring approaches, so do the grasping hands of Easter and the shelves full of egg-shaped chocolate treats, in a hundred sizes and colours. But the main thing I notice as I walk through the supermarket is the quantity of packaging that comes with them. Each egg is sealed in plastic and stored in a cardboard box, and most come with other individually wrapped chocolates. The brightly coloured decorations upon the eggs and boxes are reminiscent of nature and the beautiful colours of spring.

The great irony, of course, is that the packaging boasting this decoration directly contributes to the destruction of that natural beauty. Through this attitude to resources, companies are investing in a ‘throw away society’, and future generations will have to carry the burden.

TAINTED FOOD: HOW THE FOOD WE EAT IS CONTAMINATED BY OUR WASTE

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged amazon, California, Chevron-Texaco, crops, drought, food, genetic modification, globalisation, GMO, governments, health, Kevin McCarthy, nestle, pressure, SEGH, sewage, trade deals, waste, watchdog, water.

by Gunnar Eigener

“But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibals, sooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten….”
Nick Cave

GMO agriculture regularly grab the headlines, whether it’s talk of ‘frankenfoods’ or the ability to generate larger crop yields. This has taken the focus away from an issue that is becoming increasingly detrimental to global health: the entry of industrial waste into the food cycle and human consumption.

GMOs, while unpopular, have been genetically altered so as to maximise the success rate of production of crops. This will save lives, enabling crops to grow in conditions that would normally tend to push harvests towards failure. The changing of weather patterns have created new wet and dry points, affecting crop cycles and affecting the amount of food available for communities already living close to the edge. But water is becoming an issue. Only about 3% of the world’s water is freshwater and with companies like Nestle being allowed to extract vast quantities from aquifiers for minimal cost, alternatives are being sought be provide enough water for crop irrigation.Continue Reading

UNIVERSITY OF KERALA AND FEMINIST THOUGHT

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged agency, British Council, climate change, environment, equal pay, equality, feminism, feminist thought, gendering, Generation UK India, global warming, graduates, impact, India, intersectionality, Kerala, lecture, literacy, popular cinema, power dynamics, racism, rubbish, students, Thiruvananthapuram, university of kerala, waste, western feminism, white saviour, women.

by Sam Naylor

From the 8 – 24^th of August I attended a Generation UK – India programme. The fortnight programme was organised between the British Council and the University of Kerala, which was founded in 1937, to engage 46 British students and graduates with a taste of Contemporary India: Culture and Society. The study placement covered a lot of ground, ranging from a lecture on Indian foreign policy to visiting their ancient manuscript library, to learning the state language of Malayalam and gendering Indian popular cinema. The course’s content was as diverse as the state we were studying in and the people who attended the study trip.Continue Reading

‘ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER TOURISM’: THE DARK SIDES OF THE CRUISE INDUSTRY

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Beachapedia, Caribbean, cruise, death, Dianne Brimble, diesel, dissapearances, emissions, environment, GHB, harassment, Harmony of the Seas, holiday, internationa, kidnapping, loss, ocean, P&O, Pacific Sky, pollution, power, regulations, Royal Caribbean, security, sexual assault, ship, supersize, tourism, toxic, Transport and Environment, travel, waste.

by Zoe Harding

TW: Sexual assault

On the 22nd of May, the Oasis-class cruise ship Harmony of the Seas set sail from Southampton docks on its first commercial voyage. The world’s largest cruise ship, the Harmony is owned by Royal Caribbean and can carry up to 5,400 passengers as well as 2,100 crew. The ship will be sailing on various European cruise routes until October, when it moves to the Caribbean for the winter. The vessel resembles a block of brutalist flats with a pointy bit at the front, and rooms can cost up to £3,000 for a seven-day cruise. The industry boomed in the early 2010s and is still going, with over around 22.5 million passengers carried worldwide in 2015 at a profit of somewhere around $39.6 billion.Continue Reading

NORWICH’S WAR ON FOOD WASTE

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged activism, bbc, EAT, Fareshare, farmshare, food, food chain, foodcycle, FoodHub, grassroots, Green, Green Party, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, local, M&S, Morrisons, norwich, poverty, retail, salvation army, Tesco, voluntary work, volunteers, Waitrose, War on waste, waste.

by Rowan Van Tromp

Those of you who know me, have read my articles or listened to me speak, will know that I am passionate about environmental sustainability within the food supply chain. I have highlighted issues of soil degradation associated with inorganic farming, as well as the vast resource usage and carbon emissions related to meat and dairy consumption, but there is one environmental issue that I have campaigned on more than any other, and that is food waste.
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WHERE TO HIDE RADIOACTIVE WASTE?

EASTER EGGS AND THE CAMPUS CONVENIENCE CONSUMERISM CONUNDRUM

TAINTED FOOD: HOW THE FOOD WE EAT IS CONTAMINATED BY OUR WASTE

UNIVERSITY OF KERALA AND FEMINIST THOUGHT

‘ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER TOURISM’: THE DARK SIDES OF THE CRUISE INDUSTRY

NORWICH’S WAR ON FOOD WASTE

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