Greenspiration New: climate scramble, sacred duty

Mon Dec 28 13:36:54 EST 2009

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Support bike activism by purchasing a bicycle calendar. Check out the
calendar here: http://www.cyclonordsud.org/voir.php?id=291

Send $10 (plus $2 shipping) to me and I'll mail you one pronto.

Make cheque payable to: Tooker Gomberg Activist Fund
214 Macdonell Ave. Toronto, ON M6R 2A8

Peace of the season...
-angela

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Do you know the story of the Christmas Truce of 1914?

On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World War I, German, British
and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the
enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held Christmas
trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas." "You no shoot,
we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across no-man's land strewn
with rotting corpses. They sang Christmas carols, exchanged photographs of
loved ones back home, shared rations, played football, even roasted some
pigs. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours
before. They agreed to warn each other if the top brass forced them to
fire their weapons, and to aim high.

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/christmas2004/christmasindex.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

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What was agreed at Copenhagen – and what was left out

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/18/how-copenhagen-text-was-changed

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Leading Climate Scientist James Hansen on Why He’s Pleased the Copenhagen
Summit Failed, “Cap and Fade,” Climategate and More

30 minute audio/video interview
James Hansen is the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies and leading climate scientist.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/22/leading_climate_scientist_james_hansen_on

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Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein - First Take On Climate Agreement
Take off the Kid Gloves on Obama
video length: 15 min. 43 sec.  

In a late evening interview, Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben of 350.org
react to President Obama's Copenhagen speeches from earlier in the day. UN
Climate Change Conference. Copenhagen. December 18, 2009.

http://www.postcarbon.org/video/51255-mckibben-first-take-on-climate

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Better to have no deal at Copenhagen than one that spells catastrophe
The only offer on the table in Copenhagen would condemn the developing
world to poverty and suffering in perpetuity
By Naomi Klein

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/17/copenhagen-no-deal-better-catastrophe

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Is Canada Criminally Negligent on Climate Policy?
A leading environmental scientist says it is time for the international
law to target climate culprit countries like his own, Canada.

By William E. Rees
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2009/12/02/CanadaEnvironmentCriminal/

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Requiem for a Crowded Planet
Scramble for the Atmosphere

Columns on Copenhagen By George Monbiot.
http://www.monbiot.com/

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Check out the 10 min. video of the civil society protests in Copenhagen.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/dec/17/copenhagen-climate-change

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At Copenhagen, Canada takes “Colossal Fossil” distinction for third year
in row

http://www.straight.com/article-275894/vancouver/copenhagen-canada-takes-colossal-fossil-distinction-third-year-row

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Aircraft Vapor Trails Responsible for 15-20% of Arctic Warming

The first analysis of emissions from commercial airline flights shows that
they are responsible for 4–8% of surface global warming since surface air
temperature records began in 1850 — equivalent to a temperature increase
of 0.03–0.06 °C overall.

The analysis, by atmospheric scientists at Stanford University in Palo
Alto, California, also shows that in the Arctic, aircraft vapour trails
produced 15–20% of warming.

http://climateprogress.org/2009/12/23/airline-vapor-trails-arctic-warming-black-carbon/

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The Ugly Canadian
Nine ways we are ruining our once enviable reputation in the world.

1. Climate Change
2. Asbestos
3. Terminator Seeds
4. GMO food
5. The Afghan occupation and renewed militarism
6. Israel
7.  The Betrayal of Africa
8. Latin America
9. China and Human Rights

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2009/12/17/TheUglyCanadian/

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The Elephant in the Room: The U.S. Military is One of the World's Largest
Sources of C02

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Elephant-in-the-Room--by-George-Washington-091221-894.html

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Why I Oppose the Vancouver Olympics and the Toronto Pan Am Games

http://torontotorch.blogspot.com/

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STOP JUNK MAIL and TELEMARKETING CALLS - it just takes 2 minutes

Putting a "no junk mail" sticker on your mailbox isn't enough to stop the
stream of junk mail.

1. Contact he Canadian Marketing Association Do Not Contact Service - just
give them your address:

http://www.the-cma.org/?WCE=C=47|K=224217

2. Contact the National Do Not Call List - just give them your phone number:

https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/insnum-regnum-eng

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9/11 Conspiracy Files - The Passionate Eye

We all know what happened on 9/11 or do we? Investigates conspiracy
theories that continue to swirl around 9/11 including why a mysterious
Third Tower also collapsed.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyemonday/2008/thethirdtower/

Monday December 28 at 10 pm ET/PT & Tuesday December 29 at 6 pm ET on CBC
News Network

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A Sacred Duty

1 hour video documentary

http://asacredduty.com/

Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) has produced a major
documentary about how Jewish teachings can help address current
environmental crises.

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