Nature World News reports that a group of California youth is suing government agencies, including the US Environmental Protection Agency, for failing to develop a plan of action against climate change.
The plaintiffs demand that the federal government immediately devise a climate recovery strategy to avoid 2 degrees C of warming above pre-industrial levels.
Read more here.
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine has released the results of a survey, which reveals that 98% of the 2000 people it surveyed were unable to name common trees.
Read more here.
Rachel Sussman’s book of The Oldest Living Things in the World project, supported by StFF, is out now.
Click here for link to publisher.
Ed Stafford is an StFF beneficiary – see his epic expedition to walk the length of the Amazon.
His new Discovery Channel show ‘Marooned‘ starts on 4 May 2014 (five part series).
Aurora Robson is an StFF beneficiary artist – see the Waimea Ocean Film Festival project.
In this video, Aurora explains how she artistically ‘interrupts the waste stream’ to make beautiful sculpture from waste plastic.
The Chairman of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) said today that:
Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change
Professor Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC
The Report’s Chair says that:
We have to re-frame climate change as an exciting challenge for the most creative minds.
Dr Chris Field, Report Chair
See the BBC’s coverage here.
Read the Report here.
Parrys Raines is a great friend of Sculpt the Future Foundation and the Plastiki. Her website Climate Girl provides inspiration for any young person who wants to effect change towards a more positive future for the planet.
It is therefore no surprise, but very pleasing, that Parrys has won a Layne Beachley Aim for the Stars Foundation award in the Environmental category.
Keep an eye on Parrys – she IS a STAR!!
Professor Bryan Clarke was instrumental in the founding of the ‘Frozen Ark’ project – to save samples of frozen cells containing DNA from endangered species – the animal equivalent of the ‘Millennium Seed Bank’ created by Kew Gardens to conserve the seeds of the world’s plants.
In 1971 he was appointed Foundation Professor of Genetics at Nottingham University and remained there until his retirement in 1997. Professor Clarke died on 27 February 2014 aged 81.
Professor Clarke was an inspiration to thousands of students and it is said, due to his research on snails, that he gave his name to the snail in The Magic Roundabout.
Rachel Sussman’s ‘Oldest Living Things’ project was supported by the Foundation and the book is due out on 22 April 2014 in both the UK and the US.
Go to Rachel’ site to read more.
