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India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh (above) is being severely criticized by scientists after he questioned that global waming is melting Himalayan glaciers. Ignoring a mass of IPCC reports (whose lowball predictions must be approved by governments), he quoted "junk science" from climate deniers.His stand is influenced by state-owned Coal India and major polluters. Last year the private

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She is one of a number of young people all over the world engaged in a Climate Justice Fast. See other stories and videos on that website. Also read about her climate pilgrimage from Korea to Barcelona.They aim to send a non-violent but powerful message -- "to members of the public who are as yet unaware of the urgency of climate action -- to our leaders, reminding them of the importance and

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(This platform is published with the permission of the author. Tord Björk has been an environmental activist since 1972. He is coordinator of the Contact group for Europe and the World in the Nordic Organizing Committee for ESF 2008; coordinator of the EU Committee, Friends of the Earth - Sweden; and chair of the Society for Knowledge on Activism and Popular Movements/Association.)*****We call

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We recommend this 9-page comic, viewable free at www.cartoonkate.co.ukFor the in-depth research on which this is based see carbontradewatch.org and two studies by FOE, Subprime Carbon (Nov 2008 with updates) and A Dangerous Obsession (Nov 2009), and Greenpeace's recent debunking of carbon offset claims for the Noel Kempff forest project in Bolivia.

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Lire l'entrevue avec Borloo dans le Journal du Dimanche du 31 octobre.Jean-Louis BorlooFrance is trying to break the logjam of Copenhagen negotiations, according to Agence France Presse and Reuters. On 30 Oct president Sarkozy, and on 31 Oct environment minister J-L Borloo, announced a "plan justice-climat" in which France, Germany, and Austria are trying to convince the EU to make common cause

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Rightwing media often present urban cyclism as a "war on the car" by rabid youth. This plays to the conservative demographic of car-driving, suburban, business-as-usual voters. The Toronto Cyclists Union is now reversing the spin by handing out thank-you cards to attentive and considerate drivers.CBC Metro Morning, The Toronto Star, and NOW have been telling the positive story. TCU Executive

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(see English below)Brand ha construido su caso para replantear los objetivos ambientales y métodos tomando en cuenta dos grandes cambios ocurriendo en el mundo. La mayoría de las personas aún no tienen en cuenta que el uso de energia esta cambiando al mundo en desarrollo, donde viven 5 de cada 6 personas.  La mayor parte de la humanidad esta saliendo de la pobreza iendo a las ciudades creando sus

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Sharon Astyk is a 35 year old subsistence farmer in upstate NY, former operator of a Jewish CSA, mother of four, and author of books on peak oil and climate change (see below). Her continuing theme is what we should do, because we will have to anyway.*****Let me begin by noting that most of what I’ve done to live more sustainably has been enormously pleasurable, not that stressful, and has

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Autumn mist near Kingston Ontario Bert Horwood is a Quaker in Thousand Islands meeting, living in Kingston.I begin with a basic proposition: My spiritual and scientific understandings must be compatible and equally open to new learning. Science tells me that climate is part of a dynamic chaotic planetary system. This means that small adjustments can trigger large changes, but that the direction

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Rapport PNUE/GIEC: voir le resumé en français par Louis-Gilles Francoeur, 'Changements climatiques: le pire est en train de se produire', Le Devoir 25 sep 09.A dust storm from the outback blankets Sydney; Australian drought continues: photos by Tim Wimborne / Reuters 23 Sep 09. See also Brigid Walsh's Dustwatch Report and Australian Water Network.Worst-case climate scenarios are already

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Click on the illustration for the full document.This is an attempt to map many recent trends. I welcome your comments and criticism. Feel free to share the document with others. It may help to clarify discussions about cooperation or joint action with other civil society or faith groups. If you want to find which category a group is in, open the doc in a word processor, CTRL+F and insert the name

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The industrial model has been imposed on agriculture in recent decades. Live animals are mere "inputs". As this story shows, the family farmer is becoming an indebted serf (just like 19th c. fishermen and factory workers who were trapped by the company store: the "pluckme" or "tommy").The system, created by giant agribusiness corporations ("integrated" monopolies) backed by banks, is sustained by

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Joanna Santa Barbara is a peace and ecological activist living in Atamai, a sustainable village in New Zealand which incorporates many of the recommended practices, including biochar and organic gardening. See her Atamai blog and Transition Aotearoa (TransitionTowns NZ). Her article first appeared in Peace Magazine 25.2 (Apr-June 2009)*****James Lovelock, remarkable for his just-in-time

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Sorting some very old boxes of papers, I discovered a September 1974 article in the [Hamilton Ont] Spectator about a newly formed environmental organization called the Garbage Coalition. How I became a spokesperson for that organization I can’t recall. The article quotes me as saying the amount of garbage “must be reduced” and backing up the assertion with statistics. I had a one-year-old son

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Jess Dexter, a Vancouver dancer, has worked for the last 3 years in Abramz Tekya's Breakdance Project Uganda -- in Gulu, Kampala, Ntinda and Gganda -- with university, primary & secondary school students, reform-school and street kids, and this year in hip-hop, capoeira and yoga with orphans at Niteo Resource Centre. This clip from a forthcoming feature length doc shows her at work:About the "

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Excepts from an interview by Sarah Ruth van Gelder in Yes! magazine (Winter 2003), with Vandana Shiva: scientist, feminist, author, founder of the nonviolent “tree-hugger” Chipko movement in the 1970s, of Navdanya, of the organic agriculture college Bija Vidyapeeth and (with others in 1994) of the International Forum on Globalization whose principles include living democracy, subsidiarity,

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Graph and research report 6 Aug 09 by National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK.The following is a summary of a geochemist's report on DailyKos 19 Aug 09:Oil and coal companies more than doubled their millions to K Street lobbyists over two years to pressure the US Congress to weaken climate legislation. The companies argue that global warming is not an immediate problem.Scientists' discovery

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The interviews below by Sabina Zaccaro appeared in IPS news 8 July 09."If we invest in women, many problems will be solved. We know that from microfinance and from many other examples," says Sylvia Borren of the GCAP gender task force. "With food prices doubling they had to choose which child to feed..." Stories collected by women's organizations* show that if you invest in women and the family,

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MDG 2005 in Grid-Arendal. The 2009 report turns many more squares red. Click to see details.Gains since the 1990s have been wiped out in one year, says the recent UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2009. Careful reading (summary below) suggests the need for a world social movement combining faith and aid groups, human rights, and environmental NGOs. Join the Quaker discussion on

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melting animals by Kawano Takeshi, JapanThanks to Milan Ilnyckyj, whose blog on climate change art blazed this trail. I spent a couple of hours chasing links and looking up old notes -- but this is only a sampling. Suggest other links in your comments.art and sculptureStrandbeest by Theo Jansen, Netherlands (see the video below)Kawano Takeshi, JapanArt at the Cheese Factory, Marin County CAReuben

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SAPPI Ngodwana Pulp and Paper Mill near Nelspruit, South Africa, depends on alien tree plantations that destroy biodiversity of the southern African mist belt region in Npumalalanga, formerly known as Transvaal. SAPPI is planning to expand mill operations by 70% – wihout creating new jobs there. Despite severe impacts on soil, scarce water resources, local species and communities, 80% of

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The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), meeting 6-9 July 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland, has officially declared that climate change will create severe health risks. Therefore even greater commitment of funds will be required for Millenium Development Goals.“Climate change is a gradual and now inevitable event", but the effects of more frequent and more extreme weather events will be abrupt and

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Coupe à blanc près de Val d'or: globalforestwatch.ca (cliquez pour mieux voir en détail). English summary of threats to boreal forests.Dix ans après le film-choc L'erreur boréale du Richard Desjardins, le Québec tarde encore une réforme urgent du domaine forestier. Il y a cinq ans déjà, le rapport Coulombe posait 81 recommandations, dont aucune n'est encore réalisée.Selon Greenpeace, le projet

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UN Grid-Arendahl graph: its caption states that 3/4 of the world’s marine fish stocks are being harvested faster than they can reproduce. Bycatch (other species for which the fishing gear was not intended) accounted for a quarter of the total catch -- much of it is wasted. Click on graph to see details.Marine biologists Boris Worm and Ray Hilborn fought bitterly three years ago over Worm's

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Mexico City mining protest 24 July 09: photo Carlos Ramos MamahuaA system of sleaze was created over the last two decades by successive Canadian governments and financial wizards. Like Liberian shipping, you fly the flag, follow no rules, answer no questions, do what you want and take your profits elsewhere. And better yet, the Canadian taxpayer will bankroll you.More than 2/3 of the world's oil,

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