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The Climate for Change
- by Al Gore Op-Ed Contributor Ny Times The inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he — and we — must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly...
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...
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...
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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,...
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Two degrees of separation between hope and despair
A young people’s summary of the United Nations Human Development Report 2007/2008 The young people of the world have produced a Youth Booklet that includes drawings, poems and human stories on climate change and development, entirely made by and for young people! The booklet has been developed by Peace Child International jointly with HDRO, and launched on Youth...
Former Finnish President Wins Nobel Peace Prize
LONDON — Former President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, who has worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for more than three decades, won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday In its announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called Mr. Ahtisaari “an outstanding international mediator” whose efforts “have contributed to a more peaceful world and to...
Green is the New Black
Green is the new black. No buzz-phrase better sums up both the excitement many of us feel about the blooming environmental and social consciousness around us and the essential hollowness of the answers being promoted by many newly-minted eco-pundits. The flood of environmental magazine cover stories, documentaries and advertisements has pushed us over a public-opinion...
Annan: Africa needs a green revolution
WAGENINGEN, Netherlands: Bringing a green revolution to Africa and feeding the continent’s 200 million hungry people is one of the greatest development challenges of this century, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday. Annan said a 50 percent jump in staple food prices in the last year has deepened the crisis for the average African...
International Youth Day 2008
YOUTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TIME FOR ACTION Today is World Youth Day, a day that youth organisations and movements worldwide gather to take action and stand up on climate change. A major focus of the Day is practical action to further encourage the empowerment and participation of youth in the processes and decisions that affect...
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The final countdown
Usually I’m quite an optimist when talking about future-related trends, how to act on climate change etc. But this article in The Guardian struck me quite a lot… Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warns today. We have only 100 months to avoid disaster. Andrew...
Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America
Al Gore takes the opportunity to address one of the key challenges of this time: he calls upon bold action to make a 100% reduction in non-renewable energy commitment within 10 years, in the US. Can this be called one of the defining moments of the beginning of the 21st century? Would other leaders in...
