The Growing Alliance of Dumbledore's Army | Future Majority

If you haven't heard of it by now... where have you been?! The Harry Potter Alliance got started in 2005 on MySpace and has grown into a larger and larger alliance tackling issue after issue bringing online involvement into offline actions.
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Their specific causes include but are not limited to:

* Genocide, Poverty, AIDS, and Global Warming are ignored by our media and governments the way Voldemort's return is ignored by the Ministry and Daily Prophet.

New Zealand: Why virtual silence about climate change during election?

NewsWire writer ANNE CORNISH, who has been writing stories about climate change, the emissions trading scheme and recycling, ponders why these environmental issues barely rated a mention during the election:

HOW bizarre it is that, in the excitement of an election campaign, we seem to have forgotten all about climate change and sustainability.

It is unlikely the issue has gone away. I suspect our climate is still changing, yet we are choosing not to notice.

Even the Green party wasn’t making a lot of noise about it during the campaign. Surely they don’t think the emissions trading scheme is the only solution. Isn’t it just the first step on the long and tortuous path to reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

I’m disappointed in the performance of the Greens in the lead-up to the election. They seem to be wary of the tag “loony greenies”, to the point where they are so hell-bent on being reasonable and non-alarming, they avoid confronting us with the deteriorating state of our planet.

In The Field: Carbon conference: The other election

Before signing off for the conference, I figured I would highlight one other bit of news that cropped up yesterday. It involves a major national election and a peaceful power change that could shift a government’s policy on global warming emissions. And no, it has nothing to do with Barack Obama.

While the world’s eyes were on a sharp turn to the left in the United States, New Zealand held its own elections on Saturday - and moved sharply to the right. Apparently one of parties – ACT – that stands to gain is sceptical about global warming and has promised to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol. And all of this comes at a time when New Zealand is implementing a potentially groundbreaking cap-and-trade program designed to regulate all greenhouse gas emissions, including the difficult stuff like agriculture and development that is cutting down native forests.