ENO Climate Change Campaign Week, 14 - 20 February 2011
Google recently partnered with Global SchoolNet to invite teachers
and students to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets collaborative software
in a project to brainstorm strategies for combating global warming.
Children of all ages from more than 80 schools around the world participated,
and on November 27th there was a full-page ad in USA Today to put their
ideas in the spotlight. Without further ado, here are their top 50 ideas:
Hi! This event has spread worldwide (even in Finland, good for us...):
Buy Nothing Day is an informal day of protest against consumerism observed
by social activists. It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and subsequently
promoted by the Canadian Adbusters magazine. Participants refrain from
purchasing anything for 24 hours in a concentrated display of consumer power.
The event is intended to raise awareness of what some see as the wasteful
consumption habits of First World countries.
In the United States and Canada, supporters demonstrate on the day after
American Thanksgiving. This day, often called "Black Friday," is one of the busiest
shopping days of the year (although this is not so in Canada, the date remains there
to synchronize events). In other countries the demonstrations occur a day later.
Since "Buy Nothing Day" occurs the day after American Thanksgiving, and the
meaning of Buy Nothing Day is to resist mindless consumerism, some people have
viewed Buy Nothing Day as an opportunity to expose the "hypocrisy" of the
Thanksgiving weekend. Since Thanksgiving has always had an emphasis on friends,
family and community, while the day after Thanksgiving has more recently had an
emphasis on consumerism and shopping, "Buy Nothing Day" may be seen by some
protesters as a way of reclaiming the 'original meaning' of Thanksgiving: encouraging
friends and family to socialize instead of encouraging individual income-earners to
spend their money.
Merchants provide valuable goods and services, a sale day serves both buyer
and seller, and the Thanksgiving to Christmas season presents both a temptation
to materialism and an opportunity for the proper enjoyment of material blessings
coupled with a special effort to ensure that the poorest are not excluded.
Critics of "Buy Nothing Day" point out that consumers would simply buy more
the next day instead, rendering their protest pointless. However, participants
argue that this is beside the point.
Source: Wikipedia
TERVE!
Trees absorb carbon dioxide and are vital carbon sinks. Each tree planted ‘offsets’ your environmental impact by ‘breathing’ in about 730 kg CO2 emissions over its lifetime. It is estimated that the average person needs to save about 7,000kg tonnes of CO2 per year. So planting just 10 trees each year is one strategy for achieving this. The trees also provide sustainable habitat for wildlife and will enhance the natural landscape with native broad-leaved trees. It is estimated that the world’s forests store 283 Gigatonnes of carbon in their biomass alone, and that carbon stored in forest biomass, deadwood, litter and soil together is roughly 50 per cent more than the carbon in the atmosphere.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched "Billion Tree Campaign " today. Under the Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and governments will be encouraged to enter tree planting pledges on this website with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide during 2007. Find more information and get involved here:
http://www.unep.org/billiontreecampaign/
After water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are the three most prevalent greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere respectively. Greenhouse gases are some of the major drivers behind global warming and climate change.
The latest Bulletin precedes WMO’s participation at the second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (to reduce greenhouse gas emissions), in conjunction with the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Nairobi from 6 to 17 November 2006.
Concentrations of N2O also reached record highs in 2005, up 0.19 per cent from 318.6 parts per billion (ppb) to 319.2 ppb while methane remained stable at 1783 ppb.
For the full Bulletin, see: http://www.wmo.int/web/arep/gaw/ghg/ghgbull06.html
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