Now is the time to change the World for the better.......
We urgently need to change the way we live to ensure a future for our children. Their tomorrow depends on our today. So we need to tackle the problems of poverty, climate change, conflict, pollution and environmental devastation to build a sustainable future on Planet Earth.
The good news is that every one of us can make a difference every day.
This site exists to inspire and support the large and growing band of people who want to do something about it. Together we can save the human race from itself and begin to heal the planet.
A Future Worth Choosing
Imagine a human presence on the planet that is
• Environmentally Sustainable, ensuring there is a planet for tomorrow’s children.
• Spiritually Fulfilling, where we feel at peace with each other and with ourselves.
• Socially Just, the rights of every one of us are protected and we all get a fair slice of the cake.
And realise we can create that through our everyday thoughts and actions.
Or more of the same
Our current way of life divides the human family and puts us at war with one another, it consumes and poisons our planet home and despite every advance in knowledge and technology and economic well-being we remain on course for disaster. More of the same isn’t an option: instead we face the simple dilemma
Are we part of the solution or part of the problem?
Take a Stand. Right now the world needs brave souls to take a stand for a future worth choosing and to make a difference through how they live their own everyday lives. Can you hear this call?
And Take Action Today
Let us show you how you can Live Lightly on the Planet and Make your Money Make a Difference. See how we change the world when we can Stand Up Speak Out, Just Shine and Be of Service in our everyday lives. Sustainable living and development is in our grasp.
A voice of the future
There are millions of people around the world working for a better world, each in our own valuable way, everyone of us a Voice of the Future. You are not alone! Please fill in your E-Mail address to help us to begin to find the scale of the worldwide movement for change. And we’ll be happy to send you "Thoughts from the Future", our FREE NEWSLETTER. Our simple hope is to collect a million names this year, a million Voices of the Future, please help us in this by recommending this site to your friends.
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Enough is enough website: enoughsenough.org
This website is worth a visit , support their causes, our book says stand up and speak out which is just what they are doing at Enough's enough.
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We say "enough's enough!" when we've reached the end of the road on whatever it is that's bugging us. We've decided to take action and deal with it.enoughsenough aims to provide simple and easy ways for us to take action and make a difference on things we've hopefully all had enough of.Like 4x4 SUV drivers who only do the school run. Like the ever expanding concrete jungle. Like energy companies who use slogans like 'Positive Energy', when 99.5% of the energy they supply is causing climate change. Like corporations that are literally making a killing. Like corrupt Governments who listen more to corporates or other governments, than the people who elected them. Like short-termism. Send us your own.We're also here to highlight the good stuff. Like businesses who do their best to make sure they aren't wrecking the planet for future generations.We believe that it's not about a few of us doing a lot. It's about a lot of us doing a little.
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Downshifting........
National Downshifting Week’s slow down top tips are targeted at Individuals, Companies, Children and Schools and include:
Cut up a credit card “Learning to live within our means is key to downshifting and positively embracing living with less is better still.”
Plant something in the garden you can cultivate and eat - “Grow a few tomatoes or chillies on a windowsill if you have no garden; pesticide-free produce tastes amazing. It also breaks the myth that all food comes from the supermarkets!”
Contact local food producers and re-think your vending machines at work - “Low mileage food and drinks and Fair Trade and Organic treats in the workplace…whatever next !”
Book a half-day off work to spend with someone you love, no DIY allowed - “How can we have ‘quality time’ with great people, if we spend so much of it chasing the money? Money can’t buy you time.” For further details see www.DownshiftingWeek.com
Ethical Resources
‘Cut down on unnecessary travel by meeting by phone and web’ www.OzoneConferencing.com Tracey Smith - Recent Media
Apple AM – ‘Slow Down and Green Up’ – own radio show
BBC Radio Somerset - Sustainable living panellist
BBC Television ‘Ready, Steady, Cook’ – a ‘green-up your kitchen’ special
Represented by
www.NCI-Management.com
See listing under ‘Environment’
To interview Tracey Smith, contact: -
Tracey [at] DownshiftingWeek.com
Accompanying jpeg images available on request
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The Camp for Climate Action 2007
These days everyone agrees that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is necessary, but are they serious? If governments and corporations were serious about climate change they wouldn’t be threatening us with terrorism laws and Orwellian injunctions. And of course nobody really believes their idea that we can buy our way out of the climate crisis by all being green consumers. Imagine a planet of 6 billion Toyota Prius eco-cars. We simply can’t have an endlessly expanding economy on a planet that’s not getting any bigger!
The real battle is about change as its coming whether we like it or not. Capitalism loves a good crisis. The crisis of climate change provides an opportunity to change the world, to sweep away existing barriers to growth and to realise new profits. Markets for carbon and the farce of carbon-offsetting are ingenious new ways to make profits. It’s hard to see them delivering 90% cuts in carbon dioxide emissions before 2050. But easy to see them delivering bumper profits, insane inequality and a PR-disguised drift towards climatic catastrophes.
Mainstream solutions to climate change are no solution at all. Catastrophe beckons unless we get our act together. It’s up to us, the public acting together, to push solutions that fight against climate change and for social justice together, to develop attractive solutions, to adopt different measurements of value, to turn things around. The good news is that most of the changes needed are social, psychological and political. They aren’t about technology. They are questions to be answered by the public, not the expert.
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/
