Indigenous Canadians demand government action

E120, e145

4 Years Ago Could You’ve Imagined We’d Let Banks Off Laundering Money For Terrorists & Drug Cartels?

E120, e145,

Talk to Al Jazeera – Noam Chomsky: The responsibility of privilege

AlJazeeraEnglish

Published on Jan 12, 2013

Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky remains as vigorous as ever at the age of 84. His popularity – or notoriety as some would say – endures because he is still criticising politicians, business leaders and other powerful figures for not acting in the public’s best interest. At the heart of Chomsky’s work is examining the ways elites use their power to control millions of people, and pushing the public to resist. In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Noam Chomsky sits down with Rosiland Jordan to talk about the two main tracks of his life: research and political activism.

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Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

Farmers demand an appeal in Monsanto GMO case

RTAmerica

Published on Jan 11, 2013

Back in 2011, 83 plaintiffs united in lawsuit against the bio-tech giant Monsanto. The farmers fear that Monsanto seeds would make their way to their farmers in which their livelihoods would be at risk due to patent infringement. The case which was shot down by a New York District court, but on Friday oral arguments are being heard by an appeals courting in Washington, DC. So do the plaintiffs stand a chance against Monsanto? Dave Murphy, executive director for Food Democracy Now, explains.

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The Oil Industry is the Enemy (with Bill McKibben)

SamSeder

Published on Nov 30, 2012

Bill McKibben explained the Do the Math tour, the new evolution of climate activism, the fossil fuel divestment movement, the good news from Germany, why global climate talks are irrelevant until we break the power of the fossil fuel industry and what’s coming next.

This clip from the Majority Report, live M-F at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM

Global Climate Change http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre130
Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

Bill C 257- Is a Only a Small Win. WE MUST BAN GMO’s!

FrankieGotz

Published on Dec 17, 2012

new bill (Bill C-257) has been introduced by the NDP-Alex Atamanenko, MP for BC’s Southern Interior and the Agriculture Critic.

Genetically modifying has gotten completely out of control! There are companies that GM stingrays to make personalized shoes out of, in Korea they cloned GM cats that glow in the dark and there is even GM salmon for eating consumption.

In all I agree we need to label GMO foods because it is vital to us to maintain optimal health but it is a small win. We have to BAN GMO’s all together! We should not just settle for ‘labelling’ them.

http://canadianawareness.org/2012/12/gmo-foods-bill-c-257-is-a-small-win/

A World According to Monsanto:
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McKibben vs. Epstein Debate on Fossil Fuels — Full Audio – YouTube

ImproveThePlanet

Published on Nov 8, 2012

Bill McKibben and Alex Epstein square off on fossil fuels — do they make the planet a worse place to live or a better place to live?

Global Climate Change http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre130
Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145
Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120

Clinton Foundation — 2013 Health Matters Conference

http://www.clintonfoundation.org/resources/hm2013.html?utm_campaign=HealthMatters&utm_medium=email&utm_source=011113HealthMatters

We invite you to participate in this year’s Health Matters: Activating Wellness in Every Generation conference on Tuesday, January 15, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. PST. President Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and leading health and wellness advocates from around the world will identify strategies to promote and improve individual healthy lifestyles in the home, the community and the workplace. Watch the panel discussions live, learn more about making health a priority in your own life and community, and join the conversation.

• RSVP to watch the conference live webcast and view the full conference agenda. • Follow the conference panel discussionson on Twitter using the hashtag #HealthMatters2013 and submit your questions for panelists to @ClintonTweet. • Follow conference conference highlights on President Clinton’s Facebook page and the Clinton Foundation Instagram. • Have you tested your health and wellness knowledge yet? Take our quiz. • After last year’s Health Matters conference, Beth Oden left feeling inspired and made a pledge to improve her own health and the health of others. Read Beth’s pledge.

We hope this conference inspires you to take charge of your health and contribute to the health of others. For more information on the conference and the Clinton Health Matters Initiative visit us online at www.clintonfoundation.org and www.clintonhealthmatters.org.Thanks,The Clinton Foundation

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HSPH to launch second public health course on edX

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/edx-hsph-overview/
January 2, 2013 – Harvard School of Public Health’s new online course, “Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical and Public Health Research,” an introduction to biostatistics and epidemiology, has drawn 53,857 students from all over the world. The three-month course, which began in October 2012, was one of the first two courses offered by Harvard through edX, the online education platform launched last May by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since May, four other institutions—the University of California Berkeley, the University of Texas System, Wellesley College, and Georgetown University—have joined Harvard and MIT in edX.

New HarvardX courses being offered in spring 2013 include HSPH’s second public health course, Human Health and Global Environmental Change, co-taught by Aaron Bernstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at HSPH, and John Spengler, director of the Center and Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Department of Environmental Health. In addition, HarvardX will offer courses on Greek literature, justice, computer science.

Visit the main edX site

Learn more about how edX works, and explore all the free courses being offered by participating universities.

For further information: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/edx-hsph-overview/ and about online teaching more generally:
https://www.edx.org/press

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Food-Matters http://Food-Matters.TV