climate change

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Two Degrees: Festival Of Art And Climate Change

Explore today’s global concerns with a series of events at Toynbee Studios, courtesy of Artsadmin.

Here's an idea for Earth Hour: Play 1930s London Underground card game Lobo by Candlelight like James Mockett

Sign Up To Switch Off For Earth Hour 2011 Now

Join Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery, the Royal Albert Hall, The Gherkin, London Eye, the National Theatre and Wembley Stadium by turning off the lights this Saturday night.

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TONIGHT: Climate Change Talk @ ZSL Institute of Zoology

Why global warming means more than melting icebergs and drowning polar bears.

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Theatre Review: Change @ Arcola Theatre

A series of verbatim stories from those living in parts of the world already suffering the consequences of global warming: commendable in its intention, but lacking drama.

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Green Activists Attack 4x4s

Climate change activists targeted four-wheel drive vehicles in west London in a spate of sticker-posting over the Christmas period.

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Climate Change Protestors Use Boris Bikes As Billboards

A group of protestors, who are calling on the Japanese to reverse their decision to oppose an extension to the Koyto treaty, have turned the Cycle Hire bikes into mobile billboards.

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Atmosphere Gallery Opens At Science Museum

Like a missing set from Tron, the Science Museum’s shiny blue Atmosphere gallery teaches the science of climate with some rather special technology.

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Comedy Review: Ed Aczel @ Soho Theatre

Ed Aczel has a problem. Lots of problems, really. Including that he hasn’t done any preparation for this show. But none of these are insurmountable with the aid of a flip-chart and an emergency jigsaw puzzle, as he explains in his show cunningly entitled Edward …

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Preview: Ed Aczel @ Soho Theatre

There’s a lot of wrong in this world at the moment. Some of it involves our ongoing financial woes, some of it is to do with the all too tangible impact of climate change, most of it has something to do with rail services. But …

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Boris Looks to Make London Electric Car Capital of Europe

In an effort to remove London from the EU’s naughty list of climate change offenders, Boris has developed a new strategy to deliver 100,000 electric cars to London. 25,000 charging points would appear by 2015 and TfL will have a website dedicated to electric vehicle …

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Comedy Review: Mark Watson’s Earth Summit @ Soho Theatre

So you’ve been hearing about this “summit” on “climate change” in “Copenhagen”. You’ve also been hearing about “falsified data” coming out of “East Anglia” (yes, we know we’re going crazy with the quotation marks; if you listen to the denialists, everything’s contentious, including geography). If …