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Welcome to another edition of your Friday Linkfest here at Celsias, where every week we attempt to bring you the very best of the newsworthy happenings of this week. Here you can always find the good, the bad and the interesting, summarized for your convenience.

It turns out that the claimant in the recent UK case against showing The Inconvenient Truth in schools, Mr. Stewart Dimmock, school governor (and “father of two” as various media agencies were quick to highlight) is in fact a member of a right wing political group that is anti-environmental, and even described as "fascist' by Scottish press.

Given the tremendous impact our dietary habits, agricultural systems and methods of animal husbandry have on our quality of life and our environment, we’re excited to announce we’ll be running portions of world renowned John Robbins' highly readable and world-changing book, ‘The Food Revolution’, as a series on Celsias.

Know someone with a blog? Get them involved in Blog Action Day!! When I say "a blog", I mean ANY BLOG. Whether they write about the latest gadgets, or finance or their cat - on Monday we want the world to be reading about the environment!!

The big story today is that the Nobel Peace Prize recognizes the climate crisis as a genuine threat to humanity. ...  Wait a minute. Isn’t the “real” story about what winning this prize means for Al Gore? Shouldn’t we be talking about his prospects for the ‘08 Presidency? A quick scan of major news sources shows that this is the main focus of discourse here in the U.S.

As fascinating as it might be to see a scientist potentially holding a pile of mammoth-poo in his hands, this is not a good sign.

In the 2nd of a 2 part series of interviews with the folks that brought us the recently released film ‘The 11th Hour’, I interviewed Nadia Connors and Leila Connors Petersen, the founders of Tree Media and directors of the film. We spoke about the coming geopolitical realities surrounding the environment, the excitement of frugality as a solution and how to overcome the laziness epidemic in our country.

Amongst other pranks, a comedy crew (including a fake Osama bin Laden) ”with three black cars, a couple of motorbikes and men in black running alongside… breezed through two police security checkpoints arriving outside the Intercontinental Hotel where US President George Bush is staying.”

Welcome to the 9th Edition of the Celsias Friday Linkfest! Here we bring you a weekly summary of the good, the bad and the interesting from across the internet and beyond.

The two clips below share a frightening insight into the exploitation, profiteering and control of water. The key issue at stake is whether we determine water to be a ‘need’, or a ‘right’. The former understanding labels water as a ‘good’ (product, commodity) that can be privatised and ‘managed’ for profit, the latter a basic right that should be denied no one, and kept in the public domain for the greater good of all.

...some of the responses to the global threat of climate change are likely to cause new and severe problems, which... could actually increase global warming. As this special report shows, this seems to be the case with carbon trading – a grandiose market scheme set up as the world’s primary response to the crisis of climate change.

Unsurprisingly, a new study shows just one obvious outcome to such a tactic - potential worldwide droughts

This is a little unusual for post material on Celsias, but I thought noteworthy. Watch this awesome amateur clip, showing a complicated confrontation between lions, buffalo and an enormous crocodile. This is a true western showdown, and the best bit is the underdog wins (at least we think he does…).

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