Global Assembly Dialog

Problem: In response to the twin pressures of Peak Oil and Climate Change, some pioneering communities in the UK, Ireland and beyond are taking an integrated and inclusive approach to reduce their carbon footprint and increase their ability to withstand the fundamental shift that will accompany Peak Oil. The two toughest challenges facing humankind at the start of this 21st century are Climate Change and Peak Oil. The former is well documented and very visible in the media. Peak Oil, however, remains ...

Action: Peak oil and climate change have rapidly moved up in people's awareness in recent years, but often, particularly in relation to peak oil, solutions tend to be thin on the ground.  Since its initial emergence in, Kinsale in 2005, the Transition idea1, has spread virally across the UK and increasingly further afield, serving as a catalyst for community -led responses to these twin challenges.  As the Transition network, has grown, questions have been raised regarding how this emerging movement ...

Problem: Sustainable development has been discussed world-wide for decades but the problems, mischievously keep getting worse. Could we have been missing something big, maybe huge? The recent documentary Blindspot (http://www.blindspotdoc.com/) shows how the most basic assumptions about our future are wrong. How wrong? It is as if modern civilisation has got stuck in reverse gear, with economics that systematically, relentlessly messes things up.  Millions of...

Action: 1.  Notice the blindspot.  Notice that we've been trying to solve global problems with the same thinking that caused them. Do problems really become more manageable when tackled separately, here and there, a bit at a time? Don't get so distracted fiddling with pieces of the puzzle that the big picture is ignored.  For example our struggles to recycle a bit more have masked the ease with which all resources could be rescued to help our economy and planet. When we grieve about the latest armed ...

Problem: CO2 rise, Climate Change/ Global Warming & World's Carbon Trade

Action: Mishu’s Plan on tackling Global CO2 rise & Global Carbon Trade:   A CO2 reduction plan was envisaged during my M.Sc. in Environmental Technology, as a class-assignment in 1999-2000. It was a low tech plan which could easily be put into practice where the whole world could come to play. The plan offered a new dimension to carbon trade for businesses. The outline was as below-   Fast-growing trees assimilate CO2 out of air fast (4 times faster than natural forests). We need to harvest th...

Problem: There are several perceived barriers– social, economical, political, and physical– enviromental that contribute to individuals inaction on social issues that smite our planet Earth. The DoGooder attempts to help break down some of those barriers by allowing anyone with an Internet connection to support causes, in both tangible and intangible ways, simply by browsing the Internet. Donate money to green initiatives and charitable causes without spending a dime– on a the surface level, a paradox...

Action: Simply download and install (takes literally about 10 seconds) the browser plug-in for free. It is available for Firefox (recommended), Internet Explorer, and Safari (with some limitations). The plug-in allows end users to opt-in to see campaigns related to environmental issues, charitable causes, health and wellness, and green and cause related tips.

Problem: Help bird conservation in North America by participating for one day in the annual Christmas Bird Count.   Prior to the turn of the century, people engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas "Side Hunt": They would choose sides and go afield with their guns; whoever brought in the biggest pile of feathered (and furred) quarry won.   Conservation was in its beginning stages around the turn of the 20th century, and many observers and scientists were becoming concerned about declini...

Action: The Christmas Bird Count season is December 14 through January 5 each year. Your local count will occur on one day between those inclusive dates. If you have more than one local count, they will probably be conducted on different dates within the CBC season. You can pick the most convenient date, or participate in more than one count.   There is a specific methodology to the CBC, but everyone can pa...

Problem: The Tri-Town Energy Conservation Contest joined together the towns of Woodbridge, Orange, and Bethany to present students ranging from the first grade to high school seniors a contest to develop creative and educational entries that teach the community about clean energy and global warming. The second annual contest for K-12 students in the tri-town area to inspire the community to save energy, reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and lessen global climate change. Out of 88 entries, the fi...

Action: The Woodbridge Clean Energy Initiative (WCEI) in conjunction with the Bethany Clean Energy Task Force and the Orange Clean Energy Task Force is proud to announce the second annual contest for K-12 students in the tri-town area to inspire the community to save energy, reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, and lessen global climate change. This year's contest will focus on ways that we can: harness the energy of nature, conserve energy, and clean up the environment.   Participants may enter a...

Problem: OUR CURRENT POWER GENERATION SYSTEM USES AN UNSUSTAINABLE MODEL, THAT HAS LED MANKIND INTO THE WRONG PATH     The world needs more electricity in the next 30 years. The US will grow its capacity, but China and India who are currently under supplied, are carrying a very rapid aggressive expansion policy to generate more than they currently produce. Current supply models are centralized, generate electricity using very large plants from multiple sources of energy, both non-renewable and renewab...

Action:  A DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEM WOULD CORRECT THE PATH OF MANKIND AND ESTABLISH A MORE EQUITABLE WORLD ORDER   Having a stand alone, small electrical power generators based on Solar energy for the home, business, and light weigh industry would provide everyone, all over the world, the possibility of having modern living comforts and power tools to produce goods and services, that create well being. The small stand alone power generator would allow people in Asia, Africa, Latin America ...

Problem: In the expansion of infrastructure and development to sustain the coal industry, local interests and concerns with the effects of this expansion tend to be seen as being less important than corporate, state and economic interests. The expansion of the coal industry will have significant environmental, social and economic impacts on these regions, particularly those in which the mining industry is in an exploratory phase and is yet to be developed. Increasingly, however, such expansion occurs ...

Action: The Coal Communities Listening Tour is an engagement and consultation project with members of coal dependant and affected communities to ground future campaigning on coal expansion in a thorough and robust knowledge of the concerns, issues and needs of the these communities.   Above all, this project starts with listening.   A team of researchers and students from Six Degrees, Review Group: Conservation Review

Problem: This solution focuses on the input of Indigenous Peoples into the activities of the international system regarding REDD schemes and climate change.

Problem: The problem is that not enough people lobby their leaders about the environment. Perhaps this is because they do not know how to reach their leaders or they do not know what to say.

Action: www.informaction.org is an easy to use automated lobbying service, allowing people to quickly send emails, letters or faxes to politicians and business leaders all over the world.