On December 7th they will gather to argue. This COUNTDOWN CLOCK now paints the harsh reality of how much time is left for the citizens of the world to raise a collective voice to demand that they agree. If they agree to disagree and not acknowledge our collective interdependence on our planets health, it will [...]

Peter Russell, a British author and futurist, has a mesmerizing world clock on his website. This clock doesn’t just tell time, it measures global stress issues, such as population growth, species extinctions, deforestation, and CO2 emissions. I reset the clock, sat down to read the paper, and came back an hour later. What happened in [...]

A scheduled local council vote this week will be the first step in a review process that will likely take years, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to get out the rhetorical artillery here in the heart of the Petro Belt off the New Jersey Turnpike. “This plant is a $5 billion environmental Ponzi [...]

NEW YORK — This month, the mayor of Mesa, Arizona, a city of about 500,000 inhabitants in the American Southwest, became the 1,000th local leader to sign on to a climate change agreement under the United States Conference of Mayors. In signing the compact — initiated in 2005 by Greg Nickels, the mayor of Seattle [...]

It struck me that this is the easiest damn protest I have ever been on! I’m on the COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE – WORLD HUNGER STRIKE. Here I am sitting in my favourite armchair with a glass of tomato juice in the privacy of my own home, and with others already taking part around the world, [...]