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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COP15
December 6th, 2009 · No Comments
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
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 [...]
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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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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Earth Hour
March 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Tomorrow, from 8.30 PM onwards for one hour, the world will cast a first truly global vote: between the planet or global warming.
Last year, 2.2 million people and several companies in Sydney switched off their lights for one hour, resulting in an equivalent of 48.000 cars being taken off the road and saving 10,2% energy [...]
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