Just read an excellent article over on AlterNet, discussing what impact Bill Gates’ big speech of a few days ago might have. Gates just announced that he’s putting his massive resources and personal clout behind the target of getting to zero carbon emissions by 2050. Globally. Zero. From the AlterNet article: Gates spoke about his [...]
Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
3 Mar
Rights of Nature
From the Towards an Eco-Economy blog comes an interesting referral to UK environmental lawyer Polly Higgins and her proposal to expand the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to all life forms. 60 years ago the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born out of the devastation of the humanitarian crisis of the Second World War. [...]
11 Dec
Live from the centre of the Earth
I’m pretty sure we’re all watching the Copenhagen summit as closely as we can, so in the hope that this is useful to y’all, here’s a rundown of some official and unofficial live TV feeds from the proceedings. World Wildlife Federation: Live broadcast every weekday at 7pm CET. Oxfam: Daily videos. OneClimate.net: 24-hour streaming feed. [...]
8 Dec
And so it begins…
Greenpeace Canada marked the opening of the Copenhagen talks yesterday in their usual fashion: by doing an awesome stunt and having a bunch of their members arrested for mischief.
3 Nov
News Flash: Everything Sucks
Well, not really (kinda?), but here are some interviews where Peter Brown talks about how bad things are and what we’ve got to do. “Our next guest calls North America a region of vast overconsumption and wastefulness, and Peter Brown is out to change that.” Let’s talk about cap and trade! Also, seeing as how [...]
27 Oct
350 in Montreal
Some days, in the environmental movement, you feel like you’re some sort of small squishy creature making brave noises just before the great corporate-political-industrial juggernaut squashes you. Some days, you feel very alone. Saturday was not one of those days. As everyone probably knows, it was the International Day of Climate Action, where people all [...]
6 Oct
The media juggernaut continues
Wow, we are on a roll here! Check out Geoff’s new interview, where he talks about the new G20 announcement.
3 Sep
Symposium videos, part one!
That’s right – the videos from the May 15-16 Montreal symposium are now ready to go! Here’s the first bunch – bear with me here, this is going to be a bit of a long post. More videos to follow shortly! Stuart Myiow gives the “words that come before all else”: Geoff Garver introduces the [...]
31 Aug
Videos – at last!
Okay, I have finally learned how to post Vimeo videos to this blog – huzzah! The following two videos are from our May symposium in Montreal. The first is Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. The second is Laurie Michaelis of the Living Witness Project. Laurie is [...]
23 Jul
More video!
We’ve got a great new video of Peter G. Brown speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. It’s a bit long, but well worth it. For anyone who wants a fairly concise explanation of what’s wrong with the global financial system and what we at the Moral Economy Project think should be done to [...]
