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 (non-governmental organisation) we have no special causes, interests or agendas.

The Klimaforum09 programme offers you 190 inspiring talks, 50 exhibitions, 30 climate films and documentaries, global music, theater, invited guest speakers and much more.

Check the whole programme over here!

7-18 december 2009

http://www.klimaforum09.org/

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Wundert sich eigentlich noch jemand? Was wohl das Fazit des diesjährigen Gipfels sein wird?

Just sharing….have a look….

http://www.nrc.nl/redactie/foto/greenpeaceposters/index.html

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 it at the rate of 80 tons each second! To meet the nation’s growing needs for energy, Humble has applied science to nature’s resources to become America’s Leading Energy Company. Working wonders with oil through research, Humble provides energy in many forms — to help heat our homes, power our transportation, and to furnish industry with a great variety of versatile chemicals. Stop at a Humble station for new Enco Extra gasoline, and see why the “Happy Motoring” Sign is the World’s First Choice!

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read an excerpt!

“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 – due to the extreme complexity of interconnections in our world.

Sure we do! He’re you go:

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Website

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

This exploration of energy descent scenarios has been an organic one which began with a didactic intention to highlight how large scale energetic and environmental factors shape history more than ideologies and the heroic actions of individuals. But my purpose was to empower those committed to ecological values and social justice to be effective in their quest to create the world we want, rather than just resist the world we don’t want. Finally it has become about telling a story that can help bring that world to life, an apparent contradiction to the premise I began with. Although the primary lesson about the large scale forces that control the course of history may be true for the long periods of stability, during periods of ecological and cultural chaos, small groups of people have been instrumental in those transitions.

Dito…

…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, they either break down to their components or break through to a higher order of integral functioning. At these “points of no return” maintaining the status quo, or returning to a previous mode of organization and functioning, are not a feasible option. …

Excerpt of the State of Global Emergency Declaration (Draft)
Prepared by Ervin Laszlo and David Woolfson for the Club of Budapest

You might want to have a look at it…