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I just received an e-mail that 3 of our favourite New Society authors (Richard Heinberg, Chellis Glendinning and Lyle Estill) are appearing in a new documentary entitled What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire. From the website: "Disturbing, compassionate, sometimes humorous personal essay about coming to grips with climate change, resource …

We've all heard that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In Electric Water, just off press, Christopher Swan argues that we have all the parts in place to help reverse climate change and meet our energy needs, we just have to understand how to recombine those parts into a new whole. Existing technologies and intelligent distribution of …

As news of the military junta's atrocities in Burma/Myanmar ripples around the world a enormous groundswell of protest is gathering steam. Over 1/2 a million people have already signed the Avaaz petition to pressure China and the UN Security Council to "oppose the violent crackdown on the demonstrators, and to support genuine reconciliation and …

Any British Columbia readers may be interested in this event - The Great Climate Challenge: Practical Solutions that Work. The course runs Saturday October 6th, 2007, 9-5pm at Royal Roads University in Victoria. Hosted by Guy Dauncey, author of Stormy Weather, Cancer, Enough Blood Shed and Earthfuture, this one day course addresses the urgent …