Gaia – an open source community celebrating nature
It all started in 2007, with five people discussing how we could support our environment in an online forum. My four friends and I talked about how we could raise awareness of the beauty of nature and...
View ArticleIt’s the internet, stupid!
Everyone loves a good debate. What follows is Jamie Henn’s response to an article by UK environmentalist George Monbiot in the Guardian news. George laments that the international political will to...
View ArticleLetter to Ian Katz, February 10, 2010: Climate action – a new beginning
Scrolling through my sent mail file, I came across this email I sent to Ian Katz at the Guardian news back in February. I laughed when I read it. I had forgotten I’d written to Ian in response to his...
View ArticleWhat I learned at Movement Camp
Take a Drupal back-end enabling user-generated video uploads. Add two video portals, side by side, linked from Justin.tv, and configured so that participants can go live at the push of a button. Add an...
View ArticleThe Future We Got – Earth Date Zero Plus Twenty
This is a contribution to an unconventional book project called “The Future We Deserve” – the brainchild of Vinay Gupta, funded via Kickstarter. —————————————— There are some dates that can only be...
View ArticleCoalition Movement Camp II: Connecting the Dots
Coalition Movement Camp II: Connecting the Dots November 14, 2010, 2.00pm to 6pm EDT: http://movementcamp.org The Coalition Movement Camp series brings new players and possibilities into view and...
View ArticleMessage to the negotiators at Cancun
For the last three million years natural CO2 levels hovered around 280 parts per million (PPM). But since 1750 they abruptly (in geological time) increased to today’s 390 PPM. Life’s stability on the...
View ArticleSonnet for Cancun
The chat-fest at Cancun inspires many reactions. Paul Horan has recommended the following passage, an excerpt from the Sonnets to Orpheus, by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. I hope it resonates...
View ArticleWar, what’s it good for?
One recurring criticism of ‘Coalition of the Willing’ concerns the use of ‘war talk’ in the film. Do we really want governments to launch a ‘war’ on global warming? If they refuse to issue the call to...
View ArticleClimate skeptics – check the facts!
Since America has experienced severe snowstorms this winter, the climate skeptics are out in droves poking fun at how “Al Gore’s liberals” use every weather event to prove global warming. I’m not sure...
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