“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf and burning it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.”
Continue reading Obama stimulus plan key for solving climate crisis says Al Gore
US President -elect Barack Obama gave the first of his weekly addresses to the nation and declared “that his administration would mark a new chapter in American leadership on climate change.”
Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change, he said. Many of you are working to confront this challenge….but too often, Washington has failed to show the same kind of leadership. That will change when I take office.
Continue reading Barack Obama and his New Chapter on Climate Change
Al Gore announced his strategy for powering the USA entirely from ‘renewable’ resources -a mixture of solar and wind - by a decade from now. (Are the sun and wind ‘renewable’? How?)
The ten-year time-span, and the ‘big project’ are borrowed from JF Kennedy’s speech announcing the plan to put a man on the moon. Gore makes no secret of it, indeed, he is overtly trying to capture the same spirit, and sense of historical moment by paraphrasing Kennedy.
Tags: 2018 • al_gore • green_energy • speech • VideoThe European Foundation for Education and Sustainable Development and the Centre for Environmental Education & Research welcome you to CEEE’s 10th Conference.
That 10th Conference on Environmental Education in Europe is going to be at the inland country Malta October, 15–19. The jubilee meeting will range different aspects of the mainline:
“Thinking and acting outside the box- a European contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”. The CEEE’s 10th Conference is being organised under the aegis of the European Foundation for Education and Sustainable Development (European ESD-net) in collaboration with the Centre for Environmental Education & Research, University of Malta.
Registration form msut be soon available here.
Outlines of papers (300 words maximum) should be forwarded to Dr Paul Pace, Chairperson of the Scientific Committee by 30th June 2008 and should indicate the author’s preferred audience (i.e. Concurrent Workshop Sessions or Free Market).
Continue reading 10th Conference on Environmental Education in Europe 15–19 October, Malta
The International Symposium: “ICTs and Climate Change” Organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Supported and hosted by BT plc has started today and may continue tomorrow also. Some of the public global warming topic are as goes: Session 1: Climate change: ICTs to the rescue? , Corporate responsibility:Towards a climate-neutral ICT Sector
, ICTs for monitoring climate change, ICTs as a green technology, Towards a high-bandwidth, low carbon future, Adapting to climate change and Review and Wrap-up. Here you can download some pdf and word format documents around this initiative. Contact tsbtechwatch@itu.int for more information
