Anders Bekeken

Every eleven and one-half days, the explosive equivalent of the Hiroshima atomic bomb is unleashed upon the mountains of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky – for coal.
Burning the Future: Coal in America challenges the notion of “clean coal”, documenting the devastating ecological, social and health impact of coal mining and mountain-top removal. The film [...]

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[ 01/12/2010; 19:00; ] Every once in a while, it’s time to try something a little different. After two years of global grassroots organizing, we’re pulling out a big gun in the fight against global warming: art.

Next month’s UN Climate talks in Cancun promise more disappointment–politicians around the world are already lowering expectations and backing away from commitments.  In [...]

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[ 17/12/2010; 21:00; ]

24 February 2011: The YouTube video “Me and My Bike” has won the film competition “1 Minute To Save The World,” a global contest that asked young contestants  to create short films about climate change.

The caveat, of course, is that the videos could only be one-minute long.

Most of us just sit and wait for [...]

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HSBC’s fourth Climate Confidence Monitor, a global survey of consumer attitudes to climate change, reveals that, after a slight dip last year, climate change is again one of the top three world concerns.
As with previous years, the emerging economies are the most concerned about climate change and are doing more to reduce their personal [...]

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You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment.
But, climate change is a human issue too—it’s hitting the poorest people hardest.

Cancun Climate Conference 2010: COP16 - United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity: Nagoya Biodiversity Conference COP10 - Facing the Floods - A Sea Change – The Antarctica Challenge -  Global Warming Leonardo Dicaprio [...]

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Around the world, people are fighting climate change in extraordinary ways. In Thailand, Oxfam is working with rice farming communities. Innovative water pumps and new farming techniques are just two of the ways in which people are adapting.
But while communities from across the globe crack on with the job, world leaders are taking an extraordinary [...]

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Food. It’s a basic necessity. But right now, climate change is wiping out crops. Making it impossible for the poorest people, especially women, to provide food for their families. World leaders have the power to protect food supplies and save lives. Make sure they get the idea. Sow the Seed
Between 10 to 17 October 2010, [...]

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This video – titled “Oceans” – is one of three commissioned for installation at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco as part of “Altered State,” an ongoing exhibit on climate change that opened in 2008.
These videos are intended to deliver an impressionistic view of the impact climate change is having on our [...]

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This video – titled “Melting” – is one of three commissioned for installation at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco as part of “Altered State,” an ongoing exhibit on climate change that opened in 2008.
These videos are intended to deliver an impressionistic view of the impact climate change is having on our [...]

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[ 10/10/2010; 16:00; ] This video – titled “Hotter World” – is one of three commissioned for installation at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco as part of “Altered State,” an ongoing exhibit on climate change that opened in 2008.

These videos are intended to deliver an impressionistic view of the impact climate change is having on our [...]

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