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Cardiff Transition Project are holding a TRANSITION CONVERSATION talk On MONDAY 12TH JANUARY 2009, between 7 - 9pm, @ DEMPSEYS PUB, on CASTLE STREET (CORNER WOMANBY STREET) CARDIFF. Entry: £2 on the door (to cover cost of hiring room) All welcome. Speaker is… Molly Scott-Cato – Reader in Green Economics and Economics Speaker for the Green Party who will share her thinking about what transition means for the way we organise our economic life, and specifically in relation to trade and money. Followed by an opportunity for questions and a facilitated exercise/discussion For further information, please contact......

Sustainable Communities Act for Wales The Sustainable Communities Act process has started! We can now drive the actions of government to protect Post Offices, increase bus services, restrict supermarkets, promote local renewable energy and much more. Why is this Act different? What makes it not just another consultation exercise? This Act is not just consultation. It is governance by dialogue and reaching agreement. Government has a legal duty to co-operate and reach agreement on the proposals made by communities and their councils. Councils also have a duty to reach agreement with communities regarding the ideas they have for help and action from central government. This is radical - we have never before had a law like this that creates a bottom-up way of doing government. We need...

‘If this saves just one child’s life then it will be worth it...’ http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2007/11/30/if-this-saves-just-one-child-s-life-then-it-will-be-worth-it-91466-20183897/ Nov 30 2007 by Phillip Nifield, South Wales Echo GREEN campaigners have launched a drive for 20mph speed limits to be introduced across Cardiff. Cardiff Green Party’s “20’s Plenty” campaign is aimed at persuading the city’s council to follow the lead of authorities such as Portsmouth, where 85 per cent of its residential roads will have the reduced speed limit by the end of this year. Parents living in the Canton area have given their support to efforts to slow down traffic on residential streets. Jake Griffiths, secretary of Cardiff Green Party, said: “Most of us...

The Green Party today called on Hazel Blears to take her new proposals on local democracy further by enabling local communities to have a truly meaningful input into the planning and decision-making process.Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today announced that direct ballots would be held in local areas over "big choices" on local council spending, including choosing priorities between "play areas, youth facilities, traffic calming or more community wardens". Pilot schemes could be extended to allow the petitioning of councils to consider policy proposals from the...

Dwindling oil stocks and EU trade and energy policies threaten food price hikes – and could cause the UK to be vulnerable to food shortages for the first time since the Second World War, according to a new report by Green Party Euro-MP Caroline Lucas. The report calls on the Government to establish a Royal Commission on Food Security to examine the issue – and for the UK ’s Competition Commission to consider its findings in its ongoing investigation of the supermarkets’ dominance of the food retailing sector. Read the report - Fuelling a Food Crisis caroline lucas, energy policies, EU, euro mp, Food Security, Green Party, oil stocks, Peak Oil,...