Rupert's Read

 Piece on Liberal Conspiracy about yesterday's launch of this new green thinktank, chaired by yours truly: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/07/21/caroline-lucas-launches-new-green-think-tank/ -- Rupert Read Green Party East of England Co-ordinator. http://rupertread.net [If you have an urgent email for me while I am away from a regular computer, you may wish to try contacting me instead on rupertread+mob AT gmail.com] WHY NOT FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER?: twitter.com/GreenRupertRead (my 'politician' account) AND on twitter.com/RupertRead (my 'personal' account).

 See my write-up on OPEN DEMOCRACY: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/rupert-read/new-think-tank-aims-to-bring-green-politics-into-mainstream   -- Rupert Read Green Party East of England Co-ordinator. http://rupertread.net [If you have an urgent email for me while I am away from a regular computer, you may wish to try contacting me instead on rupertread+mob AT gmail.com] WHY NOT FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER?: twitter.com/GreenRupertRead (my 'politician' account) AND on twitter.com/RupertRead (my 'personal' account).

 There will be a serious threat to the EU, if currencies start to come apart within it: because de facto or de jure devaluations will be perceived (not incorrectly) as attempts to force more favourable trading relations for the struggling nations such as Greece. Thus there is a huge need to make clear that it will be a GOOD thing for Europe if we start protecting local, regional and national economies again, not a bad thing, not a disaster. This will require a serious change in the EU's selfimage. But the alternative may be the complete breakup of the EU, if it continues to be perceived as an 'all or nothing' currency and free trade zone.   We need, as Colin Hines has said for years, to protect the local, Europe-wide and globally. -- Rupert Read Green Party East of England Co-ordinator. http://rupertread.net [If you have an urgent email for me while I am away from a regular computer, you may wish to try contacting me instead on r...

Here in the Eastern Region we are on the verge of another reactor at #Sizewell, as well as one Bradwell, the technology is far from safe, with the waste generated being left for generations to come. Sadly, the Green Party is now the only political Party opposing nuclear power in this country. While public opinion here and across the world is swinging strongly against nuclear.  East of England Green Party Co-ordinator Rupert Read said, "Nuclear power is a toxic timebomb. It is the very opposite of green. It is crazy to be contemplating building new nuclear, while the situation at Fukushima in Japan is still spiralling out of control."     Green Party national Deputy Leader Adrian Ramsay, speaking in Norwich, has responded to the  government's announcement that up to eight new reactor sites have been  designated for development on behalf of the national Green Party.  Mr Ramsay said:  "While the Conservatives and LibDems often tal...

You can listen again to me on BBC Radio Norfolk this morning, here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00hcksk   Go 1 hour 8 minutes in. Let me know what you think!

Sustainability and social democracy A seminar to debate how the centre-left and the environmental movement can share goals, policies and approaches. Progressives have been torn by how to respond in principle, in practice and politically to increased global temperatures and the rise of environmental politics. Compass has produced an e-book looking at whether and how the traditions of social democracy and sustainability might be squared. A range of authors examine exactly how social democracy should respond to the imperative of sustainability. Compass with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung is holding a morning seminar of key Labour, union and environmental politicians, thinkers and activists to discuss the e-book and begin a more fundamental debate about whether and how the social and democratic can be reconciled with the sustainable. This UK focused seminar is a precursor to a bigger European seminar being planned for the Autumn 2012 in London as part of the Compass/FES ongoing Building the ...

What lesbians don't understand about straight men: http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=2962   See what you think!