Climate Camp is restricting free speech | Marc Vallée | Environment | guardian.co.uk

This was land that RBS had given the Climate Camp permission to use. I'm sure RBS had its own PR strategy for doing this.
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On Sunday, after around 200 Climate Campers breached police lines and smashed five large windows, a senior police officer on the ground wanted accredited journalists removed from the RBS site as it had become a "crime scene". Interestingly, an RBS press officer tried very hard to keep the media on site.

Op-Ed Contributor - Near the North Pole, Looking at a Disaster - NYTimes.com

A climate shock in North America is easy to imagine. Say a prolonged drought causes major cities in the American Southeast or Southwest to run out of water; both regions have large urban populations pushing against upper limits of water supply. The news clips of cars streaming out of Atlanta or Phoenix might finally push our leaders to do something serious about climate change.

[If people in New York pay $5.5 millon for a "green" bathroom complex now, will children in Timbuktu in 2050 see less bad weather?] - NYTimes.com

The bathroom, which would compost sewage to fertilize park greenery and use solar panels to power the complex, is being designed to operate without causing carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming.
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The planned bathroom complex would replace the two portable toilets, a small brick shack and repurposed shipping containers currently being used for equipment storage. It would be built on a defunct parking lot at the southeast corner of the courts.
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The association, which raised $40,000 last fall to pay for a feasibility study, is now working to raise $600,000 more to design the building. Community Board 7 responded favorably to the proposal, and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department has approved the concept and is endorsing it for a planning grant from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Raising the estimated $5.5 million needed for construction will be a challenge given tight state and city budgets and the effects of a slow economy on private donations.