Links
- NASA, Global Climate Change, Vital signs of the planet
- Paul Hawken, Regeneration can restore a broken world.
- The hidden wonders of soil (TED talk by Jane Zelikova)
- Obama speech on fighting climate change with Clean Power Plan
- Let the environment guide our development (TED talk by Johan Rockstrom)
- Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
- Johan Rockström, Talkshow/Podcast from Swedish Radio about the challenges we are facing from climate change.
- How to restore damaged ecosystems on a large scale.
- What is resilience? (Stockholm Resilience Centre [5 Mb])
- Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (measurements of the CO2)
- Al Gore – The case for optimism on Climate change
- Our carbon budget – the “Do The Math” Movie.
- Calculate your personal carbon footprint in just 5 minutes.
- Why buses represent democracy in action (TED talk by Enrique Peñalosa)
- Wind could meet many times world’s total power demand by 2030 (Stanford Report)
- Circular economy as described by Ellen MacArthur Foundation and by Wikipedia
- About the Go Fossil Free movement
- Zero Carbon Britain report (executive summary)
- EWG’s Clean Fifteen and Dirty Dozen shopping lists
- Better Growth, Better Climate. The New Climate Economy Report
- Beyond the Anthropocene, speech at Word Economic Forum by Johan Rockstrom
- The carbon cycle
Current status and basic facts of the climate change.
Presentation of the idea behind Paul Hawken’s recent book “Regeneration”.
Green Gold – Documentary by John D. Liu. “It’s possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems.” Environmental film maker John D. Liu documents large-scale ecosystem restoration projects in China, Africa, South America and the Middle East, highlighting the enormous benefits for people and planet of undertaking these efforts globally.
The carbon dioxide measurements were started by C. David Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Mauna Loa in March of 1958. They constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The investments to shift to a low carbon economy is almost the same as those investments we will make anyway.
In just five decades, we have transitioned from being small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet. Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden, explains at WEF why we should be concerned about tipping points and how we can embrace the challenge of seeing opportunities in the necessary transformation towards global sustainability. He ends his speech explaining why we need an exponential DECREASE of fossil fuel usage.
The carbon cycle is a scientific walkthrough of carbon flows and pools on our planet.
Organisations
- Earth Policy Institute, http://www.earth-policy.org/
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, http://stockholmresilience.org/
- IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, http://ipcc.ch/
- 350.org, http://350.org/
- Zero Carbon Britain, http://www.zerocarbonbritain.org
- Avaaz, a global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere, http://www.avaaz.org/en/index.php
Books
- Eaarth, by Bill McKibben, http://www.billmckibben.com/eaarth/eaarthbook.html
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake.
- World on the Edge, Lester R. Brown, download book free, buy book
- Plan B 4.0, Mobilizing to save Civilization, Lester R. Brown, download book free, buy book
- Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity, Lester R. Brown, buy book
Other
- Home, film by Yannus Bertrand, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU