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PREACHING THE FIRE
| March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm local time, WWF, the global conservation organization in the United States known as World Wildlife Fund, asks individuals, corporations, governments and organizations around the world to turn off their lights for one hour, the Earth Hour, to demonstrate their concern about climate change and demonstrate their commitment to finding solutions. Turn off the light. Acts. |
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| Importance climate change Climate change is impossible to hide and be impossible to ignore. The 10 warmest years on record which have occurred since 1990. The ice in the Arctic has fallen to its lowest level and one study suggests that two thirds of the polar bear population will disappear by 2050. addition to polar bears and ice sheets, something else is at risk - climate change threatens all life on our planet. Climate change is the number one problem facing the environment in the XXI century. The United States is a major contributor of greenhouse gases, with carbon dioxide emissions, representing nearly five times the world average emissions. The good news is that we can still stop climate change before it is too dangerous to handle. The tools to keep climate change under control are available and affordable. Through WWF's key initiatives to mobilize people, businesses and leaders responsible alternatives to around energy and environment, while improving the abilities of ecosystems to resist and recover from environmental stress caused by climate change, and increases the protection of forests. WWF works to shape norms through Science, reduce carbon-based forestry programs, developing and implementing adaptation plans for high-risk ecosystems and help companies reduce their carbon emissions. If you wonder "what I can do right now in my house or my community, to make a difference? There are many avenues open for everyone to change their patterns of energy use, influence others to do likewise and make a difference politically. You can measure and reduce your carbon footprint, joining a global movement and register for Earth Hour. Learn more and raise your voice by joining our Action Network Conservation Source: WWF-Adena |
Us Tomorrow:
In collaboration with the Hispanic Cultural Center Japanese, the month of March the fierce hour commitment to multiculturalism. Next Thursday, 12 March 2009 nine in the evening at the Aula Magna of the Convento de San Esteban , the Dominicans of Salamanca we invite you to turn your life with us.
That the world is shrinking is a reality assumed and lived by the young people of our world. Communication and information, migration flows and a growing intellectual curiosity so that it falls outside of one's own cultural borders, are hallmarks of our world.
Specifically, the Far East increasingly awakened their importance and presence in our lives, that is why Flaming Hour wanted to return his gaze to that reality, directing our eyes to the exciting Japan.
Japan is a nation of contrasts and wealth. Tradition and modernity, economic development and social issues, history and culture, and especially its immense spiritual and cultural wealth, make it a highly attractive country.
So the hour on offers you a conversation between the reality of Japan and the reality of Spain, a meeting of Lives between East and West. We lead a meeting of cultures and spiritualities, a human encounter, an encounter religious and transcendent. A meeting on the other hand comes from old. And is that the presence of Christianity in Japan came from here, St. Francis Xavier, the Jesuits opened the way for many others, also Dominicans, work and preach there, causing over the troubled history , it was giving a richness and diversity of their religions, who arrives today.
We will have to do with two professors from the University of Salamanca linked to the Hispanic Cultural Center Japanese, English professor expert in religions of Japan and a Japanese professor who works and teaches in our city. Alongside them we are also try to bring the vision of someone who has worked there since the framework of the Christian faith.