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  • Transition Towns

    Created: Sunday, 28 June 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    Thinking about climate change is one thing. Doing something about it quite another. One faces two problems in getting people to really hunker down and start changing things. First, climate change is gradual and it won't really start sinking its teeth int...

  • Book Review: The Hot Topic

    Created: Friday, 26 June 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    In the course of educating myself on climate change I have read several books. By far the most readable has been The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming, written by Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King. If you happen to come across this book I ...

  • New Yorker Profiles the Arch-Druid of Climate Change

    Created: Thursday, 25 June 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    The June 29, 2009, issue of The New Yorker features a profile by Elizabeth Kolbert entitled "The Catastrophist." The subject of the profile is James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Hansen is considered by many to be th...

  • Planet Restart Opens for Business

    Created: Sunday, 21 June 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    Today is Father's Day and that seems to be an appropriate date to mark the official grand opening of Planet Restart. This whole site is about parents and children and facing an uncertain future together. Thinking about that uncertain future is what got m...

  • More Bad News

    Created: Thursday, 18 June 2009 00:00 Author: G J Lau
    The drumbeat of bad news regarding climate change continues. A lot of this is coming out in anticipation of the meeting in December 2009 at Copenhagen, where a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocols will be ratified, hopefully. Skeptics will argue that ...

  • Teach Your Children Well

    Created: Tuesday, 16 June 2009 01:26 Author: G J Lau
    Like many things in life, where you stand on global warming depends on where sit. Or as they say in the real estate business: Location, Location, Location. Just today I came across a couple of articles that make this point pretty well. The first article ...

  • Another Wake Up Call

    Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2009 13:08 Author: G J Lau
    The Human Impact ReportIssued by the Global Humanitarian Forum Sometimes you wonder if you are just a crazy person with a crazy idea. At Planet Restart our focus is on educating folks to the realities of climate change and what it means for their childre...