Climate Challenge

The PICNIC Green Challenge is for people who can instigate change- creative and innovative thought leaders and their organisations. We're looking for products and services that contribute to an eco-friendly lifestyle, directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and score highly on convenience, quality and design. Please send in your idea and safe the planet!

Sure, the cycles of weather change, have always changed, climates ebbing and flowing through the millennia as species appear, go extinct, do their thing. But...

Some of the hottest celebrities are talking about and taking action on solving the climate crisis. They're asking you to take action too: check out the following video PSA's, featuring stars such as Naomi Campbell, Chris Rock, and Julia Louis Dreyfus. PSA featuring Naomi Campbell on conserving energy through light bulbs.

As one of the leaders in global warming research, it is fitting that the Birch Aquarium’s newest exhibit features climate change. A walk through this part of the museum is similar to a trip through a more interactive version of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth...

When you think about the climate crisis, which image, a polar bear cub or a human child stands out as the face of climate change? Global warming certainly poses an unprecedented environmental and ecological catastrophe. But the climate crisis doesn’t just threaten cute and cuddly animals and their less charismatic cousins. I would argue that the real face of climate change is, or should be, a human face. Today, I join over eleven hundred others in the Climate Emergency Fast to raise awareness of these human impacts of climate change.

Article about Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition. This organization is putting together a youth organized summit September 28th-30th, 2007 in partnership with the Campus Climate Challenge. Register for the conference here: http://www.ssc.org/involved/registrationsup_mz.php?e=106

The climate movement has been going about its business fighting coal plants, promoting wind energy, and working for comprehensive carbon reduction policies. Suddenly, there’s a new development. The new development is not about limiting growth, it’s about redefining prosperity. Not going to change the world? Let’s scale up. It’s time to forge a development paradigm that actually works: one that empowers people, strengthens communities, and sustains the world.

A provocative question. Is a 80% by 2050 national emissions reductions target actually going to prevent the worst impacts of global warming? Will we hit dangerous tipping points? Are there risks we are taking by trying to act too slowly? This post takes a hard look at certain assumptions the U.S. Climate movement has taken.

The tipping points in the Global Climate systems just keep getting scarier. What do we do to avoid the risk of hitting them? Are we really willing to gamble the future of the human species like this?

Focus the Nation which is a project to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion about “Global Warming Solutions for America”, has published a sweet How-to video for organizing a teach-in.

This is a breaking story on how Bush is threatening to veto even the weakest clean energy legislation. How can we have any progress on this front? We have to make sure everybody knows that we are not going to take it.