Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category

Al Gore Should Get a Nobel Prize

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis is a work of stunning importance. This is the only book I am aware of that lays out a comprehensive picture of the problems causing the climate crisis; the realistic and feasible solutions; and what it will take financially, politically, and emotionally to get there.

COP15 Was NOT a Failure – Here’s Why

COP15 was unprecedented outpouring of concern, support and effort by tens of thousands of people in person and many more via virtual and electronic participation.

Mainstream reporting of climate change takes a hit

Mainstream media reporting took a major blow with the announcement that Andy Revkin has resigned from the New York Times.

COP15 Photo Journal #1

The formal UN meeting is at the Bella Center, but much of the action if you are not involved with the actual negotiations, are at side events.  Some side events are formal, open-to-the-public conferences, such as the Klimaforum (civil society, youth, activists and artists) and International Emissions Trading Association (cleantech business people); other side events [...]

COP15 – Blog Post #2

How do you like the creative title of this post – catchy, eh?
Morning woke cold, overcast with a resounding 10 minute ring of church bells. I thought it was a reprise of the 350 demonstration, but it turns out that is normal custom here every morning.  Security at the Bella Center was stricter, due to [...]

COP15 – First blog post

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the convening body of the Copenhagen climate talks.  This is the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (meaning countries), so it is called COP15.  Right now, there is so much attention focused on these talks that the terms Copenhagen and COP15 are used interchangeably.  [...]

Just the Facts, Ma’am

The Web 2.0 rises with a tsunami of (over) information, dis-information and attention-sucking links and hyper-links.  At the same time, traditional media becomes more static, unbalanced and sensationalized.  My goal in writing this blog is to provide credible, realistic information and pointers to others who are doing the same.
One common theme in my work is [...]

14 Days to Seal History

Do we only have fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation, as the Guardian and 56 other newspapers are proclaiming today?
In an unprecedented joint effort, an editorial calling for decisive action in Copenhagen will be published tomorrow by 56 newspapers around the world in 20 languages including Chinese, Arabic and Russian. Most of [...]

Its Getting Hot in Here!

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the largest, most complex collaboration of people working together on a common problem from all over the world. The scientists involved with this work received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for their work.  The IPCC process is not perfect; finalizing all of the findings takes [...]

Linking Aspiration and Perspiration

Adam Werbach, CEO of Saatchi S, has all the green credentials anyone could want: youngest president of the Sierra Club at age 23. At the Net Impact conference last week, Adam talked about his work inspiring companies to innovate.  He discussed 2 key concepts that were noteworthy for how they linked the highest aspirations with most mundane actions. Let’s shoot [...]