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The Import of the Imagination in Rethinking the future

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Friday, August 21, 2020, In : Activism

...and the UK Climate and Ecological Bill
By Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition Towns

One of the few rays of hopeful sunshine in the UK’s currently bleak political landscape is the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. In fact, I feel like it is such a vitally important development that I want to use this article to urge you to get behind it, while also offering a rather different perspective on why I feel it matters so much.

The Bill was created by a coming together of activists, scientists ...

The Science Shows That We Still Have the Time and Strategies to Save the Planet’s Coral Reefs.

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Saturday, May 23, 2020, In : regeneration

Tired of ‘writing obituaries for coral reefs,’ surfing scientists find new ways to save them

By Raul Quintana

Grim reports and unsettling headlines paint a bleak future for Earth’s coral reefs, which are projected to be wiped out by the end of the century due to climate change and pollution.

But a new study shows that this future can be prevented — and outlines the relatively small steps humanity can take to ensure coral reefs’ long-term protection and productivity.

Building off of pr...

'The Paris Climate-Change Spectacular'

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Monday, July 27, 2015, In : Activism

ETC Group
09 July 2015

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December will feature all the tightly choreographed production values of a Hollywood blockbuster. The cast will be huge: presidents and prime ministers at center stage, supported by thousands of extras, including protesters, riot police, and busloads of media. The script may still be under wraps, but the plot has already leaked: This time, in sharp contrast to the failed negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009, the plane...