Limited special offer: 100 Places Before The Disappear books, cards, posters
To celebrate their new website and the campaign launch the initiative “100 Places To Remember Before The Disappear” offers reduced prices on all books, posters and postcards in their web shop. From now until September 12, 2009 (!) you can buy all items in the web shop at 20% off the normal price.
That means e.g. the English hardcover edition of the the amazing book “100 Places To Remember Before The Disappear” (details see below) including a story by Dave Stewart is gonna cost only 43,20 Euro instead of 54,00 Euro.
All you have to do is to enter in the code: “FB100″ during the payment transaction.
For your purchase please go to: http://www.100places.com/shop/
“100 Places To Remember Before The Disappear”
Book, hardback, English
* 100 unique photographs
* 100 captivating stories
* Background chapters about climate change and its consequences
* Foreword by Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of IPCC, UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Based on the latest reports from the IPCC the editorial team behind the book has selected 100 very special places around the world, that might disappear or be heavily hit by climate change due to global warming. In his foreword Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, who in 2007 received the Nobel Peace Price on behalf of UN’s Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change, says: “By…highlighting 100 places that the world holds dear, this whole project is turning the attention to something that hopefully will bring about decitions that might actually protect these beautiful, valuable and precious places on Earth.”
Besides 100 unique and beautiful pictures the book features 100 short and precise captions telling the stories of the places, and how climate change can affect them. A number of ambassadors of the project give in the book their personal impression and experience of climate change. Among these are former Archbishop Desmond Tutu, actress Connie Nielsen. singer-songwriter Joss Stone, Australian minister of environment and former lead-singer in the band Midnight Oil Peter Garrett and singer and producer of The Eurythmics Dave Stewart.
The book also features e number of chapters clarifying the problematics of climate change and what we can do about it. Among the authors of these are professor Katherine Richardson, University of Copenhagen, Achim Steiner, director of UNEP (UN’s Environmental Program) and Javier Solana, the “foreign minister” of the European Union. Javier Solana says: “This book, ‘100 Places to remember before they Disappear’ remind us of what is at stake. We need to take action now.”
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