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- 1From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed3/9/2015, BankTrack, Nijmegen, The Netherlands -- With 3 months to go before the start of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (cop 21), 6 banks are the first to sign the Paris Pledge to stop financing the coal...
- 2From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedSpace Alert! Winter/Spring 2015 by Dr. Alexander Yakovenko -- Preventing deployment of weapons in outer space is a key objective of Russian diplomacy. We believe space should be used solely for peaceful scientific...
- 3From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedTED TRAINER investigates recent renewable energy studies and identifies serious problems in assuming renewables can provide 100% of global energy demands. While we could live well on renewables, he warns they can't...
- 4From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedA new spirituality is needed to galvanise our responses to the global ecological crisis. Theologian SIR LLOYD GEERING links the rise of monotheism and Christian fundamentalism to the separation of humanity from the...
- 5From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed11/2/2015, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining -- The decision by New Zealand's EPA to refuse consent for a bid to mine phosphate from the Chatham Rise's deep sea-bed is wise, and a victory for good science, said environmental...
- 6From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedGrass, soil, hope: A Journey through Carbon Country Courtney White Chelsea Green Publishing (2014), 244 pages In his foreword, Michael Pollan describes this book as "stirringly hopeful" while also "deeply...
- 7From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedDespite centuries of knowledge and much technological prowess, humanity is surrounded by problems, divisions, conflict and misery. JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI and physicist, DAVID BOHM discuss what prevents us from solving our...
- 8From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed6/3/2015, UN News Centre -- John Ging, OCHA Operations Director, said 5 million people across East Ukraine need humanitarian assistance, 2 million in Government-controlled areas and 3 million in non-Government areas....
- 9From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed23/5/2015, International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons -- As the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference ended, over 100 governments committed to work to prohibit and eliminate...
- 10From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedBetween the land and sea, mangrove ecosystems are nature's resilient, living buffer zone, protecting the coast and land in a dynamic, richly productive environment. MINO CLEVERLEY explores their vital importance,...
- 11From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedSea transport is a critical life-line for Pacific island countries but it relies on costly, high-polluting fossil-fuel imports. PETE NUTTALL & ALISON NEWELL, wonder why low-carbon transition programmes for Pacific...
- 12From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed26/8/2015, Eric Mack, Forbes -- Scientists attribute about one third of global sea-level rise 3 causes (warming oceans, melting ice sheets and shrinking glaciers), but say that if the polar ice sheets begin to disappear...
- 13From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed24/9/2015, Quezon City. The Philippines -- The Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment announced plans to protest at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Summit in November to be held in the Philippines....
- 14From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedBrain wars: The scientific battle over the existence of the mind & the proof that will change the way we live our lives Mario Beauregard HarperOne (2013), 256 pages In Brain Wars, acclaimed neuroscientist Mario...
- 15From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedThe Permaculture city: Regenerative design for urban, suburban, and town resilience Toby Hemenway Chelsea Green Publishing (2015) Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions...
- 16From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedThe anthropocene & the environmental crisis: Rethinking modernity in a new epoch Edited by Clive Hamilton, Francois Gemenne, Christophe Bonneuil Routledge (2015), 200 pages The Anthropocene, in which humanity...
- 17From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed17/4/2015, AFP -- More than 11,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean and taken to Italy in the past 6 days, coastguards said hundreds more are expected soon. The increasingly violent and chaotic...
- 18From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed2/6/2015, European Commission Environment -- Co-Chairs of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) issued their long awaited "zero draft," containing a proposal for 17 goals and 169 targets to...
- 19From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedLaudato Si' (Praise be to you): Care of our Common Home Pope Francis 2015, 184 pages This Encyclical presents Catholics and the world with an ecological world view, calling for "a new synthesis," "a bold...
- 20From:Pacific Ecologist (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedThe biggest wake up call in history Richard A Slaughter Foresight International, Australia (2010) This is the most arresting title I have seen in ages. Richard A Slaughter has written an important book on the...