10 Green Commitments
to ensure a more
Sustainable World for our Children
Understanding why we have climate change and how we can solve it.
It starts with us!
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1 Neale Walsch “Conversations with God,” Book 3, Hodder & Stoughton 1998; pp 267-268 2 “Conversations with God,” Book 1, Hodder & Stoughton 1995; pp 43, 50, 95-7, 3 “Conversations with God,” Book 2, Hodder & Stoughton 1997; pp 51-2, 137, 181-182
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Paul Gilding, “The Great Disruption – why the climate crisis will bring an end to shopping and the birth of a New World,” Bloomsbury Press, 2011, pp 33, 43, 198, 211, 240
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www.planetforlife.com/CO2history/ The Keeling Curve
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Wikipedia
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Stephen Emmott “10 BILLION,” Penguin 2013
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NZ Herald “Antarctica warming at triple the speed” Steve Connor 27.12.2012; original research by Prof David Bromwich of Ohio university who led a research team to Byrd Island research centre 1800km from the South Pole in West Antarctica.
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“God’s Earth: for all peoples and generations” 2012, Environment & Sustainability Committee, Justice and Peace Commission, Cath. Diocese of Auckland
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NZ Herald “US ‘off the chart’ with heat record” Seth Borenstein in Washington, 10.1.2013
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NZ Herald “Snowstorm hits US – after record hot year,” 23.1.2014
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NZ Herald “Australia tinderbox temperatures here to stay, warns scientist” 10.1.2013. Article by Andrew Koubaridis. Prof Jeremy Williams, an ecological economist at Griffith University in Brisbane.
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Prof Jim Salinger 92.6 FM Classic news 6.1.2014, visiting Professor at Stanford University
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Prof Mojib Latif, “Climate change – the point of no return” 2009
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Jim Consedine “Is Climate Change Our Biggest Moral Issue?” The Common Good, a newspaper of the Christchurch Cath. Worker, No 68, Lent 2014
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www.forestandbird.org.nz/saving-our-environment/freshwater-/wonderful-wetlands
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-26172030 Mark Lowen visits Tsavo National Park, 13.2.2014 “Bid to save Kenya’s elephants.”
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Riaan Manser “Around Africa on my bicycle” Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2007
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www.wired.com/2013/05/winter-honeybee-losses/ “One Third of US Honeybees Died Last Winter, Threatening Food supply,” Brandon Keim, 5.8.2013
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Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe “TREADING LIGHTLY the hidden wisdom of the world’s oldest people,” Allen & Unwin, 2006; pp 5-6; 8-9
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WWW.TRADEAID.ORG.NZ Trade justice for the eradication of poverty article
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UN report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation 2006: “Livestock’s Long Shadow: Livestock and Climate change”
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www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/29/1240661/-Feed-an-extra-4-billion-Grow-crops-for-humans-notanimals;“Feed an extra 4 billion: grow crops for humans not animals” VL Baker; 29.9.2013 for Daily Kos
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Neil Mitchell letter to Southern Cross “Meat Consumption at COP17” 20.12.2011
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www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/10/how-much-water-food-production-waste . Article posted by Ami Sedghi, 10.1.2013.
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IME report, UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME), “Global Food; Waste not, Want not; Feeding the 9 billion: The tragedy of waste” by Dr Tim Fox 10.1.2013
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NZ Herald “Jeanette Thomas: Face to face with wild, wonderful cousins on the brink of extinction”;
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Bryan Bruce quoted in the NZ Catholic newspaper 21/9-4/10 2014
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Oxfam Briefing Paper 178; “Working for the Few – Political capture and economic inequality” by R. Fuentaes-Nieva and N. Galasso or www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-forthe-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-2001; 20.1.2014
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Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of Diocese Huehuetango, Guatemala, speech at Mercy Spirituality Centre, Auckland, 1.5.2014
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Shay Cullen SSC “Philippine fair Trade Manager Assassinated,” The Common Good, No 70, Spring 2014
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NZ Herald “Apple’s NZ unit coughs up 0.4pc tax” by Kristen Paterson, 23 March 2013
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NZ Herald Business Briefing “Unequal pay in the US” 29.5.2014; analysis by Assoc. Press and Equitar
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NZ Herald “CEO of NZ Superannuation pay hike;” 9.10.2014 34. Marianne Elliot “Zen under fire” 2012, pp 182/3 www.myfootprint.org.
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www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/ser/enz07-dec07/html/chapter6-waste/page3.html
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BBC news program 21.11.2014
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Alex Prud’homme “HYDROFRACKING What everyone needs to know” Oxford University Press, 2014; pp76,89
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www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-SouthAfrica/Local%20Asstes/Documents/Deloitte_Acid_Mining.pdf
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Environmental Justice Foundation, www.ejfoundation.org/cotton/cotton-and-water
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“Industrial hemp or eucalyptus paper?,” The International Journal of Life Cycle, May 2010, Vol 15, Issue 4, pp 368-375
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www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=chinas-three-gorges-dam-disaster; “China’s Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental catastrophe?” By Mara Hvistendahl
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The Morgan Foundation, “Dairy doing the dirty on our environment,” NZ Herald 15.1.2014
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NZ Herald “Emissions scheme a stinker” Brian Fallow, 25.9.2014
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Pope Benedict XVI, World Day of Peace Message, 2010
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