About Us and How This Site Can Work For You
  December 17, 2008      

ALAN BURNS Alan graduated from  Lancaster University (England) in 1979 majoring in social studies and international relations. He has been a long-time peace and environmental activist and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with wife Liz and has three children aged between 19 and 27. His concern for climate change and the future prospects for the planet led him to develop this web site. His degree is in Education. Alan moved to the USA in 1984 after living in Scotland, France and Israel.

BECKY BURNS Becky has a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master’s in Biology from Winthrop University (South Carolina).  She conducted her thesis research on the effects of global warming on salt marshes. She commenced a job in Florida (March 2009) dealing with Everglades restoration. Becky has traveled extensively in Europe as well as spending a semester abroad in New Zealand.

Alan & Becky (not related) have worked on bringing this web site to fruition over a two year period while researching climate change. There are countless thousands of web sites addressing the multitude of issues that surround climate change, or global warming. That’s the problem. No one site brings them together in a fashion that can be easily explored without being over-informed or confused by graphs – and ads. Thinkglobalgreen.org aims to collect and make accessible the many issues associated with global warming.  Thinkglobalgreen.org is designed with students in mind - students in high schools and colleges and students outside the classroom who regard as essential current information on climate change.

It is almost universally accepted that greenhouse gases are threatening the planet, and that we must as a world-wide community take action to address the causes and antidotes. As the word “accelerating” has been increasingly applied to the problem over recent years, many scientists are now seeing a tipping point arriving within the decade: this demands our attention now!

Of the many published positions on the warming of our planet, we are partial to those generated from academic and scientific communities. To us, many positions from coal and oil industry sources are agenda-driven and self-serving and do not reveal the whole truth. However, if some positions from these sources have merit, they will be included here. We aim to keep the site current and will have weekly updates with news items from around the world.

Why We Feel You Must be Involved

It is today’s generation of young people who will bear the results of whatever actions are, or are not, taken over the next few years. With one estimate of a tipping point being forecast for December 2016, this is not so far off. This may well mean sacrifices and lifestyle changes, but the last eight years have adversely changed many people’s lives already despite no appeal for sacrifice. The next four years offer possibilities if everyone does his/her part. It will take individual and government initiatives. It will also take grassroots activity in our neighborhoods and communities. And this is why it’s vitally important that we be well informed, the goal of thinkglobalgreen.org. 

                            We end with three quotes which we hope will inspire.
      

"You’re going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet." * 

Helen Caldicott (Australian physician, author and anti-nuclear advocate)

*used with permission for www.thinkglobalgreen.org