Category: Why we need change
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I was at Copenhagen but didn’t do anything
Now, in the wake of COP 15 at Copenhagen, as the waves of commentary die down to a gentle swell, I continue my uneasy reflections. I was there, not for COP15 but on other business for the Water and Food Award. Copenhagen was a changed city – police and road blocks everywhere – but also…
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Please consider signing the hunger petition by the United Nations FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization)
Please consider signing the hunger petition by the United Nations FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), which they will show to government delegates at their big Food Security conference next week 16-18 November 2009. Petition: http://www.1billionhungry.org/ Info on Food Security conference: http://www.fao.org/wsfs/world-summit The director of FAO is also calling for people to hunger strike, i.e., fast…
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See Edward Burtynsky’s pictures of the impact of oil on our Earth
See Edward Burtynsky’s pictures of the impact of oil on our Earth by clicking on the picture above. I also recommend Edward’s TED talk on why he felt compelled to produced these photographs Thanks to Rob Hopkins for the links.
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How Flexible Emissions Fees Can Drive Sustainable Development
ONE APPROACH TO CLEAN-TECH: TAKE EXISTING TECHNOLOGY AND ADD LAYERS OF CONTROL AND CLEANING Volvo engineer Anders Höglund managed to make a diesel engine burn clean by adding sophisticated control technology, thanks to advanced sensors and electronics. To make it even cleaner he added a catalyst converter to the exhaust. The story of the clean…
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Me to climate deniers: we need to talk, like, now.
I have been following the debate from the climate denier side for a few weeks, mostly in fascination of how you can, in contrast to being a sceptic, go ahead and categorically deny the possibility that emissions into the atmosphere could create a climate system collapse. So I figured that to be a denier you…
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Mankind already exceeded safe boundaries for Earth?
Are there boundaries to the pressure mankind can put om the Earth? Are we near them or have we exceeded them? These are some of the questions researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Center have been asking. Image; Stockholm Resilience Centre. – The human pressure on the Earth System has reached a scale where abrupt global…
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Carbon Counter from Deutsche Bank
I really like the carbon counter from Deutsche bank. It gives a scientific, factual approach to the unpaid for use of common resources: our climate system. You can download your own counter from their website, too. We need more initiatives like this to present what is happening in an easy, but factual way. The bank…
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We really do have simple choices to make
We find ourselves in the aftermath of a giant financial meltdown. Yet few really understand the seriousness of the situation. Faced with the choice of either (a) reforming the economic system and ripping from the hands of the banking system its iron control of societies world wide, or (b) trying to patch the system up.…
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BBC picks up perfect storm warning from top scientist
A perfect storm of shortages is what the BBC calls its series, inspired by the warnings from no other than John Beddington, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, of a possible crisis in 2030. See his entire speech here. This perfect storm is one where factors combine to present challenges to the world’s population as…