Vandana Shiva & Jane Goodall on Serving the Earth & How Women Can Address Climate Crisis
Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva discuss their decades of work devoted to protecting nature and saving future generations from the dangers of climate change.
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Climate, politics & money – headlines
•Guide Claims Warsaw COP19 Climate Talks Were Captured By Corporate Fossil Fuel Interests •Parts of Australia reaching threshold where it is impossible for normal life to continue because of the heat •Look What’s Slowing Down Global Warming •Rejecting Man’s Bid For Refugee Status, Court Rules Climate Change Is Not ‘Persecution’ •Climate change: No longer electoral Kryptonite! •Top EU powers retreat further on aviation emission plans •Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions •Man Faces One Year In Jail For Protesting JPMorgan’s Fossil Fuel Investments
The single most important principle for sustainability
The non-natural needs to prove its benefits, not the natural. This principle is the clearest expression of the precautionary principle I’ve ever seen, and it is even more stringent.
The Tar Sands and the World Tree – can Ragnarok be avoided?
Norse mythology tells of Ragnarok, a cataclysmic disaster akin to ecocide. In order to avoid this fate we need new stories that reunite human experience with nature.
Review: Earthmasters: the Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering by Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton, an Australian, has written a number of books about climate change. In the recently published ‘Earthmasters’, he tackles the subject of attempts to manage the climate by geoengineering. I found this book well researched, well documented, clearly written…and alarming.
Bridge Out: Bombshell Study Finds Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Production Far Higher Than EPA Estimates
If, as now seems likely, natural gas production systems leak 2.7% (or more), then gas-fired power loses its near-term advantage over coal and becomes more of a gangplank than a bridge.
Fracking headlines
•Methane Emissions in U.S. Probably Top Estimates: Study •Top 10 beneficiaries of fracturing dollars in Congress •From sunset to new dawnColorado creates rules to reduce fracking emissions •Boom city keeps optimism as gas drilling slows •Americans Uninformed About Fracking Says New Study
Warsaw: Resilience of Women Key To Climate Change Adaptation
In Mozambique, women operate Ambulance bicycle companies, a vital service in a country where climate change contributes to increasingly severe weather.
Zero Emissions by 2050
Is it feasible to have zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050? Yes!
How to Reverse a Slow-Motion Apocalypse
Apocalyptic climate change is upon us. For shorthand, let’s call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style flood.
“We Have to Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis
We turn now to a pair of climate scientists who are calling for what some may view as a shocking solution to the climate crisis: a rethinking of the economic order in the United States and other industrialized nations.
How Palm Oil in Everything From Food to Fuel Is Killing Orangutans and Exacerbating Climate Change
Palm oil is now one of the leading causes of rainforest destruction worldwide, and the single biggest threat driving orangutans toward extinction; the best estimates place their population at just 60,600, and it’s shrinking quickly