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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” [...]

Campaigns DO Make Change. The clock is TckTckTck-ing

Posted by annied in Oxfam, WWF, campaign on 25. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off

Our friend Erica Grigg of carbonOutreach.com has a response to our query: Too Many Climate Campaigns?

Have you met Ade?

Posted by annied in green media on 22. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off

Ade Thomas, green.tv’s founder (our very own version of George Monbiot) has a conversation with the bloggess. For a guy who runs a tv channel and a web-design firm and works in London, he’s quite the naturalist. Ade talks about his boys, growing up in Oxford, fishing, urbanization and rapacious, invasive American invaders.

5 greentech developments to be aware of

Posted by annied in greentech, greentv news on 21. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off

The non-use of technology is more important a technology story than the application of technology these days. Almost three quarters of Dutch economic activity takes place below sea-level and sea levels will rise 1 meter by the end of this century. But instead of adding mechanization and making plans that will have a carbon footprint the Dutch will create flood planes and wave breakers by adding sand offshore and expanding marshes and public spaces. Not only are they bracing for extreme weather events, they are greening their living space as well!

(Source: Ben Berkowitz, Reuters online, 4 Sep 2009)

The Environment Agency versus Panorama: Whose side are you on?

Posted by annied in Environment Agency on 18. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off

Last week Panorama reported on “Britain’s Dirty Beaches.” The Environment Agency disagrees and we’ve got their rebuttal:

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.