Articles Tagged with the word ‘Planet’
Songs for Survival
24 Nov 2008
Bruce Parry, star of the groundbreaking series Tribe and Amazon, has teamed up with the music world's biggest names to create a fundraising album for Survival International.
This One Earth
24 Nov 2008
Danielle Ballantine is a composer and musician based in Oxford, in the UK. Her second album, This One Earth, is a celebration of our unique planet.
The Underwater World of Scubazoo
21 May 2008
Scubazoo is a team of professional underwater camera operators who have an intense love and dedicated appreciation for ocean habitat.
Students' Eco-Innovation Award
12 Mar 2008
Students across the country are invited to enter their environmentally friendly designs for an Eco-Innovation Award.
The Big Earth Book
04 Feb 2008
Are you concerned about climate change and pollution, nuclear power,the future of water and oil, farming and food? Then this is definitelythe book for you!
Kidscall – Save Life on Earth
03 Dec 2007
Bianca Jagger fronts the World Future Council's KidsCall campaign whichappeals to young people around the world to demand that politicianstake care of our planet for the sake of future generations.
Awakening Global Action
12 Jun 2007
In the midst of major world challenges, something profound is being reborn, say the Bali Institute of Global Renewal. Together with Global Youth in Action, they are organising a truly unique event, 'Awakening Global Action'.
Sunrise Celebration
21 Mar 2007
Sunrise Celebration, in Somerset, hopes to set new environmental standards for festivals. With 13 live music stages all running on renewable energy, and local, organic food, Sunrise will demonstrate that large events can be run sensitively.
Animate Earth
15 Nov 2006
' 'Animate Earth' represents systems science at its best . . . gives a whole new dimension to what environment-friendly' really means.'óJonathon Porritt
Green Being
What on Earth was the Summit all About?
30 Sep 2002
The United Nations World Summit for Sustainable Development, also called the Earth Summit, happened in Johannesburg, South Africa for six days in August/September 2002. It's aim was to explore how we can all work together to save the planet. World leaders came together to talk about what they had achieved since the last Earth Summit ten years ago in...
Young People Telling it Straight
30 Sep 2002
Young delegates at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg were angry with the way in which world leaders were putting economic and political interests before the future of the planet. In their speeches to the world leaders many of them told them just what they think.
Restoring the Earth
30 Jun 2002
For the World Summit on Sustainable Development to be truly successful, it will need to produce ambitious but achievable plans, and firm com-mitments to their implementation from governments and other bodies, to address the deteriorating state of our planet, and to fulfil the basic needs of people throughout the world. The various preparatory events produced little cause for optimism,...
Peoples Earth Summit
30 Jun 2002
The idea of the People-Earth-Summit grew out of the collapse of the Climate talks in The Hague in November 2000 and the announce-ment that the Earth Summit would be hosted by South Africa.
People from South Africa, Africa and other continents met to reflect on how to respond to the deadlock. In particular, they wanted to find a way...
An American Viewpoint
30 Dec 2001
It's understandable why many of us, after grieving and consoling the mourners, will feel anger ñ and while some demagogues in Congress have already sought to manipulate that feeling into a growing militarism (more spies, legalise assassinations of foreign leaders, increase the defence budget at the expense of domestic programmes), the more responsible' leaders are seeking to narrow America's...