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Localise West Midlands
The Warehouse
54-57 Allison Street
Digbeth
Birmingham
B5 5TH
Tel: 0121 685 1155
Fax: 0121 643 3122
Email: info@localisewestmidlands.org.uk

Registered in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee (not for profit) no: 6239211

Recent News

Recent news and links relating to localisation, Green New Deal, and sustainable or otherwise responses to the credit, resource and oil crunches we are facing

Bear with us - we are too small an organisation to update this as regularly or comprehensively as we would like! If there is something recent you think we should list, please email us (see left)

Business leaders warn that UK is not at all ready for peak oil 'crunch' that will destabilise economy and society - Feb 10th 2010

Excellent new Political Cleanup campaign website launched following UK government failure to act on the recommendations of the Public Affairs Select Committee and pass legislation to curb corporate lobbying. Organisers say "Unless this underhand activity is more widely recognised and condemned, beneficial work will struggle for recognition in the political world and this bodes ill for the future". (Jan 2010)

New Green New Deal report - 7th Dec 09 - The Green New Deal Group explain how, contrary to the policy of all the major political parties, cutting public spending now will tip the nation into a deeper recession by increasing unemployment, reducing the tax received and limiting government funding available to kick-start the Green New Deal.

Interesting Guardian editorial on the antiglobalisation movement and its relationship to Copenhagen and current crises (Dec 09)

Budget responses - not as green a new deal as we need...

Richard Murphy's blog (Tax research) on the level of low carbon investment in the budget
New Economic Foundation responses including Andrew Simms'
Colin Hines in the Guardian on Green Quantititive Easing

Other GND news

Brown Calls for Green New Deal (but..) - BBC (Mar 09)

New Trades Unions Council booklet: Unlocking Green Enterprise: A Low Carbon Strategy for the UK Economy (Feb 09)

The Government’s consultation on Heat and Energy Saving Strategy (HES) and on Community Energy Saving Programme - to be focused on the 100 most deprived areas. Please respond to these with suggestions for re-shaping the economy to maximise local benefit and stability.

2009 Intelligent Energy Europe Funding (due March 09) - potential funding for GND approaches

At the UNEP Governing Council in Nairobi Professor Edward B Barbier persented his report A Global Green New Deal, commissioned on behalf of UNEP's Green Economy Initiative. - Feb 09

Localise WM's letter in the Post, 12th Jan 09

'Brummie Bonds' and a Bank of Birmingham -
Following an announcement that the Conservatives were looking into local bonds as a policy option nationally, this article appeared in the Birmingham Post 31st Dec 08, in which Mike Whitby is said to back the idea of Birmingham Bonds and a municipal bank, which LWM have been promoting for some time.