One Giant Leap for Sandbag (one small step for Ed)
Posted by annied in DECC, campaign, climate change on 29. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
“The West needs to do more or it’s an excuse for everyone else not to do more.” Though Worthington laments, “They’ll probably do it anyway just embarrass them.” She is confident about non-Western’s countries, in particular China’s ability to adjust their carbon emissions, “When China says it’s going to do something, it generally does it.”
Krakatoa: historical event is food for thought
Posted by annied in DEFRA, climate change on 28. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Listening to and old episode of the Dinner Party Download from APM’s Marketplace making dinner Friday night, the last day of the UN’s Climate Week. A segment of the
program told the story of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia. The volcanic erruption in 1883 caused alterations in global temperatures for at least five years and “red” [...]
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.
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.