je.st
news
Tag: naomi
Activist Naomi Klein links Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change at University of Calgary speech
2016-05-30 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Calgary Sun: Activist Naomi Klein ruffled some feathers in the heart of Alberta's oilpatch Sunday, linking the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire to climate change and calling for an end to fossil fuels. Speaking at Congress 2016, which is being held at the University of Calgary, Klein said last year's Paris climate change agreement didn't go far enough. "It is a breakthrough and, if it's all we do, it will be an ecological disaster,' she told the crowd of almost 500 people. "If we are serious about...
Tags: links
change
university
fort
Naomi Watts floats down the red carpet as she attends gala in New York
2016-04-16 14:36:00| Jewelry - Topix.net
Breathtaking in blue! Naomi Watts floats down the red carpet in glamourous gown and glittering jewellery as she attends star-studded gala in New York And Naomi Watts remained true to form as she joined a whole host of stars at the Tiffany & Co Blue Book Gala in New York City on Friday. The slender blonde, 47, slipped her frame into a diaphanous gown in powder blue for the glamorous do, while accessorising her look with a pair of Tiffany & Co drop earrings and a matching bracelet.
Naomi Klein: Climate change will make world meaner and uglier
2016-03-04 12:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Colorado Independent: Journalist, social activist and bestselling author Naomi Klein addressed a packed house at the University of Colorado Boulder Thursday about the battle between capitalism and climate change. The university`s Cultural Events Board and student divestment group Fossil Free CU brought Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, to talk about her latest book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. The books central thesis is that we must restructure the global economy,...
Naomi Klein criticises protest restrictions at Paris climate talks
2015-12-06 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: French authorities are enforcing unprecedented restrictions on civil society at the UN climate change talks in Paris, the author and activist Naomi Klein has said. Klein said the ongoing talks were a victim of austerity as the French government had failed to provide adequate state funding, leading to heavy sponsorship by corporations. Meanwhile authorities have imposed a ban on mass protests around COP21, as the conference is known, in the wake of last months terror attacks in Paris. We...
Tags: paris
restrictions
klein
talks
We have skills, ability address climate change, Naomi Klein says
2015-09-14 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guelph Mercury: The situation is critical, but the tools and knowledge exist to address climate change, author, journalist, activist and filmmaker Naomi Klein told a large and enthusiastic audience in Guelph on Saturday. What is needed is a willingness by politicians and big business to utilize them, Klein said. What she called "a transformative agenda." "The scientists are telling us clearly that we must change and that we are running out of time. The engineers are telling us we can do it, that the technology...
Tags: address
change
ability
says