climate change

What is Our Role?

We could have made a collective decision...it is the 11th hour. But we didnt. Were you holding your breath? The 45,000 activists who turned up in Copenhagen may have been. Here in El Manzano we werent expecting miracles. It is beyond government and big business to make the necessary decisions. They will not limit or stop economic growth at almost all costs. Once again we are reminded that it is the responsability of local people to take the lead. On one hand we have to limit our consumption and reduce our emissions. On the other hand we need to sequester carbon from the atmosphere in soil and trees. When will you start planting your 10,000 trees?   

CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLITICS

The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo.

FLOWERING DESERT

Recently we had a whirlwind tour of Atacama in the north of chile, the driest place on earth. This was a learning experience rather than teaching, in this hostile and vulnerable landscape that has been occupied for thousands of years we find strategies for building resilience.

One Shot Left

The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation. By George Monbiot - journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist.

George Bush is behaving like a furious defaulter whose home is about to be repossessed. Smashing the porcelain, ripping the doors off their hinges, he is determined that there will be nothing worth owning by the time the bastards kick him out. His midnight regulations, opening America’s wilderness to logging and mining, trashing pollution controls, tearing up conservation laws, will do almost as much damage in the last 60 days of his presidency as he achieved in the foregoing 3000(1).