President of the Marshall Islands speaks on Climate Change
As world leaders prepare to gather in New York for the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit, the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Christopher J. Loeak, has issued a powerful call to...
View ArticleWhat are human rights?
If you were to ask people in the street, “What are human rights?” you would get many different answers. They would tell you the rights they know about, but very few people know all their rights. How...
View ArticleNew Climate Economy report
A major new report released by a commission of global leaders finds that governments and businesses can now improve economic growth and reduce their carbon emissions together. Rapid technological...
View ArticleDiCaprio at the United Nations
Leonardo DiCaprio addressed delegates at the United Nations Headquarters, urging the international body to act on the climate crisis. He opened his speech by declaring that he’s not an expert, but a...
View ArticleCarbon Map – tracking climate change
This video introduces a website that uses an animated, distorted, shaded, interactive map to help convey how different countries fit into the climate change picture – both the causes and the risks....
View ArticleThe plight of elephants — watch and act!
In the next 24 hours, another 100 elephants will have been massacred,and many baby elephants will have become traumatized orphans. Elephants are being killed on an unprecedented scale by semi-automatic...
View ArticleYears of Living Dangerously is life-changingly good
Years of Living Dangerously is a 9-part Showtime documentary television series focusing on climate change that premiered on April 13, 2014. The weekly episodes feature celebrity investigators, who each...
View ArticleNature Speaks — will you listen?
The Nature is Speaking initiative is organised by Conservation International with the tag-line: “Nature doesn’t need people. People need nature.” In the first series of 6 short films, a part of the...
View ArticleMaking ANZ Bank greener
If your island home is slowly drowning because of rising sea levels what would you do? Protest! But where? If you follow the money in Australia it points to the ANZ Bank which is a leading supporter...
View ArticleNature Is Speaking – Ian Somerhalder is Coral Reef
You may never see this “nursery of the sea” in person — but you need it more than you think. While coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, they support an estimated 25% of all marine life —...
View ArticleWhat can $10 do?
The Life You can Save initiative decided to take their cameras to Cape Town, South Africa to show what $10 means to people in poverty. $10 probably doesn’t mean that much to most of us living in one of...
View ArticleBuy some happiness!
Religions and self-help books tell us that money can’t buy happiness. For example, what happens to most people when they win the lottery? It turns out people think when they win the lottery their lives...
View ArticleGreat Barrier Reef threatened by new legislation
Queensland is set to enact water legislation that will pose environmental risks to the Great Barrier Reef and coastal waterways. The Natural Resources and Mines Minister Andrew Cripps acknowledged that...
View ArticleEnd the senseless slaughter now!
BE WARNED: PICTURES IN THIS POST ARE VERY GRAPHIC. PLEASE EXERCISE DISCRETION The Gadhimai festival is the world’s biggest animal sacrifice conducted at the Gadhimai temple area in central Madhesh of...
View ArticleThe great plastic soup
These three videos about the dangers of plastic in our oceans are worth watching and sharing with friends and family. Most of what we eat, drink, or use in any way comes packaged in petroleum plastic–...
View ArticleRonald Davis on poverty and homelessness…
What does it mean to be homeless and poor? How often have you passed a homeless person in the street and ignored them? On this Human Rights Day, it is important for us to remember that human rights...
View ArticleGlobal sea levels rising faster than thought
A new study shows that the planet’s seas have been rising much faster than previously thought. Harvard and Rutgers scientists discovered that the sea actually only rose by about five inches from 1900...
View ArticleMartin Luther King Jr.
The rousing public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000...
View ArticleGlobal Divestment Day 13–14 February
Join us for Global Divestment Day on February 13 and 14 and together, let’s make fossil fuels history. Divestment is the opposite of an investment – it simply means getting rid of stocks, bonds, or...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson: What’s Possible in 15 Years?
“I have no problem with 15 year horizons. In 15 years we went from NO space program in the 1950’s to boots on the moon. I remember the day, that because that was made possible, in our minds EVERYTHING...
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