Archive for December 14th, 2007

Avaaz.org; Bali conference; the U.S., Canada & Japan main obstacles to saving the world

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Click on this picture to see the full page ad Avaaz published in a Bali paper.

Click on the quote below to sign an emergency petition.

“We call urgently for the US, Canada and Japan to stop blocking serious 2020 targets for emissions reductions, and for the rest of the world to refuse to accept anything less.”

Here are a few related sites:

UN Climate Change Conference 2007

United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Bali Climate Change Draft Drops 25-40% Emissions Cuts (Update5)

You can Google for more.

I also found Celsias’ site, and was happy to see environmental site that listed two things I care about, but rarely hear anyone else mention: #’s 31 & 32. Click on this picture to read their list of “Fifty Things We Can Do”:


Also, please take a couple of minutes to watch the videos at the top and bottom of that page.

“You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”

– Mahatma Gandhi


Here’s some older, but related news that I just found:

Meat production ‘beefs up emissions’ [Guardian]

Can we cool the Earth by eating less red meat?
Methane from livestock has experts and food-service think tank at odds [MSNBC]



(Today’s post bumped ‘HSUS’ Press Release mentions The Episcopal Church’ from the home page.)