“Despite 40 years of major global negotiations, we have continued to conduct business as usual and have failed to address this crisis,” Oregon State University’s William J. Ripple, a co-lead author of the paper, said in a statement. The authors of the report highlight six areas where urgent action is required: energy, short lived pollutants,... Continue Reading →
What scares the scientists?
If we do not make every effort to combat climate change, global temperatures could rise high enough to trigger events like the mass melting of Arctic permafrost, or huge wildfires in Amazonia. These would release more greenhouse gases, accelerating global warming. We know that such catastrophic climate change has happened in the distant past. To... Continue Reading →
Abandon Apathy and Be Moved to Action
(Wangari Muta Maathai reflecting on the words in the Earth Charter) […] So as to make these words meaningful, we need to reflect on them. For example, when we pick the word “just,” we want a just world. Can we think of all the injustices that we have on this planet, whether they are injustices... Continue Reading →
Megacity Innovations…
To build megacities that better meet people’s basic needs, offer new opportunities for young people, empower women, and foster sustainably is to build an urban way of life unlike anything we’ve yet seen. This megacity future is going to spawn a whole array of new possibilities, ones we can’t anticipate from our armchairs in the... Continue Reading →
Tick-Tock
The next layer of industrial agriculture is already being developed and field-tested. It incorporates artificially intelligent computers, autonomous robots, self-flying drones, and advanced genetic designs. All this “intelligence” is based on the “more is better” principle of squeezing ever more nutrient-void calories from our depleted soils. In other words, more “overproduction.” Before we as a... Continue Reading →
Excerpt from ‘The Case For The Green New Deal’
Wall Street and the City of London Fight Back. The Bretton Woods Era Britain and the United States began to prosper after the end of the gold standard system in 1933 and in the run-up to the Second World War. Yet, despite the obvious gains from the transformation, the struggle to regain private control over... Continue Reading →
The FUTURE OF EARTH – If these die out, we will too
From BBC | 'The FUTURE OF EARTH', by Science Focus If these die out, we will too BEES Insects have been pollinating flowers for 100 million years. About 70 percent of our agriculture today depends on them, and bee pollination of crops has been valued at $20bn in the US. But fertilizers, pesticides, habitat loss,... Continue Reading →
we cannot succeed without farmers…
Stéphane Le Foll Excerpt from Josh Tickell’s book: KISS the GROUND, he is referencing his meeting with Prime Minister of France, Stéphane Le Foll at the time of COP21. ______________________________________ But to solve the question of the storage of carbon, it’s necessary that we have accompanying public policies. And we cannot succeed without farmers. ... Continue Reading →
examples of positive feedback cycles that will amplify warming…
Assuming we follow a “business as usual” approach and don’t make dramatic changes to our energy mix, conservative projections are that we’ll reach that first doubling to 560 ppm by the year 2050, increasing to 900 ppm by the year 2100, and even more beyond that. The first doubling of CO2, concentration would have... Continue Reading →
Preamble This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting... Continue Reading →
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change…
How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 