Too many climate campaigns?
Posted by annied in DECC, Oxfam, UNEP, WWF, campaign, climate change on 16. Sep, 2009 | 7 Comments
green.tv has featured campaigns by all of our partners and some non-partners soliciting action on climate change– from signing petitions to convince government leaders that they should not leave the Cop15 without a deal to individual action campaigns. And yet, we still aren’t doing enough. What’s the point of all these campaigns? Are there too many that we have now become saturated with climate change that we have been spurred past action to continued inaction? Has anything really changed?
Clean Up the World: a call to action
Posted by annied in Clean up the World, UNEP, climate change on 15. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Come the weekend of the 18-20 September, Clean Up the World participants from all across the globe will simultaneously take that grassroots action as part of the Clean Up the World Weekend. Actions such as tree planting, local clean ups, education campaigns, and water conservation projects.
5 Websites That Make Us Green-Geek-Out
Posted by annied in Green News, climate change, green media, greenblogs on 14. Sep, 2009 | 3 Comments
1. Strangemaps
Soon to be a book, Strangemaps has all kinds of (you guessed it) strange maps. Actually, they aren’t strange, so much as old.
Here are some high-lights:
“Homeland is where the Heartland is.” is particularly pertinent with the fuss in the British press a few weeks back: much ado about food shortages. DEFRA declared, “farmers [...]
FoE UK: Maria of Kiribati will fight at Cop15
Posted by annied in FoE, climate change on 07. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Maria from the Kiribati Islands in the Pacific came to see us at Friends of the Earth recently. She told us that her islands could be underwater within ten years. Crops and wells are already contaminated with salt water and the mangroves where she used to play as a child are disappearing.
Greentech is Radical Nature at the Barbican
Posted by annied in WWF, greentech on 07. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Last weekend I went to see the “Radical Nature” at the Barbican. The Exhibit features 23 designers who integrate green principles into their designs.
Some of it is indeed “radical,” like Luke Fowler’s schzoid musings, some how related to the construction of a bog (?!) and like Henrik Hakasson’s 16 meter square fragment of rainforest growing [...]
Caroline Lucas opens the party conference season
Posted by annied in Green News on 04. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Resplendent and energetic as always, Caroline Lucas critiqued Labour’s social policies at the opening of the day’s Green Party conference activities in Hove. Most of her speech focused on social policies– particularly taking New Labour to task over the bailouts and increased income gap between rich and poor. Though she took a swipe at the Tories too, “it is simply a myth to suggest that we must slash public spending the reality is we need
long term investment not sort term cuts.”
Oxfam at the London Aquarium, Ian Sullivan reflects
Posted by annied in Oxfam, climate change on 04. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Friday is fish and chips day in green.tv’s technology suite. From about 14.00 onwards the room smells of deep fried satisfaction. Last week the following post went up on Oxfam’s blog: “Fish, chips, and climate change” by Ian Sullivan. He’s been gracious enough to let us republish it on our blog this week, for our own fish and chips Friday. Many of you may have missed it, already on your way to your long bank holiday. It was an original stunt and part of the TckTckTck campaign countdown to Copenhagen. Since we gave that other climate change campaign so much attention this week, we wanted to share the spotlight and remind you about the TckTckTck campaign, of which Oxfam is partnered with.
Kathmandu to Cop15 &… India
Posted by annied in climate change, water on 03. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
On Monday and Tuesday this week countries of the Himalayan region met in Nepal to agree a regional consensus for the Climate Change talks in December. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka all participated.