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News Climate Social Forum gathers news on the climate social economic commons. Aiming to screen the signal from the noise, it joins the network of Permaculture Cooperative free website services.

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Nicholas Roberts (profile) has been developing a news gathering and sorting website on the topic of News Climate Social Forum. The goal is to develop a useful news aggregation and filtering service for those working on the climate social economic commons. You can view maps, search terms, individual feeds and volume of terms, feeds etc
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/

Software: Managing News, by Development Seed

Features

1. Feeds: RSS or Atom news feeds. Action: email suggestions for RSS or Atom feeds (NOTE: addition, deletion or editing of feeds is at my discretion)
2. Search: search for keywords, saved and highlighted terms. Action: email suggestions for saved search (NOTE: addition, deletion or editing of saved and highlighted search is at my discretion)
3. Maps: Feeds, search, saved search can be viewed as with terms, feeds, stories highlighted as bubble maps. Action: will be upgrading codebase to include more geo-locations and mapping flexibility

Feeds

ACTION: email suggestions for blog or news feeds – I need RSS or Atom – static websites dont work i.e.

example news feeds include

Climate IMC International

http://news.climatesocialforum.org/node/39

La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/feeds/7

Peoples Movement on Climate Change
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/feeds/38

Meta Search Alerts – Climate Justice
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/feeds/29

Search

also, I would appreciate any suggestions for Search terms to save
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/search
i.e.
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/search?search=Cancun
or
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/search?search=Cochabamba%20Bolivia

Maps

i.e
News Climate Social Forum news feed
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/?display=views-mode-map

“Climate Justice” Meta saved search map
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/feeds/29?display=views-mode-map

Klimaforum news feed map
http://news.climatesocialforum.org/feeds/18?display=views-mode-map

Nicholas Roberts
Permaculture Cooperative
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home http://www.permaculture.coop
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Climate change and energy are two key issues that will play a significant role in shaping the future security environment. Pentagon

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For the first time, the Pentagon’s primary planning document addresses the threat of global warming, noting that it will accelerate instability and conflict around the globe. Former Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) added language requiring the department to consider the effects of climate change on its facilities, capabilities, and missions to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. The Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review (PDF), officially released today, discusses the department’s “strategic approach to climate and energy”:

Climate change and energy are two key issues that will play a significant role in shaping the future security environment.

Although they produce distinct types of challenges, climate change, energy security, and economic stability are inextricably linked.The actions that the Department takes now can prepare us to respond effectively to these challenges in the near term and in the future.

The QDR notes that climate change affects the Department of Defense “in two broad ways”: first, global warming impacts and disasters will “act as an accelerant of instability or conflict,” and second, military installations and forces around the globe will have to adapt to rising seas, increased extreme weather, and other effects of global warming:

Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments. Climate change will contribute to food and water scarcity, will increase the spread of disease, and may spur or exacerbate mass migration. While climate change alone does not cause conflict, it may act as an accelerant of instability or conflict, placing a burden to respond on civilian institutions and militaries around the world.

Source: Climate Progress

Taking responsibility for carbon emissions with Carbon Farming.

Darren Doherty, permacutlure designer and teacher from Australia, takes a few minutes to explain “carbon farming” and methods for sequestering carbon in soil while improving topsoil and conditions for healthy plant growth.

Darren working the angles

Darren working the angles

Permaculture designer and teacher Darren Doherty discusses ways in which permaculture design presents potential solutions to transitioning broad acre agriculture to more regenerative and sustainable forms of production. While much of the permaculture practiced in the states is expressed in smaller scale operations, there is great potential and need to identify strategies for transitioning larger-scale farm operations.

Source: Uprooted Movie

Source: Uprooted Movie

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ****************** Keyline & Carbon Farming Workshop – April 12-14th

Darren J. Doherty

Taranaki Farm is excited to announce its role in the upcoming Keyline & Carbon Farming – 3 Day Workshop being organised by Fusion Farms. Taranaki Farm will play host to world-respected keyline & permaculture designer Darren Doherty as he stages his very popular Keyline course in Central Victoria, Australia, only 65km from Melbourne.

The workshop will be conducted on Taranaki Farm (for the first time). A fully featured demonstration site for keyline design principles, designed by Darren himself. Don’t miss this special chance to learn about keyline and carbon farming inside a complete keyline system that includes earthworks for water harvesting, lock-pipe gravity irrigation, multi-species agroforestry, keyline ploughing, rotational grazing and more…

Compost Tea Injection

Taranaki Farm is also the home of the innovative Compost Tea & Keyline Injection rig recently developed by Ben Falloon and featured on this site. See this setup in person and understand the great potential of this combination for healing degraded land.

An intensive blend of technical & practical sessions targeted at farmers, professional land managers, consultants, permaculture designers, earthmovers, tree-changers, landcare enthusiasts and anyone with a strong interest in sustainable land management, soil creation and finding the keys to reversing climate change.

  • Whole farm design
  • Amplified contour cultivation
  • Water storage in farm dams
  • Better layout of farm roads
  • Quick gravity irrigation
  • Contour strip forests
  • Subdivision design
  • Healing Erosion
  • Solving salinity
  • Holistic Management
  • Pasture improvement
  • and heaps more…
  • Grants for Farmers

    If you are a farmer, indigenous land manager, primary producer or in the immediate family of any of these, you can do this course for free through the FarmReady subsidy scheme. You can read how on the Fusion Farms website.

    For full workshop details and to book your place, visit
    http://www.fusionfarms.com

    Tzeporah Berman: Canada far behind even the US when it comes to renewable energy

    Berman: States and provinces are way in front of federal governments in environmental legislation

    Source: The Real News

    Canada desperately needs a new and positive vision in the fight against global warming.

    Many countries are working hard at solutions and building new economies along the way

    Source: Power Up Canada

    Hacked climate change emails – a tempest in a teapot or a real storm? Paul Jay talks to Michael Brklacic

    Source: The Real News

    Mike Brklacich’s teaching and research interests reflect his long-term interests in interdisciplinary approaches for assessing relationships between human use and impacts on environmental and natural resources, and in the application of science to public policy. Over the past decade, he has collabotated with Agrciulture Canada and Environment Canada on several projects investigating:

    • the effects of climatic change on commercial agriculture in Central Canada, the Canadian prairies and the Mackenzie Basin in northern Canada, and
    • how farmers perceive and respond to environmental and socio-economic change.

    Source: Carleton University

    This morning on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” billionaire investor and prominent Obama supporter Warren Buffett slammed the administrations proposed $646 billion carbon tax known as cap and trade as a regressive tax that customers are going to pay for.

    As the days tick by, the world’s climate nears a critical turning point. This December in Copenhagen, Denmark officials from almost 200 countries will attend the UN Climate Change Conference to negotiate an international treaty as we enter into the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.

    This conference has the potential to set global emission standards, provide adaptation funding to developing countries, and support green technologies – but only if global leaders take responsibility for their country’s contributions to climate change.

    We know climate change is happening, but why is it important? Link TV’s new series Climate Change Hits Home brings the issue to the kitchen table, showing with weekly stories that the impact of climate change is not a foreign subject. Browse these pages for facts, videos, and action ideas –and understand why the world is watching the Countdown to Copenhagen.

    Source: Link TV

    Bob Brown talks about Mr Rudd’s “Continue Polluting Regardless Scheme” saying it locks in failure with its unacceptably low targets and its $16 billion handout to polluters

    Donate at www.greens.org.au to help put this ad on television.

    Source: Australian Greens

    This ETS-lite deserves to be rejected

    The Rudd Government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS) is a thoroughly compromised version of an emissions trading scheme (ETS). It deserves to be rejected in the Senate even if it requires an unholy alliance between the Greens and the climate change deniers in the Coalition parties.

    Australia (and other countries) would be better off with no ETS (Emissions Trading System). Two recent reports – The Brave New World of Carbon Trading by Australian ecological economist, Clive L. Spash, and A Dangerous Obsession by Friends of the Earth – spell out in detail why the attempt to deal with global warming by setting up ETS schemes have already failed, why they will continue to fail and also why governments, in thrall to financial interests, continue to persevere with them.

    According to both studies, carbon trading is failing against its fundamental purpose – it hasn’t achieved the levels of emissions cuts promised nor is it driving the major technological innovations that are needed to shift our economies on to more low-carbon paths.

    For polluters whose emissions exceed their permits, carbon trading makes lower-cost permits an alternative to the higher cost investments that they would otherwise be forced to make.

    Source: Sydney Morning Herald

    A Big Ball of Mud

    Over dinner I was contemplating the similarities between software architecture and legal architecture. After all — reading something like the Waxman-Markey Bill or the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation is very much like reading source code. Then it dawned on me — in the field of software development, there is a way of describing the climate architecture that is being discussed in the UNFCCC negotiations. It is called a big ball of mud. Wikipedia describes it as follows:

    In computer programming, a big ball of mud is a system or computer program that appears to have no distinguishable architecture. It usually features other anti-patterns.

    Here is a definition:

    A Big Ball of Mud is a haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, duct-tape-and-baling-wire, spaghetti-code jungle. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth, and repeated, expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point where nearly all the important information becomes global or duplicated. The overall structure of the system may never have been well defined. If it was, it may have eroded beyond recognition. Programmers with a shred of architectural sensibility shun these quagmires. Only those who are unconcerned about architecture, and, perhaps, are comfortable with the inertia of the day-to-day chore of patching the holes in these failing dikes, are content to work on such systems.

    A big ball of mud is the architecture you get when there is no architecture. This is why the legal architecture of a post-2012 framework is so important.

    Source: ClimateDilemna, Dr Peter Wood, ANU

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