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The Story of Cap & Trade (2009) – Teaser
The teaser trailer for The Story of Cap & Trade, a new project by The Story of Stuff Project, Free Range Studios, and Climate Justice Now. Coming soon!
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The Tar Sands Blow
The Canadian Tar Sands is the world’s largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Yet, unless steps are taken by the U.S. and Canada, both countries will become irrevocably addicted to the dirtiest oil on earth. Totally lame.
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Plane Stupid's campaign, developed by the ad agency Mother, aims to show the impact that global warming is having on polar ice caps.

The group is aiming to point out that even short flights to the continent have a major impact on carbon emissions. Plane Stupid said that the ad was inspired by the fact that an average European flight produces 400kg of carbon, which it claims is the same weight as an average female polar bear.

"We wanted to confront people with the impact that short-haul flights have on the

Climate Vulnerable Forum | For the Public of the World
Saleemul Huq, scientist at IIED, talks about the “Climate Most Vulnerable Forum: people in the developped countries must understand, that courageous decisions are needed. Climate change is not the matter of one single country, but it regards all of earth’s inhabitant together. This was an [...]

Klimaforum09
Watch the COP15 Behind the Scenes video about Klimaforum09, the people’s global climate summit, which will be held during the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in December, 2009 in Copenhagen.
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Bali Conference 07/12/07 – John Holdren Interview Part – 1
Daniel Nelson of OneWorld UK interviews John Holdren from The Woods Hole Research Center at the United Nation Climate Change Conference in Bali.
www.oneclimate.net/virtualbali
www.whrc.org
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Bali Conference 07/12/07 – John Holdren Interview Part – 2
Daniel Nelson of OneWorld UK interviews John Holdren from The Woods Hole Research Center at the United Nation Climate Change Conference in Bali.
www.oneclimate.net/virtualbali
www.whrc.org
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Bali Conference 07/12/07 – John Holdren Interview Part – 3
Daniel Nelson of OneWorld UK interviews John Holdren from The Woods Hole Research Center at the United Nation Climate Change Conference in Bali.
www.oneclimate.net/virtualbali
www.whrc.org
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The impacts of climate change on glaciers and ice sheets
United Nations, New York, 2009 – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled above the Arctic Circle to witness first-hand the impacts of climate change on glaciers and ice sheets near the North Pole.
UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen:
http://en.cop15.dk/
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PUT THE FUN BETWEEN YOUR LEGS: Become the Bike Bloc
funbetweenyourlegs.info
Everything we take for granted: the weekend, gay rights, contraception, women wearing trousers, the right to strike, to form a union, the abolition of slavery. Everything was won by disobedience, fought for by people who refused and resisted, claimed back from those in power. Their disobedience [...]

6 billion Others | Climate voices
The continuation of the GoodPlanet project “6 billion Others” about climate change shown during the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009. A project supported by ADEME, French Ministry of sustainable developement and United Nations.
Join us on www.6billionothers.org
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Climate Change: Madagascar – by Nature Video
Anjali Nayar visited a pioneering project in Madagascar that’s aiming to protect one of the country’s few remaining forests. It’s hoped that projects like this will help curb global warming. But first, these projects must overcome the poverty and political upheaval common to most developing countries. Read Anjali’s full [...]

The Barcelona Climate talks are where the last round of negotiations take place between parties before they gather in Copenhagen this December.
In this independent video, Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC explains what he thinks is possible to achieve in Copenhagen – and what concerned citizens need to do to ensure it.
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Imagine a prosperous zero-carbon, zero-waste, non-toxic world.
Imagine a prosperous zero-carbon, zero-waste, non-toxic, pleasantly urban yet leafy green community. Thats where youll be living in 20 years, if we do our work right. A guest of the Visions of a Sustainable World Speaker Series at Yale, Alex Steffen shows how the tools to transform our cities [...]

Clive Hamilton on the centres of climate denialism
Go to slowtv.com.au for the full video of this session.
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Stephen Schneider A senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, Schneider assesses ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change to identify potential political and technological solutions. He has been a principal member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1988. In 2007 he joined four generations of [...]

Bill Easterling Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, Easterling studies global warming and its potential effects on the world’s food supply. He has served on the National Research Council and the National Science Foundation and was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) team.
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Ken Caldera A professor at Stanford and staff member in the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Caldeira works at the nexus of climate, the carbon cycle, and energy. He has studied issues such as ocean acidification, intentional intervention in climate systems, mass-extinction events in the earth’s geologic history, and the [...]

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