Where will our grandchildren play?
This one goes out to all the moms and dads. What are we leaving behind for our children’s children? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjdVOfnYkyA] Via: Celsias blog
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World’s first carbon-neutral short web film
“’Possum Death Spree’ is hilarious – an instant Internet classic,” said Megan O’Neill, vice president of acquisitions & productions, AtomFilms. “It works on two levels, as pure entertainment and as a reminder of the very real dangers of climate change.”… Read More »World’s first carbon-neutral short web film
Green fingers
Spring has certainly sprung in the northern hemisphere. It’s been a scorching April here in the UK, and very, very dry. We don’t have a hosepipe ban in place yet, but I’ll be very surprised if it doesn’t happen soon.… Read More »Green fingers
Increase your albedo!
We featured the Canary Project at EcoStreet a while ago. It’s a great project, using art to warn people about what’s happening to the earth. Their latest campaign “Increase your albedo” is a fashion-based campaign, all about making a statement… Read More »Increase your albedo!
What are we waiting for?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klooRS-Jjyo] According to Greenpeace, two thirds of all energy generated in the UK’s nuclear, coal and gas fuelled power stations is lost as waste heat – that’s enough heat to meet the whole of the UK’s heating and hot water… Read More »What are we waiting for?
Did you watch Channel 4’s “The Great Global Warming Swindle”? Then read this.
I can’t imagine what the motivation was for Channel 4 to screen a documentary poo-poo’ing the fact that Global Warming is a reality, a man-made reality. But credible scientists are calling the documentary both “deeply deceptive” and “flawed”. Real Climate,… Read More »Did you watch Channel 4’s “The Great Global Warming Swindle”? Then read this.
Is Mr Brown Mr Green?
This morning, the bookies were offering odds of 16-1 that Gordon Brown would be wearing a green tie. Had you taken them on, you would have lost your money. In the aftermath of Mr Brown’s 11th budget speech at 12.30pm… Read More »Is Mr Brown Mr Green?
Green politics… is it?
I’ve seen it on the telly, read it in the papers, avoided blogging about it for the longest time, but no more. You will be subjected to politics right here at EcoStreet, right now, in this blog post. The race… Read More »Green politics… is it?
Is Tony gambling with our future?
Ben Nickell of GreenSteps asks whether Tony Blair is gambling with our future.
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As blizzards sweep across parts of North America, leading US politicians are meeting legislators from the EU, China, Japan and India to try and break the deadlock in the international climate change debate. The meeting is an attempt to agree proposals for a new world deal on climate change for the forthcoming G8 summit.
Back in 2004, in a speech on climate change to celebrate the 10th anniversary of HRH the Prince of Wales’ Business and the Environment programme, Tony Blair said:
“The emission of greenhouse gases….is causing global warming at a rate that began as significant, has become alarming and is simply unsustainable in the long term. And by long term I do not mean centuries ahead. I mean within the lifetime of my children certainly; and possibly within my own. And by unsustainable, I do not mean a phenomenon causing problems of adjustment. I mean a challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence…There is no doubt that the time to act is now.”
So he seems to understand the scale of the problem. Tony Blair now faces the challenge of brokering a deal which the US will agree to and yet which is meaningful in the face of growing urgency.