Ohhhhh, I have to share this here! This is absolutely amazing and I invite you to see the whole movie!!!! FreeRangeStudios are doing a great job!!!

Here comes the first part I uploaded from YouTube but you can see the whole story here.



Enjoy :-)

I thought it might be of interest to share this report here for those who don't get the Avaaz newsletter ...

Dear Friends,

Wow - on Saturday, in desperate last-minute negotiations, the world faced down an effort by the US, Canada and Japan to wreck the crucial Bali Climate Change Summit. Over 600,000 Avaaz members mobilized to save the Bali talks, including 320,000 in the final 72 hours! Click below to read the whole story with photos and videos:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_report_back/6.php

Arriving in Bali, most countries wanted to work towards a new global treaty on climate change as well as new targets for carbon emissions by rich countries. But late last week, the US and Canada teamed up to undermine the talks -- the US blocked the whole Bali summit consensus, and when a smaller group of Kyoto treaty countries tried to move ahead without the US, they were blocked by Canada. The summit was in danger of deadlock.

The Avaaz community flew into action, signing and spreading petitions to each of the governments, supporting ad campaigns in Bali and Canada, marches around the world, and phoning and lobbying elected officials. At the summit, Avaaz members brought the storm of public criticism inside the conference walls with the only march allowed inside the venue, the largest climate petition delivery in history, daily press conferences and "fossil awards" for the worst countries in the negotiations, and constant lobbying of officials.

In the final hours of the summit, Canada backed down completely and allowed Kyoto countries to agree to strong 2020 targets on carbon emissions, and the US team, now entirely isolated and actually booed by the world's diplomats, compromised and agreed to call for "deep cuts" and "reference" the 2020 targets. This paved the way for the summit to agree to sign a new global climate change treaty by 2009.

Usually these conferences are stuffy diplomatic affairs - but this time the world was watching, and speaking, each day. Together, we brought people-powered politics to the halls of power, and put our governments on notice: in the fight to save our environment, we will not be spectators.

This is just the beginning. Every nation of the world has now agreed that they will enter into accelerated negotiations and, by 2009, sign a new treaty to confront global warming. We need this treaty to set binding global targets for carbon emissions, and a mechanism for meeting them, that keep the earth's temperature from rising more than 2 degrees celsius - the amount that scientists say would be 'catastrophic'. Such a treaty will change the world's economy forever, weaning us off oil and fossil fuels to cleaner sources of energy. Some leaders, in the pocket of the oil industry, will fight it tooth and nail all the way. And we will too.

A great struggle to save our environment has begun, and this weekend, we showed together that the people of the world aren't intending to sit this one out.

With much respect and appreciation for this amazing community of people,

Ricken, Ben, Milena, Paul, Iain, Sarah, Galit, Pascal and the whole Avaaz Team.

I think I have to put them all on the first place since I love to touch what I like to see and I like to taste what I like to smell and if I can hear what I like to hear at the same time while I am touching and seeing and tasteing and smelling what I like ... then, I AM

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Did my son get some sleep?

Well, we are having some major teenage problems at home for the moment ... in fact I say WE because my husband and I are suffering with my oldest son at the moment. ...First real girlfriend, him not allowed to go to a party yesterday night because his results in school are a real nightmare plus that he put himself into trouble for stupid little "wanna be a cool guy plays " at school... and he wanted desperately to go to this party because he was affraid his girlfriend was going to find another boy there ... ohhhhhh, I suppose the majority of you has passed through this all... and I had to stand to my decision and talk and talk and talk.

It was the most excruciating thing to watch him struggling because of the memories that flooded my mind of my own teenage years. I realized I would never want to go back to the days when I went through these awkward moments and confusing situations.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.  ~ Carlos Castaneda

Why should I feel depressed during holidays at all? Is this the ultimate purpose of holidays? Feel depressed??? If you do, go back to work if you can, make as if there was a normal day as always and the depression will go away :-)

There was a time when I got depressed because of the consumerism during this period of the year. I stoped struggling and just accept it as i is, embrace the situation even when I am faced with a big shopping mall here in Luxembourg selling carnival stuff two days before christmas ...I confess it really upset me first but meanwhile I laugh about it.