Sunday, September 13, 2009

In dance, Trey McIntyre Project explores climate change - The Boston Globe
Last year, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts commissioned the 21-minute “Sun Road,’’ requesting a piece about how climate change is adversely affecting Glacier National Park in Montana.

McIntyre initially dismissed it as an “absurd’’ idea for a dance, he says. But when he visited the park, ideas began to emerge. He brought back his dancers to videotape them in the natural environs, and the process of creation took off.
Carbon offset plans not for us: Wong
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has informed Parliament that neither she nor her department are members of any so-called carbon offset schemes. In a written response to a question from Opposition climate change spokesman Greg Hunt, Ms Wong's office said the Government did not believe such schemes necessary.
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Other documents tabled in Parliament reveal the Government's top climate change bureaucrat notched up $120,000 of plane travel and hotel bills in 20 months, delivering speeches and attending conferences and meetings.
British environmentalists link with natives to fight oil sands
If they looked or felt out of place, it's because, in many ways, they were. The two bankers had travelled [via fossil fuels] 17 hours this July, bringing along British journalists, including a BBC crew, to use the Cree ceremony as part of the U.K.-based Co-operative Bank's publicity campaign to stop oil sands development.

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