Act Now - Change the Future (Greenpeace International)

Barack Obama, President of the United States Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission And every other Head of State of the so-called developed nations, Dear Sirs, We expected the climate summit in Copenhagen to agree a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty to protect the climate. You know the science is clear – to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, global average temperatures must peak well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial...

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Katie, this is one is for you and all my Webber friends

A few weeks ago, a big friend of mine brought me back some memories from the good old times. It was Katie, my favorite Brit girl as I used to call her. Katie, a fantastic person (and better football player ;) I was lucky enough to share some time with a few years ago at a business school -Webber International University- somewhere in central Florida. While routing through her Webber stuff looking for some documents for an interview, she just happened to come across an old piece of paper. An old...

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Hey there ET! This is Jesus from the Blue Planet...

If you had to sum up Life on Earth in 160 characters, what would you say? If you had to express your own life in 160 characters, what would you say? If you had 160 characters to communicate with somebody from another planet, what would you say? If you had 160 characters to tell ET about what you have lived, what you have felt, what you have dreamed, what you have loved ... what would YOU say? Wait not more, you can now do just so. That is the original initiative -Hello From Earth- put in place...

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Sustain-ability ... the Spanish Way

Last July, the "Fundación Universidad Rey Juan Carlos" (URJC) held a one-week summer course at Aranjuez (a middle-sized city about an hour-drive south of Madrid). It was not, however, what you would expect from a session of this nature (summer in Spain!!), say, a half-filled classed of not-so-motivated students just hoping to get some credit hours for mere attendance. Much on the contrary, this time was indeed very different: not only the classroom was packed but, most participants, lectures as...

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Carrying the Torch

As promised, here comes the second part of the story "Explore. Dream. Discover" from August 10th. Once again, it makes reference to a Space.com post by Mr. Wayne Hale dating from July 19, 2009. This time around, Mr. Hale uses a magnificent metaphor, comparing Space Exploration with the carrying of the Olympic torch relay. Mankind can simply not allow itself to let the "flame of stars" dwindle, much less die out, if we are to pass those dreams of space onto next generations. Mr. Hale's approach...

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Explore. Dream. Discover

The other day, while surfing the net for some Space news, I fell into a really cool article that immediately appealed to my imagination. Not only was it trying to convey a beautiful point -the need to carry on exploring outside Earth's borders even through difficult times (see economic recession)-, but also it was written in a very attractive manner: an intriguing bed-time story carrying a deep message on history and the lessons we can, and should, extract from it. This "pearl" was indeed a post,...

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Human Rights, a Necessary Condition for a Sustainable Future

Le 16 juin dernier, Dominique Gilbert, secrétaire général adjoint de la Ligue des Droits de l'Homme (LDH) [1], est venu à Toulouse invité par l'Observatoire des Mydi-Pyrénées (OMP), pour partager son point de vue humaniste sur le développement durable. Sur ce, une des contributions majeures au modèle du durable visée par la LDH est certainement l'intégration des «droits environnementaux» au sein des droits de l'homme puisque toute personne, du présent comme du futur, doit avoir le droit à un environnement...

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Time for Action is ... Maintenant!!

Mardi 16 juin 2009, j'ai eu le plaisir d'assister à deux conférences organisées par l'Observatoire Mydi-Pyrénées [1] (Toulouse, France) dont l'axe thématique principal a été le changement climatique, ses conséquences économiques, sociales et humaines ainsi que sa possible solution: un modèle global de développement durable. Des articles sur ces événements ont été publiés dans le blog «Agir pour la Planète» de l'École Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse [2].Premièrement, le matin, on a eu l'occasion...

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