http://www.cchange.net Covering the transformations to social, environment and economic sustainability Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:08:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sea Change Radio covers the transformations to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Change is accelerating in positive and negative directions: the clock is ticking in the race to see which will tip first—the problems or the solutions. Join Sea Change's Host, Alex Wise, as he provides in-depth analysis to help our audience understand possible remedies and potential pitfalls. Sea Change interviews sustainability experts including Paul Hawken, Stewart Brand, Bill McKibben, Van Jones, Lester Brown, and many others. Sea Change airs on over 30 radio stations around the country. Alex Wise clean Alex Wise awise@cchange.net awise@cchange.net (Alex Wise) 2007-2011 Making Connections for Sustainability Sustainability, Climate Change, Human Rights, Environment, Corporate Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investing, Accountability, Stakeholders, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy, Green Jobs, Wealth Divide http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/cwr-images-archive/SeaChangeRadioTAG_square144_sm.jpg http://www.cchange.net Weekly http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/25/newsanalysis-obama-is-showing-up-in-copenhagen-but-will-he-step-up-to-climate-leadership/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/25/newsanalysis-obama-is-showing-up-in-copenhagen-but-will-he-step-up-to-climate-leadership/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:54:07 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=2142 http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/25/newsanalysis-obama-is-showing-up-in-copenhagen-but-will-he-step-up-to-climate-leadership/feed/ 0 Barack Obama,Climate Action,COP15,Tania Haldar Hart This week’s Sea Change Radio News Analysis comes from Tania Haldar Hart: - In a promising turn of events, President Obama announced on Wednesday, November 25th, that he will participate in the UN’s Climate Conference in Copenhagen, next month. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/TaniaHaldarHart-150x150.jpg)This week’s Sea Change Radio News Analysis comes from Tania Haldar Hart (http://www.cchange.net/about/tania-haldar-hart/): In a promising turn of events, President Obama announced (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-attend-copenhagen-climate-talks) on Wednesday, November 25th, that he will participate in the UN’s Climate Conference in Copenhagen (http://en.cop15.dk/), next month. This gesture has resurrected the possibilities of bolder outcomes emerging from the upcoming deliberations.  While at COP15 on December 9th, he is expected to announce (http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2709) a provisional US emissions reduction target of 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Hopes were dashed earlier this month at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore when he and other world leaders concluded (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1929071_1929070_1939676,00.html) that there will not be a binding climate treaty coming out of Copenhagen. Before Obama planned his one day visit, climate crusader Bill McKibben (http://www.350.org/bill) argued that the US President lacked political leadership compared to the Maldivian President, Mohammend Nasheer, who is rallying efforts to safeguard his island nation from climate catastrophe. In last Sunday’s Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002894.html) op-ed column (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002894.html), McKibben stated “Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all. Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high.” Does Obama’s decision underscore his leadership in calming the chaos in Copenhagen? Will his participation bring us closer to a new era of global co-operation? Is his visit enough to re-inject momentum towards climate action? Or, is it simply a weak gesture? Weigh in with your opinions by adding a comment to this page, or on the Sea Change Facebook Fan Page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sea-Change-Radio/88996586621). Bill Baue clean 2:05 http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/04/350-a-number-to-save-us-from-climate-chaos/ http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/04/350-a-number-to-save-us-from-climate-chaos/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:08:02 +0000 Bill Baue http://www.cchange.net/?p=2075 http://www.cchange.net/2009/11/04/350-a-number-to-save-us-from-climate-chaos/feed/ 0 350.org,Bill McKibben,Climate Action,Climate Change,global warming,paul hawken Sea Change Climate Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen covers the International Day of Climate Action by talking beforehand with 350.org Director Bill McKibben.  The Bioneers by the Bay Conference celebrated Climate Action Day with a 350 event MC’ed by r... (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/350-Copenhagen-150x150.jpg)(http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/350-GreatBarrierReef-150x150.jpg) Sea Change Climate Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen (http://www.cchange.net/about/cimbria-badenhausen/) covers the International Day of Climate Action (http://www.350.org/350-action-gallery) by talking beforehand with 350.org (http://www.350.org/) Director Bill McKibben (http://www.billmckibben.com/).  The Bioneers by the Bay Conference (http://www.connectingforchange.org/) celebrated Climate Action Day with a 350 event MC’ed by rapper Tem Blessed (http://www.temblessed.com/), featuring talks by Callum Grieve (http://www.theclimategroup.org/about/our_people/callum_grieve) of the Climate Group (http://www.theclimategroup.org/) and Marty Driggs, a member of the Youth Initiative Planning Committee (http://www.connectingforchange.org/youth-planning.html) for the Bioneers by the Bay Conference.  Also at Bioneers, Cimbria caught up with sustainability guru Paul Hawken (http://www.paulhawken.com/paulhawken_frameset.html), who told Cimbria of the Arctic trip that Scandinavian royalty invited him to attend, to witness and study the impacts of climate change.  And finally, ZipCar (http://www.zipcar.com/) Founder Robin Chase (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893837_1894186,00.html) describes the controversial "Supermodels Strip for Climate Action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz555JBIwY&feature=player_embedded)" video her daughter conceived and produced. "The longer I've spent working on global warming -- the greatest challenge humans have ever faced -- the more I've come to see it as essentially a literary problem.  A technological and scientific challenge, yes; an economic quandry, yes; a political dilemma, surely.  But centrally?  A crisis in metaphor, in analogy, in understanding."  So wrote Bill McKibben in the August 2008 edition of Orion Magazine (http://www.orionmagazine.org/) in an essay entitled, "When Words Fail (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3059/)."  And, indeed, words do fail to capture the enormity of this slow-creeping, almost invisible crisis, McKibben discovered.  "Boiling point?" Nope.  "Climate chaos?"  Uh uh. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/JamesHansen-150x150.jpg)It was James Hansen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen), who McKibben calls "our greatest climatologist," who solved the literary problem -- with a number.  In December 2007, he presented a paper at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco that "named a number," McKibben says.  350, to be precise -- parts per million carbon in the atmosphere, that is.  "That, [Hansen] said, was the absolute upper bound of anything like safety -- above it and the planet would be unraveling.  Is unraveling, because we're already at 385 parts per million," McKibben wrote over a year ago. A number!  It translates into all tongues.  And, it gave birth to the organization McKibben now heads: 350.org, whose mission is to "tattoo that number into every human brain."  And that's exactly what we all did on October 24, the International Day of Climate Action, which featured over 52 hundred [5,200] grassroots events in 181 countries to become the "most widespread day of political action in the planet's history, " according to CNN. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/BillMcKibben-150x150.jpg)The week before the big event, Sea Change Correspondent Cimbria Badenhausen caught up with Bill McKibben at the Relocalize Massachusetts (http://www.relocalizemassachusetts.org/) Conference in Roxbury. (http://www.cchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/TemBlessed.jpg)On the International Day of Climate Action, Cimbria attended the Bioneers by the Bay Conference in New Bedford, Massachusetts, which hosted its own 350 event, hosted by rapper Tem Blessed.  After working up the crowd, Bill Baue clean 29:30