Of note from the net

Forward from Copenhagen
The Emissions Emergency Is a Crisis of Justice
By Tom Athanasiou

Climate Skeptics Are Recycled Critics of Controls on Tobacco and Acid Rain
We must not be distracted from science's urgent message: we are fuelling dangerous changes in Earth's climate
by Jeffrey Sachs
In the weeks before and after the Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the science of climate change came under harsh attack by critics who contend that climate scientists have deliberately suppressed evidence - and that the science itself is severely flawed. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global group of experts charged with assessing the state of climate science, has been accused of bias.

How Christian Were the Founders?
By RUSSELL SHORTO, New York Times
LAST MONTH, A WEEK before the Senate seat of the liberal icon Edward M. Kennedy fell into Republican hands, his legacy suffered another blow that was perhaps just as damaging, if less noticed. It happened during what has become an annual spectacle in the culture wars.

Putting a value on nature could set scene for true green economy
Much environmental damage has been caused by the way we do business. Is there a way of changing our economic models from being part of the problem into part of the solution?

Published on Thursday, January 28, 2010 by BBC News
Economic Growth 'Cannot Continue'
Continuing global economic growth "is not possible" if nations are to tackle climate change, a report by an environmental think-tank has warned. (download the report)

TC350 • Open Sapce • 10.24.09 • Thanks to all who participated

The first number is 390, our current level of parts/million of CO2 in the atmosphere. The factory on the left is spewing CO2 molecules that are circulating over the 390 number and being absorbed by the trees on the right. As the CO2 molecules slow, the number changes to 370. As the CO2 molecules slow even more, the number changes to 350.

Here's the behind the scene look at the making of TC350 at the Open Space...

And check out what happen else where on the planet . . .

Dave Barrons speaking at the TC350 event

Resilience Thinking: an article for the latest 'Resurgence', by Rob Hopkins
The latest edition of Resurgence is timed to coincide with the Copenhagen talks, and looks at resilience as a key aspect of the climate change debates. Here is the article I wrote for it. Resilience Thinking.
Why 'resilience thinking' is a crucial missing piece of the climate-change jigsaw and why resilience is a more useful concept than sustainability: by Rob Hopkins. Resilience; "the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change, so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks

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