Archive for the 'Climate Crisis' Category


Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis

Monday, April 21st, 2008

by Al Gore, TED  April 8, 2008
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights [...]

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Climate: Code Red — The case for a Sustainability Emergency

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Climate Code Red: The case for a sustainability emergency
By David Spratt and Philip Sutton
Download report at: http://www.carbonequity.info/climatecodered/5keys.html
Hear two interviews with co-author Philip Sutton by Jason Bradford, Global Public Media:
1) http://globalpublicmedia.com/sustainability_emergency
2) http://globalpublicmedia.com/sustainability_emergency_part_ii
Phil Hart of The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand writes:
David Spratt from CarbonEquity and Philip Sutton from Greenleap [...]

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Dialogue on Climate Change and Justice

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Critical dialogue on climate change and climate justice:
Wednesday, Feb 27th, 7pm, at the AME auditorium (northeast corner of Mountain and Speedway)
Interested in learning about why carbon trading is a false solution to climate change? Want to know how activists are fighting global warming and working towards true climate justice? Wish that you could hear all [...]

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James Hansen: Significant climate tipping points have been passed

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

While the world’s attention was on Bali in December 2007, a remarkable set of comments and predictions were made by Prof. James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Science and other scientists at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
They were made at a media briefing: “Climate tipping points: Are we [...]

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This crisis demands a reappraisal of who we are and what progress means

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

By George Monbiot, The Guardian (U.K.), December 4, 2007
Outdated figures have been hiding the full extent of climate change. But I am still advocating action, and not despair.
When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call [...]

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We are the people we have been waiting for

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

By Thomas L. Friedman, published December 2, 2007, The New York Times
It was 60 degrees on Thursday in Washington, well above normal, and as I slipped away for some pre-Christmas golf, I found myself thinking about a wickedly funny story that The Onion, the satirical newspaper, ran the other day: “Fall Canceled after 3 Billion [...]

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What to Do? Taking Action in the Face of Collapse

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Creating a sustainable culture of peace based on progressive values starts with
facing what’s really going on, both internally and externally.
WHAT TO DO? WHAT TO DO? Taking Action In The Face Of Collapse
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
By Carolyn Baker
Every time I write an article on collapse such as my most recent one “Happy
Independence Day; You Have [...]

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“Climate Solutions” from Co-op America

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

“Climate Solutions” from Co-op America
With the election of a new Congress come new opportunities to plan a better way forward on the issues we all care about.
That’s why Co-op America is mailing our recent “Climate Solutions” issue of the Co-op America Quarterly to each new and returning member of the 110th Congress. In it, we [...]

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