June 14th 2021
Having failed to respond to an email about the unsustainability of water supply in Cambridge and South Cambs sent in February, planning officers Stephen Kelly, Sharon Brown, Mike Huntington, and Chris Carter find themselves subject of a complaint, now escalated to stage 2, writes Monica Bijok Hone
Join us by the river from 4pm on Jesus Green for a celebration of the River Cam and declaration of its rights. The declaration will take place at 6pm, and events will continue into the evening.
Poet and activist Alice Willitts is inviting you to write erasure poems to mark our declaration of rights of the River Cam.
Barrister and activist, Paul Powlesland, presents the argument for legal recognition of the rights of nature, and the rights of rivers.
"The OxCam Arc: An Environmental Catastrophe"
Video preesntation by with Professor David Rogers
Links to useful articles, events in the media, and other sites.
Video with probably Britain's best known landscape architect, Kim Wilkie
Feargal Sharkey, ex Undertones singer turned campaigner, gives a hard hitting presentation on what has gone wrong with our rivers, and particularly the globally rare chalk streams such as the River Cam.