Greenspiration News: Real hope is about DOING something

Mon Dec 6 23:00:37 EST 2010

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2010 UN Climate Meetings: Cancun, Mexico

Links, blogs, media releases, videos etc.

http://www.manitobawildlands.org/cc_meetings_cop16.htm#links

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Real Hope Is About Doing Something

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hope_in_the_21st_century_20101128/

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Check out this Google Map of Urban Repair Squad actions:
http://www.flavr.be/urs

Urban Repair Squad
http://urbanrepairs.blogspot.com/ 

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Brilliantly delivered diatribe by Bill Maher against climate change deniers

5 min. video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llK96WpNp3k

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Chile to Begin Measuring its Water Footprints

How many litres of water are needed to produce one kilogram of table grapes? The current effort to measure the "water footprint" of this and other Chilean exports could give us some answers by year's end.

The water footprint is the total volume of freshwater used in the production of goods and services. It can be calculated for a specific product, an individual company or an entire country. This footprint, say experts, is an indicator of both potential and limits. 

http://www.alternet.org/story/148581/chile_to_begin_measuring_its_water_footprints/

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The Tea Parties didn’t arise spontaneously: they were boiled up by big business.
By George Monbiot
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/10/25/toxic-brew/

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A New Kind of Crime Against Humanity?

The Fossil Fuel Industry's Disinformation Campaign On Climate Change

This article examines the question of whether some US companies are guilty of a new kind of vicious crime against humanity that the world has yet to classify. This is a call for serious engaged reflection about deeply irresponsible corporate-sponsored programs that have potentially profound harsh effects upon tens of millions of people living around the world, countless millions of future generations, and the ecological systems on which life depends.

The international community does not have a word for this type of crime yet, but the international community should find a way of classifying extraordinarily irresponsible scientific claims that could lead to mass suffering as some type of crime against humanity.

http://rockblogs.psu.edu/climate/2010/10/a-new-kind-of-vicious-crime-against-humanity-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-disinformation-campaign-on-cl.html

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Tar sands are good, but bike lanes? Not so much

Did you hear the one about the tar sands project and the bike lane?

About 13 years ago, a company called ExxonMobil thought it would be a really good idea to start a tar sands project in Alberta. Five years earlier, in Toronto, a report for the City concluded it would be a really fine idea to put a bike lane along major downtown streets called Bloor and Danforth because so many cyclists used this popular east-west route.

The tar sands project is now under way with strong government support. Cyclists in Toronto, on the other hand, are mostly still left to fend for themselves while breathing the fumes of ever-increasing amounts of tar sands fuel.

http://rabble.ca/news/2010/10/tar-sands-are-good-bike-lanes-not-so-much 

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Settling suits over drugs tied to suicides

A month after its subsidiary pleaded guilty of illegally marketing antidepressants to children and adolescents, Forest Laboratories is now settling a string of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits from the parents of children who took the drugs Celexa and Lexapro.

http://www.stltoday.com/business/article_c569f2c4-58a7-5432-a939-ff22e90583e5.html?utm_source=CCHR+STL&utm_campaign=4a8c0417c5-Forest_Labs10_31_2010&utm_medium=email

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Bikes versus cars: Who pays their fair share for Vancouver's roads?
City does have 'free riders' problem, but it's not what you think

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Bikes+versus+cars+pays+their+fair+share+Vancouver+roads/3577047/story.html#ixzz1405Lnqvw

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Writer/filmmaker Velcrow Ripper on:
Love In A Time of Climate Crisis

http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=19590 

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Green Budget 2011

The Green Budget Coalition (GBC), a coalition of environmental organizations representing over 600,000 Canadians, released their priority recommendations for the 2011 federal budget November 25, 2011. The GBC document highlights a suite of subsidy reform measures for oil, mining, nuclear power, and chrysotile asbestos promotion, which could save Canadian taxpayers $800 million per year.
http://www.manitobawildlands.org/news_item.asp?number=1568

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Good News for Critically Thinking Depression Sufferers

5 Myths About Depression Treatments

Myth 1: Antidepressants Are More Effective than Placebos

Myth 2: If the First Antidepressant Fails, Another Antidepressant Will Likely Succeed
Myth 3: Electroconvulsive Treatment (ECT) is an Effective Last Resort

Myth 4: Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is the Best Psychotherapy for Depression

Myth 5: No Treatment for Depression Works

A Path for Treatment Resisters: Critical Thinking about Critical Thinking

http://www.counterpunch.org/levine12032010.html

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Do Psychiatric Medications Impair Normal Brain Development?
- Worries about the long-term effects of early exposure to psychotropics
At the recent annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, which was held in San Diego from November 13-17, four poster presentations told of how, in animal studies, early exposure topsychiatric medications impaired normal brain development. After the animals matured into adults, they showed deficits in functioning, even though their "childhood" or "fetal" exposure to the psychiatric drugs had been relatively brief.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mad-in-america/201012/do-psychiatric-medications-impair-normal-brain-development

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Strip Mob 3 - Save Bill C-311

On Nov 24th, 2010, Guelph students took it off and danced their butts off to draw attention to how the Climate Change Accountability Act was dropped in Senate last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYC7vUrC5Hc&feature=youtu.be

DO something now! Tell MPs and the Prime Minister to respect democracy and heed the will of Canadians:

http://action.davidsuzuki.org/C-311

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Heavy Bicycle Loads (10 photos)

Apparently, some people in China have never heard of U-Haul. They are, however, amazingly efficient in the way they pack and move all their inventory on a tiny little bike.

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/heavy-bicycle-loads-10-photos

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Post-G20 Action Guide
by the Law Union of Ontario

Know your rights, know your options, and take action to get justice and hold the police accountable for their wrongdoing during the Toronto G20 Summit.

http://www.lawunion.ca/sites/lawunion/files/2010%2009%2030%20G20%20Guide%20LAYOUT%20FINAL%20WEB_0.pdf 

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