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"The Choice" by Al Gore The Campaign

Let's face it, most of the environmental world has always looked with skepticism to the work of Al Gore. Yet, after what the U.S. presidential election of 2000 seemed like a loser, has been able - completely changing the street is entirely devoted to the cause of protecting the environment - to become a successful man even up to receive the 2007 Nobel Prize Peace.
personally consider as its main goal the creation of Live Earth, media event in defense of the climate that has succeeded in attracting millions of people around the world on July 7 of 2007, even more of a documentary titled "An Inconvenient Truth." Among other Live Earth will be repeated in April next year.
The reality is that this man has been reinvented by a great political communicator for the benefit of the environmental cause and, in particular the issue of global warming, the center of the climate conference that starts today in Copenhagen, succeeding where its many environmental organizations are failing: he manages to convey a clear message to everyone. Gore is not primarily aimed at scientists but ordinary people, trying to explain to them where we are simply wrong and what must we do to correct our mistakes, knowing that only by creating a collective conscience sensitive to these issues will be possible to address and resolve the environmental crisis that has hit us. The book titled "The Choice", (published by Rizzoli), a few days left in Italy, confirms, in my opinion, the qualities of great popularizer of Al Gore.
One of the aims of the book is to convince the public that the climate crisis is not an invention of environmentalists as unfortunately - according to Gore - they are looking for a long time to do some of the main oil companies in the world pouring substantial economic contributions to anyone who invents a study demonstrating the strangeness of human activity to global warming.
With the help of the great technical book can also explain to an audience of non-experts what are the main technologies that are already in possession of the man who can, if taken in time, be able to substantially reduce the production of gas emissions and solve our great thirst for energy. Not only that, Al Gore, with extraordinary simplicity and effectiveness is able to convey the message of how to solve both the economic crisis and environmental crisis through the application of these new technologies.
"The choice is really accessible to everyone and especially to those of certain subjects does not have direct knowledge: through a dozen chapters monothematic anyone can easily understand what are the main causes of the increase of global warming on the planet and political reasons that have delayed or otherwise made difficult to achieve an agreement between the countries on Earth to solve the problem.
scan the pages of this that I consider a really good book, for example, you can find out what the differences between energy use concentrated solar thermal (CST) and photovoltaics (PV), how the wind and how it works a wind turbine, working as the new geothermal systems (EGS) and untapped potential which they can ensure in the future, because some types of biofuels are to be taken seriously, unlike others, (no use of corn and that of cane sugar), like the idea of \u200b\u200bcarbon capture and sequestration could represent a real possibility in the future to reduce emissions, but because the nuclear option has to be set aside, the benefits they can bring to the cause of climate proliferation of organic farming systems, and how much will eventually be able to have the battle in favor of increasing energy efficiency. But the book of Al
Gore also offers other, devoting himself, in the latest part number and the advancement of concrete policy proposals, perhaps not always shared, but which nevertheless represented the determination to find solutions to the problem.
The layout of this book is wonderful. Out of some 400 pages that make up more than half is represented by spectacular and sometimes dramatic pictures, each one personally selected by the author and each of them with strong media content.
The only flaws I found in this publication is the first price (35.00 euro), the size and weight (almost 1.5 kg!) Excessive frankly, that if they more like a catalog of an exhibition of art to a popular text in fact make it a bit 'difficult to read. Well, not exactly the kind of book that one can carry around and read on the train, bus or while it is queued to post!
Apart from this, but I think that anyone with a role of some responsibility in protecting the environment should not only try to read but to study this text.
will not be lost time that will take.
All proceeds from the sale of "The Choice" will be entirely donated to the Alliance for Climate Protection, "a nonprofit organization founded by the same Al Gore in 2006 in order to change people's attitude towards the climate crisis, and whose official website is available at http://www.climateproject.org

Soon, in a subtle September, a

continent floating in the midnight sun disappears.

Rivers
fever and back rests on a sea of \u200b\u200bNeptune acid
bones dissolve.

The snow slides down the mountain
ice generates a flood season comes fast
a persistent rain.

(.......)
The shepherd cries
the time of the choice came
here are your tools.

(Al Gore, Nashville, Tennessee, 2009)


Michele Salvadori


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"Evergreen 2009 "The

The partnership between Friends of the Earth and Obi hard for the past 4 years and over time it has established.
The campaign "Evergreen, immortelle" reaches its third edition and the intent is to make each year more and more effective above the targets, even in terms of numbers, achieved in previous years.
This year's new goal is to get them through the replanting of 3,500 trees were implemented over the last edition. First
is therefore only right for us to thank the Obi is guaranteeing the consistency and commitment to this important initiative for us. For more info please visit also the site of OBI at: http://www.obi-italia.it/it/company/it/Ambiente_e_sociale/SempreverdeSemprevivo/index.html

But if all this will be possible thanks to the narrow, vital collaboration offered by the Nursery "Bani" which is based in Castel San Niccolò and is considered the third protagonist of this wonderful initiative.
Company Bani fact, in addition to cultivating and put Trade in the fir trees, it offers each year, the availability of its own plot of land able to replanting of trees that would otherwise not be retrieved and saved from a grim fate.
Thanks to a well-established formula, the Obi Italy sells at all its points on the Italian territory commercial trees in tubs (that is still equipped with roots and soil) at a cost of € 10.00 per piece. To all those who returned, along with their proof of purchase, the same tree in good health after the holidays and no later than January 9, 2010 will receive a voucher of equal value be spent at the centers OBI by March 31, 2010. Fir returned will be taken "in the temporary custody" by Obi, which in turn organize the expedition, it would be better to say, his "return to the place of birth", in Castel San Niccolò where he will be replanted in an area already identified and allocated for the purpose within the nursery Bani, just behind the control and verification of proceedings by the Friends of the Earth who will be guarantors as well as perpetrators, at least in its startup phase.
To celebrate the initiative Sunday, January 31, 2010 Friends of the Earth will be holding a "shipment" of volunteers, of course, also open to anyone else who wants to participate and in particular so paid to families with young children. Children
fact we were the principal architects and actors of the initiative because it is to them that in the first turn our attention because it is mainly adults of tomorrow that we hope to convey a message that goes in the direction of a growing respect for nature and the environment in general, and because Christmas has always been, in the tree along with the crib is one of the two main symbols is the celebration par excellence of the children.
But the day, besides being an opportunity for everyone to spend some time outdoors and in a pristine environment such as the forests of Casentino adults will also offer some interesting hints as to be able to learn about the various species of trees present and grown in our region: from spruce to the white, Abbot Normandy (probably the best) to that of the Caucasus, each with characteristics and different methods of cultivation.
Did you know for example that a fir of about 1 meter and a half (the average height of trees on sale), through a long and arduous journey lasting about 10 years to reach that height? Every year we see regularly in the massacre of these plants that are first abused in the home where they are forced to adapt to temperatures average around 22-24 ° C, ie much higher than those of their natural habitat in this time of year, often only to be abandoned soon after the holidays, next to a dumpster in the house because we do not want more, we do not need more.
Here, the final wish is just to succeed with this initiative to send a different message that inspires us all (and in this case, especially in adults, because then the children look to adults looking for an example) a greater sense of responsibility and awareness that man must have more and more, all for the environment.

Participation in the day of the January 31 is absolutely free, with no cost to participants. We have, among other things, designed to make it even more interesting by offering the possibility of a guided tour of the castle fortress of St. Nicholas.
Lunch will instead be offered to all participants by the Company Bani.

For the detailed program of the day, ask for further information and / or book, you can visit the following address: http://www.amicidellaterra.it/adt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view & id = 685 & Itemid = 1

or contact the Friends of the Earth in Florence either by phone at 055/2207304, either by e-mail address: info@amicidellaterra.org

remember that the participation in the final event, due to limited space, is under an obligation to booking subject to availability.

Michele Salvadori

President Friends of the Earth Florence Onlus

Can A Grown Man Have Wet Dreams

Slow Economy and the" Sinocentrismo "by F. Rampini

Federico Rampini's new book, titled " Slow Economy - Reborn wisely" (ed. Mondadori, Euro 17.00 ) proposes the theory that the world is heading towards an economic model "sinocentrico. China will be the country's future business leaders World? Probably.
Rampini, from both a deep knowledge of the Asian world, (among other things, is the author of another fine book "The Empire of Chindia" by which two years ago he analyzed the reasons for the strong economic growth that was developing in Asia in countries such as China and India), that of the U.S., compares these two seemingly different worlds and far, and now for a difference of reasons are forced to live in close contact and confront each other, anticipating some sort of way deliveries between the two with Europe relegated to a marginal role.
In the clash between these two worlds as China, according Rampini, is intended to overcome the current crisis is actually a great advantage for a people like the Asia that has always made frugality a way of life even among its more affluent social classes.
theory as a metaphor for his own use the rickshaws Rampini, also rose to the fore most recently in our local chronicles of Florence. For several years now, New York seems to have adopted this vehicle as a means of transport and it is undeniable that it is primarily the product of a labor market recession exhausted. In Asia these carriages, pulled by a man on foot or pedaling on a bicycle, are a staple of the urban landscape for over two centuries. Yet today this means of transport may be a valid response to the crisis not only economic but also environmental pollution that besiege our cities: "In the concrete jungle , - writes Rampini - the risks exceed the car, slips in the middle of the lane, take the shortcuts. CO2 emissions: zero. Noise: zero ... It 's one example of "frugal consumption," which comes from Asia. " But the book cites many other examples of comparisons that do not involve only the US-China relationship, but perfectly valid for us too Europe. I will mention just a few:
- The soap, and when we are going to end them, we typically throw away: Chinese women Instead, put aside and then when they have collected a sufficient number we produce a new soap mixture between them.
- Washing dishes, in a few among the Chinese, they use the dishwasher, consider it too expensive a tool, for use in many detergent Solvay soda that costs much less.
- Take a shower, dirty shower water is not discarded in the exhaust. This is collected in a tub and then using it to wash the floors of the house.
- rice cooking water (to us the dough), use it, once cooled, to water the plants.
- The expired yogurt, is not thrown away. They use it as a leaven to make the dough, (it seems to have the same qualities of our brewer's yeast).
- GAS to purchase appliances , we typically arise solidarity group purchasing for purchases of food. In China are ahead in this. From them, when at home you decide to change an electrical appliance you ride with friends and family to find other people interested in the same kind of purchase. Then we go together to the mall where you can earn a better price thanks to the collective purchasing power.
Because of the crisis for some time, similar examples of frugality can begin to find in California and in cities like San Francisco where he began to pass the idea that the model of ideal life is to retire in the country to raise animals and grow fruits and vegetables.
Of course, the secret of the success of the Chinese economy is not only related to this issue.
I found particularly interesting the analysis Rampini makes what he calls "selfish capitalism" which creates a source of anxiety and psychologically destructive to the emphasis placed on productivity and the resulting stress from competition.
In the Big Brother society many of us are confined to becoming rich and famous. Because only the goal of fame and wealth is equivalent to being successful. Unfortunately, all This experiment also the day I. In a school in Florence, at the end of the projection of the documentary film "Do not throw away" on the issue of reducing the production of household waste, and in which even I appear briefly in one scene, a student who had recognized me in the movie approached me and said: "Lucky you! Meanwhile, at least managed to do an extra in a movie! "
's second Rampini - and I fully agree with his thesis - the roots of our economic and environmental crises, there is also a deep crisis of values \u200b\u200band this is not certainly not be held liable precisely our model of economic development is too often self-referential, almost free from self-criticism and without humility is essential to growth.
course, as they say, "is not all that glitters is gold." China is also a country where you apply a heavy exploitation of labor, where there is censorship and repression and where they are committed serious environmental damage. From what very well known in the Three Gorges Dam to the most recent and current wretched project involves the construction of no less than 13 dams along the path of the Golden River region of Yunnan, the last paradise of our planet, which will result in the forced migration of hundreds of thousands of residents due to flooding of whole valleys, and against which have already been moved by all the main environmental organizations. But China, making its strong position against the rest of the world, now will go their own way, whether we like it or not, because it is officially still a developing country. The comfort of the data: in China, for example, today there are only 12 cars per thousand inhabitants, compared with 480 of the United States. When China and India argue that the West's first wildly looted natural resources of the planet and then get to preach environmentalism and austerity to the poorest countries, they are right. But there is no doubt that the impact on Chinese consumption of resources may be devastating if we fail to convince them that it is necessary in the interests of all, that they also change the development model.
To do so, concludes Rampini, it is essential to overcome the barriers of prejudice that still separate us from the Chinese and their world, strive to understand a philosophy often far from our thoughts, yet in some cases effectively.

We waited two centuries to appreciate the risks, perhaps it is the case, as Westerners, to make a move to better understand the rest.

Michele Salvadori

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