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• Media melee at Copenhagen: Chasing a hazy story in a crazy conference?

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  What happens when over 3,500 journalists from all over the world roam around a two-week long UN conference that saw plenty of loud bickering and hot air in the name of saving the planet from global warming? Well, the media pack adds to the noise levels and hot air, for sure — and they are [...]
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• Have they dropped the ball (Earth) in Copenhagen?

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  The news from Copenhagen, on the last day of the UN climate conference, has been a bit confusing. Have they got a climate deal, or have they simply agreed to meet again and talk more while the planet warms up?As one news item put it: “Representatives of 192 countries quibbled over every word through the [...]
  4 days ago

• Climate cartoons: When less is definitely more!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  While politicians, scientists and activists were jostling in Copenhagen at the crucial climate conference, I spent a few hours this week laughing my head off about climate change.That’s when I judged the Sri Lanka entries for the cartoon contest on climate change, organised by the British Council and the Ken Sprague ...
  6 days ago

• Earth Journalism award winners: Front-runners in the race to save the planet

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  “If we are to have any hope of reversing the effects of climate change, then we have a monumental task of educating the six billion people on our planet about how climate change works and what they can do to help. The media is critical in this effort, since just one reporter has the ability [...]
  1 week ago

• The Mekong: One river, six countries, two films — and many views

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  The Mekong is one of Asia’s major rivers, and the twelfth longest in the world. Sometimes called the ‘Danube of the East’, it nurtures a great deal of life in its waters – and in the wetlands, forests, towns and villages along its path.The Mekong’s long journey begins in the Tibetan highlands. It flows [...]
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• South Asian Sanitation Conclave: Who’s afraid of Pee and Poop?

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  Who’s afraid of Pee and Poop?That’s the innocent but slightly provocative question I posed to a South Asian Conclave on sanitation that I addressed today at the Colombo Hilton.My audience was a group of South Asians – drawn mainly from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – working in government, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Little strokes make big pictures: Covering climate change in South Asian media

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  Given the surfeit of media stories on climate in the build-up to the Copenhagen climate conference (7-18 Dec 2009), it would appear that journalists have little or no difficulty in covering this literally hot topic, right?Wrong. The planet is warming, but not all editors and other media gate-keepers have yet warmed up ...
  2 weeks ago

• Copenhagen: ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation’

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  Today, 7 December 2009, the latest UN-FCCC climate negotiations begin in Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s not just another environmental conference – this one can make or break the future of our world.Recognising this, 56 newspapers from 45 countries across the world have up with common editorial and demanded that world ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making fun of climate change: Calling all cartoonists…

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  My mentor Sir Arthur C Clarke was fond of saying that there is nothing too serious in this world that you can’t make fun of it. (He should know – he once wrote a funny story about the end of the world, the mother of all disasters!)On this blog, I’ve written about creative efforts at [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Viterbo Memorandum by Greenaccord: Time to act on climate crisis is NOW!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  “We know the climate is changing, probably as a result of humanity’s pollution; species are disappearing fast; deforestation is rampant; over-fishing is rife; water shortages are increasing; resource consumption is growing and so is the world’s population.“…If this catastrophe unfolds, historians will look ...
  3 weeks ago

• When it comes to climate change, we are all Maldivians!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  It was Woody Allen who said ‘Ninety per cent of life is just showing up’. Well, part of the remaining 10 per cent must involve waving our hands and speaking out in this increasingly attention-challenged world.My organisation, TVE Asia Pacific, lacks both a travel budget and a promotional budget. So I need to be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wanted, urgent: Next-Gen Jacque Cousteaus to be our tour guides to Planet Ocean!

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  As my Australian diver friend Valerie used to say, the trouble with many of us land-lubbers is that we have ‘no idea what’s going on in the sea that covers three quarters of our planet’. Yet what we do – and don’t do – affects the fate of the sea and all its creatures and [...]
  3 weeks ago

• The Ultimate Race on a Warming Planet: Education vs. Catastrophe

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe,” said H G Wells, British writer and social activist (1866 – 1946).This is one of my all time favourite quotes. With amazing economy of words, the author of science fiction classics such as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds has ...
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• Taste the Waste: Uncovering a crime against humanity and Nature

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 126
  “How can we explain the fact that one sixth of humanity goes to bed hungry every night, when the world already produces enough food for all?“The short answer is that there are serious anomalies in the distribution of food. Capricious and uncaring market forces prevent millions of people from having at least one ...
  4 weeks ago

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