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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
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Jeff Ramos of GameCulturalist.com recently interviewed Kaila Colbin from MiniMonos.com, which is a virtual world that encourages children and parents to practice sustainability, generosity and community. The game was developed by a group of New Zealanders who were trained by Al Gore to be Climate Ambassadors after The Inconvenient Truth came out. Here is an excerpt from the interview in which Colbin talks about the real world projects the players of MiniMonos develop as a result of the game’s lessons: What have you learned about gaming and social interaction because of MiniMonos? We’ve learned that kids online will continually surprise and delight you. We’ve learned that kids are far more clued up about the environment than we had realized, and that they place far more explicit importance on it than we had realized. We’ve learned that they really appreciate being listened to, and the importance of a sense of belonging. We’ve also learned that they’ll go to astonishing lengths to get a rare virtual item! We’ve been stunned and humbled by the many ways in which MiniMonos members have picked up the sustainability gauntlet and carried these messages into the real world. We’re seeing a generation of children who already care for the environment, who are tremendously generous, fun-loving, and supportive of each other. We do everything we can to reinforce the need to take real-world action. We turned off the servers for Earth Hour, and every new membership provides clean drinking water for children in India… Read the full interview and learn more about MiniMonos and the game developers. |
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
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The eThekwini Municipality's Environmental Planning and Climate Protection Department has teamed up with renowned theatre icon Ellis Pearson to put together a theatre production, called Man up a Tree, which highlights the importance of biodiversity and the role that we as individuals can play in preserving what we have. |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
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Thanks to all who attended our Sustainable City Exhibition. We would like to invite you to provide feedback on the exhibition for future purposes.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
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The sunshine of North Carolina, a state on America’s Atlantic
seaboard, has long been a draw for tourists seeking a little southern
warmth on the region’s beaches. But holiday companies are not the only
ones trumpeting a good local deal. The price of the state’s
solar-generated electricity has fallen so far that it is now cheaper
than new nuclear power, according to a report published in July
by researchers at the state’s Duke University. The authors say their
figures indicate a “historic crossover” that significantly strengthens
the case for investment in renewable energy – and weakens the arguments
for large-scale, international nuclear development.
Solar power is usually branded as a clean but expensive energy
source, incapable of competing on economic grounds with more established
alternatives, such as nuclear. The outspoken pro-nuclear stance adopted
by a raft of iconic environmental figures – James Lovelock, Stewart
Brand, Patrick Moore – has helped to instill in policy making circles
the sense that this is the only power source that can restructure our
energy supply at the pace, scale and price required by the pressures of
rapid climate change. This study, which was co-authored by former chair
of Duke University’s economics department John Blackburn and
commissioned by NC Warn, a clean-energy NGO with a firm anti-nuclear
bent, challenges that view. “This report should end the argument for
risking billions of public dollars on new nuclear projects,” says Jim
Warren, NC Warn director.
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