Dear friends around Europe, The Copenhagen climate summit is on the verge of collapse already — developed countries have failed to lead the way with sufficient cuts and real money to finance a deal, and trust was lost when a flawed draft by the Danish hosts leaked today. European nations have led the way on [...]
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Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem — the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2009, [...]
There is now less than a month until the UN Climate Challenge Summit in Copenhagen. Following the recent UN negotiations in Barcelona, preparing for the Climate Summit, ‘the world’s key industrialised nations said they had abandoned hope of a legally binding treaty at the Copenhagen summit next month’ (Guardian, 5th Nov) We cannot sit by [...]
