Thursday, June 29, 2006

Global Climate Change

So now Mr. Blair has put action against global climate change on his agenda, it's about time more global leaders would encourage concrete actions to make sure this planet we're living on will continue to be habitable.
The movie that's documenting Al Gore's campaign for more awareness around global climate change has been made into a documentary: "An Inconvenient Truth". It will even be showed at the Open Air Cinema in Geneva this summer, but I don't know yet if I'll be able to make it there. Scientist who've seen the movie say that the facts that are stated in it are correct:
Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels. (Source)





I'm getting curious on how environmental awareness is conveyed concretely, on a day-to-day and one-to-one basis, and how a small organisation in a developed country is doing "education for sustainable development", tomorrow is my first day!

8 Comments:

Chiara said...

Hey Sarah,

As a new blogger I have to catch up on many things... how do you post videos on your blog? I tried to post one in mine but it did not work :'(

9:25 PM  
Carissa )i( said...

I'm sure this is a great movie...hope it will raise more than just a few eyebrows. Saw the trailer a while back. Hope I can go and watch it for you if you can't....have a great first day tomorrow! Update us :) Everybody has such cool traineeships and plans this Summer :-) Except for me, sigh. Mémoire here I come.

7:50 AM  
zuzka said...

Don't worry, Carissa, I will also study...
No traineeship or any other cool things, just me, my German classes and my thesis

well, and some WENA stuff & IC as well, but that's a standard ;)

big hug from another student

11:29 PM  
Carissa )i( said...

Haha, Zuzka, now we're even communicating on other people's blogs...back to student life, huh? German classes, really? Wow! :-) And yeah, I'll contact you sometime next week to set a date for a chat somewhere :-) Maybe you and I should also change our blog titles for Summer to "me and my thesis", i.e. kind of follow Suzan's example LOL And yeah, the standard @-work ...am sure you'll do a great job :)

Big hug back from a hopefully soon no-more student

11:36 PM  
sarita said...

hey girls,

don't worry, I don't mind other people having conversations on my blog ;-)
we definitely need to have some standard-summer-moments with trips and events etc. to distract us from stupid little things like a mémoire or an internship, hahaha
I'm becoming an expert on sustainable development, yay! more updates to come soon...

3:38 PM  
Carissa )i( said...

Haha, thx Sarita ;-) Yay, wanna hear some news from you then on sustainable development !!! :-D As you're our expert now ;-)

Oohhh, I already have some ideas for standard-summer-moments/getways ! We need to stay sane, right? :-)

4:37 PM  
zuzka said...

Sane in our everyday life, but i guess that the limits of for the Summer Events are somewhere else...
Nadja already has a suggestion for her birthday...

1:03 AM  
maja said...

Speaking of sustainability: es chunt no en andere neue Film wo dich viellicht interessiere chönt:

Trailer Who killed the electric car?

hanen allerdings au no nid gseh...

grüessli :)

1:42 AM  

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