An environmental initiative of Mata Amritanandamayi Math
from GreenFriends North America Our Beloved Amma has requested that her children take up the challenge of Source Reduction – preventing waste and pollution before it actually happens – to live a more sustainable life on our precious Mother Earth. … Continued
NASA has published a film of Earth’s seasons showing how the climate has changed in the past twenty years. As they say, we only have one planet, and it’s a delicate place. The data visualization, released this week, shows Earth’s … Continued
In 2014 Thich Nhat Hanh, a senior Vietnamese Buddhist, was asked to give a brief statement to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change about climate change and our relationship to one another and to the Earth. His statement is … Continued
As if to emphasize the need for everyone to plant trees, which is one of the InDeed initiatives, the Global Forest Coalition has published a report called Biomyths: the costly carbon scam of bioenergy, exposing the dangers to the environment … Continued
The community of Morete Cocha is located in the region of Pastaza Province in the Amazon region of Ecuador. Like many other communities Morete Cocha is under threat by oil companies seeking to exploit crude oil in the community’s land. … Continued
See also IPCC report (Guardian)
We learned the key principles, that certain gases in the atmosphere act like a blanket, warming the Earth from -18C to +15C: chiefly water vapour, CO2 and others. We were told that weather and climate are distinct: that weather consists … Continued
The free online course at the University of Exeter has just started, and two of us have joined it. So here is an opportunity to reflect on the topic in ways that the course may not deal with. For example, … Continued
“Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions. A FREE online course from the University of Exeter Our very first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) begins on 13th January 2014 on the Open University’s FutureLearn platform, and lasts for eight weeks. The free … Continued