Leading up to the Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights in April and COP16 in Mexico, we are asking organizations to endorse the POST-COP15 TIME TO BE BOLD Declaration.

We now stand on the cusp of the bleakest periods where we are confronted with the zero point of systemic collapse.

Now is the time to be bold. No more compromise.

To add your organization’s endorsement please send an email to openyoureyes [at] sympatico [dot] castating the name of your organization and country.

Please include the name and position of person with signing authority.

In solidarity,

Joan Russow, PhD | Global Compliance Research Project
Cory Morningstar | Canadians Action on Climate Change

Climate Justice Groups – See endorsements to date (below declaration) and online at: timetobebold.wordpress.com  

To sign on as an individual: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/post-cop15-time-to-be-bold

It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of increasing costs of fossil fuels ("peak oil") and climate change?

They begin by forming an initiating group and then adopt the Transition Model with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to kick off a Transition Initiative.

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If you’re like many Albertans, you’re probably asking yourself some pretty important questions about greenhouse gas and climate change.

• What will Copenhagen mean?
• Why is cap and trade controversial?
• What are other places doing to address climate change through law and policy?

Or, maybe you’re not even sure which questions to ask. Whatever the case, let the Environmental Law Centre (ELC) get you started.

Join Elizabeth May at the annual Sierra Youth Coalition Conference at the University of Alberta. Elizabeth May will address the topic, "Picking up the pieces: Climate Activism Post-Copenhagen."

Friday evening is open to members of the public for a charge of $10.

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Edmonton— Canada’s inability to play a leadership role at international climate change negotiations is just one of many negative consequences of an energy sector that is dominated by large for-profit corporations, and we need to begin exploring alternate business models for the industry.  This is a key message of a new discussion paper released today by Alberta’s Parkland Institute in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Update: The December 11 vigil has decided to amalgamate with the December 12 vigil taking place at the Alberta Legislature from 5:30 - 6:30 pm.

The weekend of Dec 11-13 marks the mid-way point of the climate talks taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. To mark the occasion people around the world will gather in solemn solidarity with the nations and peoples for whom delay on climate action could mean extinction. 

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This event will be a short, simple, dignified, family-friendly candlelight vigil for the planet on the steps of the magnificently-lit Alberta Legislature. And it could be the most important thing you do for the planet all year. Please share with your friends and family.

This December world leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to forge a new international climate agreement - essentially our global game plan to stop dangerous climate change. But not just any deal is good enough - it has to be a Real Deal: and that means Fair, Ambitious and Binding.

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Calgary authors Robin White and Marian White will be presenting slide shows at Pages Books on Kensington at 7 pm, November 17^th and at Pincher Creek public library at 7 pm, November 19^th . These are part of their new Alberta bad-news/good-news book-signing tour with their award-winning environmental coffee-table book, Wild Alberta at the Crossroads (see dates below).

This book is unique not only in portraying all six Alberta natural regions from prairie to Canadian Shield, but in taking a critical look at our stewardship of the land and response to global warming. Confronted by unrestrained resource extraction and ensuing climate change, the Whites concluded that celebrating Nature was not enough; we must face up to our environmental problems. Clearly many agreed, for the book sold out and was reprinted this summer.

WWF-Canada is proud to host the cross-Canada speaking tour of award-winning authors Andrew Nikiforuk (Tar Sands) and Ed Struzik (The Big Thaw).

Join them on November 6^th, at 7:00 pm as they discuss how the melting of Arctic sea ice and the exploitation of the Alberta tar sands are connected, and how they are shaping Canada’s future. WWF aims to stimulate debate among Canadians about the choices and consequences – political, cultural, economic and environmental – involved in how we develop the tar sands and respond to a changing Arctic.

Make your voice heard and join the discussion in your city. Event begins at 7:00 pm. The event is FREE, so please invite your colleagues, friends, family, and networks!

RSVP: events [at] wwfcanada [dot] org or 1-800-26-PANDA.

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