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We receive dozens of news tips and press releases each week from ftm contributors. We want MORE. And we want to share the raw information as quickly as possible. NEWS FROM YOU is the forum for adding what you know to what we know. Share what you know...or what your hear. We will apply the light-touch of the editors axe for clarity. We will also accept NEWS FROM YOU in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese...without translation. (We do insist on being able to understand what you contribute.) You also must clearly indicate that your contribution is for publication in NEWS FROM YOU. Please note: we cannot use PDF files, only text and .doc files. Send us NEWS FROM YOU Week ending October 14, 2006Passion for a Green Christmas - October 10, 2006from Chantel Cooke/Passion for the Planet ‘Passion for the Planet’ Picks the Top Ten Eco-Friendly Christmas Presents Looking for a Christmas present that won’t 'cost the earth’? Award-winning health and environmental DAB digital radio station, ‘Passion for the Planet’, has come up with a handy checklist of the top ten gifts to suit even the most eco-conscious members of the family. With a range of ideas to match all budgets, from easily affordable and accessible things to do, to more expensive treats and experiences. This could be the ‘greenest’ Christmas on record. Inexpensive 1 For the ultimate Christmas tree, instead of cutting one down, why not plant a tree? For £15-£35 www.treesforlife.org will plant a native tree in the Highlands of Scotland, as part of the restored Caledonian Forest. 2 Or go one better and save an acre of rainforest or protect a wildlife corridor for Indian elephants. For £25 www.worldlandtrust.org will help save endangered species in areas such as the Amazon and Atlantic rainforest, the coral reefs and mangrove swamps in Asia and hills of India. 3 Turn free sunlight to good use with a solar powered mobile phone charger. For £39.99 www.britisheco.com has a charger to suit a whole range of phones. Ideal for use on business and pleasure trips, hiking and camping holidays. Mid-range 4. When on holiday take only pictures and leave only footprints with an eco-friendly digital camera from £50. And by storing the pictures digitally it is also possible to save paper and ink. 5. Don’t feel guilty about the rubbish we produce with a Green Cone from £65 www.greencone.com. Taking all household food waste including cooked food, which cannot be composted, the Green Cone can be placed in the garden and uses solar power as the energy source to breakdown food into its natural components of water and carbon dioxide, leaving only a small residue. Easy to maintain, it saves 20% of household waste from being collected and also reduces landfill and large scale treatment plants. 6. No need for batteries and mains electricity with a wind up and rechargeable Devo DAB Radio from www.tangogroup.co.uk. For £79.99 the Devo radio is the first of its kind on the Freeplay power platform. Just wind up and listen to DAB and FM anywhere, and in the London area or the south it is the perfect way to tune into ‘green’ radio station ‘Passion for the Planet’. Luxury 7. For an eco-friendly experience, take a day trip or weekend break on the Orient-Express British Pullman or Northern Belle from £160 per person www.orient-express.com. Far more environmentally friendly than flying or even driving around the UK. Experience Britain from the luxury of the world’s most famous train and enjoy a glass of champagne, smug in the knowledge that this is a low carbon holiday. 8. Take a carbon coaching session with carbon coach, Dave Hampton, from £75 -£700 www.carboncoach.com. Dave provides a friendly source of enlightening and encouraging solutions to reduce our carbon footprint, saving money and the environmental along the way. 9. Beat the hosepipe ban and save money on metered water bills with an eco-friendly ‘Grey Water Irrigation System’ for £700 www.greywaterirregation.co.uk. Fitted to existing water pipes it collects household grey water and rainwater, storing it in a discreet tank. Feed into a drip irrigation system or garden hose. It saves hours of watering and protects valuable plants. 10. Or for the ultimate environmentally friendly transport, the www.nicecarcompany.co.uk. enables Londoners to get around town with zero emissions in a funky electric car. It’s clean, quiet and exempt from the Congestion Charge and road tax, with free parking in many London locations. Costing £9,995 to buy and less than two pence per mile to run, and if the electricity comes from a green supplier, using renewable energy, there will be nothing to feel guilty about this Christmas. Launched four years ago by two dynamic, young radio professionals, Chantal Cooke and Kenny Stevens, who felt that radio was a powerful medium but was seldom being used for more than tabloid news and celebrity gossip, ‘Passion for the Planet’ is the UK’s only radio station to focus on health, the environment, the new age and personal development, all combined with an eclectic mix of classic hits, new music and great songs from World Music artists. Covering a range of issues from making our homes environmentally sound or the implications of the Zero Point Field in personal development, to ways that language can improve our health and change our lives, Passion for the Planet offers a unique blend of music and information that can’t be heard on any other radio station.
‘Passion for the Planet’ is available on DAB digital radio across London and the south of England and nationwide on the Internet at www.passionfortheplanet.com BBC World Service to launch Farsi TV for Iran - October 10, 2006from Jane Futrell/BBC WS BBC World Service is to launch a television news and information service in the Farsi (Persian) language for Iran, it was announced today (Tuesday, October 10). The service will complement the BBC’s existing Persian radio and online services for Iran. The service is expected to launch early in 2008 and will be based in London. It will initially broadcast for eight hours a day, seven days a week, from 17.00 hrs to 01.00 hrs – peak viewing time in Iran. It will be freely available to anyone with a satellite dish or cable connection in the region. Funding for the new service was announced by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in a speech this morning in London. This follows BBC proposals for the service drawn up by senior BBC management. These were approved by the BBC Governors and submitted to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for their consent as the BBC is obliged to do under the agreement with the FCO. The operating cost of £15 million a year will be funded by the UK Government. This funding will be in addition to BBC World Service’s existing grant-in-aid funding from the UK Government and will have no impact on the current BBC World Service portfolio of services. BBC World Service Director Nigel Chapman said: “The BBC’s Persian radio and online services are well-respected by Iranians, especially by opinion formers. In Iran we are regarded as the most trusted and objective of all international broadcasters for the way we provide impartial news and information about the wider world and the crucial part Iran is playing on the regional and global stage. “But television is increasingly dominating the way that millions of Iranian people receive their news. Therefore the BBC proposed to the Foreign Office that we launch a television service in Farsi to complement our existing independent news and information services for Iran on radio and online. Like all BBC services, the new television service will be editorially independent of the UK Government. I am delighted the BBC Farsi television service proposal has been given the go-ahead,” he adds. The channel will cover international and major regional issues. It will also carry multi-media discussion programmes and debates in conjunction with the BBC's well-established and trusted Farsi radio and online services. The new BBC Farsi television service will: ? Be completely editorially independent in line with BBC's long-held reputation for impartial, trust-worthy news reporting and analysis ? Meet the strong demand for a BBC Farsi television service expressed in recent surveys where 73 per cent of Iranians with satellite access say they will definitely or are fairly likely to watch a BBC Farsi television service ? Make the BBC the only tri-media international news provider offering Farsi language news and current affairs on television, radio and online ? Draw on 66 years of BBC experience covering the region in Farsi - supported by the world's most extensive newsgathering operation: 250 news correspondents reporting from 50 bureaux allowing a global rather than purely regional perspective. RFE/RL Mourns Death of Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya – October 9, 2006RFE/RL Acting President Jeffrey Trimble released the following statement in reaction to the death of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow October 7, 2006. "I and my colleagues at RFE/RL are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Anna Politkovskaya. I also express our deepest sympathies to her family, who have lost her loving care and spirit. " We condemn the persons who are responsible for this violent and senseless act against a journalist who worked in the best interests of the people of the Russian Federation. We call upon the Russian authorities to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation of this crime, and to do more to ensure the safety of independent journalists in their country. " Anna was a frequent contributor to RFE/RL's Russian-language programs; in fact, her final interview was with RFE/RL, and took place just two days before her murder. She was an honest and talented journalist, fearless and committed to uncovering the truth of a story. "Her resoluteness earned her more than one death threat. But throughout, she retained her sense of humanity. Speaking before an audience at RFE/RL in Washington, DC, a few years ago, she said she felt a responsibility not only as a journalist, but as a citizen of Russia to help 'those who could not speak for themselves.' "The loss of Anna Politkovskaya is a tragedy for the people of Russia; a blow to free speech, and a setback for the cause of open and honest journalism. "We will miss her." Audio and a Russian-language transcript of Politkovskaya's final interview with RFE/RL, on October 5, 2006 on the Russian Service's "Press Hour" program, can be found at http://www.svobodanews.ru/Transcript/2006/10/05/20061005120031740.html Previous News From YouWeek ending September 30, 2006 |
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