august 2010 arkiv

Grøn lørdagsrådgivning

10. august 2010

Ferien er forbi og byen summer igen af liv. Det fejrer Miljøpunkt Indre By-Christianshavn ved at slå dørene op for en ny omgang grøn lørdagsrådgivning. Første gang 14. august.

Der er masser af inspiration at hente, når “Den grønne linje” deler gode råd ud om beplantninger af enhver slags. Kom forbi Rådhuspladsen 77 og få svar på spørgsmål om alt fra altankasser til grønne tage.

Så læg vejen forbi – luft dine planer og problemer. Næste gang er her førstkommende lørdag den 14. august kl. 13-17.00.

Se annoncen fra CityAvisen nedenfor.

indlæg oprettet af Jens Hvass

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We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More

7. august 2010

Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming

Dette indlæg fra Bill McKibben offentliggjort på TomDispatch.com går i disse timer kloden rundt.

Try to fit these facts together:

  • According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six months, and the warmest April, May, and June on record.
  • A “staggering” new study from Canadian researchers has shown that warmer seawater has reduced phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain, by 40% since 1950.
  • Nine nations have so far set their all-time temperature records in 2010, including Russia (111 degrees), Niger (118), Sudan (121), Saudi Arabia and Iraq (126 apiece), and Pakistan, which also set the new all-time Asia record in May: a hair under 130 degrees. I can turn my oven to 130 degrees.
  • And then, in late July, the U.S. Senate decided to do exactly nothing about climate change. They didn’t do less than they could have — they did nothing, preserving a perfect two-decade bipartisan record of no action. Senate majority leader Harry Reid decided not even to schedule a vote on legislation that would have capped carbon emissions.

I wrote the first book for a general audience on global warming back in 1989, and I’ve spent the subsequent 21 years working on the issue. I’m a mild-mannered guy, a Methodist Sunday School teacher. Not quick to anger. So what I want to say is: this is fucked up. The time has come to get mad, and then to get busy.

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