The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet
When the 44th President of the United States is elected, he will face urgent crises on three major fronts: the American economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing threat to the world environment caused by climate change. This short, powerful book shows the way forward: a clear action plan for the new...
Cities and new wars: after Mumbai
The attacks on India’s commercial capital belong to a global frontline of asymmetric urban warfare, says Saskia Sassen. The Mumbai attacks of 26-27 November 2008 are part of an emerging type of urban violence. These were organised, simultaneous frontal assaults with grenades and machine-guns on ten high-profile sites in or near the central business and tourism district. Also...
Strawberries & Cream
Strawberries & Cream from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo. Good initiative! Check Strawberry Earth, an online magazine with lots of good stuff about the environment. Beautiful. Thank you Joachim! Strawberries & Cream from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo. Related items Turn Good Into Gold The problem with debates, and the art of dialogues International Youth Day 2009...
Buy Nothin Day
What if we had everything and needed nothing else? Today (29th november: international) is Buy Nothing Day. Realizing that you actually have way too much stuff than needed to keep your life running… Watch the beautiful video here on the ‘good consumer’. (or read Benjamin Barber’s ‘Consumed’ bestseller – I’m not kidding, you HAVE to...
Tomorrow
Tomorrow is a special day. See it here… People who looked at this item also looked at… The Lotus – A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development Rebuild Your Future The essentials in Copenhagen 350: 24 October is the day Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability Related items Inspired to become a change agent...
A new chapter for America on climate change?
Watch this address by president-elect Barack Obama and see it yourself. Rather impressive? Or not ambitious enough yet? Related items The essentials in Copenhagen Breaking out of the Prisoner’s Dilemma HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist The Climate for Change The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet
World Energy Outlook 2008
Is the world facing a supply crunch due to geology or to inadequate investment? What type of post-Kyoto policy framework could stabilise greenhouse gases at low concentration levels? The answers to these burning questions and more are laid out in the World Energy Outlook 2008. Read more at World Energy Outlook… Related items The essentials...
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We need a ‘Green New Deal’ to tackle ‘triple crunch’ of credit, oil price and climate crises
The world needs leaders with the vision to forge New Deal-type policies to confront the potentially disastrous combination of climate change, high inflation and economic slowdown, a British research group said. The recommendation is made in “A New Green Deal,” a report by the New Economics Foundation. It uses the convergence of the credit crisis,...
