Climate Change - the good news

Do your part to reduce global warming: 10 Tips for us. (NRDC National Resources Defense Council) "In a time when Fortune 500 companies and four major automakers (GM, Ford, Toyota and DaimlerChrysler) have announced their support for a cap on global warming emissions, it's clear that momentum is shifting. Pollution, especially from cars and from making electricity, is a major cause of global warming. Find out how YOU can make a difference. Get Tips to Fight Global Warming at home. 

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Thanks to the generous support of our online activists and donors, today is a truly historic day in the fight against global warming. From Avaaz.org. (Avaaz is a relatively new organization with an "aim is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people -- and not just political elites and unaccountable corporations -- shape global decisions.) Avaaz.org members are taking action for a more just and peaceful world and a vision of globalization with a human face."

Here is a report from a recent climate change G8 environment ministers meeting in Germany, The German minister said "Thanks to increased pressure from people around the world, the tide is turning. When an international NGO can gather this many signatures" (here he holds up the Avaaz petition), "we cannot ignore this problem anymore... As Environmental ministers, we have a responsibility both to the environment and our voters to make sure our heads of state act!"

And a few days later, German Chancellor and G8 President Angela Merkel vowed to put climate change at the top of the agenda for the G8 Leaders Summit (in June). Petition to put climate change at the top of the G8 agenda.