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Germany at a More Real Climate Crossroads
by Jan Lundberg   
26 June 2009
More vital news from Germany: besides the creation of a car free city (Vauban), Chancellor Merkel is holding Obama's feet to the fire to do more to halt greenhouse-gas emissions -- even as she faces domestic protest regarding sacrosanct coal power.

Germany's entire society enjoys a better quality of life than the U.S. thanks to generous vacations while using half the energy per capita used by U.S. citizens. But all is not well in Germany due to economic and demographic stress combined with unsustainable energy dependence.
 
Oil or Trees? Germany Takes Lead in Saving Ecuador's Rainforest
by Jess Smee   
24 June 2009
ImageOil companies are salivating over the supply of black gold beneath Ecuador's rainforest. The South American country is pledging to keep the oil in the ground -- if the international community provides compensation. Now Germany has taken a leading role in raising the necessary cash.
 
Letter from Tehran: To live or to just be alive, that's the question
by a professor in Tehran   
23 June 2009
ImageSent today directly to Culture Change from our contact in Iran
Payvand.com: Tehran, 4.30 local time, Enghelab Street:

After the Supreme Leader's fierce speech at the Friday prayers, we knew that today we would be different.
 
Food, Inc. - A Documentary Film About the Irresponsibility of Industrialized Agriculture
by Robert Kenner   
22 June 2009
ImageEditor's note: There are clear advantages of sustainability and biological precedence of vegan diets compared to omnivore diets.
 
Learning to Live With Climate Change Will Not Be Enough
by David W. Orr   
20 June 2009
The awareness that humans could alter the climate of Earth has dawned slowly on our consciousness. In 1896, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius deflected his anguish over a failed marriage into remarkably tedious and, as it turned out, accurate calculations about the effect of CO2 emissions on climate.
 
Time to Take the Gloves off with Obama
by Jan Lundberg and Jeff Gerritsen   
18 June 2009
ImageThe clock is ticking, and we are not building life boats. As the population's options close and a harder ecological and socioeconomic fall is assured more each day, Barack Obama is leading the thumb twiddlers,
 
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