Bending the Curve, South Africa's most comprehensive book on taking action to tackle climate change and create a more sustainable future, is now available in e-book format. Its impact on the environment is lowered and we are able to offer this valuable resource at a much reduced price.
Bending the Curve, South Africa's most comprehensive book on taking action to tackle climate change and create a more sustainable future, is now available in e-book format. Its impact on the environment is lowered and we are able to offer this valuable resource at a much reduced price.
'Although South Africa has outlined ambitious targets to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, time is indeed running out to secure our children's future. Climate Change is one of the greatest threats to the survival of the human species on this planet, and both urgent and meaningful action is required to combat it,' so says Kevin James of the Carbon Protocol of South Africa, on behalf of the Climate Change Leadership Awards (CCLA).
Obama installed Solar Panels on his roof, Japanese Sumo wrestlers rode bicycles to practice and in Vietnam children planted 1,010 trees as millions of people across the globe got together to work on Climate Solutions on Sunday 10 October. All determined to get CO2 levels back down to 350parts per million (where we need to be, to prevent runaway climate change).
Sunday, 10-10-10 saw the biggest global Work Party for Earth ever to happen in human memory! Organised by 350.org more than 7000 groups of people in 180 countries got together and did something constructive. And if you think South Africans are asleep when it comes to green actions, think again. Across the country we rose to the occasion in a wide range of events in solidarity with the environmental cause.
On 16 Sept 2010, CAP, in collaboration with partners Endangered Wildlife Trust and Conservation International South Africa (CI-SA), the South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservation Communications Forum and the British Consulate General, hosted a screening of 'The Age of Stupid' at the Kirstenbosch Research Centre. The British Consulate General approached CAP to screen the film as part of their campaign to encourage people to reduce their emissions by 10% in 2010.
An event about Climate Change awareness and the need for us to find the Courage 2 B Cool for the Earth turned into a celebration of the human spirit and of the possibilities of making a difference. The event hosted by the Scenic South website focused on a talk by Lewis Gordon Pugh and included an environmental expo by local environmental organizations.
If South Africa wants to adapt to climate change, it needs to move away from an immoral economic agenda towards value-based development. Otherwise it will be too late to find a solution to environmental degradation.
A Stellenbosch University researcher working on aspects of climate change, Dr Susana Clusella-Trullas (pictured), has received an Antarctic Science 2010 Award to study how marine invertebrates on Marion Island in the sub-Antarctic respond to changing temperature regimes.
People in Africa are daily struggling with the effects of climate change ' and don't understand enough about this social injustice to respond effectively.This was indicated by a groundbreaking report by the BBC World Service Trust and the British Council, called Africa Talks Climate launched in Cape Town.
We, from the major faith communities of the world, meeting at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Melbourne, Australia, from 3rd to 9th December 2009, send warm greetings to all who are gathering at Copenhagen for your crucially important Conference.
Take an early afternoon off from work (beat the traffic!) and join a bunch of concerned citizens (including Rob Zipplies ' back from his epic climate-change-awareness-raising cycle from Cape Town, via Joburg and Pretoria to Durban for a symbolic candlelight vigil outside the US Consulate in Westlake, Cape Town. Bring a candle, a jar to protect the flame (or a candle cut-out if the south-easter is blowing!), a placard, or just yourself and join us in a peaceful demonstration to demand a meaningful commitment by the US government to CO2 reductions.
Take an early afternoon off from work (beat the traffic!) and join a bunch of concerned citizens (including Rob Zipplies ' back from his epic climate-change-awareness-raising cycle from Cape Town, via Joburg and Pretoria to Durban for a symbolic candlelight vigil outside the US Consulate in Westlake, Cape Town. Bring a candle, a jar to protect the flame (or a candle cut-out if the south-easter is blowing!), a placard, or just yourself and join us in a peaceful demonstration to demand a meaningful commitment by the US government to CO2 reductions.
Bischop Geoff Davis was speaking on behalf of all the faiths who are members of the SA Interfaith Environment Initiative when he gave the following parliamentary address 17 November: All Faiths call for Justice and Equity
Early morning on 24 October in New Zealand a crowd gathered before dawn next to a wind turbine on a mountaintop.
As local elders said prayers to bless the global event, banners and signs were held high to greet the planet`s first rays of sunlight on this most incredible of days.
Op Klimaatdag, 24 Oktober, het Stellenbosch 'n gans nuwe ding beleef ' 'n Groen mars met krete van 'climate change aint cool' het entoesiasties op die Saterdagmiddag deur die historiese dorp geslang.
'There is a very unusual negotiation going on ' between human beings on the one hand and the laws of Creation on the other. And the trouble with nature's laws is that they don't argue. They state their position and that is that.'
Become a Climate Buddy and help us find out. Average temperatures worldwide have increased by 1oC in the last century and are predicted to rise another 5oC by 2100.
350 is a crucial number in the earth's survival.
It is the number in parts per million (ppm) that scientists have identified as the upper limit of safety for CO2 in our atmosphere. A diverse group of people worldwide are using this number to get global action, and have adopted it as the name for the network uniting around solutions for climate change. The number is a symbol of where we need to go ' it gives a measurable goal in a language everyone can understand.
Please help!
In The Fire Dogs of Climate Change, Sally Andrew engages emotionally, philosophically and practically with global warming. Her creative essays are alive with fire dogs (guardians and watchdogs of the earth), singing dogs and sleeping dragons! The book contains personal stories, fact sheets on climate change, problems and solutions, and practical success stories from around the world that aim to inspire the reader to jump into action!
