http://iht.greenpeace.org The best way to predict the future is to invent it Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:38:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Websites and networking help thousands to save climate, make change BY PETER BAUMANN COPENHAGEN - Over the last six months, hundreds of thousands of people across Europe participated in nonviolent direct action focused on corporate and government targets across the continent. The protests were designed to disrupt “business as usual” and force ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/activism/ Germany, Denmark and Spain are winners of the new energy economy BY JIM MADDOX LONDON - When the deal to save the climate was announced in the early hours of the morning in Copenhagen the first markets to respond were in East Asia. Markets in the Philippines and Indonesia soared as analysts ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/virus-pandemia/ France revolutionizes climate summit, stuns delegates and leaders BY FRANÇOISE BOUTON PARIS - He’s a man that many love to hate, even in his own country. French president Nicolas Sarkozy is often satirized as controlling and pushy and with a bling lifestyle and trophy wife whom he loves to flaunt. As his ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/sarkozy-nuclear/ BY MICHAEL COUNTRY COPENHAGEN - World leaders gathered at the Copenhagen Climate Summit took an historic step to halt climate change and global warming today. The deal will force ambitious cuts in global carbon emissions, end deforestation and help fund climate protection measures in the developing world. The intense negotiations spilled into ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/heads-of-state-agree-historic-climate-saving-deal-2/ BY HILLARY IONESCO PARIS - The World Heritage Committee has officially declared the Earth’s atmosphere as the newest addition to its famous “World Heritage Sites.” Finally taking its place alongside such wonders as Chichen-Itza and the city of Fez, the atmosphere had long been rejected from inclusion in this list for ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/world-heritage-site/ BY PETRO CHEMICA DALLAS - After years of waging a disinformation campaign denying climate change, ExxonMobil, the American oil and gas giant, has announced that it is converting fully to renewable energy, following the positive outcome of the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen. The corporation has also agreed to pay off the ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/exxon/ BY GUNTER LEGHORN AMSTERDAM - We know what happened. Massive nonviolent direct actions led to mass arrests, filling up the jails, raising mass consciousness about climate change and putting great pressure on Europe’s leaders. This forced a real agenda onto the Copenhagen talks, leading to the cooperative global solutions that are ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/offsets/ Berlusconi stuns climate summit with policy shift BY MATTIA GRENADO ROME - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was rushed to hospital late today and treated for confetti inhalation and minor hug-related injuries sustained at the hero’s welcome he received in Rome on return from the climate summit. Grateful Italians overwhelmed security at ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/berlusconi-confounds-critics/ Radical departure from old ways for clean and safe future BY INDIRA KHAN NEW DELHI - Everyone remembers where they were when men landed on the moon, when the Berlin wall came down and when Obama won the election. In the years to come, what happened today in New Delhi will become ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/carbon-economy/ Horoscopes BY GAIA WILSON Aries (March 21 — April 20) Coal companies will work your nerves today but you will feel sorry for them when they go out of business. Taurus (April 21 — May 20) Remember that plastic bottles are a thing of the past. To quench your thirst, you must first fill your ... http://iht.greenpeace.org/horoscopes/