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'poor people are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change'

But is it the state of being poor that makes people vulnerable to climate change, or the processes that lead to their impoverishment?

if you have access to a clean and healthy environment that provides for your needs - meaning you don't need two dollars a day (or perhaps even one) - then you aren't living in poverty!

As for lighting, strategically placed candles with mirrors behind them shine more brightly than people give them credit for.

A suggestion for those who find it financially difficult to be green. Search in your areas for Trade and Barter organizations. I'm sure most big cities have them. But you don't have to join a group, but people you know that you can barter with. I have done this before, traded my time with a friend who is a carpenter who builds energy efficient off-grid homes. It saved me a lot of money. Everyone has a skill they can trade. You can still be green even if you have a low-income. I've managed to do it, and having a low-income has taught me to be responsible with money. Grow your own food, or find someone who has a space you can start a garden. I live in a bachelor suite and grow culinary herbs, and baby lettuce, romaine, spinach. Also grow sprouts in jars. There is lots of info on the net about sprout growing. Posted by: dare | April 21, 2007 at 12:46 PM

Mortality increase correlates with climate change.

The mortality rates, which are of the order of 1%, have in many cases doubled in just a couple of decades.

This subtle trend correlates with climate change in the region, which has warmed by between 0.3 and 0.4 degrees Celsius every decade since the 1970s.

A diet that is local, unfrozen and unprocessed, seasonal, organic or near-organic, has no packaging and is based on mostly grain and vegetables, including little or no beef or dairy

Production has its impact by water use, land use, energy use, and herbicide and pesticide use:

Eat organic or close to it—to cut down on the chemicals.

discussion has ensued among international-security experts who believe climate-change-related damage to global ecosystems and the resulting competition for natural resources may increasingly serve as triggers for wars and other conflicts in the future.

most possibly destabilizing populations and governments: degradation of freshwater resources, food insecurity, natural disasters and environmental migration.

the number of world regions vulnerable to drought was expected to rise

The average American consumes about 3747 kcal per day

accounts for about 19% of US total energy use

6 kilograms of plant protein are needed to produce 1 kg of high quality animal protein

Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies

The culture tells us we need so many things, so many comforts, so many services--just to get by. But do we? We are stripping down our life, seeing what we really miss, and at the end we'll very deliberately put it back together. Michelle calls it a life redesign.

rising temperatures, spiralling population growth and inefficient irrigation are severely straining resources and threatening renewed economic and social breakdown.

Lebanon has the highest annual rainfall in the region, averaging 827mm compared to 630mm in Israel, 252mm in Syria and just 154mm in Iraq

Yet experts estimate that demand for water in Lebanon will have increased by more than 80 percent by 2025 as Lebanon’s population is expected to grow from four to 7.6 million. In the same period, as a result of climate change, average summer temperatures in the country are predicted to increase by 1.2 degrees centigrade.

They're also growing vegetables — rather than crops like wheat — on floating gardens. They use a bamboo frame and load it with water hyacinth, which rots and makes a bed for vegetables to grow. Then when the flood water rises, they can still harvest food.