Climate The Movie (The Real Truth)

The film that lifts the lid on the climate alarm, and the dark forces behind the climate consensus. Written and directed by Martin Durkin. Produced by Tom Nelson.

(You can ignore youtube's "context", aka propaganda and just watch the documentary ;) )
 

Connecting the Dots: The Great Reset & The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Davos-The Great Reset

Covid-19-The Great Reset 

Coca-Cola's plastic secrets

 The plastic pollution of our oceans, fish and ourselves. 

Pulling Back The Curtain On Junk Science

New sun-driven cooling period of Earth ‘not far off’

Nils-Axel Morner, a former head of the Paleo-Geophysics and Geodynamics Department in Stockholm, says a new solar-driven cooling period for the Earth is ‘not far off’.

Nein Danke. German Government to Oppose Fracking

By Der Spiegel Online International

Berlin is opposed to plans to use the controversial fracking process to extract natural gas in Germany, SPIEGEL has learned. Government ministers are "very skeptical" about the technology, which environmentalists claim can pollute groundwater. 

Germany has put the brakes on plans to use hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, to extract natural gas in places where it is difficult to access, such as shale or coal beds. Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and Economy Minister Philipp Rösler have agreed to oppose the controversial process for the time being, SPIEGEL has learned.

Sources in the German government said that the ministers were "very skeptical" about fracking, which injects chemicals as well as sand and water into the ground to release natural gas. "There are many open questions which we will first have to carefully examine," Rösler told close associates.

With their stance, the two ministers are opposing plans by energy companies to use the fracking process to tap into deposits of natural gas in shale, especially in northern and eastern Germany. In order to access the gas, the shale needs to be fractured using a mixture of hot water, sand and chemical additives, some of which are poisonous. Environmental groups reject the use of the technology, saying that the chemicals used can contaminate drinking water.

Local Protests

Last week, the energy giant ExxonMobil presented a study by the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, in which researchers expressed their support for test drilling in the states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Local environmental groups in the affected regions have already got into gear, setting up citizens' initiatives to collect signatures for petitions and organize protests in a bid to block the fracking plans. Activists fear that the chemicals could pollute the local groundwater.

Fracking has been widely used in the US, where production of natural gas has sharply increased in recent years as the use of hydraulic fracturing becomes more widespread. Earlier this month, President Barack Obama's administration unveiled new regulations to improve transparency on the chemicals used during fracking on public land.

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Protect the Krisna Valley in Hungary

VÉDJUK MEG KRISNA-VÖLGYET ÉS A SZENT TEHENEKET!

A 270 hektáros Krisna-völgy jelenleg 300 szerzetesnek és kisgyermekes családnak, és 52 szentként tisztelt tehénnek valamint ökörnek a lakóhelye. Az egyházügyi törvény módosítása után kialakult rendezetlen jogi helyzet miatt azonban 2012. január 1-én ők mindannyian elveszíthetik otthonukat, életterüket, s az ország egyik legkiemelkedőbb ökogazdasága és turisztikai célpontja bezár.

A Somogyvámos határában lévő Krisna-völgyet 1993-ban kárpótlási jegyekért, saját erőből és adományokból vásárolták a hívők. Az első lakók a telet az akólban, szalmabálák között dideregve töltötték. Főzni, meleg ételhez jutni nem tudtak, mert a palackban megfagyott a gáz. De nem adták fel. Lemondásuknak és eltökéltségüknek köszönhetően az elhanyagolt birkalegelők és az ugaron fekvő területek néhány év alatt virágzó kertekké, lombos ligetekké és dúsan termő biogazdasággá változtak. Krisna-völgy az elmúlt években több, mint félmillió hazai és külföldi kisiskolást, egyetemistát, családot és turistát látott vendégül, s osztotta meg tapasztalatait velük. A vegyszermentes növénytermesztésre és szennyvíztisztításra, és a megújuló energiaforrások használatára épülő, önellátó Krisna-völgyi gazdaság világviszonylatban is elismertséget jelent Magyarországnak.

Védjük meg az ország egyik legfontosabb biogazdaságát és turisztikai célpontját! Mentsük meg a családokat, a szerzeteseket és a szent teheneket! Csatlakozz Te is a december 13-án 14.00 órai kezdettel a Parlament melletti téren (Kossuth tér 4., a Közigazgatási és Igazságügyi Minisztérium előtt), a Krisna-völgyi tehenek jelenlétében tartandó békés demonstrációhoz, melyben cselekvésre kérjük az ország vezetőit!

You can sign the petition here:
http://www.petitions24.com/krisna

Interview in Hungarian:
http://www.krisna.hu/w/?q=node/4256

Kérünk, fejezd ki Te is szimpátiádat petíciónk aláírásával: http://www.peticiok.com/krisna

További információk: www.krisna.hu 

Mérő Mátyás (Madhupati dász) 06-1-212-62-70

African farmers gathered to discuss agro-ecology in Zimbabwe

Via Campesina

By Pambazuka News

(Masvingo, 13 June, 2011) – Zimbabwean farmers’ organization are hosting a training meeting on agroecology , an encounter organized by La Via Campesina (LVC) Africa in Masvingo province in Zimbabwe, from June 13 to 19. The training workshop brings together LVC member organizations in the continent, key allies including academics, NGOs, social science practioners, and small-scale farmers.

More than 50 participants, from 10 African Countries, as well as visitors from Latin America and Asia, are gathering in Masvingo to discuss and share experiences on agroecology and sustainable peasant agriculture, and organic farming and conservation agriculture practices, that keep build on local knowledge and traditional skills to work the land and produce food ecologically.

The participants of the meeting list several challenges and difficulties that affect peasant production in their countries. Among the difficulties they face is the lack of support from their governments, climate change, the interference of multinational corporations in the agricultural sector, as well as the issue of land grabbing whereby smallholder farmers lose their traditional land, finding themselves in the risk of hunger and poverty.

Other challenges include limited access to markets with decent crop prices, donors conditionality driving anti-smallholder policies, and regulations with negative impacts on peasants. These issues need to be resolved for the peasants in Africa to develop their true productive capacity.

At the end of the seven days of the training participants will come up with proposed solutions and a strategic plan which will be implemented by their organizations and the network.

In these meetings participants are expecting to create a permanent space for the exchange and strengthening of agroecological efforts carried out by LVC organizations in Africa, in order to share experiences, methodologies, educational materials and trainers, as well as to develop a strategic action and working plan on agroecology and peasant agriculture at African level. Participants said that agroecology is the way for farmers to become independent and more productive, and to take control over their own farming systems. It puts us back in the drivers seat, they said.

Mr Nelson Mudzingwa, a smallholder farmer from Zimbabwe, speaking at the meeting, said he will open up his mind from the experience to be shared from other countries on agroecology practices. He gave evidence that organic farmers in Zimbabwe who use agroecology practices like native seeds and organic fertilizers are highly productive without dependence on private seed and fertilizer companies nor government handouts.

He said it is very important for farmers to practice agroecology rather than just theorizing, because without practicing there is no success. He also emphasized information sharing and documentation and sharing of lessons from the success stories. “As I believe in information sharing, I call upon my colleagues that we have to expose all success stories so that others they can easily adopt,” he said.

The participants of the meeting will visit strong Zimbabwean successful example of agroecology, from where they expect to learn how local farmers develop sustainable agriculture form their own seeds and techniques.

In a report titled “Sustainable Peasant Agriculture Can Feed the World” (available at www.viacampesina.org), LVC has compiled evidence at the global level to show that agroecological farming is more sustainable, more productive, and more resilient to climate change than conventional chemical and industrialized agriculture. LVC member organizations in Africa believe that agroecology is key to achieving food sovereignty and ending problems of hunger and rural poverty in the continent.

LVC Communication Team in Africa

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Dr Vandana Shiva receives Sydney Peace Prize

Vandana Shiva : Sydney Peace Prize Talk from WisdomKeepers Productions on Vimeo.

Dr Shiva is the woman behind the movement Navdanya, a network of seed keepers and organic producers spreading across 16 states in India. The movement taught 500 000 farmers how to produce food organically, sustainably, preserving crop biodiversity. It has created awareness on the dangers of genetic engineering, defended ancient Indian plants (like neem, basmati and haldi) from biopiracy- from the likes of Monsanto which is in a mad rush of patenting seeds and other food sources in order to control the world's food supply.