Posted By:  ISWI Posted On:  Sep 12, 2008	ISFiT 2009 in Trondheim, Norway
Dear fellow students, Do you want to change the world for the better? Do you want to share your opinions with other students from around the world? Are you ready for a challenge and an experience which you'll never forget? Then apply for ISFiT 2009! We would like to remind all students who...... [view]

Posted By:  rstrivedi Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	LCA Day 5: Parts 3 & 4
Concerning finance, the same issues surrounding sources, methodologies, recipients, insurance mechanisms, and governing bodies arose. As far as sources are concerned, Norway's proposal to auction off AAU's (assigned amount units, 1 = 1 tonne carbon dioxide emissions, the things Kyoto Protocol...... [view]

Posted By:  rstrivedi Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	LCA Day 5: Part 2
Things were certainly better in the adaptation session of yesterday's LCA, with three concrete proposals from major groups: 1. The EU outlined possible elements of a Copenhagen deal which included integration of adaptation into national decision making and planning, the scaling up of resources...... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers Posted On:  Jul 10, 2008	What Would Norway Do?
Over the past 141 years or so, Canada has been comparing itself somewhat compulsively with the two on-again, off-again world superpowers of the United Kingdom and the United States.  It makes sense, I suppose.  One’s our founder, one’s our neighbour.  One brought us our...... [view]

Posted By:  ReillyY Posted On:  Jul 10, 2008	What Would Norway Do?
Over the past 141 years or so, Canada has been comparing itself somewhat compulsively with the two on-again, off-again world superpowers of the United Kingdom and the United States.  It makes sense, I suppose.  One’s our founder, one’s our neighbour.  One brought us our...... [view]

Posted By:  ReillyY Posted On:  Jul 4, 2008	Canada Needs a Consensus on Carbon: CCCE
I’ve never been a big fan of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives , but you’ve got to admit - if they that something is good for business, chances are it’s good for business. So when CCCE head Thomas d’Aquino suggests that Canada needs to get its act together...... [view]

Posted By:  justloy Posted On:  Oct 23, 2007	Uniting for Children in Norway
A New World Record in fundraising has been broken in Norway. On a chilly Sunday of October 21, about $40 million was raised for children affected by HIV/AIDS. Norway, home to the world’s largest fund-raisers, witnessed an event, known in Norway as TV-aksjonen (TV Gala) - the most trusted...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Oct 13, 2007	Convenient untruths: Al Gore’s 9 Lies on climate change
Al Gore, the self-made poster boy for the OMG global warming! Movement has to face some ‘inconvenient truths’ himself, when a British high court judge ruled that some ‘truths’ in Gore’s Oscar winning documentary are actually convenient lies. From the BBC : The judge said nine...... [view]

Posted By:  sunflowerluv Posted On:  Feb 23, 2007	ISFiT day 1
Bucharest - Amsterdam - Trondheim At the Airport in Amsterdam I met Thom (Vietnam) and Nisha (India) first and then our ISFiT group became bigger and bigger, until more than half of the people on the plane to Trondheim were ISFiTers :) View of Amsterdam from the plane Before landing in Trondheim...... [view]

Posted By:  sunflowerluv Posted On:  Feb 23, 2007	ISFiT day 2
Workshop 15 - Global Boundaries First group work - Establishing values and rules for our workshop Kiet (Vietnam), Stefan (Austria), Afrodita (Kosovo), Gabby (me), Ahmed (Tajikistan) Opening Ceremony of ISFiT 2007 Party @Samfundet Latino friends + Tamas from Hungary... [view]

Posted By:  sunflowerluv Posted On:  Feb 23, 2007	ISFiT day 3
Dinner at the University (NTNU)... [view]