What will it take to finally achieve total inter-generational and inter-racial solidarity for the sake of our future on this planet? The people’s climate march On September 21 last year was the greatest mobilisation on climate change in history, with over 700 000 global citizens marching in the streets with banners in over 250 countries. In New York alone, 400 000 people … [Read more...]
Hurricane Patricia a sign of things to come
Last week, Hurricane Patricia made landfall here in Mexico. It was the strongest hurricane ever recorded. At one point, Patricia would have been a “Category 7” hurricane, except that the measurement scale only goes up to Category 5. By the time you read this, the worst part of the storm will have passed us. Thankfully, early reports indicate that the damage has been … [Read more...]
A Cape Town story of 21st September
Cape Town's Climate Change gathering was rallied together in two weeks and the fact that 200 people turned up on a beautiful Sunday at such short notice confirms Cape Town’s conscience about doing what is good and right. The people’s climate march is a global protest in 160 countries with approx. 2000 events taking place. Although Avaaz publicised the greatest Climate … [Read more...]
The secret ‘free’ trade agreement lives
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a highly secretive and expansive free trade agreement between the United States and twelve Pacific Rim countries, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the USA and Vietnam. Despite the global outpouring of opposition to this corporate giveaway, governments around … [Read more...]
2012: giving thanks for environmental wins
It looks like our species has finally begun to reunite economics and ecology for a sustainable future. Biologist Dr. Reese Halter looks back at a few examples of environmental triumphs that we can all celebrate from 2012: Professor Matt King of the University of Tasmania dispelled climate deniers by revealing that 190 million metric tons of ice a day have been melting from … [Read more...]
Fossil fuels vs. Renewable energy
In just a few weeks, world leaders are converging on Rio for a landmark "Earth Summit" to talk about sustainability issues - but it’s time for them to stop talking and start doing. And here is where they can begin... This year our governments will hand nearly hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies to the coal, gas, and oil industries. Instead, they should … [Read more...]
Thanks for Connecting the Dots
This is a thank you note, a thank you note to the whole planet. From every corner of the earth people have been doing their best to Connect the Dots on climate change. And their best has been pretty amazing — we have photos from beneath the ocean waves and from high-altitude glaciers, from the middle of big cities fighting sea level rise and remote deserts battling … [Read more...]
From ripples to Radio Waves
The United Nations climate talks have unfortunately been just that for 16 years – just talk and no real action, the most famous of these so far being the failed conference in Copenhagen in 2009. After the deep disappointment of Copenhagen, a South African anti-apartheid activist teasingly noted that the talks had failed because the climate movement didn’t have a song! For … [Read more...]
