Daily Archives: October 25, 2013

Meet The Farmer: Beneficial Insects

E120, food-matters

24 Hours of Reality: Closing

E130,

Monsanto denies link between GMOs and cancer, birth defects in Argentina

E120, food-matters,
E145

Bioneers: Biomimicry – Emulating Life’s Genius and Grace

E120,

7.1 Earthquake Hits Fukushima Region In Japan

E120, nuclear,

Breaking New Ground: A Personal History | Cambridge Forum | Lester Brown

http://www.cambridgeforum.org/?p=1923

First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts Avenue at Church Street

October 30, 2013 @ 7pm

Grass-roots-BrownCCTV – EV&N – 133
20 October 2013

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

Tar Sands Oil Extraction – The Dirty Truth

SustainableGuidance

Uploaded on Apr 27, 2011

Environmental devastation of the land, water, and air – the largest industrial energy project in the world is extracting crude oil from bitumen found beneath the pristine boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. Effecting a land mass equivalent in size to Florida or England, Both industry and government are putting money before the health and security of its people and the environment.

Tar sands take 3 barrels of water to process every barrel of oil extracted. Ninety percent of this water becomes so toxic that it must be stored in tailing ponds. Unfortunately these ponds regularly leach pollution into the third largest watershed in the world.

Water depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination has become one of the most important issues facing humanity this century. Check out my other video on water issues: and see my other videos to learn about the dark side of fossil fuels.

To learn more about tar sands, be sure to check out the featured film sources listed below. Find out more about what you can do and how to support the film makers.

Crude Sacrifice
http://www.crudesacrifice.com/

Dirty Oil (available to watch online)

Downstream — (available to watch online)
http://www.babelgum.com/3015242/downs…

H2Oil
http://h2oildoc.com/home/

Petropolis
http://www.petropolis-film.com/

Check out a new promising technology to eliminate tailing ponds:
http://www.gizmag.com/ionic-liquids-u…

Tar sands development can be minimized by blocking development of pipelines, such as Keystone XL, that carry the sludge of this incredibly polluting energy project. Tell Canada to clean up this mess and join with Bill McKibben and Josh Fox and let your voice be heard.

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

Dirty Oil – Trailer

dogwoof

Uploaded on Feb 24, 2010

http://dirtyoil.co.uk/

Dirty Oil goes behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and toxic Tar Sands deposit supplies the U.S. with the majority of its oil. Through the eyes of scientists, big oil officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists, and aboriginal citizens directly impacted by the largest industrial project on the planet today, the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to see the emotional and irreversible toll this black gold rush fueled by Americas addiction to oil is taking on our planet.

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

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Discusses Climate Change


PBS NewsHour

Published on Oct 24, 2013

Judy Woodruff spoke with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy about Congress, the President and the agency’s difficulties regulating activities that affect climate change.

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

EPA chief on maintaining a ‘diverse energy mix’ for America

PBS NewsHour

Published on Oct 24, 2013

In June, the Obama administration called for new pollution standards for power plants, and the new EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, has followed through with a proposal for new rules. Ray Suarez reports on pushback from the coal industry, while Judy Woodruff talks to McCarthy about pollution and energy priorities.

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