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Australia’ climate score card must go beyond the border…

I personally got fascinated from the campaigns of number of Australians who evaluated the inclination of their politicians and parties before the election towards climate change policies and mandates for the future of Australia. I was particularly impressed on the thoughts that an Australian had in his or her m… Continue

Added by Asif Iqbal on September 1, 2010 at 8:23am — No Comments

Do you hear my voice...

I was very safe and secure, I was with my family and I was able to feed my child. I had my own home where I used to wait for my child to come back from school and we eat together.

But now everything is changed. I don’t know why…

I am not safe be

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Added by Asif Iqbal on September 1, 2010 at 8:10am — No Comments

Pakistan Floods: A glance at PDI's IDP registration to relief distribution processes and life inside camps

Brother and sister inside a "mosque camp", after a fresh bath in the hot summer of Shikarpur, Sindh

PDI's team demonstrating health and hygiene points to wom

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Added by PDI Pakistan on August 31, 2010 at 2:30am — No Comments

Climate harbinger breathes life into Australian democracy

Electorate anger over climate action stasis within the ALP and LNP means that the independent bloc of Robert Oakeshott, Tony Windsor and Bob Katter have the power to demand important changes to federal governance.

Two main constraints have stifled the quality of our governance to date. The first being political donations. The major reforms on political donations of recent have been of transparency - reducing the size of an undisclosed donation from below $10000 to

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Added by Adrian Barclay on August 31, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

I would never wish my country to become an example of climate vulnerabilities...

This weekend I was going through a new slides on Climate Change coming from The Climate Project Australia. Almost each and every slide has a message of change behind it, that I personally think, we need to spread among those who don't know it. While going through the slides, my mind directed my finger, not to click on next slide further, as I saw the word Pakistan. The slide says-

A few years later Multan,… Continue

Added by Asif Iqbal on August 30, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Award for groundbreaking research in capturing Carbon Dioxide

A University of Sydney researcher has received an award for groundbreaking work into capturing carbon emissions - research important to mitigating climate change by reducing atmospheric carbon pollution. Dr Deanna D'Alessandro, a postdoctoral fellow based in the School of Chemistry at Sydney University, was awarded a L'Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellowship for her research on ways to capture and release carbon dioxide, hydrogen and other gases using molecular sponges.

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Added by Takver on August 29, 2010 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Sindh- where I started my life

My childhood life started in Sindh. I love Karachi- my birth place. I lived my first six years of life in the Sindh province. Often I close my eyes to go back to the very past of my life in Sindh I can only make a few shapes of beautiful memories in my mind. Playing with the kids of our Sindhi family friends in a big lawn, traveling between Karachi and Hyderabad, walk in a house in Hyderabad surrounded by a number of trees of banana, coconut… Continue

Added by Asif Iqbal on August 29, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

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Pakistan floods: Success Stories of PDI

A post about PDI's Thatta team joining in evacuation at the worst times in Thatta's migration as people started to evacuate various tehsils inside the district due to huge breaches in two main bands.

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Added by PDI Pakistan on August 28, 2010 at 10:34pm — No Comments

Aussie Cash For Clunkers, Green Measure or ‘Greenmail’?

It’s highly likely the cost will be greater and the overall effect will be far short of the mark — in fact it’s just political greenmail…

Labor’s election promise to spend $400 million dollars over four years to “make positive changes to the way we live, work and travel” is said to be “an important measure for reducing the average age of Australia's fleet”, currently at 9.7 years, compared to USA 9.4 years and 8 years in Europe. The scheme is to be capped at 200,000 pr

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Added by Green Times Australia on August 28, 2010 at 7:59pm — 1 Comment

An albatross and plastic, is that an absurd correlation?

The answer is NO!

For a disturbing and heart moving reality of the impacts of PLASTIC CONSUMPTION AND WASTE, check out these pictures below.

These images have been extracted by Robert L. Peters blog found on,
http://www.robertlpeters.com/news/?m=201001.

I think I'll leave the pictures to speak for themselves, for 'a picture is worth a thousand words'.
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Added by Monica Keo on August 27, 2010 at 11:44pm — 1 Comment

An analysis on Pakistan flood- Our Science, the catastrophe and future trend

The increasing number of extreme events in Pakistan, China and Russia show that climate ch

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Added by Asif Iqbal on August 27, 2010 at 8:57pm — No Comments

Pakistan Floods and Climate Change: And when people talk...

Its been the 19^th day we at Participatory Development Initiatives have almost build strong connections to flood survivors which have migrated in thousands to the main town of Shikarpur. From what it looks like, a sea of people in corners of streets, on barrages, inside government schools, hospitals, mosques and anywhere they could find a place to put the few of their belonging… Continue

Added by PDI Pakistan on August 27, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

ACT Government takes the lead in climate action emission reduction targets

The ACT Government has announced cuts to greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2020, and 80 per cent by 2050, based on 1990 levels. The targets were announced by Minister for the Environment Climate Change and Water, Simon Corbell when tabling the Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Bill 2010 in the ACT legislative assembly.

"The ACT Government has consulted widely on potential targets for greenhouse gas reduction in the Territory, and has analysed evidence based argument

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Added by Takver on August 27, 2010 at 11:10am — No Comments

The Greener Screen : Monday August 30

As a practitioner in the screen industry I sometimes worry about the environmental impact of the processes involved in creating entertainment. It's a process reliant on mass consumption of everything from electricity and throwaway coffee cups to whole vehicles if it's an action film you're talking about.

That's why I get excited when I hear about the small positive forward st… Continue

Added by Karen Horne on August 26, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Activist by Dr. James E. Hansen

This is a very interesting short essay written by Dr. James E. Hansen who is probably the most widely known climate scientist in the world. In this essay he explains why and how he went from being a slow-pa

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Added by Ronnie Wright on August 26, 2010 at 11:17am — 2 Comments

ACTION ALERT - let the Independents know climate action is high on your agenda

Suddenly everyone in the country wants to know what’s important to people who live in Lyne, Kennedy and New England.

Do you want Australia to take action on climate change and committ to reduce our greenhouse pollution, transit to a greener and cleaner economy and support poor

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Added by Cara on August 25, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Nature's bottom line

If you are one of the many who thinks that economic growth is the only path to prosperity and that it can go on forever then I would suggest you read this excellent article published in the July/August 2010 issue of New Internationalist that I have reposted down below.

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Added by Ronnie Wright on August 25, 2010 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Food And Farming: The Hub Of Planetary Transformation

This is a very interesting interview about the rising cost of food and the impact peak oil and climate change will have on that cost and on the availability of food. It places an emphasis on locally produced food. Although this interview takes place in the United States it applies equally well to Australia.

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Added by Ronnie Wright on August 24, 2010 at 11:40pm — No Comments

Why I am starting to love the idea of a hung parliament after all...

It was very strange to wake up after an election and find out the whole country was talking about me.

As a single 20-something lass with a decent job, renting in the inner-city, I’m never ear-marked for a tax break. I’m not about to have a baby, I don’t pay interest rates, I don’t do long commutes, or have a car. I’m the kind of voter politicians love to ignore.

Before this election, I was kind of ok with that, relatively happily fronti… Continue

Added by Lyrian Fleming on August 24, 2010 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

You have the power for real change

Australians are very familiar by now with drought conditions which in the past were an occasional event but now appear to be the normal condition and all thanks to Climate Change. But wait; we’ve just started to see the impacts of Climate Change. Things are going to get much worse than they already are. In fact, Australia is all set to be one of the nation

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Added by Ronnie Wright on August 24, 2010 at 1:19pm — No Comments