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New Zealand's Kono takes Tutu Hard Cider to US
2016-04-11 16:34:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
New Zealand food and drink producer Kono is to launch its cider brand Tutu in California.
Tutu, Klein and Chomsky call for mass climate action ahead of Paris conference
2015-08-26 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Desmond Tutu, Vivienne Westwood, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky are among a group of high-profile figures who will issue a mass call to action on Thursday ahead of the UNs crunch climate change conference in Paris in December. They call for mass mobilisation on the scale of the slavery abolition and anti-apartheid movements to trigger a great historical shift. Their statement, published in the book Stop Climate Crimes, reads: We are at a crossroads. We do not want to be compelled to survive...
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Desmond Tutu: Nobody should profit from climate change suffering
2014-09-21 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: In an impassioned plea for action on climate change, the Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called for an apartheid-style boycott of fossil fuel firms. In an article written for the Observer ahead of a crucial UN climate summit Tutu, a leader of the campaign that defeated apartheid in South Africa, calls on world leaders to curb greenhouse gas emissions But to build a populist campaign pressuring politicians to do so, Tutu urges investors to ditch their holdings in the fossil fuel companies...
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Desmond Tutu calls for tactics that beat apartheid to be used in climate fight
2014-09-21 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Desmond Tutu, the Nobel peace prize winner and activist, has called for an international campaign to boycott mining companies, oil corporations and other businesses involved in the trade of fossil fuels. Writing exclusively in the Observer prior to this week's UN climate summit in New York, Tutu says the same approach that was taken by the 1980s anti-apartheid campaign, of which he was a leader, should now be adopted in the battle to halt global warming. "The most devastating effects of climate...
Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change global enemy
2014-09-21 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth. As a species, we have endured world wars, epidemics, famine, slavery, apartheid and many other hideous consequences of religious, class, race, gender and ideological intolerance. People are extraordinarily resilient. The Earth has proven pretty resilient, too. It's managed to absorb most of what's been thrown at it since the industrial revolution and the invention of the internal combustion engine....
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