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1、Call for a Climate Culture Shift (Robert Costanza) The seven paragraphExamples include the transition town movement ,spearheaded by the charity Transition Network in Totnes, UK, which aims to help communities reduce their carbon emissions; (这样的事例包括由英国托特尼斯镇转型运动慈 善机构带动的城镇转型运动，它的目的在于帮助 社区减少他们的碳排放。)Tran
2、sition Towns (also known as Transition network or Transition Movement) is a grassroots network of communities that are working to build resilience in response to peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability. （转型城镇（也称转型网络或转型运动）是一 个基层的网络社区，致力于建立应对石油峰值 ，气候破坏和经济的不稳定的应变能力。）The “sustainable cit
3、ies” effort based in Vancouver, Canada, which supports urban sustainability projects worldwide; （总部在加拿大温哥华的“创建可持续发展 城市”的运动在全世界范围内提倡可持续 发展城市的计划。）The eight paragraphuOther indicators of this shift include the thousands of organizations that are devoted to restoring the environment and fostering social
4、 justice, as described by Paul Hawken in his 2007 book Blessed Unrest(Viking). （其他关于这种转变 的现象包括那些成千上万 致力于保护环 境和维护 社会公正的组织 ，正如 保罗霍肯在他2007出版的看不见的力量一 书中所描述的一样。）Main idea: How The Largest Movement In The Word Came Into Bing, and Why No One Saw It Coming A leading environmentalist and social activists exa
5、mination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental changePaul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the
6、largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of pe
7、oples needs worldwide.Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries. A culmination of Hawkens many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire and delight a
8、ny and all who despair of the worlds fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself. Fundamentally, it is a description of humanitys collective genius, and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another.uAnd a French governmen
9、t commission, set up in 2008 to assess economic performance, is one of many attempts to account for the limitations of the gross domestic product as a measure of social progress.（2008年建立的用来评估经济表现的一个法国 政府委员会是很多尝试解释限制本国产品增长 可以作为社会进步的一种度量的组织之一。）uSuch examples are evidence of the growing global dialogue on providing real solutions to the problem of building a sustainable and desirable future. （这类事例都可以作为日益增长的全球对话的 证据，这些全球对话是关于为创建一个可持续 的、令人满意的未来提供实际解决办法的。）
