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Who will stop ‘this madness’ of climate change, ‘if not us, then who, if not now, then when?’Yeb Sano From our territories in the Amazon, Mesoamerica, Asia and Africa we fight to protect tropical forests threatened by illegal logging and mining, oil extraction, land invasion, drug traffic, monoculture, construction of ...

Al Gore presents the answer to whether and why we have to change at the COP23 conference in Bonn.  We have to win this in time to stop the damage which will take away the future of children and ourselves Temperatures in large parts of the world are getting too ...

Jerry Brown the American politician is talking about how far we have progressed with regards to climate change. He talks about how friendship, belief and other important human needs will speed up climate change. Jerry brown talks about how the world has changed in recent years for example oil and ...

Master of Ceremony: Cathy Oke Councilor, Melbourne, Australia, ICLEI Global Executive Committee MemberSpeakers: Frank Bainimarama Prime Minister, Republic of Fiji, COP23 President Arnold Schwarzenegger R20 Founding Chair Bonn Fiji Commitment Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji and COP23 President, underscored subnational power: “We can draw from the power and enthusiasm ...

FIRST HALF Human behavior is causing environmental problems and he decided to go into law to help solve them. He saw that the problem was deeper than the law itself. It lies in the way we look at the world. He went into the philosophy of law – jurisprudence. He ...

Pristine is relative to what type of ecosystem is in place at the time. The Sahara desert used to be a high rainfall area with jungle and as the rainfall dropped it became a desert. Does one now say that if it starts to come back we must start shoveling ...

Jason Sole of Motherchannel interviews Gregory London the professor of epidemiology from UCT. This interview is very interesting as this man has inside knowledge and is very informed. The professor tells us that there are fewer labs to test for new problems. He tells us that there is a low ...

In an exclusive interview with Advocate Douglas Shaw, (BSc(Hons) BA(Hum) BA (Open) LLB MLIA(dip) MCP NLP(Mast) and NBCSA member, who has lodged a landmark constitutional challenge against South Africa’s big four banks to the value of R60bn, in a bid to obtain redress for ‘sale in execution’ affected clients as ...

The Origin of All Man In this episode we hear from Craig Foster who is in the South African parliament and he is talking to us about his wonderful adventure with a live wild octopus. Craig will be making a film, book and exhibition about his journey with a live ...

Stuart Scott (Executive Director of UPFSI) heads up a presentation at COP 22 on the food and climate change choices, food security and the impacts of climate change on food production. They cover quite a bit in terms of animal extinction and food security or rather food insecurity as climate ...