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The Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project provides access to documents, data, photos, maps and other resources concerning this critical issue.

The World Ocean Observatory provides a place of exchange for ocean information, education and public discourse about the future of the ocean and its implication for human survival.

AdaptNet is a community of adaptation specialists, sharing the latest information on adaptation strategies, measures, tools, research and analysis, and highlighting best practice and implementation. The network focuses on cities in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, but nested within the global network of cities.

In the Morning of a Day provides activists and event organizers with an opportunity to announce and promote their events and actions about global warming.

And finally,

Children from Uganda, Bangladesh and Mozambique have drawn pictures for Oxfam of their impression of climate change (video) and what it means to their lives.

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About the Portal

The Tiempo Climate Portal provides access to carefully selected documents, websites and other resources concerned with climate and sustainable development. It is edited by Mick Kelly and Sarah Granich and maintained by Mick Kelly and Mike Salmon.

Part of the Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, Tiempo Climate Newswatch is hosted by the Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is a co-production of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development, sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

While every effort is made to ensure that information on this site, and on other sites that are referenced here, is accurate, no liability for loss or damage resulting from use of this information can be accepted.

DIY Guide
DIY Guide

Advice on action that you, as an individual, can take to combat the threat of global warming
 

4 Million Careful Owners
Site details what New Zealanders are doing about climate change. Provides steps and interactive discussion for reducing emissions for individuals and companies in work places, home and on the farm.

AllGreen
AllGreen provides quick access to ideas about green technologies for use in the home and garden, at leisure and in business.

Artists' Project Earth
Artists' Project Earth aims to help create a better world by bringing the power of music and other arts to 21st century challenges. It supports appropriate action and facilitate awareness-raising and education with regard to environmental disasters, climate change and related challenges, assisting in the implementation of sustainable development.

Bloom
From the BBC, Bloom provides information and support to enable you to make smarter decisions about the things you can do to become more climate-friendly

Campus Climate Challenge
The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 30 leading youth organizations throughout the United States and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools, growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming.

Carbon Connections
The Carbon Connections project aims to enable universities to address the problem of increasing carbon emissions, through the creation of new technologies, improvement of existing technology and innovative approaches to behavioural change.

Carbon Footprint Calculator
BP's Carbon Footprint Calculator estimates your impact on carbon emissions. Requires Macromedia Flash Player.

Climate Solutions Campaign
The Climate Change Solutions Campaign is a three-year project to educate and motivate all levels of the global community.

Community Carbon Reduction Programme (CRed)
The aim of the Community Carbon Reduction Programme is to cut carbon emissions by 60% by the year 2025.

Connect2earth
connect2earth provides a space for you to tell the world, using video, photos or text, why you care about the environment and why it should be protected.

DIY Guide to Combating Global Warming
101 practical steps each person can take to reduce their contribution to global warming. Originally produced by Reforest the Earth, with the assistance of the Greenhouse Crisis Foundation and Ark, and now presented in a new up-dated electronic edition by the Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary.

Earth 911
Earth 911 delivers actionable local information on recycling and product stewardship that empowers consumers to act locally, live responsibly and contribute to sustainability.

Earth Charter Foundation
The Earth Charter Foundation’s primary objective is to encourage all people - individuals, groups, organizations, small and big businesses and governments - to support and implement the principles of the Earth Charter as a framework of action for the wellbeing of humanity and all other species dependent on the Earth’s environment for survival.

Earth Day Network
The Earth Day Network provides support for all governments, businesses, schools and other groups wanting ideas or collaboration for activities on Earth Day, April 22nd. There are over 184 countries in the Network.

EarthAware
The EarthAware Environmental Awareness software (shareware) quantifies the amount of carbon dioxide you put into the atmosphere, covering home energy and water, tranportation, consumerism, waste, advocacy, livelihood, land use and family planning.

Ecolect - a sustainable materials community
Ecolect provides information about building design materials with sustainable attributes.

Focus the Nation
Focus the Nation is a major educational initiative that is coordinating teams of faculty, students and staff at over a thousand colleges, universities and high schools in the United States, to collaboratively engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion centered around the theme of "Global Warming Solutions for America". The project will culminate January 31, 2008, in the form of one-day, national symposia held simultaneously on campuses across the country.

Global Cool
Harnessing the power of popular entertainment and environmental science, Global Cool works to stir anyone who cares about the planet to do their bit to save the planet they care about. Site contains promotional material from pop singers and bands and resources to assist everyone to make a contribution.

Global Releaf
Global ReLeaf is American Forests' education and action programme that helps individuals, organizations, agencies and corporations improve the local and global environment by planting and caring for trees.

Global Warming - Undo It
Briefing on the basics of the global warming issues and steps to control the threat from the Environmental Defense Fund. Metaefficient www.metaefficient.com Policy Shop NULL NULL A guide to the most efficient things in the world.

Green Pages
Green Pages, the online gateway to environmental products and services, aims to deepen and broaden consumer´s ability to make a positive impact through their purchasing, and promotes a shift of public and private financial flows into projects and programmes that encourage and contribute to environmentally and socially sustainable development. Contains listings of information sources, organizations, services and suppliers as well as editorial material.

How to Save the Climate (0.7Mb download)
How to Save the Climate, from Greenpeace, provides a concise guide to actions everybody can take to protect global climate.

In the Morning of a Day
In the Morning of a Day provides activists and event organizers with an opportunity to announce and promote their events and actions about global warming, informs the general public about these events and actions and gives them the opportunity to participate in them and connects event organizers, by informing them about each others' actions.

It’s Getting Hot in Here
It’s Getting Hot in Here is the voice of student and youth leaders of the global movement to stop global warming, a global online community with over 100 writers from countries around the world.

Japan for Sustainability
The Japan for Sustainability website includes a useful information centre listing sustainability news and also ideas for responding to climate change and other threats.

Live Earth Film Project
Award-winning filmmakers have created short films, commissioned by Live Earth, to showcase the diversity and creativity of the international response to the climate crisis.

My Footprint
Calculate your ecological footprint in any nation of the world.

Planet Ark
A campaigning and educational site providing access to information to assist communities and groups establish environmentally-sustainable daily practices. Provides access to environment-related news and pictures.

Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign
The Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign, organized by UNEP, encourages people, communities, business and industry, civil society organizations and governments to commit tree planting pledges with the objective of planting at least one billion trees worldwide during 2007.

Plant-a-Tree-Today
The PATT foundation aims at providing economic, social and environmental sustainability through community based forestry projects in developing countries. Working in conjunction with corporate partners, government and intergovernmental agencies, non governmental organizations, local authorities, and local communities, it plans to plant 1 million trees per year in locations worldwide.

Rough Guide to a Better World
The Rough Guide to a Better World discusses ways to combat hunger, disease and illiteracy and suggests ways in which we, as individuals, can get involved.

Safe Climate
The Safe Climate project, organized by the World Resources Institute, guides you to act to reduce your impact on global warming and learn more about the climate issue.

Save Our World
Through campaigns, information and lobbying, Save our World acts to help protect and sustain the natural world through increasing awareness and caring for human beings and all other species, as well as inspiring and empowering people to change attitudes, habits and lifestyles. Climate change is a major focus.

Save the Planet
Save the Planet encourages the adoption of alternative energies or energy conservation in home, office and throughout industry. Site contains background material, news and other resources.

Six Tools to Make Climate Change Art
Franke James discusses what climate change art means and presents the six tools for making climate change art that he relies on.

Solar Nation
Solar Nation is a national campaign, based on popular support through initiatives such as Vote Solar, that is changing state and federal policy to make solar a significant part of America's energy future.

Step It Up 2007
Step It Up 2007 is the organizing hub for a National Day of Climate Action in the United States, April 14th, 2007, when there will be "hundreds and hundreds of rallies all across the country"

Stop Global Warming
Stop Global Warming is a collective working to encourage governments, corporations, and politicians take the steps necessary to stop global warming. It is organizing the Stop Global Warming Virtual March.

Target Neutral
Target Neutral, a BP initiative, enables British drivers to offset their carbon emissions

The Green Dot Internet Eco-Guide
The Green Dot's Internet Eco-Guide covers environmental protection, waste management and recycling in Germany.

Throwplace
Cut landfill by giving away your excess goods to others who can use them.

Tiki the Penguin
Tiki the Penguin provides a guide to climate change, including action you can take to combat the problem.

UN CyberSchoolBus
Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals and opportunities for youth involvement.

VoiceYourself
VoiceYourself, set up by Woody Harrelson and Laura Louie, promotes and inspires individual action to create global momentum towards simple organic living and to restore balance and harmony to our planet. Site provides news, inspiration, ideas and a virtual art gallery.

WRAP
WRAP works in partnership, helping businesses and the general public to reduce waste, to use more recycled material, and recycle more things more often. This helps to minimize landfills, reduce carbon emissions and improve our environment.

WalkIt
WalkIt provides walking routes between user-defined points in selected British cities, with an estimate of the carbon savings.

World Environment Day
Site provides information packs, posters and booklets suggesting activities to commemorate 5th June, World Environment Day, each year.

World Land Trust
You can offset your carbon emissions with the World Land Trust. Site also contains an emissions calculator and tips on reducing emissions.

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
The WWF educational site includes tips on how to save the planet and other teaching materials.

WorldChanging
WorldChanging provides tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future.

climatespace
Meet up in climatespace to make it easier to take steps to tackle climate change. A "this helped me why don’t you try it", "anyone know how I do this?" kind of site, with content from its readers.

Autogenerated: 25 Jul 2008

Bright Ideas

FCX Clarity

Honda is leasing the hydrogen-powered fuel cell FCX Clarity to private individuals in southern California

TIDE

TIDE, in southern India, markets energy-efficient stoves that reduce fuelwood use by as much as 30 per cent

BioCity Program

Curitiba's BioCity Program (0.3Mb download) aims to halt the rapid rate at which cities develop and reduce biodiversity loss

CooKit

The CooKit is an inexpensive, lightweight solar cooker that can save scarce fuel in poor communities and be swiftly deployed in emergencies (video)

Kungsbrohuset

Kungsbrohuset, a new building to be built by Jernhusen in Stockholm, will be heated partly by body heat from the people who pass through the nearby Central Station

Petrotec

Petrotec produces biodiesel from multiple feedstocks, including waste frying oils, animal fats and virgin vegetable fats and oils

Del Sur Ranch House

Over 90 per cent of waste materials generated during construction of the eco-friendly Del Sur Ranch House were diverted from landfills

New Belgium

New Belgium's brew kettle is up to 70 per cent more efficient than standard brew kettles because it only heats thin sheets of wort

Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan

The Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan presents a community-based strategy for coming down from the oil peak

Efficiencity

The Efficiencity virtual world shows how decentralized energy production leads to lower emissions, more secure supply and reduced bills

Climate Savers

Climate Savers corporations are partnering with WWF to establish ambitious targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily

Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV

Energy collected from an asphalt road and parking lot heats an apartment building in Avenhorn, The Netherlands (further information from Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV, 0.3Mb download)

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Tiempo Climate Portal
Updated: July 25th 2008