With the December UN climate change conference in Copenhagen quickly approaching, it was suggested to me that it might be appropriate take a thread of ethical fashion and start sewing a climate change patchwork.
My name is Trina. I’m a fairly recent recruit to Three Things. Having been drawn by its original and rather novel way of creating awareness of social issues, it’s now my turn to contribute and a particular area of interest is climate-induced displacement and the world's response.
By way of introduction, climate-induced displacement is the phenomenon that’s occurring worldwide. Rising sea-levels, coastal erosion and freak weather patterns are all consequences of climate-change. But what’s not so obvious is that slowly but surely, whole islands are sinking as waters rise. Sometimes, as in the case of the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea, this can leave a whole people homeless.
It's really happening all over the world. Flooding streets in Mumbai, for example, are just a small sign of things to come (this is a photo I shot recently in Mumbai). It's definitely a problem that belongs to the world. Check this out: http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=881
three things will be a great forum to keep up-to-date with the climate change developments in the world and to look at creative things fashion-designers and all other people are doing to take Ethical Living to the next level!
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Just a quick comment...this blog doesn't seem to want to open and work with Safari, the primary browser for Macs.
I had to open it in Mozilla.
It seems to be a problem caused by one of the widgets in the sidebar, but am not sure which.
A bit of a bummer for me, as I'm a Safari user. But you might be losing a fair percentage of viewers/readers, if the problem isn't just safari, and affects other browsers as well.
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