Friday, August 29, 2008

Climate Code Red

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Climate policy is characterised by the habituation of low expectations and a culture of failure. There is an urgent need to understand global warming and the tipping points for dangerous impacts that we have already crossed as a sustainability emergency, that takes us beyond the politics of failure-inducing compromise. We are now in a race between climate tipping points and political tipping points.

This is a book and web site about the urgency of the situation regarding climate change. They use the phrase "Code Red" in the way that hospitals mean it, that the patient is in critical danger, that everybody should drop what they're doing and go to emergency stations, and that it's this critical.

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Avalon Springs

Description: 

Avalon Springs is an experiential learning environment, anchored by a healing hot springs retreat center and staff ecovillage - a living mystery school for an emerging sustainable human culture. As a land-based holistic retreat center and ecovillage in Northern California, Avalon Springs aligns the most advanced green technologies, systems and philosophies to become a living template for an abundant, sustainable economic, social and environmental future.

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