Climate skeptics – check the facts!
Posted on 25. Feb, 2011 by richard_whiteford in The movement
Since America has experienced severe snowstorms this winter, the climate skeptics are out in droves poking fun at how “Al Gore’s liberals” use every weather event to prove global warming. I’m not sure how climate change, or global warming, got politicized because its ramifications will impact conservatives and liberals; Republicans and Democrats alike. It’s easy [...]
War, what’s it good for?
Posted on 21. Dec, 2010 by timrayner in The movement
One recurring criticism of ‘Coalition of the Willing’ concerns the use of ‘war talk’ in the film. Do we really want governments to launch a ‘war’ on global warming? If they refuse to issue the call to arms, should we expect civil society to launch this war itself? This is what we suggest in the [...]
Sonnet for Cancun
Posted on 08. Dec, 2010 by timrayner in The movement
The chat-fest at Cancun inspires many reactions. Paul Horan has recommended the following passage, an excerpt from the Sonnets to Orpheus, by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. I hope it resonates with you as much as it does with us. ^TR ————————————————————— The Machine endangers all we have made. We allow it to rule [...]
Message to the negotiators at Cancun
Posted on 05. Dec, 2010 by richard_whiteford in The movement
For the last three million years natural CO2 levels hovered around 280 parts per million (PPM). But since 1750 they abruptly (in geological time) increased to today’s 390 PPM. Life’s stability on the planet now teeters on a CO2 fulcrum precariously tilting toward demise. Skeptics can shout all the Cassandra epithets they want about this [...]
Coalition Movement Camp II: Connecting the Dots
Posted on 09. Nov, 2010 by timrayner in Coalition Events
Coalition Movement Camp II: Connecting the Dots November 14, 2010, 2.00pm to 6pm EDT: http://movementcamp.org The Coalition Movement Camp series brings new players and possibilities into view and allows us to connect the dots between them. The inaugural Coalition Movement Camp took place on October 10, 2010. Participants included representatives of Appropedia, OpenKollab, Metacurrency, 350, [...]
The Future We Got – Earth Date Zero Plus Twenty
Posted on 02. Nov, 2010 by pamela_mclean in Open culture
This is a contribution to an unconventional book project called “The Future We Deserve” – the brainchild of Vinay Gupta, funded via Kickstarter. —————————————— There are some dates that can only be pinpointed with hindsight. Peak oil was one. Earth Date Zero was another. Twenty years afterwards, with the benefit of hindsight, it stands proud [...]
What I learned at Movement Camp
Posted on 17. Oct, 2010 by timrayner in Campaigns we support, Coalition Events, Open culture, The movement
Take a Drupal back-end enabling user-generated video uploads. Add two video portals, side by side, linked from Justin.tv, and configured so that participants can go live at the push of a button. Add an entry portal to Freenode Internet Relay Chat, so that everyone involved can exchange ideas in real time, bouncing off and interjecting [...]
Letter to Ian Katz, February 10, 2010: Climate action – a new beginning
Posted on 30. Sep, 2010 by timrayner in The movement
Scrolling through my sent mail file, I came across this email I sent to Ian Katz at the Guardian news back in February. I laughed when I read it. I had forgotten I’d written to Ian in response to his article on the utter disarray the climate movement was left in following Copenhagen (see here). [...]
It’s the internet, stupid!
Posted on 21. Sep, 2010 by jamie_henn in Campaigns we support, The movement
Everyone loves a good debate. What follows is Jamie Henn’s response to an article by UK environmentalist George Monbiot in the Guardian news. George laments that the international political will to combat climate change is rapidly evaporating. Jamie argues that the internet is catalyzing a global grassroots movement that is transforming the nature of the [...]
Gaia – an open source community celebrating nature
Posted on 19. Sep, 2010 by Marius Bauer in Campaigns we support, Open culture, The movement
It all started in 2007, with five people discussing how we could support our environment in an online forum. My four friends and I talked about how we could raise awareness of the beauty of nature and the problems our planet is facing. We decided to do what we love to do: create digital art. [...]
