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COP15

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

From today onwards, I will be reporting on the UN Climate Conference, COP15, in Copenhagen, representing the WSC-SD.
To give a kick-start, below is the first article.
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Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · Climate & Energy · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Economic Development · Globalization & Global Culture · Human Rights · Science · Society · Sustainable Development · World · Youth

350: 24 October is the day

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments

October 24th is shaping up to be the most widespread day of environmental action in the history of the planet (more than 4000 activities in 170 countries). All events are designed to do one thing: show the support for the most important number in the world: 350. Get a glimpse of the buzz here, or [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Climate & Energy · Earth & Environment · Sustainable Development · Uncategorized · World

How on earth do we want to live together?

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Today, on October 15th 2009, more then 13,000 bloggers all over the world are writing about “Climate Change”, the topic of the 2009 Blog Action Day.

Lately, a couple of interesting articles have caught my attention. They all seem to tell a story of a Great Story, they all seem to put our human race and [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · Climate & Energy · Earth & Environment · Economic Development · Globalization & Global Culture · Inspiration · Society · Sustainable Development · World

International Youth Day 2009

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments

SUSTAINABILITY: OUR CHALLENGE, OUR FUTURE

Sustainability does not only refer to maintaining environmental balance and renewal. Sustainability encapsulates three facets of life: the environment, society and the economy. We live our lives in the overlaps and intersections of these facets, and our actions and attitudes help shape them. Their changing shapes in turn affect [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Earth & Environment · Society · Sustainable Development · World · Youth

HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist

June 6th, 2009 · No Comments

‘If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world’
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders’ words have perhaps never been more relevant to a movie than in the case of Home.
Following directly on from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home is, of course, a film with a message that sets out to shift [...]

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Tags: Actuality · Climate & Energy · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Globalization & Global Culture · Human Rights · Photography & journalism · Politics & International Relations · Society · Sustainable Development · World