This video was made back in 1992, but was only posted to Youtube in the last few months. Severn Suzuki addresses the 1992 Conference on Climate change.
It is a powerful, intense and a poignant reminder to all Green Parties in the world what out mission is: long term ecological sustainability for our species, not to mention a powerful argument for lowering the voting age.
Lest we forget.
By Charlie Westonm the Independant
NOBODY could accuse bankers of suddenly becoming sandal-wearing eco warriors who recycle their newspapers and feed a compost bin with potato peelings.
But there is a move among the pin-striped folk who staff our banks to go green.
AIB announced recently that it would reward customers with up to €2,000 in cash for playing their part in helping the environment.
The bank said that from July, new and existing AIB customers can claim cash back if they opt for one of AIB’s new Green Line initiatives.
By CHRISTEL KUCHARZ
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has placed global warming high on the agenda for the upcoming G-8 summit, due to begin in the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, Germany, early next week.
If Merkel, who currently holds the rotating G-8 chair, has her way, the leaders of the world’s leading industrial nations will agree on a binding commitment to reduce greenhouse emissions.
The United States, among other countries, has so far resisted any such commitment and has refused to agree to concrete emissions reduction goals, making it very difficult, if not impossible, for Merkel to reach a joint G-8 position on that subject.
Peace and sustainability are the cornerstones of humanity’s survival in the 21st century. The major challenges facing humanity today are global – climate change, accessible fresh water, ever decreasing bio-diversity and over population. Problems that call for global solutions and these solutions will require co-operation on a global scale unparalleled in history. Peace is the essential prerequisite, for, without peace, how can the major nations of the world co-operate to solve these issues?
The Global Peace Index is a ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. It is the first time that an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identified some of the drivers of that peace. 121 countries have been ranked by their ‘absence of violence’, using metrics that combine both internal and external factors. Most people understand the absence of violence as an indicator of peace. This definition also allows for the measuring of peacefulness within, as well as between, nations.
by Isabel de Pommereau, Common Dreams.org
It’s pickup time at the Vauban kindergarten here at the edge of the Black Forest, but there’s not a single minivan waiting for the kids. Instead, a convoy of helmet-donning moms - bicycle trailers in tow - pedal up to the entrance.
Welcome to Germany’s best-known environmentally friendly neighborhood and a successful experiment in green urban living. The Vauban development - 2,000 new homes on a former military base 10 minutes by bike from the heart of Freiburg - has put into practice many ideas that were once dismissed as eco-fantasy but which are now moving to the center of public policy.
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