References

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Articles

Bill Liao at COP15

Greenhouse gases aren't the only things driving global warming by Brian Stone

One of the biggest questions in climate sensitivity has been the role of low-level cloud cover. Low-altitude clouds reflect some of the sun's radiation back into the atmosphere, cooling the earth - read the article

Articles on how particles make clouds:-

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080228174801.htm
http://www.livescience.com/environment/090519-bio-clouds.html
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080228-microbes-clouds.html

The average cooking fire produces about as much carbon dioxide as a car, and a great deal more soot, or black carbon. Cleaning up these emissions may be the fastest, cheapest way to cool the planet - read the article

A fair deal for forest people working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities - read the article

One man initiates almost one billion trees planted in one day, a world record! - read the article

Scientists discover 'rain-making' bacteria - implications for agriculture, climate - read the article

Cotton, W and Pielke, R. Human Impacts on Weather and Climate. Cambridge University Press. 1995 - read more

Mollison, B. Trees: Guardians of the Earth, Permaculture Journal, Issue No. 28, Feb/¬April 1988 - read more

Videos

Watch a presentation about WeForest

TED presentation - Willie Smits restores a rainforest

In Transition 1.0

Girl Effect

Books

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared M. Diamond  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond, 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

Le populisme climatique, Claude Allègre et Cie, enquête sur les ennemis de la science
Stéphane Foucart
http://larecherche.typepad.fr/le_blog_des_livres/2010/11/le-populisme-climatique.html

Stone Soup: The Secret Recipe for Making Something from Nothing, Bill Liao http://www.stonesoupway.com/about-bill.php

COSECHA: Successes and Failures in Honduras, Roland Bunch 1998
http://srdis.ciesin.columbia.edu/cases/honduras-007.html

Two Ears of Corn: A Guide to People-Centered Agricultural Improvement, Roland Bunch http://www.amazon.com/Two-Ears-Corn-People-Centered-Agricultural/dp/0942716035

"Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate" by William F. Ruddiman; Princeton University Press (2005); ISBN: 0691121648
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8014.html

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth,  Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press) 2006
http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Makers-Changing-Climate-Means/dp/0871139359