Green Options » St Kilda http://greenoptions.com/tag/st-kilda Posts tagged 'St Kilda' Fri, 22 May 2009 15:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Environmental Protest Round-up: 22 May 2009 http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/22/environmental-protest-round-up-22-may-2009/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/22/environmental-protest-round-up-22-may-2009/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 15:01:08 +0000 Kay Sexton http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/22/environmental-protest-round-up-22-may-2009/ tucson desert

Sometimes it’s impossible to extract the thread of environmental protest from the complex strands of civil disaffection, or to analyse the motives or protestors and give them a single label. The G20 protests in London were a case in point, combining liberals, anarchists, nationalists, environmentalists and many others in a seething blend of international concern. 

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/05/22/environmental-protest-round-up-22-may-2009/feed/ Sewing to Save Baby Puffins http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/12/25/sewing-to-save-baby-puffins-2/ http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/12/25/sewing-to-save-baby-puffins-2/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:34:08 +0000 Becky Striepe http://craftingagreenworld.com/2008/12/25/sewing-to-save-baby-puffins-2/ What better use for your sewing skills than helping rescue baby puffins?


[Creative Commons photo by Seth M]

Each year on the Scottish isle of St Kilda, dozens of pufflings are stranded inland after the lights from the island disorient them. Rangers with the National Trust of Scotland rescue the babies by putting them into cotton drawstring bags to keep them safe before releasing them back into the sea.

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