Join the biggest youth climate summit the Pacific has ever seen! Power Shift will be part conference, part festival, part workshop and part celebration of the power of 1000 young people to change the world. From 7-9 December 2012, we’re inviting 1000 students, community organisers, young professionals and emerging leaders from across the Pacific region to converge in Auckland for the first ever Power Shift NZ-Pacific. Over the 3 day summit, we’ll engage with climate change solutions, hear from inspirational speakers...
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September, 25 2012 • • 0 Faves
By Alejandra Jensen Tell Them (extract from the poem) by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner …tell them about the water how we have seen it rising flooding across our cemeteries gushing over our sea walls and crashing against our homes tell them what it’s like to see the entire ocean level with the land tell them we are afraid tell them we don’t know of the politics or the science but tell them we see what is in our own backyard tell them that some of us are old fishermen who believe that...
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June, 26 2012 • • 1 Faves
One of our heroes, Ambassador Marlene Moses of Nauru (here she is, at Right, at one of our events in South Africa), has just written a piece on Huffington Post about the Rio Summit and how little is spoken about climate change in the official documents. In it she referred to how infrequently climate change is referenced, such that it is almost a "silent motivator." We stand with Ambassador Moses and all those converging on Rio--these global summits can be great opportunities--but only with a popular outcry accompanying...
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June, 14 2012 • • 0 Faves
By: Chelsea Rae Hundreds of people fled sweeping flood waters and raging rivers, for the second time in three months, as torrential downpours and cyclonic winds swept a devastating path across the...
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May, 24 2012 • • 2 Faves
Betty experienced the recent floodings in the Western Divisions of Fiji firsthand. Betty not only has Climate Change advocacy at heart but her recent experiences have enabled her to share her knowledge...
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May, 2 2012 • • 0 Faves
350 Pacific's Kelvin Anthony (from Fiji) interviews local 350 Nauru organiser extraordinaire, Ann Hubert. It was a rainy, freezing Fijian evening, about eight months ago when I made a friend – at a...
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March, 21 2012 • • 0 Faves
This month, 350 Pacific is launching a new story-telling initiative - where each month we'll be putting the spotlight on a different Pacific Island nation. We'll provide updates of current and future...
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March, 20 2012 • • 0 Faves
"Mic check", "MIC CHECK"!! Hundreds of people gathered in the united youth civil society organisations rally in the main lobby area of the International Convention Centre, home to the climate change...
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December, 10 2011 • • 0 Faves
We have more to come so keep your eyes peel to this site. ka kite ra
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December, 9 2011 • • 0 Faves