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In The News…
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 Give Peace a Chance
A Mystic's Peace Plan
Earlier this year, Neil Douglas-Klotzwas helped co-ordinate the
first Edinburgh International Festival of Middle Eastern
Spirituality and Peace. He has often been asked whether he has
special insights on political peace in this region and believes the
West's interventions in the Middle East in this century have been at
best ignorant of the Middle Eastern mind and at worst manipulative
for its own benefit. The recent history of violence and human
tragedy on all sides has produced an extreme climate of fear and
mistrust. Any peace efforts must deal with this climate of fear
before any effective agreements can be made.
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 Working
Together to Combat Climate Change
"The most important thing to
recognise in dealing with the 'real and present threat' posed by
climate change is that it can only be solved if we all work
together. International co-operation is the only route to success."
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Terra Madre
 The
'Slow Food Movement' has created a vast network linking traditions
and cultures to provide a viable alternative to mass-produced, fast
food. Described as a World Social Forum for Food, this year's
gathering was held in Italy and attended by HRH the Prince of Wales.
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 Positive
News US Celebrates Anniversary
by Denise Cermanski
Positive News US, based in Ithaca, New York, attracted many
during its first ever event, Kick Off
Autumn with Positive News, to celebrate their first
anniversary since establishment and the release of their autumn
edition. Included was an afternoon of music, pumpkin painting, guest
speakers, hot cider and delicious desserts. Visitors experienced
four enjoyable hours while the Positive News team promoted issues
such as sustainability, social justice and general happiness.
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The Power of Well-being
 The
New Economics Foundation has produced a well-being manifesto for a
flourishing society that challenges the major political parties to
start thinking about how to really influence quality of life in the
UK. It makes a number of practical policy proposals that could help
drive well-being up the political agenda. While government cannot
directly make us happier or more engaged, it can shape the culture
and society in which we live.
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http://www.gvnr.com/93/5.htm
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Ashden Awards
 Under
the blazing sun of Southern India, Hemant Lamba and his team at the
international township of Auroville have been working to bring
affordable solar panels to 80,000 people across the region. This
summer they were awarded the 'Ashden Award', known globally as 'the
Green Oscars' for their pioneering enterprise in helping this vast
country unlock its huge potential for solar power. In the words of
one of the judges: "These are the guys who make solar happen."
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http://www.gvnr.com/93/6.htm
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Ethical Enterprise for Young People
by Nicole Vosper
 A
new ethical enterprise project has recently been launched involving
more than 130 young people from 25 schools across Scotland and
Northern England. The young people, aged 13-18, are creating their
own co-operative businesses, selling fair trade products.
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Bringing Organic Living Home
Organic Ambassadors are a team of volunteers helping Kadoorie
Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) to promote organic living in Hong
Kong. They have become an active force in the community, organising
weekly vegetable box pick up schemes and holding lifestyle workshops
with the Environmental Protection Department, hospitals and
community centres across the region.
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http://www.gvnr.com/93/8.htm
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Guest Editorial
Shifting Climate
Paul Allen
 As
this Millennium gets underway, many people all around the globe will
be wondering what the weather will bring next. Paul Allen,
Development Director of CAT, Centre for Alternate Technology,
discusses how our planet's shifting climate could plunge us all head
first into unchartered territory.
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Global Resources
Websites devoted to Positive Planetary Transformation
Climate Change
Earth Policy Institute
www.earth-policy.org
Carbon emissions are an important trend to follow because, as
atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide rise, so does the earth's
temperature. Global emissions of carbon have risen steadily since the
late eighteenth century with a rapid increase since the 1950s annual
emissions have quadruped since 1950. In 2003, carbon emissions from the
burning of fossil fuels climbed to a record high to 6.8 billion tonnes,
up nearly four per cent from the previous year. For a full report visit
the website of the Earth Policy Insitute and for more information on
stabilising climate by cutting carbon emissions, see Chapter 9 of Lester
Brown's book, PLAN B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization
in Trouble
(PlanB)
Beyond Oil
www.nonewoil.org
Tel: 00 44 1865 241097
"Oil is a finite resource this is an indisputable
fact. An energy transition away from oil is not just an option, at some
point it is an inevitability." Climate change can be slowed
and the conflict over oil avoided, according to Beyond Oil, a booklet
compiled by Rising Tide, Platform Research and Friends of the Earth. It
suggests that individual countries can become energy independent by
investing in renewable resources. Beyond Oil look at the UK's role as a
major centre of the global oil industry and calls for an end to UK
support for the exploration and development of new reserves of oil and
gas with greater support for renewable energies.
United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change
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On 18 November, UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan received the Russian Federation's instrument of ratification for
the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework convention on
Climate Change. On 16 February 2005, the protocol will become legally
binding and thirty industrialised countries will be under pressure to
reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions. "A period of
uncertainty has closed," said Joke Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary of
the Climate Change Secretariat, which services the UN Climate Change
Convention and its Kyoto Protocol, "Climate change is ready to take its
place again at the top of the global agenda." Ms Waller Hunter and
Secretary General Kofi Annan both took the opportunity to urge those
developed countries that have not ratified the protocol and limit their
emissions including the US and Australia who, between them, contribute
one third of the greenhouse gases emitted from the industrialised world.
The Power To Save Our Climate
www.wwf.org.uk
The World Wildlife Fund has set a challenge to the energy industry to
reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and to lessen its impact on global
climate change. PowerSwitch throws down the gauntlet to the power sector
which produces about a third of the UK's (and the world's) carbon
dioxide emissions and challenges this sector to become carbon dioxide
free by 2050 in developed countries and to switch from coal to cleaner
sources in developing countries. A report written for WWF, The Power To
Save Our Climate reveals that radical policy shifts are not necessary,
nor is nuclear power the solution. The technology to make clean power
already exists in the form of wind, biomass, solar, combined heat and
power and other technologies which are kinder to the environment.
World Wind Energy Association
www.wwindea.org
This Autumn's World Wind Energy Conference
held in China was the biggest and most successful ever with more than
1000 people from 50 countries taking part. Mr. Shi Dinghuan from the
State Council said China will substantially increase her use of wind
energy in the coming years and he emphasised the importance of
international co-operation. The conference resolved to continue to work
for the alleviation of world poverty through the sustainable development
of renewable energy. The African Union's Energy Commissioner, Bernard
Zoba said that the Union wanted to see the necessary financial resources
mobilised. The proposal for an International Renewable Energy
Development Fund will be formally investigated and the creation of an
International Renewable Energy Alliance received overwhelming support.
Peace
Jerusalem Peacemakers
jerusalempeacemakers.org
Jerusalem Peacemakers aim to contribute to peace, justice,
reconciliation and a decent life for all people in the Holy Land. An
international group of peacemakers centred in Glastonbury, South West
England, Jerusalem Peacemakers is cross community network with
peacemakers in the Holy Land. Over ten years, a constellation of social
healers has grown up as a result of conferences and events run by the
Creative Health Network, led by Suzanne Keehn in California and Pam
Perry in Britain. On the build up of the second intifada in the Holy
Land, a network of independent peacemakers formed in the Holy Land.
Co-operation and mutual visits started up between these groups and in
January 2004 Jerusalem Peacemakers was born. Starting as a joint project
of three people in England and three in the Holy Land, it has now grown
as new members and projects are 'adopted.'
Hope Flowers
www.hope-flowers.org
Hope Flowers is a Palestinian school in Al
Khader, in the south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, dedicated to
education for co-existence, peace, non-violence and democracy.
Established in 1984, it aims to develop attitudes and skills that foster
peaceful resolutions to conflict. Hope Flowers has been an innovator,
providing free education for children directly affected by the conflict
in classes of mixed gender and interfaith Jewish, Muslim and
Christian. The school is one of the projects endorsed and supported by
the Jerusalem Peacemakers. A special project, Listen To My Voice, aims
to offer a programme of psychological support to children traumatised by
the violence they. Encounter in their daily lives. Hope Flowers
urgently requires funding to employ a psychologist and two social
workers as part of the Psychological Support and Trauma Recovery
Project.
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