What the (bleep) is the Green Economy?

greenforall

Uploaded on Jun 15, 2011

This educational video is great for introducing the different ways in which we can create green cities that create jobs and make our communities healthier

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Clean Water Strong Communities

greenforall

Published on Apr 14, 2014

Water utilities are investing millions, even billions, to clean up our water.
Yet our water infrastructure is essentially invisible and its value often
goes unnoticed by consumers and ratepayers. Community benefit strategies and green infrastructure help water utilities translate the value of their work and in the process they make our communities stronger.

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Building the Green Economy: Green Water Infrastructure

greenforall

Uploaded on May 26, 2011

Water will be a defining environmental issue for many years to come. Find out how we can address this issue head-on and create thousands of good jobs in the process with the latest in our “Building the Green Economy” series about Water and water infrastructure.

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Green The Church – A Green For All initiative

greenforall

Published on Nov 10, 2014

Green The Church (GTC) is an initiative designed to tap into the power and purpose in the Black Church community to explore and help expand the role of churches as centers for environmental and economic resilience. Developed in partnership with Carroll Ministries and Pastor Ambrose Carroll (a Green For All Fellow), GTC will work to empower church leadership and lay people to develop practical solutions to economic and environmental issues in the Black community.

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Net Neutrality protesters blockade FCC chairman’s house

RT America

Published on Nov 10, 2014

Protesters took their efforts to ensure net neutrality straight to the door of Federal Communications Commission head Thom Wheeler. While unfurling a banner that read “Save the Internet,” the group told the chairman that he would not be permitted to go to work until he began working for the people. RT’s Manila Chan takes a look.

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Lifecycle assessment of environmental impact & costs of bottled water consumption in Beirut

American University of Beirut

Published on Nov 7, 2014

The usage of drinking bottled water instead of clean tap water would cause an environmental problem in the city of Beirut that is: the change in the quality or quantity of any environmental factor will induce a negative impact on the health and well-being of a man. Our project seeks to obtain a clear overview of the real cost of using plastic bottles from an environmental and economic point of view, afterwhich an alternative for safer drinking water is proposed.

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ECOHOME

American University of Beirut

Published on Nov 7, 2014

The main objective of this project is to design, implement, and test a cheap, light, and easy to manufacture vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) capable of providing electric power for domestic use. The VAWT should be able to operate under low wind speeds typical in Lebanon.

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Towards a Roadmap for Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region

American University of Beirut

Published on Nov 10, 2014

The Issam Fares Institute’s Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World Program and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung recently held an International Experts Meeting entitled:
Towards a Roadmap for Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region

The International Experts Meeting covered a wide range of different topics connected to the concept of sustainable cities and addressed vital issues such as sustainable transportation and mobility, climate change and resilience, and urban policies and governance. The core aim was to shed light on the need for behavioral change on all levels of urban planning in order to bring about sustainable cities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

General themes included:
Governance, Policies and Behavioral Change: Top-Bottom or Bottom-Up Approach
Socio-Economic Impacts of Sustainable and Smart Cities
Sustainable Planning for Cities of Different Scales
Which Sustainable Transportation or Smart Mobility Concepts for MENA countries? Sustainable Cities and Climate Change – Building Resilience and the New Urban Nexus
The Citizen and the City:
Environmental Inclusion, Equity, and Public Spaces

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The Issam Fares Institute’s Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World Program and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung recently held an International Experts Meeting entitled:
Towards a Roadmap for Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region

The International Experts Meeting covered a wide range of different topics connected to the concept of sustainable cities and addressed vital issues such as sustainable transportation and mobility, climate change and resilience, and urban policies and governance. The core aim was to shed light on the need for behavioral change on all levels of urban planning in order to bring about sustainable cities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

General themes included:
Governance, Policies and Behavioral Change: Top-Bottom or Bottom-Up Approach
Socio-Economic Impacts of Sustainable and Smart Cities
Sustainable Planning for Cities of Different Scales
Which Sustainable Transportation or Smart Mobility Concepts for MENA countries? Sustainable Cities and Climate Change – Building Resilience and the New Urban Nexus
The Citizen and the City:
Environmental Inclusion, Equity, and Public Spaces

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Nova: Permian Extinction

greenmanbucket

Uploaded on Jan 27, 2011

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Ebola Breakout from the Hot Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yzWgfnj8eY
Yale University

Published on Nov 10, 2014

Richard Preston has written nine books, including The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, and The Wild Trees. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and most of them have first appeared as articles in The New Yorker. Preston has won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award. He’s also the only person not a medical doctor ever to receive the Centers for Disease Control’s Champion of Prevention Award for public health. An asteroid is named “Preston” after him. (Asteroid Preston is a ball of rock three miles in diameter, traveling on a wild orbit near Mars.)

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