Today we know more than ever before what impact our lifestyles and consumption patterns have on our home: the Earth. Nevertheless, we keep ignoring the warning signals that Earth sends out. We keep going on like there is no tomorrow. We MUST act to stop and reverse the current trends and start taking care of our wider home as we do for our own living quarters. This blog is about how we can care for Earth and reduce our ecological footprint. Let us change our future now!
Showing posts with label Natural Resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural Resources. Show all posts
THE CHINA EXPERIMENT By Mara Hvistendahl for Seedmagazine.com
China is now undergoing a green revolution. However, the government is still struggling with how to bets deal with the issues of the environmental protection and its staggering growth rates that are working at cross purposes. Read this very informative and interesting article from Seedmagazine.com on how China is now trying to formulate policies to tackle serious environmental problems without having to compromise too much on its economic growth ambitions. The China Experiment is well written and Mara Hvistendahl has certainly done her research.
"Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses".
Global Witness is an organization dedicated to exposing the ways that corruption and natural resources are linked and to campaign for transparency and justice in the areas of resources, human rights and environmental abuses. The organization does a lot of important work in this regard and deserves everybody's respect and support. Please visit their website http://globalwitness.org to learn more about the good work they are doing for human rights and the environment and to see how you can help them.
Global Witness write this about the importance of their work: Global Witness was the first organisation that sought to break the links between the exploitation of natural resources, and conflict and corruption; and the results of our investigations and our powerful lobbying skills have been not only a catalyst, but a main driver behind most of the major international mechanisms and initiatives that have been established to address these issues; including the Kimberley Process and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Global Witness is largely responsible for natural resources occupying the prominent role in the international agenda that they currently do.
The EarthEchoes blog is going carbon neutral and so can you:
Be a responsible earth citizen and go carbon neutral. Check out: Carbonfund.org
A Quote from Vice President Al Gore:
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because it is the most dangerous crisis we have ever faced, by far. But it also provides us with opportunities to do a lot of things we ought to be doing for other reasons anyway. And to solve this crisis we can develop a shared sense of moral purpose.
(Al Gore talking about the environmental crisis)
Personal Motto & Philosophy:
About Trond Lovdal, Blog Editor:
Hi there. I am the blog editor and creator of this blog. I have decided to make environmental work my life's purpose and career and to do my best to be a positive force and not a contributor to global climate change and biodiversity loss. I have named it EarthEchoes because I strongly believe that the global community must listen to the echoes (messages) of earth and that we all have to pull together, whether from the "developed" or "developing" part of the globe, to fight the threats to the global environment. This is one fight that MUST be fought UNITED if we are to overcome the huge challenges that global climate change and biodiversity loss represent. And that is what this blog is all about: Being a positive force in changing people's attitudes and behaviour with regards to the global environment. To learn more about me and my background visit my other blog: EarthEchoes and Trond Lovdal.
My motto is:
One life - live it!
One earth - protect it!
Thanks for reading my blog. I really hope that reading it has provided you with some serious food for thought about our common cause for a better and more sustainable earth and always remember: One life - live it! One earth - protect it!
THE CHINA EXPERIMENT
