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The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet
When the 44th President of the United States is elected, he will face urgent crises on three major fronts: the American economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing threat to the world environment caused by climate change. This short, powerful book shows the way forward: a clear action plan for the new President’s first 100 days, that if implemented will set America on course for dynamic job creation and economic growth, reduce our conflicted dependence on foreign oil, and produce energy that is green, affordable, and renewable. Backed by sound science and based on the best ideas of America’s experts, The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet outlines practical steps that include: Launch a “clean energy surge” and create a powerful new workforce of green manufacturing, supply, technology, management, and support jobs. End carbon subsidies that make fossil fuels much cheaper than their actual cost. Create a market by requiring all federal buildings, facilities, and transportation to be fueled by renewable green energy. Reward innovation and early adoption of renewable energy in the private sector. Work constructively with other nations for global solutions to the climate crisis. It’s not too late; climate change can be dramatically reversed. Green energy is the key to America’s economic strength and independence—but the nation needs the president to act boldly and decisively, just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in his first 100 days in office, during a time of similar urgency. Read more at Macmillan or read more about the Climate Action Project… ShareThis

November 30, 2008 | 10:11 AM

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Cities and new wars: after Mumbai
The attacks on India’s commercial capital belong to a global frontline of asymmetric urban warfare, says Saskia Sassen. The Mumbai attacks of 26-27 November 2008 are part of an emerging type of urban violence. These were organised, simultaneous frontal assaults with grenades and machine-guns on ten high-profile sites in or near the central business and tourism district. Also in openDemocracy on the assaults of November 2008 in Mumbai: This has affinities with the asymmetric street warfare waged by the gangs in Rio de Janeiro that every now and then announce they will take over a major central area of the city from (say) 9am to 5pm: the result is shuttered shops and empty streets. If the police try to respond, it is open warfare, and the police rarely win - this is a challenge for which the police are not trained. After 5pm the gangs withdraw. It is often said that all of this results from inadequate policing or crime waves. Read more at OpenDemocracy or at The Huffington Post… ShareThis

November 30, 2008 | 6:11 AM

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Buy Nothin Day
What if we had everything and needed nothing else? Today (29th november: international) is Buy Nothing Day. Realizing that you actually have way too much stuff than needed to keep your life running… Watch the beautiful video here on the ‘good consumer’. (or read Benjamin Barber’s ‘Consumed’ bestseller - I’m not kidding, you HAVE to consume, or at least buy it…) Fortunately, the running part of life won’t be associated so soon with overconsumption. I don’t have to feel guilty… I am addicted. Talking about current and new patterns of wealth is nothing new. Read this inspiring book by Andrew Simms (policy director of New Economics Foundation): Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? (a book that already answers its head question on the first page). If I could make an exception of buying something, then it would be this state-of-art BMW Gina model… gorgeous!

November 28, 2008 | 5:11 AM

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Strawberries & Cream
Strawberries & Cream from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo. Good initiative! Check Strawberry Earth, an online magazine with lots of good stuff about the environment. Beautiful. Thank you Joachim! Strawberries & Cream from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo.

November 28, 2008 | 5:11 AM

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Tomorrow
Tomorrow is a special day. See it here…

November 26, 2008 | 8:11 AM

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