Archive for June, 2009

• A Drop of Life: Short film about water conflict

  “As I became aware of the mounting global water crisis, I realized that it represented a clash of cultures – between a culture that values water as a shared sacred source of all life and a corporate culture that regards …

• “Corn” Plastic: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

  Photo credit: Darwin Bell “Would you like a bag with that?”, asks the girl at the grocery store check-out. You glance at the couple of items purchased, and think of the walk home. She sees you hesitating and adds “It’s …

• Summary of the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Synthesis Report

  The key moral imperative of the Synthesis Report is “Inaction is inexcusable”. In December 2009 the governments of the world will discuss their responses to the climate emergency facing the planet. Civilized, educated , humanitarian people dread the outcome which …

• Australian Green Senator Milne speech: “climate nightmare is real and happening NOW”

  The Australian Green senator Christine Milne, the first female leader of a political party in Tasmania’s history, delivered this speech to the Australian National Press Club this past week. Key quote from the speech: “The truth is the climate nightmare …

• One Ingredient at a Time

  Photo credit: schoschie You know there are certain ingredients that you don’t want in your cosmetic products.  But you may not know all of the name variations or even exactly why certain ingredients are harmful. Well, leave it to Stephanie …

• Great power point lectures by top climate scientists and analysts

  “Nevertheless the climate sceptics are unfazed and essentially all governments around the world are committed to continuing to increase atmospheric carbon dioxide…” An overwhelming global scientific consensus says that man-made global warming is happening NOW. Indeed for the latest see …

• Indigenous Peruvians and police in deadly clashes at oil and mining protests

  Sometimes researchers are blamed of being alarmists stirring up fears of a fictional dystopia by the business-as-usual crowd. But it seems a forewarning of conflict over oil in Peru is proceeding according to exactly such a warning. The news first… …

• Watch: Obama scales back goals for America after visiting Denny’s

  Obama will abandon complex policies on emissions, clean coal and refocus on achievable goals like applying deodorant daily, learning what to say when you burp. Don’t worry! It’s just some good’ol satire. Or is it?

• HOME – Amazing documentary about Earth and our future

  This past week the non-profit film HOME was released in every format, including in movie theaters, on television, DVD/Blu-ray Disc and the internet, on the same day in over 50 countries in an effort to spread its message to the …

• Bill Maher takes on Obama on climate change: “This isn’t what I voted for”

  “This is not what I voted for,” Bill Maher said on his HBO show Friday night, arguing that Barack Obama has maintained his personal popularity but failed to make real progress on climate change, the economy and health care in …