Second Global Coherence Initiative Sensor Site Installed in Saudi Arabia

Global Coherence Initiative is a NextNowCollab collaboration.  The news about the Saudi Arabia site is a major development for the project, and we’re excited to reprint it here.  For more information, contact Claudia Welss, GCI Steering Committee and Director of Strategic Partnerships: claudia(at)glcoherence.org. This past week marked an important milestone for the Global Coherence Initiative, having successfully installed a second GCI Monitoring System Site. GCI Director of Research Rollin McCraty just returned from overseeing the construction of the new sensor site, located near Hofuf in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia–on the opposite side of the planet from our first sensor…

Can’t Pick Up Plastic or Plant Trees for 10-10-10 Global Work Party? You Can Still Make a Contribution

Even if you only have 5 minutes today, it’s not to late to join the 7347 events in 188 countries participating in the 350.org initiated 10-10-10 Global Work Party.  I organized a party to pick up plastic (most of which will be water bottles and food containers, tossed from cars) along a watershed route. NextNowCollab partner Green World Campaign is, as usual, planting trees. (The connection between trees and climate is well known; less when known is the connection between trash (including single-use disposable plastic) and climate.  An Institute for Local Self-Reliance report I found a few years ago when…