Posted by jossc — 23 July 2009 at 11:57am
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Lights, camera, action! Fancy making a film?
Got a story to tell about climate change? About what's happening your area, perhaps - how you're neigbourhood is being impacted and how you're adapting, or what you think needs to be done? Can you tell that story in one minute?
1 Minute to Save the World is an international short film competition, and it's open to anyone who has something to say about climate change.
So send in your points of view, ideas or solutions. Films can be made in any format – video, animation or even on a mobile phone. Amateurs, professionals and under 18s from all over the world are encouraged to send in entries, and your films will be shown on the 1 Minute To Save The World website and also on Guardian Unlimited. Greenpeace, UNICEF, World Development Movement , New Economics Foundation and Stop Climate Chaos are all supporting the project.
Commenting on the occupation by
workers of the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of White, the head of the
Greenpeace climate change campaign Robin Oakley
said:
Posted by jamie — 15 July 2009 at 6:20pm
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While today is unlikely to go down in the
annals of history as Green Wednesday, it's still a significant day for those of
us concerned about climate change as climate and energy secretary Ed Miliband
unveils his big energy strategy.
The strategy - the Low Carbon Transition Plan,
no less - comes in the form of not one but a whole ream of papers (including an
energy white paper) covering renewable energy, transport, industry and carbon
budgets. Together, they form a blueprint explaining how the government hopes to
achieve the emissions reductions it's legally obliged to deliver, thanks to the
EU renewable energy targets and the UK's own Climate Change Act.
Was it a red letter day for green energy?
Let's see.
Posted by jamie — 15 July 2009 at 2:37pm
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The Arctic Sunrise is still in Greenland where the crew (including leading climate scientists and other ice experts) have been monitoring the ongoing disintegration of the Petermann glacier.
Photographer Nick Cobbing is on board, and we've all been oohing and aahing over his stunning images as they come in to the office. They're all the more poignant as the portion of the glacier they depict may soon cease to exist.
Responding to today's
government energy announcements, John
Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, said:
"If this plan becomes a
reality, it will create hundreds of thousands of green jobs and make Britain
a safer and more prosperous country. This will be good for the British economy
and, in the long-run, save householders money as we reduce our dependence on
foreign oil and gas.
Posted by jamie — 14 July 2009 at 11:36am
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This piece by Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven first appeared on Comment Is Free.
Against the backdrop of the
worldwide economic downturn, it is ironic that the area often said to
have the least business certainty, the renewables sector, is one of the
few success stories. Globally this industry is bucking the trends,
creating millions of new green jobs, increasing countries' energy
independence and reducing climate-changing emissions. So it is
scandalous that the CBI should come out attacking the prime minister
and the climate change secretary Ed Miliband's commitment to boosting
this industry in Britain just days before the launch of a fresh
government initiative.
In a report released tomorrow
(Monday) the CBI is expected to call for the contribution from wind power to be
reduced in favour of nuclear energy as means of decarbonising the electricity
sector.
Commenting on the CBI report, Greenpeace executive director John
Sauven said:
"The CBI claims to represent the interests of British
industry, but by calling for wind power's contribution to our renewable energy
targets to be reduced it's actually doing its members a great disservice."
