Published on Feb 3, 2014
Jane Lubchenco, former NOAA administrator, discusses using satellites to monitor weather patterns.
This program was recorded in front of a live audience on December 11, 2013.
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Published on Feb 3, 2014
The U.S. stock market had its worst day in more than seven months, and the Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 320 points, as reports of sluggish U.S. growth added to worries about the global economy. (Feb. 3)
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Published on Feb 3, 2014
Wenonah Hauter focuses our attention on three risks to our food system: treating meat with chemical baths, using antibiotics in meat production and a new policy that would permit companies to sue the government for imposing “trade barriers”. Wenonah is the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on food, water, energy, and environmental issues at the national, state and local level. Her book Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America examines the corporate consolidation and control over our food system and what it means for farmers and consumers.
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Published on Feb 3, 2014
Thom Hartmann talks with Congressman Alan Grayson, U.S. Congressman (D-FL, 9th district) Website: http://grayson.house.gov/, about fast track and the TPP.
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Published on May 13, 2013
Scientists are warning the planet has now reached a grim climate milestone not seen for two or three million years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 400 parts per million. The 400 ppm threshold has been an important marker in U.N. climate change negotiations, widely recognized as a dangerous level that could drastically worsen human-caused global warming.
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Published on Feb 3, 2014
“Like it or not, fossil fuel is the largest part of our portfolio for energy,” said California State Senator Jean Fuller when asked about fracking during a drought. Senator Fuller discusses how fracking in California is different than in other areas – it uses less water than most, and 80% of fracked wells in California are not over the water table.
Speakers:
Jean Fuller, California State Senator
Lois Wolk, California State Senator
Matt Weiser, Senior Writer, The Sacramento Bee
This program was recorded in front of a live audience on January 10, 2014.
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Published on Sep 12, 2013
This is one of the most powerful, important and timely talks I have ever seen and that’s obviously why it isn’t to be found anywhere online – not even on the ABC-TV website – especially not before the federal election. I was so fortunate to be watching that day and to hit the record button.
Bill was in Australia promoting his amazing doco Do The Math – “If the fossil fuel corporations carry out their business plan – the planet tanks”. Watch the trailer for Do The Math here http://youtu.be/-zfinOCgRQ0
The movie is going to be on TV! Do The Math is going to be broadcast to millions of homes all across the US on Al Jazeera America on September 22nd, so they’ve had to remove the public videos of the film from websites. To gain access to the movie right now go here http://act.350.org/signup/math-movie/ and sign up and agree not to publicly distribute it.
The great thing about the Press Club talk is that it’s in an Australian context with local content (and jokes). I can’t recommend this highly enough. This talk and the movie are what have set me on my current path. I hope after watching this 60 minute talk and the 45 minute movie that you (and the millions across the US and the world) will make immediate and drastic changes in your daily lives.
This is NO LONGER ‘business as usual’. In fact – business IS the problem. We are the problem for being good little robot consumer slaves feeding these madmen – corporate and government beasts set to kill us and Gaia.
We need immediate change NOW. One more day of mindless buying and selling KNOWING the truth – and we are just as responsible as the beast itself. This summary below about Do The Math is staggering and I pray – you stagger – away from doing business as usual and unplug. Take the Red Pill. NOW!!
“It’s simple math: we can emit 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The only problem? Burning the fossil fuel that corporations now have in their reserves would result in emitting 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide — five times the safe amount.
Fossil fuel companies are planning to burn it all — unless we rise up to stop them.”
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Published on Feb 3, 2014
Matt Weiser, senior writer for The Sacramento Bee discusses California’s water usage in a time of severe drought. “If the drought continues, San Juan Water District is going to adapt a stage 5 drought plan which is the most severe category they have. […] that will mean mandatory no outdoor watering, 50% conservation in all your water use, no new hook ups to the water system.”
Speakers:
Matt Weiser, Senior Writer, The Sacramento Bee
Lois Wolk, California State Senator
Jean Fuller, California State Senator
This program was recorded in front of a live audience on January 10, 2014.
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http://www.democracynow.org – Three environmentalists have just been convicted for their role in nonviolently protesting the construction of tar sands pipelines in Michigan. Last summer, they tied themselves to excavators at an Enbridge Inc. construction site to stall work on a pipeline that had ruptured in 2010 and dumped about 800,000 gallons of crude oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. On Friday, the protesters
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