A very (planet) moving experience

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Saturday September 24, 2011 · 7:31 AM PDT

2011/09/24 · 07:31

Getting the planet moving is an attractive plan. People will take part if it's fun and easy and they can do something, anything, with other people locally. After all, fossil fuels aren't phasing themselves out so if enough people do something then politicians might notice and suddenly develop signs of 'political will'. New policies might blossom like petals on a global green renaissance and the planet will have moved beyond fossil fuels and the risk of runaway climate chaos. Phew!

It would be nice wouldn't it?

My moving planet experience was different. It wasn't a rally, unless 5 people can be called a rally. It was held locally but we weren't thinking locally. We were thinking what can a handful of people do that really makes the planet move? What can be done now that hasn't been done before during four decades of sustainability initiatives that haven't initiated sustainability? Not much?

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Sunday August 07, 2011 · 9:20 AM PDT

2011/08/07 · 09:20

The last thing you need when people are starving is a metaphor. Except this simple metaphor shows why decades of effort to tackle world hunger gets run down by the magnitude of the problem. And why pile-ups such as the famine in East Africa are happening more often and hitting more people. Current suffering is intolerable; without effective action future suffering will be unimaginable.

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A very (planet) moving experience

48 for East Africa: Look both ways before you cross