Global

Climate Indymedia face particular challenges as an entirely online organisation. Unlike other local indys, we don't get to know each other by having physical meetings and socialising. To try to alleviate this problem, lets try a few new things.

Love it or hate it, you have to admit that Facebook is a great social networking tool. To facilitate better communication and solidarity amongst the participants of Climate Indy, I have set up a Facebook group here:

Riding Naked.

First international planning meeting.

We invite you to join the 1st international planning meeting in Copenhagen from the 13-14th of September 2008. The meeting aims at preparing a large mobilisation for direct action against the root causes of climate change in Copenhagen and throughout the world during the UN Climate Conference (30 Nov-11 Dec 2009).

VIA CAMPESINA JOINS BIODIVERSITY DAY CELEBRATIONS:
Via Campesina Disrupts CBD

This afternoon activists from all over the world have hung a banner, banged on
teacups and handed out messages by Via Campesina during the official
celebrations of Biodiversity Day at the 9th Conference of Parties (COP-9) of
the UN convention on Biodiversity. They did so at the end of a message by UN
secretary general Ban Ki Moon read by the Programme Officer of the Secretariat
of the CBD to the distinguished delegates of the Convention.

The banners read "No Agrodiversity Without Farmers" and "Nature for People Not
for Business". The written message was brought to the attention of the

Date: 5-May-2008
Australian taxpayers will give BHP Billiton an estimated $117 million in diesel fuel subsidies during the four-year
expansion of the company’s Olympic Dam mine, according to figures
released today by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

“The Fuel Tax Credits scheme, which cost taxpayers $4.9 billion in the 2006-07 financial year, will allow BHP
Billiton to claim an average of $29 million a year in diesel rebates
for the four years of construction at Olympic Dam,” said ACF Executive
Director Don Henry.

 Here's a link to the entire 2007 movie in which director/narrator Leonardo DeCaprio, numerous scientists, scholars & visionaries outline our relationship to our environment and our effect upon it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5684889615378087510&q=the+11th+hour+romana&ei=j4ogSPO3LYPoqgPBwoXBAQ&hl=en

Did you know, the food system is responsible for 1/3 of global greenhouse emissions?

With every meal you eat, you have the power to reduce climate change.

The
Bon Appétit Management Company Low Carbon Diet Calculator is designed
to allow you to compare the relative carbon impacts of your food
choices.