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Putu Liza on Jun 10th, 2008 in
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Impressed by Al Gore’s 2006 “An Inconvenient Truth”, I discussed the movie with a good friend of mine, an environmentalist like myself. In the midst of the conversation, he asked where I had seen the movie. “In my ashram,” I said. He looked at me rather incredulously and blurted out, “Why did your ashram screen such a movie?” Now, it was my turn to be flabbergasted. Why couldn’t a spiritual community like Anand...
Moments ago, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Climate Security Act, a bipartisan bill that would set a hard, economy-wide cap on America’s global warming pollution. With the Senate having taken the first historic step of passing a climate bill out of committee, it’s now time for the House to act. Send an email. Urge your Representative to call on House leaders to pass strong...
To Al Gore, Global Warming is definitely not a political, but a Moral Issue. To someone like Emil Salim, this need to be addressed seriously and intelligently….. But, alas, Al Gore is too far away from us, and unfortunately Emil Salim is just a thin voice in the wilderness. It was therefore very comforting to read the recent editorial of The Jakarta Post under the title of “Climate Unawareness” (November 25th,...
This is my third day at the UN Conference on Climate Change in the beautiful island of Bali….. Listening to one distinguished speaker after another, my conviction gets stronger that the solution to Global Warming and Climate Change lies not in this Conference Hall. It lies not with Governments and Government Officials – but lies in the hands of the people of the world, the commoners like you and me. Just think of...
United Nations Climate Change Conference Bali, Dec. 14, 2007 (Closing Day) This is in response to: Mr. Al Gore’s Vision of Global People Power Movement to address to the issue of Climate Change as stipulated by him in his speech in Bali, on 13 December 2007, and Indonesian President HE Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Appeal made also in Bali, on the 11th of December, 2007 regarding the need to Love and Revere...