Fear is stronger than optimism in creating rapid social change, argued three debaters at ‘The Great Debate’ at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne on 15 February 2013. We are more than six billion people on the planet. In a
Author: Mik Aidt
Mik is a journalist and blogger. Used to live in Denmark many years. Spent almost four years in Africa. Has visited some 55 countries around the planet. Now settled in Australia with his family. Mik became a sustainability and climate change blogger because he became a father of three beautiful children, and because – with the words of R. K. Pachauri – “We are all citizens of Planet Earth, and there is no other place we can go.”
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Action: the largest climate rally in U.S. history
“After aerial shots, official estimate of #ForwardOnClimate rally is 50,000 people” – making it the largest climate action ever in United States history. 350.org organiser Joshua Kahn Russell Update on 22 March 2013 Ecowatch.com – 22 March 2013: Dozens Arrested
Free up the information flow
First, give five minutes of your time to listen to Martin Hiller (above), who is Director General of the Austrian organisation Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). At the World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi in February 2013, Martin
How the UN and the world community take action
Exploring key outcomes of Rio+20 and the way forward, the first in a series of ‘Sustainable Development in Action’ Google+ Hangouts, an online video conference, was hosted by DESA’s Division for Sustainable Development on 12 February 2013 on the UN
Earth Hour: motivate to emit less
Take your next step for the climate: Turn out the light for one hour on 23 March 2013 World Wildlife Fund’s ‘Earth Hour’ is the world’s largest climate event. It takes place in 7,000 cities around the world in 152
World Instability Development Summit
Head is spinning. I walk out of one of the world’s major conferences on sustainability and climate change with very mixed emotions. Gloomy images of extreme weather dramas and predictions of catastrophes mixed with an energetic urge to act and
Can we not raise our voices?
Yesterday at the World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi, someone talked about revolution. We are in need of a revolution, he said. But who shall be the rebels? Us who are here in Delhi? Someone referred to Gandhi, saying that
Bloggers unite: Linking sustainability
As with most other conferences, attending the World Sustainability Development Summit has meant linking up with a long list of interesting and like-minded people. For instance I shared lunch with, among others, a dedicated sustainability-blogger: Pankaj Arora runs the ‘Linking
Hello World
Australia, January 2013. This month in Australia, 250 scientists from around the planet met in Hobart to contribute to the next major report from United Nations’ chief climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Recent heatwaves and raging
What are we thinking?
According to a recent Gallup poll, a significant majority of the Danish population – 68 per cent – lost faith that world leaders will be able to solve the problems of global warming over the next 50 years, and nearly