Impact of Climate Change:
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Over 800 colleges and universities, K-12 schools, civic organizations and religious groups are participating in Focus the Nation, potentially the largest simultaneous teach-in in history. (READ MORE) |
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"For the campaign against climate change is an odd one. Unlike almost all the public protests which have preceded it, it is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves."
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[George Monbiot,
Heat: How to stop the planet form burning (2007)] |
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| Article: “Turning the Warming Tide” |
| http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A24270 |
By Sue Sturgis. Indy,
(May 11, 2005)
A movement to address climate change is building across North
Carolina, but it faces opposition from powerful corporate interests.
Meanwhile, our coast is disappearing. |
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| Book: How to Live Well Without Owning a Car:
Save Money, Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out of Life.
Ten Speed Press. (2006) |
| http://www.livecarfree.com/ |
| How to Live Well without
Owning a Car is a new nonfiction book by award-winning journalist
and author Chris Balish. The book suggests taking a different
path—a car-free path. The program in this book will show
you how to live a full, active life without owning a car. And
without a car to pay for, practically anyone can get out of debt,
save money, and even achieve financial freedom. The truth is
that tens of millions of working Americans do not need to own
a car. (web description) |
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| Focus The Nation: Global Warming Solutions
for America |
| http://www.focusthenation.org/ |
| Focus the Nation is a
major educational initiative that is coordinating teams of faculty,
students and staff at over a thousand colleges universities and
high schools in the United States, to collaboratively engage
in a nationwide interdisciplinary discussion centered around
the theme of 'Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century'.
The project will culminate January 31, 2008, in the form of one-day,
national symposia held simultaneously on campuses across the
country, including the University
of Maryland. |
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| National Youth Climate Summit |
| To strengthen the movement
for real climate solutions in an effective and coordinated way,
The Energy Action Coalition is holding the first ever large national
summit with 3,000 - 5,000 young people to share best practices,
build community, learn skills and solutions, set clear and ambitious
plans for action, and impel federal action to make it happen.
Leveraging the momentum we’ve built through the Campus
Climate Challenge, the 41 partner organizations of the coalition
will take this momentum beyond our campuses to a key place where
this crisis must be addressed: Washington, DC. The summit will
take place on February 23-24th at George Washington University. |
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| The Focus Awards |
| http://www.focusthenation.org/awards/ |
| The Focus Awards recognize
organizations and individuals who have shown leadership with
regard to clean energy technology, reduction of carbon emissions,
and raising awareness about climate change. The awards recognize
that organizations and individuals can contribute in a variety
of ways. Awards will be presented in several categories: students,
religious leader, civic leaders, politician, businesses, and
media. |
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| The Climate Campaign |
| http://www.climatecampaign.org/ |
| The Climate Campaign is a youth-led coalition that brings together student
groups, local organizations, and major environmental networks throughout
the Northeast. Founded in 2003, the Climate Campaign is now active on over
125 campuses in 9 states (
Maine through
New Jersey and
Pennsylvania). The Climate Campaign aims to reduce the Northeast’s contributions
to global climate change by:
1) Fostering student leadership on climate
change 2) Leading effective campus and state/regional greenhouse gas emissions reductions
campaigns 3) Supporting the initiatives of other groups and facilitating new collaborations
between our partner organizations |
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Religion |
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| The Regeneration Project |
| http://www.theregenerationproject.org/ |
| Website for The Regeneration
Project and Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) campaign. An interfaith
ministry devoted to deepening the connection between ecology
and faith, their goal is to help people of faith recognize and
fulfill their responsibility for the stewardship of creation.
Specifically, the IPL campaign is mobilizing a national religious
response to global warming while promoting renewable energy,
energy efficiency and conservation. People of faith have an opportunity
to put their faith into action and help reduce the devastating
effects of global warming. (website description) |
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| Religious Witness for the Earth |
| http://religiouswitness.org/ |
| For newly-ordained minister
Frederick Emerson Small, it seemed clear that
faith organizations and religious groups have not been doing
enough to respond to the environmental crisis. "I wanted
to explore" says Small "how to apply the lessons of
Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. to a challenge of comparable
moral urgency." |
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| The Climate Crisis Coalition (CCC) |
| http://www.climateusa.org/ |
| The CCC connects global
warming to human rights, labor, peace, faith, sustainable business
practices, environmental justice and other issues. Our mission
is to build a broad-based coalition that can become an effective,
powerful agent for change: the development and unfolding of a
national and visible action campaign that makes it impossible
for citizens and governments to ignore the urgent demands of
the climate crisis. |
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| God and Man at NASA: A Change in Climate |
| http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412436 |
Indian Country Today. (February
10, 2006)
The skeptics of global warming have been blinded
by religious preconceptions. Their endorsement of the ''conquest
of nature'' derives from the first chapter of Genesis, as filtered
through the apostle of economics, John Locke. According to Genesis,
God created the Earth, and its plants and animals, for the sake
of mankind. But, added Locke, ''he gave it to the use of the
Industrious and Rational.'' This rationale lies at the heart
of the European settlement of America and also of modern industrialism.
It mandates constant exploitation of natural resources to provide
mankind with creature comforts, but turns a blind eye to the
condition of nature itself. The use of the Earth quickly turns
into its abuse. (from Website description) |
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| Article: “Protect God's creation: Vatican
issues new green message for world's Catholics” |
| http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2066713,00.html |
by John Vidal and Tom Kington
in Rome, The Guardian (April 27, 2007)
The Vatican yesterday added its voice to a rising chorus of warnings
from churches around the world that climate change and abuse
of the environment is against God's will, and that the one billion-strong
Catholic church must become far greener. At a Vatican conference
on climate change, Pope Benedict urged bishops, scientists and
politicians - including UK environment secretary David Miliband
- to "respect creation" while "focusing on the
needs of sustainable development". |
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| Media: ”Is God Green?” (Moyer’s
in America Series) |
| http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/green/index.html |
A new holy war is growing
within the conservative evangelical community, with implications
for both the global environment and American politics. For years
liberal Christians and others have made protection of the environment
a moral commitment. Now a number of conservative evangelicals
are joining the fight, arguing that man's stewardship of the
planet is a biblical imperative and calling for action to stop
global warming.
But they are being met head-on by opposition from their traditional
evangelical brethren who adamantly support the Bush administration
in downplaying the threat of global warming and other environmental
perils. The political stakes are high: Three out of every four
white evangelical voters chose George W. Bush in 2004. "Is
God Green?" explores how a serious split among conservative
evangelicals over the environment and global warming could reshape
American politics. |
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"The
ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to
sacrifice something today for future generations whose words
of thanks will not be heard." |
[Gaylord Nelson former
governor of Wisconsin,
co-founder of Earth Day] |
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Organizations |
| No War No Warming |
| http://www.nowarnowarming.org/ |
No War, No Warming came together in February of 2007 when leaders from a number of anti-war and climate groups began to discuss how we could better link the interrelated issues of global warming and the war in Iraq, and how we could strengthen mutual support between the peace/justice movement and the climate crisis movement.
These discussions led to a public Call to Action for climate groups, and other groups, to support anti-war actions around the country in mid-March on the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and for anti-war and other groups to support the April 14th Step It Up climate actions. 50 organizations have endorsed that call.
A national "intervention" will take place on Capitol Hill on Monday, October 22 to demand an end to the war in Iraq and strong action on the climate crisis. The urgency of these issues requires an escalation of our present activities, thus the intervention would involve nonviolent civil disobedience.
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| Pew Center on Global Climate Change |
| http://www.pewclimate.org/ |
The Pew Center on Global
Climate Change was established in 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan
and independent organization. The Center's mission is to provide
credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions
in the effort to address global climate change.
Working on an issue that is often polarized and politicized,
the Pew Center provides a forum for objective research and
analysis and for the development of pragmatic policies and
solutions. In its first eight years, the Pew Center has become
a leading voice for sensible action to address the most pressing
global environmental problem of the 21st century. |
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| The Climate Institute |
| http://www.climate.org |
| Based on Washington DC,
the Climate Institute has been in a unique position to inform
key decision-makers, heighten international awareness of climate
change, and identify practical ways of achieving significant
emissions reductions. This has been done through several different
media including symposia, conferences, roundtables, and special
briefings. These have been carried out not only in the U.S.,
Canada, Australia, Japan and Europe but also in as many as 30
developing countries providing expert advice at ministerial and
heads of state briefings and at sessions with business executives
and private citizens. (Website description) |
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| U.S. Climate Emergency Council |
| http://www.ckimateemergency.org |
| The U.S. Climate Emergency Council is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to rigorous grassroots action in the fight
to stop global warming and promote a clean energy future. |
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| Northwest Earth Institute |
| http://www.nwei.org/NWEI/Global%20Warming.html |
| The Northwest Earth Institute
is recognized as a national leader in developing innovative programs
that empower individuals and organizations to protect the earth.
These programs emphasize individual responsibility, the importance
of a supportive community, and the dual need to walk lightly
on and to take action for the earth. |
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| Energy Action Coalition |
| http://www.energyaction.net |
| Energy Action Coalition,
founded on June 6th, 2004, is a project of 41 major environmental
and social justice organizations in the U.S. and Canada working
to unify the growing student and youth movement for clean energy. |
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| Global Commons Institute |
| http://www.gci.org.uk/ |
| The Global Commons Institute
(GCI) is an independent group concerned with the protection of
the global commons, heritage of all humanity. It comprises those
features of the geo-biosphere - such as forests, biodiversity,
oceans and global atmosphere- that in combination form the global
climate system. GCI was founded by Audrey Meyers in 1990 after
the Second World Climate Conference. Since that time GCI has
contributed to the work of the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UN FCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC). |
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| Cooler Heads Coalition |
| http://www.globalwarming.org/index.php |
| This is a market-oriented
website, a project of the Cooler Heads Coalition, also a sub-group
of the National Consumer Coalition. The Cooler Heads Coalition
formed May 6, 1997 to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing
flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis. Coalition members
will also follow the progress of the international Global Climate
Change Treaty negotiations. Critical of global warming. It has
resources for students. |
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People |
| Biopic: Talking ‘Bout My Generation |
| http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/champions/2004_sep |
| Frequently, an individual,
organization, or company comes along that stands out among the
climate change advocacy crowd. Clean Air-Cool Planet applauds
the ambitious initiatives of people and institutions that are
willing to take extra steps to kindle energy, awareness, and
advocacy toward the problem of global warming. Often these activists
take time out of their everyday lives to invigorate their communities,
workplaces, or homes with fresh attitudes and innovative ideas.
According to Billy Parish, founder of the Climate Campaign, developing
sustainable U.S. energy policies and attitudes is "an awesome,
and a sobering, responsibility for the youth community." One
Billy has taken up with gusto. (Website description) |
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| Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point: How Politicians,
Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the
Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. Basic
Books, 2004.
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| Denouncing the oil and coal industries as "criminals against
humanity," Gelbspan justifies his use of that label by communicating
his sincere belief that human civilization is in mortal peril
from global warming. Yet he recognizes that the American public
is not as alarmed as he is, so the first half of his work dissects
the forces he alleges are keeping Americans in ignorant thrall.
They are the fossil fuel lobby, the current Bush administration,
and journalism. An ex-member of the Fourth Estate, Gelbspan denounces
it for inadequate coverage of global warming, and when covering
it, for giving equal weight to the arguments of skeptical scientists.
In the second half, after criticizing local environmental gestures
and proposed free-market solutions as insufficient, Gelbspan
presents his proposals for separating civilization from its hydrocarbon
appetite. Key to the program is the establishment of an international
organization to fund green technologies, financed by a global
tax on international currency transactions. If ExxonMobil is
your enemy, Gelbspan is your champion. (Review by Gilbert
Taylor) |
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| Rick Piltz, Director of Climate Science Watch |
| http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/ |
| Climate Science Watch is
a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated
to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and
effectiveness with which they use climate science and related
research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling
society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global
warming and climate change. |
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Multimedia |
| GreenPeace:
Interactive Multimedia |
| http://www.exxonsecrets.org/ |
| Created by Greenpeace this flash site allows
you ExxonMobil funds the climate change skeptics. User can map the connections
between scientists, corporations, think tanks, conservative institutions
founded by ExxonMobil with more than $12,000,000 since 1983. Also it is
possible to read fact sheets, see organizations the different people and
institutions belong to, and track the sources of information. |
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| Documentary: " Texas Gold" (USA,
2005) |
| http://www.texasgoldmovie.com/ |
| When Diane
Wilson, a mother of five and a fourth-generation fisherwoman, discovered
that her home, Calhoun County, Texas, had been named one of the
most toxic places in America, she decided to take on the giants
of the petro-chemical industry that were poisoning her community
and knowingly devastating its once thriving fishing industry.
Texas Gold profiles Wilson's decade and a half of brave actions, actions
that have earned her the title of "unreasonable woman." |
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| Movie: "Erin Brockovich" (USA, 2000) |
| A barely qualified clerk
in a law office uncovers evidence that a large electric utility
has poisoned the water supply of Hinkley, California, with toxic
chromium, causing disease and death among many locals. Erin Brockovich's
efforts to find facts and push through a major lawsuit were central
to the ultimate $333M award. Julia Roberts' brassy, convincing
performance brings the drama home. Based on a true story. |
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