With the world's attention on the Copenhagen climate change negotiations happening later this year, a group of NGO's have drafted a climate treaty as a guide for governments to use at the negotiations. The proposes treaty brings together the need for ambitious and urgent action on adaptation and emissions reduction.
A summary of our latest climate change adaptation workshop with small scale farmers within the Swartland region of the Western Cape. This workshop is part of a larger pilot study which provides farmers with information about climate change and tools to adapt of shift their farming practices.
Abalimi Bezekhaya: growing sustainable urban neighbourhoods Dear friends, Rob Small is like a force of nature and spending time with him will invigorate you or exhaust you or both, but you will not regret any of it. I first heard about Abalimi Bezekhaya back in 2000 as an organisation doing amazing work in townships. Abalimi [...]
Dear Friends, We recently stumbled upon this very inspiring news from the Maldives Islands, or rather the Republic of Maldives, also referred to as The Maldives. The Maldives, southwest of India, is made up of a chain of 1192 small coral islands that are grouped into clusters of atolls. It has a total area of [...]
Dear friends, I spent the past weekend with some fantastic people participating in a "Grow to live" gardening course with Soil for Life, a non profit organisation based in Constantia, Cape Town. Soil for Life teaches people to grow their own food and it works with the premise – healthy soil, healthy plants, and healthy [...]
Dear friends, So, Earth Hour 2009 has come and gone. What happened on Saturday night at 8h30pm? Did the whole world join in on this craze to switch lights and electrical appliances off for an hour? If so, how successful was it, and what happens now? After the build up over the last few weeks [...]
OSLO, March 24 (Reuters) - A proposed U.N. study of climate extremes will be a practical guide for tackling natural disasters and fill a gap in past reports focused on the gradual effects of global warming, experts said. Floods, mudslides, droughts, heatwaves or storms are often the main causes of destruction and human suffering [...]
On 2 April 2009, world leaders from the G20 countries – representing 85% of the world’s output – will meet in London. "World leaders are meeting at next week’s London G20 Summit to tackle an economic crisis -- we desperately need them to agree to a bold global rescue package to stimulate, regulate and [...]
At Project 90 by 2030 we are always on the hunt for what we call "Climate Champions". These are individuals or groups of people who just get in there, take action and make simple changes in their lifestyle/behaviour and in living more sustainably. There are probably many to speak about, but we will be be [...]