Do you want to help us plant a tree, or two? Sure you want.
As we all know planting trees can help fight climate change and poverty. And now you can help out to plant trees, for free!
Our green forum currently only has 85 members. We want more people to find out about this friendly forum community. That’s why we will plant one tree two trees for every hundred members that sign up, starting from today. That means we only need 15 more new members until we can plant our first trees.
So, invite your family, friends and co-workers and help us plant trees!
Tree-Nation.com and WWF will plant our trees. They are supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, so you can safely trust that this is legit.
You can read more about this in our forum.
It only takes a few seconds to register an account and it’s free. Thank you!
Update 1: We will now plant TWO trees for every hundred members that registers on our green forum.
Update 2: Two trees have been planted – Thank you!
Below are some of the best Green videos of the week, collected by the Ecolive.TV community.
How Far We’ve Come – END ALL CRUELTY
This video is dedicated AnimalLib, and to all the other animal activists on youtube who lost their accounts and their videos for raising awareness against animal cruelty. Help us to protect the animals.
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Thursday and Friday this week the top boys and girls of the European Union meet in Brussels. EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, and Europe’s commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, have prepared a report on climate change and security risks in advance of the meeting. Today the conclusion of the report is being quoted in literally every media across the world. Here are a few samples.
BBC / EU warns of climate change threat.
An EU report says climate change will have a growing impact on global security, multiplying existing threats such as shortages of food and water.
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If you don’t recycle you might spend eternity in Hell. At least that is what the Vatican warns it’s followers.
The Roman Catholic Church recently “modernized” their list of deadly sins and added seven new deadly sins “for our times”. Failure to recycle is one of them.
Other deadly sins is now to play around with genetic modifications, carrying out experiments on humans, polluting the environment, causing social injustice, causing poverty and becoming obscenely wealthy and taking drugs.
The Guardian shows some rather striking images from photographs and computer models that shows the ‘before and after’ of how both nature and humans are making an impact on the planet.
The images show the effect of deforestation in Bolivia and Madagascar, how dams change the surrounding landscapes in Turkey and how rising sea levels will affect Florida. But one of the most powerful images is probably the one that shows how Lake Chad, once one of the largest lakes in Africa, has shrink to 5% its former size due to a warmer climate.
The images comes from a newly released book called “Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World“.
Some other pictures worth checking out are “Our destructive impact on the planet” and “How Spain will be affected by climate change“.
In Madrid, the capital of Spain, a huge structure called the “Air Tree” is currently under construction. It is designed to both affect the surrounding environment and act as a social gathering point for people.
The “Air Tree” will generate its own electricity using solar photo voltaic cells placed on top of it. The solar panels will generate enough electricity to be able to sell the energy to local energy companies.
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In February 2008 Australian Friends of the Earth published a very important book entitled “Book Review: Climate Code Red – the case for a sustainability emergency” by David Spratt (a policy analyst with Carbon Equity) and Philip Sutton (director of the Greenleap Strategic Institute Inc), both authors being located in Melbourne, Australia. This book can be downloaded from the Web. The book was launched at an Australian Climate Change Convergence in Melbourne on February 8 2008 (see GreenBlog).
“Climate Code Red is a very important and timely book. It adduces the latest scientific evidence that we have already passed a key environmental “tipping point” , argues for a national and global Declaration of a Climate State of Emergency and urges rapid implementation of the “negative CO2 emissions policy” advocated by NASA’s Dr James Hansen i.e. rapid replacement of fossil fuel burning with renewables and rapid installation of mechanisms to reduce atmospheric CO2.
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There have been some talks, especially on the Internet, that the global temperature this winter has increased less than it’s done the last fourteen years.
