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面白法人カヤック. The man who turned his home into a public library. 19 September 2012Last updated at 20:24 ET By Kate McGeown BBC News, Manila If you put all the books you own on the street outside your house, you might expect them to disappear in a trice.

The man who turned his home into a public library

But one man in Manila tried it - and found that his collection grew. Hernando Guanlao is a sprightly man in his early 60s, with one abiding passion - books. Climate change: What price will future generations pay? Climate change poses a huge barrier to a fulfilling future, argues Lord Puttnam, an ambassador for Unicef UK.

Climate change: What price will future generations pay?

In this week's Green Room, he asks what price children will have to pay for three or four carbon-happy generations? When world leaders sit round the table in Copenhagen next month to try and tackle what has become possibly the greatest moral crisis of my generation, a unique responsibility rests on their shoulders as they try to decide what kind of world future generations will inherit. What price will children have to pay for the three or four carbon-happy generations that have lived before them? Lessons Worth Sharing. Future.