the people’s climate summit With ten thousand daily visitors, participants from over 100 countries and a comprehensive programme of events, Klimaforum09 will be the biggest climate event in Copenhagen besides the official UN conference. The programme features international guest speakers, over 150 open debates, 60 exhibitions, music, film and art. Klimaforum09 is not an NGO [...]
Anlässlich der kommenden UN-Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen 2009, hier (mal wieder) ein schöner Beitrag von Extra3: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLmAJZ-sHcA[/youtube] Wundert sich eigentlich noch jemand? Was wohl das Fazit des diesjährigen Gipfels sein wird?
Greenpeace Poster Campaign in Kopenhagen Just sharing….have a look…. http://www.nrc.nl/redactie/foto/greenpeaceposters/index.html
“Each Day Humble Supplies Enough Energy to Melt 7 Million Tons of Glacier!” Energy has not always been conceived the same way, at least by oil companies like Humble, a forefather of Exxon. The copy below says: This giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries. Yet the petroleum energy Humble supples—if converted into heat—could melt [...]
Haha. Super! Endlich mal eine Eisbärenidee, die nicht auf die Tränendüse drückt. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxis7Y1ikIQ[/youtube]
This is a youtube series. (10 episodes altogether) This is profound and very valuable info… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=523bXlK5t34[/youtube]
With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary. read an excerpt!
Josef Buchner (University of Applied Sciences Augsburg) asked us to feature the student’s project “Our Little World”. “It’s an animated short of four minutes duration that makes us see small things in a larger context. It makes one aware of the fact, that decisions we make may have a much broader effect than originally anticipated [...]
I didn’t feature this site, yet. So I will do it now, because I think it is well worth it. (I mentioned it here, already, though.) David Holmgren, the co-originator of the permaculture concept, published a website in may last year, on which he maps out the cultural implications of peak-oil and climate change: www.futurescenarios.org [...]
…in my humble opinion. At least when you see it from the point of view of human civilization. …The macro-trends driving global threats and challenges have been apparent for decades and are now building toward a threshold of irreversibility. The scientific modeling of complex systems shows that when systems reach a state of critical instability, [...]
