Tip: Emotional Well-Being = ability to understand range of feelings at "any" given time & to know how to manage it to live a life in full as possible

"The main component of the "Your Good Self" programme is the bibliotherapy scheme. Bibliotherapy is the use of reading materials for therapeutic purposes. Bibliotherapy or healthy reading schemes are well established in the U.K. and Irish schemes include "Mind Yourself" in Wexford and "The Power of Words" in Dublin."Book in to your emotions at Mallow library - News - Corkman.ie:

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Ways to Mitigate Climate Change: "Imagine you no longer have monthly utility bills, instead you get your electricity from solar shingles on your roof"

...or imagine pulling into a gas station, but it no longer sells gasoline. Instead, you can top off your car with electricity, hydrogen, biofuels, whatever. To those of you who already have solar panels on your roofs or an electric car in the garage, this may not sound so far-fetched. For the rest of us, this is the future. Let's talk about the year 2050 as imagined by my next guest. He says we can quit using oil and coal to power our country by 2050 and not just for the health of the environment but for national security, creating jobs, and saving money, motivations that he says transcend politics. But is this really possible? Is it reasonable to expect politicians, automakers and big oil and coal to innovate and disrupt, quote, business as usual? How is all this stuff going to get done and save or create jobs? Those answers are all in my next guest's book, "Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era." Amory Lovins is author of this book. He is co-founder, chairman and chief scientist at Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colorado. Reinventing Fire: Getting Beyond Fossil Fuels : NPR: " (click link to read full transcript)

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Update: World governments and aid agencies should prepare to help the world's poorest to move away from areas most affected by climate change

Environmental change would affect the world's poorest the most, and millions would be forced to abandon sterile farmland and migrate to areas less affected by the problem.

The Migration and Global Environmental Change Foresight Report studied the effect flooding, drought and rising sea levels caused by climate change would have on human migration patterns over the next 50 years, the BBC reported Wednesday. Three-quarters of this migration would be within national borders, it said, predominantly from rural to urban areas. Unless such migration is properly managed it could lead to widespread humanitarian disasters, the report authors said.

"[These people] will be trapped in dangerous conditions and unable to be moved to safety," the British government's chief scientist, Professor Sir John Beddington, said."

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