The human face of the existing impact of Climate Change is now being quantified. Climate Change is a human crisis where the poor of the world are already suffering significant illness, loss of life and livelihood.
Report projects that by 2030, worldwide deaths will reach almost 500,000 per year; people affected by climate change annually expected [...]
Archive for the ‘Catalysts for Action’ Category
Global Humanitarian Forum – Climate Change responsible for 300,000 deaths a year
Posted in Catalysts for Action, Climate Change, Food Security, Water Shortages, tagged Climate Change, Food Security, Global Humanitarian Forum, human crisis, Kofi Annan on 14, June, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
We need to repair enviromental damage while we still can
Posted in Catalysts for Action, Earthwatching, tagged Aral Sea, Climate Change Impacts, Environmental Damage, Google Earth, UNEP, Water Shortages on 16, April, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
A good example of significant environmental damage from overstretching natural resources is the decline of the Aral Sea.
Thanks to George who sent me this link to UNEP and Google Earth views of the decline and partial recovery of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, once the fourth largest inland sea.
A history of really bad management [...]
Environmental Surprise – or why good and bad things happen faster than you anticipate
Posted in Blogroll, Catalysts for Action, Sustainability Science on 8, August, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
The Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2000, Chapter 2 on Environmental Surprise is essential reading for anyone thinking about Future Proofing or Sustainable Futures.
Can you remember back to a lazy summer day at school or uni. You’re thinking of the weekend, not paying too much attention to the person droning on, and [...]
End of the Free Lunch -Energy Dependence & Peak Supplies – Oil, Nuclear & Coal
Posted in Catalysts for Action, Peak Energy on 28, July, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
Peak Oil is increasingly hitting the print headlines and getting media exposure, and we ignore these warnings at our peril. As with the Ozone Depletion issue, Tobacco causing death and illness, Asbestos being good for you, there are a whole stack of people with vested interests or self-delusions saying…. just don’t worry, keep consuming.
In doing [...]
Biodiversity more precious/vital/essential than previous assessments
Posted in Catalysts for Action, Sustainability Science on 14, July, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
Anyone with an environmental awareness or interest has known that biodiversity is essential, and species extinction and habitat loss are a really bad idea. Now the research is coming in that shows that our complex planet, depends on the maintenance of that biodiversity. Two scientists from the University of Zurich found that “We may [...]
Global Warming Resources
Posted in Catalysts for Action, Climate Chaos, Sustainability Science, Sustainability is Information Intensive on 4, July, 2007, | Leave a Comment »
NASA Earth Observatory
Global Warming Questions & Answers
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/GlobalWarmingQandA/
July 28, 2007
On May 11, 2007, the Earth Observatory published Global Warming, a fact sheet outlining the basic principles behind the science of global warming. This follow-up article of questions and answers is based on questions from readers and other common questions about global warming. Many scientists and writers [...]
The Cost of Permaculture Courses
Posted in Blockages to Change, Catalysts for Action, Permaculture, The personal costs of sustainability on 20, June, 2007, | 1 Comment »
On the basis of the Web world being ethereal and ever changing, I copy the WordPress Blog Sustainability Unfolding to this site as Nigel raises some valid issue.
Perma($$)culture
March 12th, 2007
I bought Permaculture: A Designers Manual last week. It was 137$ — probably the single most expensive book I’ve bought since university. That’s a lot of [...]
Gidday
Posted in Catalysts for Action, Musings on Life on 18, June, 2007, | 1 Comment »
It was my friend Hippiechic that first got me interested in Blogs with her interesting livejournal entries, and then feedback from one of Hippiechic’s aunts that she liked the debate and content that I had contributed to. I tried with Livejournal and it would have been a great way on interacting more on the [...]
