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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Intro to Permaculture Workshop 20 Feb 2010 Sat
"Intro to Permaculture workshop" on Saturday, February 20 at 9:00am.
Permaculture says, "Please pass this on to those who might be interested! We'll have a short free intro seminar too, probably the night before, soon to be announced!".
Event: Intro to Permaculture workshop
What: Workshop
Start Time: Saturday, February 20 at 9:00am
End Time: Sunday, February 21 at 6:00pm
Where: Tampa, FL
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=422792645146&mid=1b566eeG50b6e685G159c6a7G7
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Young Girl who Silenced the World for 5 minutes
Friday, January 8, 2010
2nd International Conference: Climate, Sustainability, and Development
Invitation Letter
Call for Participation: 2nd International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-arid Regions—ICID 2010
Call for Papers, Panels and Round Tables
Linking Climate and Development Research, Policy and Action
We invite your participation in the Second International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-Arid Regions—ICID 2010—in Fortaleza, Brazil from 16 to 20 August 2010.
What actions follow Copenhagen? How can negotiators, policy makers, scientists and practitioners translate global agreements into practice on the ground? By focusing on the links between policy, knowledge and practice, ICID 2010 aims to turn intentions into local development outcomes.
ICID 2010 will generate, consolidate and synthesize the policy-actionable knowledge on climate change, climate variability and development in dry lands. ICID 2010 will explore vulnerability, impacts, and adaptive societal responses, translating findings into effective public-policy recommendations and agendas for research and training in support of improved policy making, implementation, and sustainable wellbeing.
ICID 2010 is a global forum for:
· Climate and development scholars, policy makers, planners and practitioners to share hopes, aspirations, experience and learning;
· Representatives from the environmental UN Conventions—UNFCCC, UNCBD and UNCCD—to share learning on national action plans for dry lands of the world;
· National and local representatives (legislators and mayors) to inform and learn from each other and from activists, practitioners and scholars;
· Scholars and practitioners to share findings and establish new agendas of mutual interest;
· Policy makers and climate and development professionals to integrate insights from social and climate sciences into adaptation and development policy and practice;
· All participants to identify and promote South-South cooperation in research, education and experiences of adaptation and sustainable development; and
· All participants to inform priorities and agendas with recommendations for global, national and local policy processes.
ICID 2010 is organized around four ICID 2010 themes focused on arid and semi-arid regions:
· Theme 1: Climate Information—forecast, scenarios, and data use;
· Theme 2: Climate and Sustainable Development—vulnerability, impacts, adaptation, and wellbeing;
· Theme 3: Climate and Governance—representation, rights, equity, and justice; and
· Theme 4: Climate Policy Processes—formulation, implementation, monitoring and performance of public policies.
The products of ICID exchanges and deliberations will include the Declaration of Fortaleza, with policy and project recommendations from participants, a conference contribution CD, and multiple publications including at least one edited volume of ICID 2010 contributions.
Please submit proposals for individual papers, topical panels, posters, and roundtables; policy-oriented “thematic-streams” panel series; films, performances and art exhibits. Please submit all proposals by 30 January 2010.
Please distribute this call for participation to your networks of interested parties.
We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Fortaleza.
Sincerely,
Antonio Rocha Magalhães, Director, and
Jesse C. Ribot (University of Illinois), President, Scientific Committee
Executive Secretariat
Center for Strategic Studies and Management
Phone: +55-61-3424-9608
E-mail: contact@icid18.org
Web Page: http://www.icid18.org/
Dr. Brundtland speech
Dear Amanda, As tens of thousands of you have been adding your messages of support to The Wall, here in Copenhagen countless meetings and first of their kind conversations are happening every day -- between heads of state, Fortune 500 CEOs, media figures, NGO advocates and activists from all over the world. It's a great sign of progress, since it will take an unparalleled level of cooperation to forge global climate solutions and put them into action. We captured one of these conversations for you, between the President and CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, Maggie L. Fox, and Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and a leader in the fight against climate change. As Dr. Brundtland makes clear, more than anything else it will take everyone working together to create meaningful action on a global scale. Dr. Brundtland and her colleagues from around the world are looking to the U.S. to take up the mantle of leadership this week on climate change -- all are eagerly awaiting remarks from President Obama on Friday. As American officials continue to address the world through the Conference this week, they're looking to us to show our commitment at home as well. People like you and me play a key role in encouraging our leaders to take action, and it's vital that we continue to voice our passion for solutions and action on The Wall. Let's send a clear signal to our leaders and to all those gathered in Copenhagen: Americans are ready to lead the way -- starting with what we do right here at home. We have arrived at the moment, the world is watching, and the opportunity to reach a global agreement is before us. Watch Maggie Fox's conversation with the former Prime Minister of Norway and show your commitment on The Wall. http://acp.repoweramerica.org/mfghb Thanks, Giselle Barry Communications Director Repower America |
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Obama in Copenhagen Speech/ Alliance for Climate Protection
Wow. It was a truly dynamic convening of thinkers, leaders and activists here in Copenhagen this past week. And today, President Obama addressed this historic occasion and the full conference with a call for international cooperation and action.
Affirming the global impact of a clean energy economy and the urgency of the climate crisis, President Obama recognized the progress made here at COP15 and reasserted America's pledge to forward the work of the conference agenda back home in the United States.
With the steps taken in Copenhagen over the course of the last two weeks, our work at the Alliance is more important than ever -- and the President needs to hear about your commitment to clean energy and climate protection now more than ever before.
What the President asked of the world today we must now ask of our own nation -- to put aside the politics of the day and embrace a spirit of cooperation and bold action. For the workers who need jobs, our families who want security, and for our children who deserve the prosperity, safety, and health that a clean energy future will bring through American leadership.
Watch the speech and send your message about clean energy and climate solutions to the President and your leaders.
The United States needs to make these goals a reality. As the President himself said, he can't do it alone:
With all the momentum we have built this past year, and the steps forward at Copenhagen, we can proudly state that we have established a foundation for global progress to address the climate crisis. The United States can and should be the cornerstone of these efforts. But the President is relying on us to keep up the pressure to make sure this happens.
Watch the speech and let the President and your leaders know you support bold action today:
http://acp.climateprotect.org/bocop15
Thank you for being a part of this historic climate meeting at Copenhagen. It has been a rewarding experience this past week, and I'm looking forward to getting back to the U.S. and to our work together building a clean energy future for our country and our planet.
Thanks,
Maggie L. Fox
President and CEO
Alliance for Climate Protection
Pachamama Alliance: New Moon Update December 2009
This Issue Web Links |
Give the Gift of Pachamama for the Holidays! Gift a donation to the Pachamama Alliance on behalf of Share your commitment to helping preserve the world's tropical rainforests and the indigenous people who are its natural custodians and help bring about a world that is environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and social just. A special gift has been donated by Pachamama friend John Gray for those who donate $1000 or more as an individual, or $1500 as a couple. Learn more... Pachamama Supports Cross Border Network Pachamama Supports Cross Border Network in Gaining Official Status The Cross-Border Network for the Protection of Ancestral Territories recently completed its second annual Meeting in Iquitos, Peru, bringing together 40 participants from 5 countries and representing 13 indigenous groups divided by national borders to share experiences, identify a common cross-border agenda, and develop a work plan for 2010. Pachamama has provided ongoing financial and logistical support for the Network, and developed the methodology and materials utilized in this event. Learn more: Youth Initiative Officially Launched The Awakening the Dreamer Youth Initiative was officially launched in November! Learn about the latest activities in South Africa, Ecuador, Oregon, Maryland and New Mexico.
The Pachamama Alliance's Awakening the Dreamer Program makes available Facilitator Trainings around the world for people who have the desire and commitment to deliver the Symposium in their own communities and beyond. For more information and upcoming Trainings...
January 22, 2010 7:00 pm, Corte Madera, CA State of the World Forum presents: Recently State of the World Forum (SWF) has partnered with Bioneers and Pachamama Alliance to create a bold ten-year campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2020. This is a time for civil society to lead the way since our governments are not acting quickly enough. The Women’s 2020 Leadership Caucus is offering a feminine force for change that empowers the full potential of women (and men, too, who wish to explore this approach) to affect meaningful progress towards climate warming reduction goals and a more sustainable, resilient, and just global future. For more information about the January 22 Gathering or the February Conference in Washington D.C., please contact June Timberlake: jtimberlake@worldforum.org OR phone: 510.364.3226 Help Us Learn About You We'd be grateful for a few moments of your time... The Pachamama Alliance is conducting a survey to learn more about you - our valued friends who keep in touch with us through the internet. If you could take a few moments to answer some quick questions, it would help us out tremendously.
Reduce the Footprint of Your Feast This season consider holiday entertaining for a small planet. Check out the following guidelines for creating a sustainable holidays. From food and decoration choices, to gifts and invitations, being sustainable doesn’t mean sacrifice. Season’s Greening! For more information, click here...
Volunteer Opportunities There are many opportunities to volunteer your skills, have fun and make a difference. We welcome your participation. Please visit our website to find out more, or contact Eve Libertone. Eve Libertone, Volunteer Coordinator
Follow Copenhagen Climate Change Talks Live 24/7 Are You Brave Enough to Say No to a High-Stress Holiday? By Bill McKibben, Grist.org If you poll Americans this time of year, far more of them regard the approaching holidays with dread than anticipation. It has long since become too busy, too expensive, too centered around acquiring that which we do not need.
Journey of a Lifetime The Pachamama Alliance offers the journey of a lifetime into the heart of the Amazon Rainforest in the pristine and remote Achuar territory. Experience a culture unlike any other in the most biodiverse and ancient forest in the world. Connect with a deeper sense of purpose and humanity through our one-of-a-kind program. Stay at Kapawi Ecolodge, one of the top 50 ecolodges in the world, and with Achuar families. Trips also include excursions into the mystic high Andes. For more information, please visit the website or contact Trip Coordinator, Pat Jackson, at trips@pachamama.org or 360-293-1806.
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Environmental Defense Fund: Copenhagen
Moments ago, President Obama reached an agreement with world leaders at the
climate conference in Copenhagen to limit global warming to no more
than 2 degrees Celsius and to require countries to list their national
actions and commitments to achieving emission reduction goals.
EDF President Fred Krupp issued the following statement in response:
"Today's agreement leaves the U.S. in control of its own destiny. We
have always known that the path to a clean energy economy goes through
Washington, D.C. As President Obama said today, strong action on
climate change is in America's national interest.
"It's the Senate's turn to speak next. Whether we move ahead with a
common-sense plan to create new manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and
reduce dependence on foreign oil is not up to other countries; it's up
to us. A year from now we can be further ahead or further behind, and
the Senate will make the difference.
"Today's agreement takes the first important steps toward true
transparency and accountability in an international climate agreement.
The sooner the U.S. speaks through Senate legislation, the sooner we
can set the terms of engagement for talks to come."
If it wasn't already clear, it is now: The 21st century will be a
clean energy century.
The question before us is what role will America play in
developing the technologies and clean energy solutions in the coming
decades?
It's up to us to urge our Senators to follow the leadership of
President Obama and seize this opportunity to cap our carbon
emissions, create millions of jobs and unleash our clean energy
future.
You can do two things right now to help:
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Organic Food and Film Festival Sunday January 10, 2010
Organic Food & Film Festival
Free fruit
(picture here http://www.havenhospice.org/newsletters/VolunteerVoices/VolunteerVoicesSept08_FINAL.pdf )
map
http://events.gainesville.com/gainesville-fl/venues/show/481508-dreamers-garden
I was in town last weekend & noticed it had lost all its leaves, but had a ton of fruit dangling. Robby & I shook one & a several ripe & mushy ones dropped. They were very sweet. The native ones are astringent, meaning you have to wait until they are very mushy to loose that "funny" taste. Many people unfamiliar with Persimmons don't know this, as our grocery stores toss anything that becomes ripe (it's nice to actually finally see yellow bananas in the store because the economy!).
There is also so much Rosemary that it spills over into the median (thanks Jen, another founding member!).
Forum on Religion and Ecology: United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) News Clippings
Greetings! Below you will find the latest News Clippings from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). For your convenience, we include short introductions to each story and provide URLs for the full story.
We hope you will find these news items informative and useful in your work.
http://fore.research.yale.edu/publications/massmedia/index.html
Sincerely,
Sam Mickey & Elizabeth McAnally
California Institute of Integral Studies
Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale
Web Content Managers & Newsletter Editors
UNEP
Countries attending the UN climate convention's summit in the Danish capital agreed to 'take note' of a document entitled the Copenhagen Accord.
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Irish Times
RITE & REASON: The likelihood of a climate change deal at Copenhagen is, unfortunately, receding mainly because neither the US nor China is willing to make the required cuts. While President Barack Obama has agreed to attend, the US offer to reduce carbon emissions by 17 per cent on 2005 figures by 2020 is derisory, writes Fr Sean McDonagh.
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Rich nations must assume environmental duties: pope
Reuters
VATICAN CITY - Industrialized nations must recognize their responsibility for the environmental crisis, shed their consumerism and embrace more sober lifestyles, Pope Benedict said on Tuesday.
The pope's call for more environmental commitments came in his message for the Roman Catholic Church's annual World Day of Peace, to be marked on Jan 1 and whose theme is "If You Want to Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation."
By Michelle A. Vu
Christian Post
WASHINGTON – A diverse group of religious people unveiled a giant ark on the National Mall Saturday to press world leaders in Copenhagen to create a strong, binding proposal to tackle climate change.
Organizers say the 19-foot-high ark is a warning that if world leaders do not come up with a strong plan to deal with the climate change problem, then the ark might very well be how individuals will have to live in the future.
For full story, visit:
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20091214/faith-groups-build-giant-ark-on-national-mall/
Copenhagen unites Anglicans hoping to combat climate change
By Matthew Davies
Episcopal News Service
The United Nations Climate Change Conference Dec. 7-18 in the Danish capital welcomed world and faith leaders, including Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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By Stephen Scharper
The Star
Long before Al Gore blazed an inconvenient trail into our collective moral imagination, and two decades before the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, United Church of Canada theologian David Hallman was clanging the tocsin of climate change, often to an indifferent public.
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By Riazat Butt
The Guardian
People are so paralysed by fear and selfishness they cannot save the planet, the archbishop of Canterbury said on Sunday during a church service in Copenhagen.
Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.
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By Matt Frei
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8405108.stm
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By Pamela Wood
The Christian Science Monitor
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — When Gerald Winegrad was a kid, he played baseball on grassy fields behind St. Mary's Catholic Church and School in downtown Annapolis. Over the years, as the church congregation and school enrollment grew, those grounds were paved over and turned into parking lots. Those parking lots serve as a highway for rainwater, sending it rushing into nearby Spa Creek, where it deposits chemicals, nutrients, and sediment and fouls the water.
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Gardening/2009/1209/stormwater-solution-rain-gardens-green-a-church-parking-lot
By Neena Bhandari
Inter Press Service
MELBOURNE - For the global religious community, the use of nuclear arms is an overwhelmingly important ethical issue for the human family. Thus, nothing less than the immediate abolition of such weapons is needed from the highest levels, said speakers at the Parliament of the World’s Religions currently underway in this Australian city.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49579
The National Religious Coalition on Creation Care
Press Release
Copenhagen, Denmark - As the climate summit opens in Copenhagen, a coalition of religious organizations will present a collection of statements to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging strong action to reduce greenhouse gases. This will emphasize that climate change is a moral and ethical issue because it deals with lifestyle issues and choices that all people must face.
Hindu Press International
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 8, 2009: Melbourne’s Parliament of the World’s Religions is proving to be the most influential of modern times, and the widest ever. Hindus have shown unity and extraordinary leadership releasing today the Hindu Declaration on Climate Change, marking a definitive stance of Hinduism as a religion that is aware of humankind’s role and responsibilities in Earth’s ecosystem.
http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/xpress/hindu-press-international/2009/12/07/hindu-declaration-on-climate-change/
By Peter Kenny
Ecumenical News International
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_117571_ENG_HTM.htm
Then, instead of going to Mass, the Franciscan sister boarded a plane to Copenhagen. When she arrives Monday, she'll join 20,000 other attendees at a United Nations summit on climate change, where she hopes to persuade leaders including President Obama to reach a worldwide agreement to cut pollution levels.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-12-06-climate_N.htm
Global Peace Initiative of Women
Press Release
New York, NY -A multi-faith delegation of key religious and spiritual leaders from around the world will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark from December 7-13, 2009 during the UN COP-15 Summit. The delegation’s goal is to deepen the conversation on climate change by recognizing that this environmental crisis is rooted in a profound moral and spiritual crisis.
http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=13341
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By Gustavo Solis
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican's delegation to the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, was being headed by an experienced diplomat and included experts on the environment.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, was to lead the five-person Vatican delegation at the Copenhagen conference, Vatican Radio reported. Archbishop Migliore was scheduled to speak to the UN during the Dec. 7-18 conference.
For full story, visit:
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0905342.htm
By John Cotter
The Canadian Press
TORONTO - A Canadian church-based group that does human rights and environmental sustainability work says the federal government has cancelled its funding for overseas projects without warning or reason.
Kairos, an ecumenical social justice group representing 11 different churches and organizations, said the decision by the Canadian International Development Agency will force it to stop operating in troubled areas such as Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, central America and the West Bank.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_hf5hr5a4d89&show_article=1&catnum=2
Hindus & Jews advocate inclusion of world religions in ambitious Copenhagen Climate Summit
Sampurn Media
Hindus and Jews have strongly criticized non-inclusion of world religious leaders in much-publicized and prestigious “COP 15—United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen” starting December seven.
Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent Jewish leader in Nevada and California in USA; in a joint statement in Nevada today, emphasized that for successful implementation at the grassroots level of environmental decisions coming out of this Conference, involvement of world religions and their leaders was extremely important.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-2316.html