Governors’ Press Conference

Published on Sep 16, 2018

Nonprofits & Activism

Day 2 Highlights – Global Climate Action Summit

Global Climate Action Summit
Published on Sep 16, 2018

Kari Fulton on China’s Green Wall Project

CGTN America
Published on Sep 16, 2018

CGTN’s Wang Guan spoke with Kari Fulton, a Global Environmental Justice Advocate, for more on China’s Green Wall Project.

Super Typhoon MANGKHUT in Hong Kong, China (Sept 16, 2018)

FOBOS PLANET
Published on Sep 16, 2018

Super Typhoon Mangkhut and Flash floods in Hong Kong, China 2018. Scary footage of a devastating typhoon (CAT 2). Typhoon Mangkhut’s fierce winds have torn off roofs and caused partial building collapses in Hong Kong. News Update: Mangkhut rapidly lost organization and strength after landfall over Luzon Island, Philippines on Friday. It dropped from a Catefory 5 super typhoon to a Category 2 typhoon, currently with peak sustained winds of 105 mph (169 km/h). While peak winds have diminished considerably, the Category 2 typhoon is still dangerous, extended torrential rainfall and major flooding is expected along the coastal area.

Scary Super Typhoon Mangkhut Landfall Hong Kong | Mangosteen | OmPong | 香港山竹颱風 實況

Climate State
Published on Sep 16, 2018

The world’s strongest storm this year, Typhoon Mangkhut lashes Hong Kong and mainland China https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/15/as…

W5: What happens when the permafrost thaws?

Official W5
Published on Nov 11, 2017

Almost half of Canada sits on permanently frozen land called permafrost, but climate change is causing it to thaw and erode rapidly. W5’s Avery Haines investigates a looming ecological disaster that poses a threat to the entire world.

Rupert Sheldrake – The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK

revolutionloveevolve
Published on Mar 15, 2013

Books by Rupert Sheldrake:
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (1981). New edition 2009 (in the US published as Morphic Resonance)
The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988)
The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God (1992)
Seven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (1994) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Institute for Social Inventions)
Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Scientific and Medical Network)
The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003)

With Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna:
Trialogues at the Edge of the West (1992), republished as Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness (2001)
The Evolutionary Mind (1998)

With Matthew Fox:
Natural Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality (1996)
The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (1996)

http://www.sheldrake.org/

These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and reposted. (from http://www.ted.com/pages/about )

Re-uploaded as TED have decided to censor Rupert and remove this video from the TEDx youtube channel. Follow this link for TED’s statement on the matter and Dr. Sheldrake’s response: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-f…

If anyone would like to prepare a transcript or caption file in any language so non-English speakers can enjoy this talk, please do so and I will be happy to upload it. Just PM me. Or the video is embedded on the Amara project website, so you can add subtitles there at: http://tinyurl.com/bwexn5q

DR RUPERT SHELDRAKE, Ph.D. (born 28 June 1942) is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots. From 1968 to 1969, based in the Botany Department of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants. From 1974 to 1985 he was Principal Plant Physiologist and Consultant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he helped develop new cropping systems now widely used by farmers. While in India, he also lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life. From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project funded from Trinity College,Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Schumacher College , in Dartington, Devon, a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences near San Francisco, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce http://www.healingvoice.com and two sons. He has appeared in many TV programs in Britain and overseas, and was one of the participants (along with Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Oliver Sacks, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) in a TV series called A Glorious Accident, shown on PBS channels throughout the US. He has often taken part in BBC and other radio programmes. He has written for newspapers such as the Guardian, where he had a regular monthly column, The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Times Educational Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement and Times Literary Supplement, and has contributed to a variety of magazines, including New Scientist, Resurgence, the Ecologist and the Spectator.

Books by Rupert Sheldrake:

A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (1981). New edition 2009 (in the US published as Morphic Resonance) The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988) The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God (1992) Seven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (1994) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Institute for Social Inventions) Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Scientific and Medical Network) The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003) With Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna: Trialogues at the Edge of the West (1992), republished as Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness (2001) The Evolutionary Mind (1998) With Matthew Fox: Natural Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality (1996) The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (1996) http://www.sheldrake.org/

These videos are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license, so they can be freely shared and reposted. (from http://www.ted.com/pages/about)

Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech: Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Brianna Jones

Exploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this book focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pillars of the economy. The author examines how governmental bodies and public institutions have suppressed the expression of ideas that conflict with the financial interests of those who profit from fossil fuels. He reveals the ways in which university administrations, art museums, education boards, and research institutes have been coerced into destroying artwork, abandoning studies, modifying curricula, and firing employees. His book is an eloquent story of the conflict between private wealth and free speech.

Providing more of the nation’s energy than any other state, Wyoming is a sociopolitical lens that magnifies the conflicts in the American West. But the issues are relevant to any community that is dependent on a dominant industry–and wherever the liberties of citizens and the ethics of public officials are at risk.

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• Censorship Through The Collusion Of The Energy Industry And Government

Censorship Through The Collusion Of The Energy Industry And Government

The Real Truth About Health
Published on Sep 16, 2018

Exploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this Jeffrey Lockwood focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pillars of the economy. The Jeffrey examines how governmental bodies and public institutions have suppressed the expression of ideas that conflict with the financial interests of those who profit from fossil fuels. He reveals the ways in which university administrations, art museums, education boards, and research institutes have been coerced into destroying artwork, abandoning studies, modifying curricula, and firing employees. His book “Behind the Carbon Curtain” is an eloquent story of the conflict between private wealth and free speech.

Jeffrey Lockwood was born in Connecticut and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He earned a B.S. in biology from New Mexico Tech and a Ph.D. in entomology from Louisiana State University. He worked for 17 years as an insect ecologist at the University of Wyoming, publishing more than 150 scientific papers and pioneering a safer method of rangeland grasshopper management that is now used across the western United States.

In 2003, he metamorphosed into a Professor of Natural Sciences & Humanities in the department of philosophy (where he teaches environmental ethics and philosophy of ecology) and in the program in creative writing (where he teaches workshops in non-fiction). His writing has been honored with a Pushcart Prize, the John Burroughs award, inclusion in the Best American Science and Nature Writing, and a silver medal from the Independent Book Publishers Association. His first book was a collection of essays about his work in pest management titled, Grasshopper Dreaming: Reflections on Killing and Loving.

His most recent nonfiction books are Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe and Love Insects, and Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech. This latter book has drawn the attention of politicians, environmentalists, industrialists, and educators across the nation. A review in Science concludes: “For those moved to take action by this book, Lockwood advises a mix of courage and caution. His job as a tenured professor at the University of Wyoming is secure; he can and is obligated to speak truth to power no matter how uncomfortable. But each of us must decide what free speech is worth compared with the cost of speaking out.”

Dozens dead as Typhoon Mangkhut rips through southeast Asia