Climate Change

Our Planet, Beautiful!

by Ron Foreman April 12, 2009 Astronomy

Our Planet – Beautiful !!! Photos Of Earth From Space By Sunita Williams View more presentations from Ron Foreman.

Tim Flannery

by Ron Foreman March 12, 2006 Climate Change

We could go over the cliff. You would hope not. You would hope that people see what needs to be done. It’s not rocket science. It’s not difficult. It’s not even all that costly. It’s actually about the way you think about the world. Tim Flannery More Favourite Quotations

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Beyond Kyoto: a better way

by Ron Foreman November 28, 2005 Climate Change

As delegates gather in Montreal, they should reconsider their whole approach to global warming, say MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER and TED NORDHAUS Globe & Mail, Monday, November 28, 2005 In January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that one of his top priorities as chairman of the Group of [...]

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The Idea of a Local Economy

by Ron Foreman August 8, 2005 Climate Change

by Wendell Berry, www.oriononline.org LET US BEGIN BY ASSUMING what appears to be true: that the so-called “environmental crisis” is now pretty well established as a fact of our age. The problems of pollution, species extinction, loss of wilderness, loss of farmland, loss of topsoil may still be ignored or scoffed at, but they are [...]

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Study Shows Decline in Earth’s Ecosystems

by Ron Foreman March 31, 2005 Climate Change

A new U.N. report shows a dramatic decline in the many benefits that mankind reaps from the Earth’s forests and oceans. The study by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is unusual because it examines the benefits of nature as if they were services. The study also outlines what politicians and people can do [...]

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U.N. Report: Two-Thirds of the World’s Ecosystems Are in Trouble

by Ron Foreman March 31, 2005 Climate Change

A new report released today by international scientists for the United Nations warns that the world is using up its natural resources too quickly and that approximately two-thirds of the earth’s ecosystems are in danger of being destroyed. The report said that 15 of the world’s 24 major ecosystems were in decline and that unless [...]

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