A collection of Green related links that I’ve been storing up

• Now I’m sure the Forth Energy green arguments don’t stack up A report about the proposed Leith Biomass plant.  The numbers simply don’t add up.
• Hello madam, would you like your children to be unemployed?” A case study into how to write surveys to get the answer that you want.  In the case, Ben Goldacre shows how to tweak your questions so that the results are pro-nuclear.
• Standing up for local media – and jobs – in face of US onslaught Local media should be, well, local.  Another Ben, Green councillor Duncan, reports how local paper, The Argus, is owned by a US company and will be cutting jobs for an increased profit.  When is a local newspaper not a local newspaper ?
• Scottish town in grip of cycling revolution “Children in the town of Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, have brought about something akin to a cycling revolution, with the numbers of pupils riding to and from school approaching levels normally seen in mainland Europe” Really interesting article on how the number of children cycling increased with quite a limited fund of money.

I’m angry.  Angry after watching the BBC 2 Scotland’s “Donald Trump’s Golf War”.  Angrier than I thought I would be.  Because I knew about the story, I’d read about how Donald Trump had gone about his business to bully his way past council objections and blocks; because I knew about the Compulsory Purchase Order threats, I thought I knew what I was going to watch.

But I was wrong.  Until I watched the program I had no real idea of the trouble and strife hanging over Michael Forbe and the Milnes.  The program’s ending with David and Moira on the beach in tears had me choking up too.  Forcibly evicting someone from their home in the name of a private golf club is just despicable.  No wonder the Tripping Up Trump campaign have called it the Trumpland Clearances.

This is aside from the fact that an area of outstanding natural beauty and a Site of Special Scientific Interest that is being destroyed.  Not for a golf club really.  For a hotel and a housing estate.

Trump has nothing in his life except money.  The documentary showed him displaying objects he had bought.  They were all trophies or memorabilia of the achivements of others.  He cannot understand why the residents don’t want his money to move out.

Watch the program on the BBC iPlayer when it is available.

But also follow this series of videos on Vimeo by Jon Pullman.

The wrong side of a hole from jon Pullman on Vimeo.

I urge you to get involved. Head over to the Tripping Up Trump website for more information.