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- COP15’s Indigenous voices on climate change film festival 12:39am Nov 19
- Food for thought in thinking about food: 2009 World Summit on Food Security 6:30pm Nov 18
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As a part of our contribution to a robust discussion at the COP15 climate negotitions in Copenhagen, the United Nations University has been working hard with partners to organize the Indigenous Voices on Climate Change film festival at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen (4pm-6pm, 9th-13th...
On November 13, 2009, Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General, Jacques Diouf, embarked on a 24-hour public hunger strike, in the lead up to this week’s World Summit on Food Security in Rome. ...
Source: ourworld.unu.edu
The UNU is co-organising the Indigenous voices on climate change film festival screening during COP15 to be held at the National Museum of Denmark in
With the topic of peak global oil production moving more into the mainstream, you have perhaps heard of the Canadian oil sands. There, huge tracts of remote forested land are strip-mined to obtain a type of thick crude oil called bitumen...
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Great article by Carol Smith in the How things work series - this time about Canada's Oil Sands - http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/canada%E2%80%
Source: ourworld.unu.edu
The Canadian oil sands is a place where huge tracts of remote forested land are strip-mined to obtain a type of thick crude oil called bitumen.
There is an unhealthy tendency to categorise environmentalists and members of the peak oil community as ‘doom and gloomers’ predicting the end of the world. Mo...
Our World 2.0 Riveting article about "collapse" and other future scenarios (by our brilliant chief Brendan) coming tomorrow and I just finished a draft for our "How things work" series to run next week. Be sure to tune in!
The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying...
Our World 2.0 IMPORTANT NEW ARTICLE: How deep the denial? Whistleblower seeks to set Peak Oil record straight.
Source: ourworld.unu.edu
According to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency, the world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates indicate
Cities are called concrete jungles for obvious reasons: cluttered skyscrapers overlook congested streets and highways amidst a constant bombardment of neon lights and billboards...
It may not be obvious, but the 3Rs of the ‘Waste Hierarchy‘ are in a particular order for a reason. ‘Reduce’ comes first, since it has zero impact. Following closely, ‘Re-use’ cuts waste and engenders no or little energy use. ‘Recycle’ ...
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Worldwatch report:
global emissions from “lifecycle and supply chain of animals
raised for food” = much higher than previously thought.
Source: ecoworldly.com
According to a new report published by the Worldwatch Institute, global emissions caused by the “lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food” are much higher than previously thought. Environmental advisers Jeff Anhang and Dr. ...
Scaremongering seems to be quite rampant in climate change communication these days. Some may argue that this is because the truth is in fact quite scary. While others condemn it as a dirty tactic employed underhandedly by extreme greenies, particularly as it applies to children...
Our World 2.0 DEBATE 2.0 NOW ON: Ad targeting parents & kids hits a nerve in the UK. What do you think: is it OK to invoke fear to get thru to people about climate change?
Source: ourworld.unu.edu
Do you think “scary” is acceptable in climate change campaigns and can it be effective? Or is it going too far and therefore counter-productive?
When it emerged earlier this year that Obama’s science tsar John Holdren had once, back in 1977, co-authored a textbook discussing possible methods of population control, among them sterilisation, America’s rightwing fury machine triumphantly seized upon it, dubbing him Obama’s “science fiction...
