In the Quebec Eastern townships a friend pointed at the sun and said “See those mountains? The sun used to set right behind them…”. The sun in question, ten years later, is setting two mountains away from the point he remembered as a child. It’s funny how talking about the weather and our “experienced environments” [...]
Sandpoint Idaho recently became the first U.S. Transition Town to reach the stage of creating a strategic plan towards self-reliance and sufficiency. Transition Towns aim to meet the challenges of Peak Oil, Climate Change and Economic Collapse by actively detaching from the global economy causing the damage and, by extension, building community resilience. Read this [...]
Six Greenpeace activists were recently cleared of all charges in a British court after causing and estimated $53,000 of damage to a coal power plant in Kingsnorth in the county of Kent, England. After scaling the chimney of the plant and painting”Gordon” on the side, the activists pleaded guilty but used as an argument that [...]
Scientists have shown that in order to keep global warming and climate change from reaching truly devastating levels every country needs to lower its carbon output by 27% each year. That means starting now. Kyoto II, a plan to be decided on at meetings in Copenhagen next autumn, has the potential to completely change the [...]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is at the forefront of environmental advocacy and is the leading politician pushing climate change issues on to a world forum.
Last year she brought climate change back to the table as leader of the Group of Eight (G8) nations and used Germany’s weight as president of the EU to push for [...]
For those who want to experience the earth as well as save it, an exciting new program offers an opportunity to do both. School of the Earth brings a mix of ecotourism and seminar-style education to create an event that has the potential to change lives and point the way to the restoration of the [...]
In January of 2008 the European Commission introduced its Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package in efforts to fight climate change and promote sustainable energy practices.
The EU committed to reducing its energy levels to at least 20% below the levels of 1990 by 2020. This figure would then rise to 30% if other industrialized countries [...]
With the motto that declares ‘it is the small things in life that make a big difference’, it is E-Day’s hope that they can facilitate a measurable change in energy used with a UK nation wide “leave it off” experiment.
Over the course of 24 hours this February, people in the UK will be invited to [...]
Lent – 40 days and nights without chocolate, coffee and cigarettes! For many, this year would be no different were it not for the Church of England advocating a fast of a different kind.
The CoE is promoting a ‘Carbon Fast’, to combat the 9.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted per person each year in [...]
A powerful nationwide event occurred on Thursday: Focus the Nation. This teach-in was created to give the youth of America a voice about climate change, a day of focused discussion with their teachers and government officials.
Students from Kindergarten through college were involved in thousands of discussions all across the U.S.Here in Portland, Oregon, government officials [...]
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