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Archive for 'Interviews with Activists'

There’s No Time Like Now to Be an Activist

I applauded Mickey Z for this exceptional and inspiring piece of writing, his perception of how every one of us needs to be galvanised into personal action and why echoes many of the goals of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation. Thank you Mickey – Bob Williamson Founder & Chair. There’s no time like now to be [...]

Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So

Katherine Ventura of the Huffington Post writes about Monday’s discussion between Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey and Ai Weiwei: “Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources,” Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei said at the Paley Center for Media in New York Monday night, after challenging Twitter founder Jack Dorseyto make [...]

Jane Goodall’s 50 years

CNN’s Max Foster interviews anthropologist and U.N. Messenger for Peace Jane Goodall as our Connector of the Day. Want a weekly update of all the greatest posts on the web? Subscribe for a weekly email and never miss a story! Email to Bob Williamson in the subject line type SUBSCRIBE var showHover=false;

Sundance Founder Robert Redford on His Life, His Activism and the Importance of Independent Films

Democracy Now! broadcasts from Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s largest festival for independent cinema. Today, we spend the hour with Robert Redford. He’s well known as an actor, but part and parcel of who he is is an activist. He took his success and leveraged it to promote his [...]

An uplifting story of commitment from a fellow Australian I admire

Ian Cleland – Citizen of Earth. Is the Walking Man! The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation is not about talk without action. Ian Cleland is not about talk without action; he is an inspiration to everyone that action can and will be the change we need to see in the world. Ian; from me and the Foundation [...]

Japanese Whaling Ship Rams High-Tech Activist Boat – Video Action

In one of the most serious incidents between activists and Japanese whalers on the high seas, a Japanese whaling ship struck a futuristic, “Batmobile” boat piloted by activists who are trying to stop the whale hunt. The boat had its bow sheared off in the frigid waters of the Antarctica. The six people aboard were [...]

Lord Monckton Debates Greenpeace Activist

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‘It’s Not the Kind of Thing Where You Can Compromise’ James Hansen

Climate scientist James Hansen talks about global warming, Copenhagen, and his new book. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the world’s most famous climatologists. He testified at a 1988 U.S. Senate hearing that the emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was already producing [...]

An activist’s guide to Copenhagen

What’s on, who’s there and where to stay. Click here for a calendar of actions during the conference Oxfam members wearing masks of world leaders offer a Copenhagen menu to other members representing poor countries last month in Barcelona. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images Never mind the boring old delegates at next month’s climate talks in [...]

Copenhagen activists’ diary

  Thousands of activists from all over the world will soon descend on Copenhagen with one message: that world leaders must agree a deal that will be effective in reducing global emissions, and be fair for the people most vulnerable to climate change. Hundreds of mainstream NGOs, such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, [...]