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 04/03/2009, 6:07 PM
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GreenBlue
 
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04/03/2009, 6:54 PM
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04/03/2009, 6:57 PM
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05/03/2009, 12:39 AM
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05/03/2009, 5:40 AM
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05/03/2009, 11:06 PM
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http://www.southwark.gov.uk/Uploads/FILE_22212.pdf
Suffolk is a diverse, predominantly rural county made up of big towns, such as Ipswich,
Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, thriving smaller market towns, small villages and rural
communities. The population is equally diverse with different communities having their
own individual needs. In 2006 there were 702,000 people living in Suffolk, with slightly
less men (345,300) than women (356,700).
Some 18.6% of the population is over 65 years old and 23.8% is under 19. This leaves a
population of 57.6% who are between the ages of 20 and 64 compared to the national
figure of 59.7%.
Almost 114,000 people living in Suffolk have a disability that falls within the definition of
the Disability Discrimination Acts 1996 and 2005.
The population is set to grow, with regional planners expecting an extra 62,000 homes
and 53,000 jobs in Suffolk by 2021. The economy is also growing, with exciting new
developments such as the University Campus in Ipswich and the proposed Snoasis
development at Great Blakenham which could bring 6,000 new jobs in the area.
This growth is affecting the make up of different communities in Suffolk. For example,
there is a growing number of migrant workers living and working in the county,
particularly from Eastern Europe. Based on the 2001 census, black and minority ethnic
people currently make up about 2.8% of Suffolk's total population, the majority living in
the big towns. Approximately 5,500 migrant workers registered to work in the county in
2006/7, this figure does not include students or illegal workers.
Bad parenting skills kill more babies than any burner, take baby p as a starting point,lets have a burner in suffolk and test it, Eye power station burns every thing have look at any figs upwind from there!!!!!!!!!!!!might find a few inbred family first!!!!!!!!
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06/03/2009, 1:08 AM
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06/03/2009, 4:02 AM
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GreenBlue
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| GreenBlue wrote: | | GreenBlue wrote: |
| ironsmad wrote: | |
Infant mortality ward cluster maps around 20 UK incinerators; the clusters are always 1-5km downwind to the NNE of incinerator stacks, irrespective of depreciation, parenting, ethnicity or prenatal facilities. In many wards its completely the opposite rich, leafy, white, good natal facilities.
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Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire Highland Scotland have huge numbers of migrants but reletively low infant mortality rates; so nowt to do with immigration
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Won't need burners anyways; as plasma converters will make them redundent and irrelevant very shortly. Bye Bye Burners.
http://waste2tricity.com/
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06/03/2009, 8:03 PM
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06/03/2009, 9:44 PM
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| GreenBlue wrote: | |
The Norwich Green Green Party
The newsletter of the Norwich Green Party Wensum Edition
Working for the local community February 2009
www.norwichgreenparty.org www.greenparty.org.uk
Your Green
Party City
Councillors
for Wensum
Ward are:
Councillor
Ruth Makoff
(01603)446650
Councillor^
Tom Llewellyn
(01603)614642
Councillor
Rupert Read
(01603)219294
STRANGE SMELLS IN SWEET BRIAR ROAD AREA
Several residents living in the Marlpit, Hellesdon Mill and Waterworks Road
areas of Wensum Ward have reported to the Green Councillors some
unpleasant smells they have been experiencing. The residents believe that the
smells originate from the Bayer factory on Sweet Briar Road. Green
Councillors are conducting a survey on residents' experiences and will be
presenting the findings to Bayer and to the Environment Agency for comment.
Wensum Ward Green Councillor Tom Llewellyn said: "If you experience any
unpleasant smells that you think are coming from Bayer please report the
following to us: when and how often you noticed the smell, the type of smell it
was and the direction it was coming from. You can e-mail this information to
wensum@norwichqreenparty.org or phone me on (01603) 614642. We will
keep residents informed of developments in future newsletters."
Bayer factory hums mainly at night, plumes of smoke/steam are released when most folk are tucked up in bed,there old Dagenham plant has shut and millions spent on clearing the ground,houses to be built on it. The smell is rotten egg's with a touch of sewage and its causes throat and eye problems, I've had this effect when night fishing on the river last year.
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07/03/2009, 4:46 AM
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GreenBlue
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| ironsmad wrote: | | GreenBlue wrote: | |
The Norwich Green Green Party
The newsletter of the Norwich Green Party Wensum Edition
Working for the local community February 2009
www.norwichgreenparty.org www.greenparty.org.uk
Your Green
Party City
Councillors
for Wensum
Ward are:
Councillor
Ruth Makoff
(01603)446650
Councillor^
Tom Llewellyn
(01603)614642
Councillor
Rupert Read
(01603)219294
STRANGE SMELLS IN SWEET BRIAR ROAD AREA
Several residents living in the Marlpit, Hellesdon Mill and Waterworks Road
areas of Wensum Ward have reported to the Green Councillors some
unpleasant smells they have been experiencing. The residents believe that the
smells originate from the Bayer factory on Sweet Briar Road. Green
Councillors are conducting a survey on residents' experiences and will be
presenting the findings to Bayer and to the Environment Agency for comment.
Wensum Ward Green Councillor Tom Llewellyn said: "If you experience any
unpleasant smells that you think are coming from Bayer please report the
following to us: when and how often you noticed the smell, the type of smell it
was and the direction it was coming from. You can e-mail this information to
wensum@norwichqreenparty.org or phone me on (01603) 614642. We will
keep residents informed of developments in future newsletters."
Bayer factory hums mainly at night, plumes of smoke/steam are released when most folk are tucked up in bed,there old Dagenham plant has shut and millions spent on clearing the ground,houses to be built on it. The smell is rotten egg's with a touch of sewage and its causes throat and eye problems, I've had this effect when night fishing on the river last year.
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These are burn off gases that come together to coat particles.
2,4 D and Mecoprop ( if you know you weedkillers) are also typical fumes poisoning fishermen and allotment holders diggin over their patch by the river.
One thing for sure, what they are growing (veg) ain't organic whilst Bayer fumes get into the soil and onto the veg.
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09/03/2009, 11:09 PM
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More doom and gloom from the nutty uea professors, rehashing the Broads swept away story
'Norfolk Broads likely to be gone by 2100'
 As the Broads are not a natural feature of the British Isles and were dug out by hand many moons ago, so what. This is how the Broads were formed by rising sea levels and flooding, all that burning of peat by our friends the Romans caused it ? Me thinks the nutty profs want more cash for their pockets, are their contracts coming to end soon!!!!!
CRU grants
Mean while not every one believes the Emperor new cloths story
Science minister 'shocked' by denial of global warming among senior figures in the manufacturing industry | Environment | guardian.co.uk
“I'm sure it's true it will have a huge impact on the Norfolk
Broads. It won't make Norfolk uninhabitable but it will have a big
impact.The is nutty prof is sure its true=but not 100%
All these are 100%
Words of M.Crichton
Last, I want you to think about what it
means to say that we are going to act now to address something 100 years from
now. People say this with confidence; we
hear that the people of the future will condemn us if we don’t act. But is that true?
We’re at the start of the 21st century,
looking ahead. We’re just like someone
in 1900, thinking about the year 2000.
Could someone in 1900 have helped us?
Here is Teddy Roosevelt, a major
environmental figure from 1900. These
are some of the words that he does not know the meaning of:
airport
antibiotic
antibody
antenna
computer
continental drift
tectonic plates
zipper
nylon
radio
television
robot
video
virus
gene
proton
neutron
atomic structure
quark
atomic bomb
nuclear energy
ecosystem
jumpsuits
fingerprints
step aerobics
12-step
jet stream
shell shock
shock wave
radio wave
microwave
tidal wave
tsunami
IUD
DVD
MP3
MRI
HIV
SUV
VHS
VAT
whiplash
wind tunnel
carpal tunnel
fiber optics
direct dialing
dish antennas
gorilla
corneal transplant
liver transplant
heart transplant
liposuction
transduction
maser
taser
laser
acrylic
penicillin
Internet
interferon
nylon
rayon
leisure suit
leotard
lap dancing
laparoscopy
arthroscopy
gene therapy
bipolar
moonwalk
spot welding
heat-seeking
Prozac
sunscreen
urban legends
rollover minutes
Given all those changes, is there
anything Teddy could have done in 1900 to help us? And aren’t we in his
position right now, with regard to 2100?
Think how incredibly the world has
changed in 100 years. It will change vastly more in the next century. A hundred
years ago there were no airplanes and almost no cars. Do you really believe
that 100 years from now we will still be burning fossil fuels and driving
around in cars and airplanes?
The idea of spending trillions on the future
is only sensible if you totally lack any historical sense, and any imagination
about the future.
If we should not spend our money on Kyoto, what should we
do instead? I will argue three points.
First, we need to establish 21st century
policy mechanisms. I want to return to
those pages from the IPCC. The fact is
if we required the same standard of information from climate scientists that we
do from drug companies, the whole debate on global warming would be long
over. We wouldn’t be talking about it.
We need mechanisms to insure a much, much higher standard of reliability in
information in the future.
Second, we need to deal correctly with
complexity of non-linear systems. The environment is a complex system, a term
that has a specific meaning in science.
Beyond being complicated, it means that interacting parts that modify
each other have the capacity to change the output of the system in unexpected
ways. This fact has several
ramifications. The first is that the old
notion of the balance of nature is thoroughly discredited. There is no balance of nature. To think so is to share an agreeable fantasy
with the ancient Greeks. But it is also
a shocking change for us, and we resist it. Some now talk of “balance in
nature,” as a way to keep the old idea alive. Some claim there are multiple
equilibrium states, but this is just a way of pretending that the balance can
attained in different ways. It is a
misstatement of the truth. The natural
system of inherently chaotic, major disruption is the rule not the exception,
and if we are to manage the system we are going to have to be actively
involved.
This represents a revision of the role of
mankind in nature, and a revision of the perception of nature as something
untouched. We now know that nature has
never been untouched. The first white visitors to the New World didn’t
understand what they were looking at. In
California, Indians burned
old growth forest with such regularity that there is more old growth today than
there was in 1850. Yellowstone was a beauty
spot precisely because the Indians hunted the elk and moose to the edge of
extinction. When they were prevented
from hunting in their traditional grounds, Yellowstone began its
complex decline.
We now have research to help us formulate
strategies for management of complex systems.
But I am not sure we have organizations capable of making these
changes. I would also remind you that to
properly manage what we call wilderness is going to be stupefyingly
expensive. Good wilderness is expensive!
Finally, and most important—we can’t
predict the future, but we can know the present. In the time we have been
talking, 2,000 people have died in the third world. A child is orphaned by AIDS every 7 seconds. Fifty people die of waterborne disease every
minute. This does not have to happen. We
allow it.
What is wrong with us that we ignore this
human misery and focus on events a hundred years from now? What must we do to awaken this phenomenally
rich, spoiled and self-centered society to the issues of the wider world? The global crisis is not 100 years from
now—it is right now. We should be
addressing it. But we are not. Instead, we cling to the reactionary and
antihuman doctrines of outdated environmentalism and turn our backs to the
cries of the dying and the starving and the diseased of our shared world.
And if we are going to remain too
self-involved to care about the third world, can we at least care about our
own? We live in a country where 40% of
high school graduates are functionally illiterate. Where schoolchildren pass
through metal detectors on the way to class. Where one
child in four says they have seen a murdered person. Where millions of
our fellow citizens have no health care, no decent education, no prospects for the future.
If we really have trillions of dollars to spend, let us spend it on our
fellow human beings. And let us spend it now. And not on our impossible
fantasies of what may happen one hundred years from now.
Thank you very much.........The much missed Michael Crichton
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10/03/2009, 8:58 PM
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