Published on Jul 10, 2014
There’s new hope for those who suffer from dengue, a virus characterized by hammering headaches, high fevers and pain. VOA’s Carol Pearson reports about a possible new vaccine reported in The Lancet on July 10, and on other ways to contain this sometimes deadly virus.
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Published on Jul 10, 2014
Exxon Mobil made headlines in early 2014 for saying, “We are confident that none of our hydrocarbon reserves are now or ever will become stranded.” According to Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, “What’s interesting is that that statement came out the same day as the IPCC5 report came out. They came out, like, basically within an hour of each other. And the reason that Exxon said that they don’t see any risks, is because they said, ‘We must uplift the poor and the impoverished and the vulnerable of the world through burning our fossil fuels.'”
Speakers:
Andy Behar, CEO, As You Sow
Lisa Goldberg, Director of Research, Aperio Group; former Director of Research, MSCI
Josh Schein, CEO, Global Key Advisors
This program was recorded before a live audience on June 3, 2014.
http://climate-one.org
http://commonwealthclub.org
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Published on Jul 10, 2014
“We had a housing bubble that I think we all remember in 2008 burst, and there’s concern that assets can be pouring into carbon-rich assets, and these assets could lose their value unexpectedly and suddenly, and investors will be at a loss,” says Lisa Goldberg, Director of Research at Aperio Group. “This is now becoming more and more mainstream in financial conversations and it’s a concern on the mind of some investors.”
Speakers:
Andy Behar, CEO, As You Sow
Lisa Goldberg, Director of Research, Aperio Group; former Director of Research, MSCI
Josh Schein, CEO, Global Key Advisors
This program was recorded before a live audience on June 3, 2014.
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Published on Jul 10, 2014
“One of the advantages that we have in studying impacts on agriculture is that a lot of people have been paying really close attention to how climate affects agriculture for a long time,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, Associate Earth Sciences Professor at Stanford University. Some crops, such as corn and grapes, are very sensitive to severe heat, and the likelihood of severe heat has already increased in many parts of the world.
Speakers:
Noah Diffenbaugh, Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
Rebecca Shaw, Associate Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund
Stephen Bennett, Senior Vice President, Verisk Climate
This program was recorded before a live audience on June 3, 2014.
http://climate-one.org
http://commonwealthclub.org
Food-Matters
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Uploaded on Dec 17, 2011
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
EE Film Festival
EJ Film Festival
Climate Film Festival
Posted in Uncategorized
Published on Apr 13, 2014
CO2 and Methane Hidrates in Climate Change + Fukushima Radiation and Nuclear Power in General + Overpopulation through Exponential Growth = Human Extinction.
3 planetary issues to which the governmental establishments are sticking their heads in the sand, while not sharing all the relevant information through the corporative media, as the solutions for these problems don’t give profit. They actually could collapse the fake economy faster. One thing these issues can result at, and according to Michael Ruppert inevitably, is human extinction.
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Published on Apr 19, 2014
Guy McPherson takes the guts to speak openly to the world about the latest data on climate change and its consequences. Very bad news indeed. According to John Davis and the Arctic Methane Emergency Group, we’ve triggered runaway global warming and human extinction, as well as for many other species, seems certain. We might be extinct by 2040 if we don’t collapse civilization as we know it, now!
Humanity needs, now more than ever, to connect globally around other values than money. What about love, fulfilling human needs of hunger and housing to everyone, quit the stupid wars, corruption and all other sufferance driven by profit.
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Stevens Research & Entrepreneurship
Uploaded on May 3, 2011
On April 27, 2011, Dr. James Hansen received the Green Book Award from the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology. He then gave this lecture, “Facing the Truth About Global Warming.” Learn more: www.stevens.edu/cal/csw
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Uploaded on Feb 18, 2012
“He’s a wealth of knowledge on many key environmental topics, from global warming to peak oil, and he’s an excellent instructor,” said Darlene DeHudy, the MCC Meijer Library and Information Technology Center reference librarian organizing McPherson’s talk in Collegiate Hall. The former professor of natural resources and environment at the University of Arizona will address “The Myth of Sustainability, the Importance of Durability, and a Method for Saving the Planet.”
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Published on Oct 20, 2013
The rate of climate change clearly has gone beyond linear, as indicated by the presence of myriad self-reinforcing feedback loops, and now threatens our species with extinction in the near term. Anthropologist Louise Leakey ponders our near-term demise in her 5 July 2013 assessment at Huffington Post. In the face of near-term human extinction, most Americans view the threat as distant and irrelevant, as illustrated by a 22 April 2013 article in the Washington Post based on poll results that echo the long-held sentiment that elected officials should be focused on the industrial economy, not faraway minor nuisances such as climate change.
This presentation brings attention to recent forecasts and positive feedbacks. Sources of forecasts include the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Hadley Centre for Meteorological Research, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Global Carbon Project, and the Copenhagen Diagnosis. None of these forecasts include selfreinforcing feedback loops, 23 of which have been triggered. Nor do these forecasts include economic collapse, the single phenomenon that might prevent our early demise, according to Tim Garrett’s (2011) paper in Climatic Change, “Are there basic physical constraints on future anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide?”
Guy McPherson was born and raised in the heart of the Aryan Nation, small-town northern Idaho. He first experienced the hair-raising incident of a rifle pointed at the base of his neck when he was ten years old. The person behind the trigger was thirteen.
This episode was so ordinary he didn’t bother to tell his parents for two decades. It simply never came up.
The escape from the benighted village came in the form of education, in large part because McPherson’s parents were lifelong educators. To pay for his undergraduate education, which led to a degree in forestry, McPherson spent summers working on a helitack crew. Staring down a large wildfire at the age of nineteen, he realized some forces of nature are beyond the human ability to manage.
More than ten years into a career in the academic ivory tower, McPherson began focusing his efforts on social criticism, with topics ranging from education and evolution to the twin sides of the fossil-fuel coin: (1) global climate change and (2) energy decline and the attendant economic consequences. His public appearances stress these two predicaments because each of them informs and impacts every aspect of life on Earth.
He also speaks about our individual and societal response to these phenomena, and includes topics such as authenticity, Socratic lives of excellence, and the role and responsibility of our species in the world.
McPherson’s latest chapter includes abandoning his tenured position as full professor at a major research university for ethical reasons. His story is described in his memoir, “Walking Away from Empire.” You can read about that book and his many others at his website: http://guymcpherson.com/
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
Posted in Uncategorized
Transition Studies 