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Comment by Mike Lowe on December 3, 2010 at 1:10am

It's encouraging to see the interfaith movement in Cancun praying for COP16.
http://environment.change.org/blog/view/cancun_faith_groups_gather_...

Comment by Jeremy Taylor on June 3, 2010 at 10:13am

Some information about my project.... Earth Survey Project - Please Participate!!

Comment by anneliese on April 29, 2010 at 7:28am

Mike, the website is
marshmead.mlc.vic.edu.au
The program is 8 weeks long and focuses on sustainability within a community, with oneself and with the environment.

Comment by World Silent Day on March 20, 2010 at 1:46pm

Dear friends,

We invite you to join the
Third Annual
WORLD SILENT DAY
21 MARCH 2010
from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm

REDUCE the use of motorized vehicles and energy.

SWITCH OFF some ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES
(computer, AC, TV, radio, cell phone, some lamps, etc)
FOR 4 HOURS ONLY !!


World Silent Day is an initiative first presented at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP13) in December 2007 in Bali, Indonesia.


World Silent Day is a community campaign to help tackle climate change through traditional wisdom of silence.

It is inspired by one of the Indonesia’s traditional wisdom heritage is Trihitakarana philosophy from Bali that governs a harmonious relationship between human being with God, human being with another human being, and human being with nature; this can be a basis for sustainable development. One of the practical implementations of Trihitakarana is the Nyepi or Silent Day conducted for 24 hours in Bali during the Saka New Year.


March 21 is selected for WORLD SILENT DAY because the sun is at vernal equinox point, moving from the equator towards the north. This symbolizes the shift to a new life. The next day, March 22 is the World Water Day, also symbolic of life.


With appreciation,
- Bali Collaboration for Climate Change
www.worldsilentday.org


Kindly share this message forward to friends and colleagues.

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Comment by Mike Lowe on February 14, 2010 at 6:29am

I agree with you Anneliese. I see it in my own kids and find it hard to know what to do about it. I'm interested in the camp you run. Do you have a website?

Comment by anneliese on February 14, 2010 at 5:59am

Mike, it is more than just youth feeling they don't have the power to change things. It is the lifestyle and culture in which many live (in the West) that has an effect on the way youth approach climate change. I work at a camp where we educate students about sustainable living and climate change. When students leave the camp back to the city they find it hard to implement sustainable living principles in their own life and it boils down to the consumerist values that underscore the culture. I agree; initatives like low carbon-economy are important. we all need to 'think global, act local'.

Comment by Mike Lowe on February 8, 2010 at 6:17pm

As a father of two teenage boys I think that many young people feel they don't have power to change things. We have to give them that hope. On Sunday 14th in Melbourne there is the launch of the Transition Decade - a growing coalition of groups who take responsibility to make the transition to a low-carbon economy over the next ten years. Initiatives like this are very important. We must give up trying to work on our own and come together in coalitions for change.

Comment by david muya on February 8, 2010 at 1:04pm

Climate change and environment protection is particularly relevant and important to the youth because the future climate belongs to them. they should be fully involved in the issues of climate change. is anyone concerned about this?

Comment by Rev. Doju Dinajara Freire on January 10, 2010 at 11:52am

Dears friends,
English is not my main language... sorry, but I just wouldlike share with you some words.
I was in Copenhagen during COP15 last december whith GPIW team (The Global Peace Initiative of Women - www.gpiw.org) because we did there an interfaith meeting about Climate Change : with us many persons ad Bikkhu Bodhi, Sister Joan Chittister, Sister Joan Campbell, Dena Merriam, Andrew Harvey, Sufi Rehman Muhaiyaddeen, Swami Pramananda, Kuky Gallmann, etc...
So, we hope to continue try to develop more and more an international work about this focus.

With deep trust on Pure Light of Life,
with Love
Doju

Comment by David Carlson on January 7, 2010 at 10:02am

Here's one of the best recent statements on Climate Change from a Weather Watcher friend, Craig Heden, a scientist in California. He's responding to a discussion about a Weather Channel video posting by John Coleman, which was full of misinformation.

In brief, my understanding of climate change, it's multi-dimensional. No reason to doubt or fail to act in the realm of climate change when there's a painfully cold arctic outbreak.

"I think of our earth climate and environs as a superbly crafted symphony, with dozens of different instruments all blending into one all-encomposing sound. Solar effects, volcanic eruptions, dust (both natural and man-made), atmospheric compositions, etc. all play their own part. Individually, each are less than the whole, some are bigger than others, some subtle and some thunderous...but if one goes flat, or not obeys the directions of The Conductor, the music/sound can become quickly altered. When one thinks on how pollution changes the IR adsorption rate of the oceans, how natural and man-made smoke and dust can cool the planet, how greenhouse gasses trap long band IR and in turn heat the planet, how volcanic dust from volcanic eruptions like Krakatoa can bring snow during summer and years of drought and famine around the world, how sunspots seem to correlate to reduced global rainfall such as the dust bowl years in the mid-1930's (hint, hint) it is easy to see how even trivial events like a simple volcano can disrupt climate for years or centuries. And J.C. thinks that the gazillion tonnes of CO2 and smoke we've been throwing into the air for the last century is not having an effect? I hold that conclusion with the same confidence as those who say we never went to the moon or the earth is only 6,000 yrs old. Sorry, but I'm not blind.

So without getting too deep into the physics of it all and boring everyone (except Parker) to tears, I say this to Mr. Smuggy:

So if greenhouse gasses are increasing, and the laws of physics say long band IR gets trapped by CO2, Methane and Sulphuric acid, then why ISN"T the planet warming? Maybe we're throwing so much dust and smoke and crap into our oceans and into the atmosphere so as to counter-act the greenhouse effect? Is that what you're saying? Or maybe, just like after Krakatoa, when the planet first cooled then warmed (same for Mt. Pinatubo and Mt. St. Helens), we're getting exactly what is expected. "

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