Climate Change Coalition Scrapbook
From my friend M Schreuder Goedheijt
just saw this short movie,
it has some great pictures that illustrate our energy/environmental problem, you might be interested.
Posted by Serena
Thanks Cooper, Jessica, Marcus, Stephanie, Benny, Adeel for helping to set up the booth!
Thanks Marcus, Shiyi, Stephanie for attending the interview representing Climate Chance by Times High Education Reporter
Thanks Mart for taking the brilliant photos!
Another photo of us on the main 350.org page!!! (The other one can be seen on our main web page
Two Chinese students, Serena Gao from Climate Chance Network HK Headquater (University of Hong Kong), and Amanda Lee, Regional Coordinator from Macau attended the 350 Asian Youth Climate Workshop on October 2-5, in Bangkok, Thailand, which coincides with the United Nations inter-sessional climate meetings in Bangkok, one of the most important meetings this year before December’s Copenhagen summit, when world leaders will create an international climate treaty post-Kyoto.
The workshop was organised by 350.org, an international grassroot campaign, and together with China Youth Climate Action Network (CYCAN), they will organise a Chinese Youth Climate Action Day on October 24th as part of the Global Action Day where people from all over the world rally together to show their concern for climate change. Together with about 50 other young leaders from across East Asia, they organied various campaigns and talked to officials and delegates.
They represented a Chinese youth climate network based at the University of Hong Kong called “Climate Chance” (formerly known as Hong Kong Climate Change Coalition), which was founded upon their delegation to the UNFCCC COP 13 in Bali, 2007. The network is a party to the Youth Constituency officially recognized by the UNFCCC Secretary. They believe that climate change offers many chances for a new generation of young leaders to be empowered to make the world a more equitable, fair and just place.
Indeed, traditionally, Asian youth have played a small role in climate negotiations. (For example, at the 2008 UN Climate Meetings in Poland only one youth from China attended, compared to the nearly 100 youth from the United States.) The meeting in Bangkok, however, was proven to be an unprecedented opportunity for youth from across Asia to participate in the international climate negotiation process, to make their voices heard to world leaders, and to ensure that their people, who are often very vulnerable against climate change induced impacts, like typhoon and flooding, or sea-level rise are supported by the global community.
Fore more information:
http://thenetworkforchange.org
For photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/climatechance/sets/72157622394521549/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/climatechance/sets/72157622383212531/
Reported by Serena Gao
At first, Graeme Smith walked with his head bowed, and perhaps felt sick to his bones. But then the mood touched him, and it lifted him.
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Climate Change and Health
Serena
http://www.thewellspring.com/flex/helping-professionals/1960/wellness-presentations.cfm
The word “wellness” is everywhere. It’s even used for selling pet food - but what does it really mean?
There’s far more to wellness than most people realize. Wellness is much more than screening tests and identifying risk factors to prevent illness. Greater levels of wellness not only enhance our health and vitality, but also our effectiveness, performance, and productivity. No wonder employers are paying more attention to wellness than ever before.
Never has the pace of change been greater, or our stress levels higher. Most of us navigate in a high tech world of growing time pressures and multitasking, and many of us often feel helpless and despairing in our efforts to meet an avalanche of expectations and commitments.
So what does wellness have to offer?
Wellness is:
Take a journey with the pioneering physician who first brought the term “wellness” into public awareness, launching a movement that swept across the world. A preventive medicine specialist who was dissatisfied simply to prevent illness, Dr. Travis founded the first wellness center in America designed to help healthy people get the most out of life (1975).
Q: Have you ever felt stuck when you expected something to happen, but something else happened.
Uniquely to human, we have another realm of reality because of language – our interpretation of what happens. Most of us, most of the time, our brain compulsively equates our interpretation of what happened as what happened. What would it make possible if we know that it is only an interpretation, and is only one of the possibilities?
SOURCE: http://www.landmarkeducation.com/introduction_to_the_landmark_forum_video.jsp (GO TO —> See it in Action)
Serena
Original Photo for which our logo is made from
Why am I here ?
1- Collaboration by recognising the different pieces of reality each individual see and our deep interconnection (there “C” joining together)
2- We are driven by a larger systemic force - the creative tension generated by the gap of our current reality and aspiration - and that system tend to resolves itself towards stability (symbolised by the triangle). This is our direction.
3- We are essentially driving a social REVOLUTION (the circle which goes through the Cs) where the end is essentially the same as where we, as a human race, began, as ONE. (the dot in the middle)
Any comments?
This graph is The ladder of inference, from Peter Senge, which explains why most people don’t usually remember where our deepest perspectives came from. The data is long lost to memory, after years of inferential leap.
Before long, we come to think of our long-standing assumptions as data, but we are actually several steps removed from data.
Our ability to achieve the results we truly desire is eroded by our feelings that:
Our beliefs are the truth.
The truth is obvious. Our beliefs are based on real data. The data we select are the real data.
Here I quote Peter:
Learning opportunities lies in when we recognizes these assumptions, explore them. By recognizing them, we can suspend them and recognizes inferences we are making and can seek more data to confirm or refute them.
The discipline of testing our assumptions forces us to make them explicit, opens the possibility that they may not be 100% correct and lays foundation for learning over time. Failure to so is the most surefire way to guarantee pattern of interaction what simply reinforces position from the past. In this way, untested assumptions come to govern organizational actions, just as they undermine genuine attempts at collaboration. (P255)
I have been reading Peter Senge’s book- the Necessary Revolution - a book which transformed many corporations and other organisations in the way they operate as a team. I wish to a video shot of a conversation we had in Ushuaia, Argentina, just before we set of to Antarctica in March 2009
BP Antarctica Expedition- Peter Senge - an insightful dialogue on Ignorance - the gap between our impact and awareness from Climate Chance on Vimeo.
Serena
