Let me show you the world, says Swedish academic Han Rosling as he demonstrates the dynamics of population growth, child mortality and carbon dioxide emissions. The challenge for the world is to get everyone out of extreme poverty and get the richest people to use less fossil fuels so that everyone can share their energy…
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OSOP featured Professor Rokstrom’s 2016 WWF climate lecture at the outset of this project. In that brilliant lecture he frames our required global responses to the climate crisis with the Paris Agreement targets, underpinned by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. What fascinated me from the outset is that the SDG’s perfectly fit into the…
Read MoreIt is great to see the message of our collective need for social and cultural change in the face of climate change reaching all the way from Llanfyllin in Wales to Kamuli in Uganda. #oneschooloneplanet In Llanfyllin with participants at the 2017 Chester and Reading PDCs, publically launching our “Big Change is Coming” leaflet. Students on the 2017…
Read MoreOn Saturday afternoon, April 22nd 2017, members of the Llanfyllin Transition Project team and recent Sector39 permaculture graduates from Chester and Reading launched a new leaflet in Llanfyllin in celebration of Earth Day and in solidarity with the global march for climate science. The leaflet gives some basic information about the Paris Climate Agreement, which…
Read MoreThe Paris Accord is our chance, we must take it. When Trump announced that he wanted the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement this month even the US coal industry advised him against it. ‘We need to be at the table, not out in the cold’ they told him. 195 countries signed the…
Read MoreYet here in Wales we are still proposing new roads that destroy increasingly rare habitat. ‘It is insane to build this road’ BBC News – M4 relief road ‘irreversible damage’ to nature, charity says https://t.co/5dhM9NSqJ0 — Steven Jones (@misterjones2u) April 5, 2017 The M4 relief road key points: The Welsh Government wants to build a…
Read MoreThe following is a little snippet of something I am working on for the Llanfyllin Transition Project Handbook: When we think about our position in the world, especially in Western societies, we tend to think of ourselves as somehow separate and distinct from nature. We live our lives in a human-made bubble. This idea is…
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