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- Myths underlie Africa’s Green Revolution April 20, 2021
- Sen. Markey and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Reintroduce Green New Deal April 20, 2021
- Noam Chomsky: On Power and Ideology | The New School April 20, 2021
- 2014 “Noam Chomsky”: Why you can not have a Capitalist Democracy! April 20, 2021
- Most Schooling Is Training for Stupidity and Conformity – Noam Chomsky on Education April 20, 2021
- Wendell Berry – Kentucky Arts And Letters Day 2019 April 20, 2021
- Mary Berry reads an excerpt from her father Wendell Berry’s essay “Solving for Pattern” – YouTube April 20, 2021
- “Solving For Pattern” by Wendell Berry – Excerpt IV – Read by Mary Berry April 20, 2021
- Message by Ursula von der Leyen on the occasion of the G20 Health Summit (CSO event) April 20, 2021
- Building A Net-Zero, Nature-Positive Economy (Option 1) | DAVOS AGENDA 2021 April 20, 2021
- Chad’s president Idriss Déby dies ‘in clashes with rebels’, army says – BBC New April 20, 2021
- NASA helicopter makes history with flight on Red Planet April 19, 2021
- CLIMATE EQUITY & INNOVATION April 19, 2021
- Could climate change force a billion people to move? | The Stream April 19, 2021
- John Thornton, ‘Religion, the Kingdom of Kongo and The Slave Trade’ | The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research April 19, 2021
- Cape Town Wildfires Ravage South African Countryside as Firefighters Tackle the Blaze April 19, 2021
- Fire burned Rhodes Memorial restaurant near Cape Town South Africa 18.04.2021 April 19, 2021
- Exclusive audio extract of Life on Earth by David Attenborough | #FirstChapterFridays April 19, 2021
- 54th session of the Commission on Population and Development, CPD54 April 19, 2021
- Living On Ghana’s Largest Toxic E-Waste Scrapyard (Reggie Yates Documentary) | Real Stories April 19, 2021
- Cape Town Suffers Harshest Drought In A Century April 19, 2021
- Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (2/4) | DW Documentar y April 18, 2021
- Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (1/4) | DW Documentary April 18, 2021
- Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (3/4) | DW Documentary April 18, 2021
- Antarctica: A message from another planet | DW Documentary April 18, 2021
- Climate change in the Antarctic | DW Documentary April 18, 2021
- Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (4/4) | DW Documentary April 18, 2021
- Slaves in Italy? | DW Documentary April 18, 2021
- Table Mountain fire erupts in Cape Town, forces evacuation at nearby campus April 18, 2021
- Arctic Amplification Connections to Extreme Weather Events – Complexities Abound: 2 of 2 April 18, 2021
- Coronavirus-related deaths top three million worldwide April 18, 2021
- Arctic Amplification Connections to Extreme Weather Events – Complexities Abound: 2 of 2 April 18, 2021
- Pregnant women in Kenya opt to deliver babies at home due to COVID-19 April 18, 2021
- Kenyan companies explore ways to harness geothermal heat April 18, 2021
- Alexander Zaitchik: How Bill Gates Is Protecting Big Pharma Profits April 18, 2021
- How climate change affects Florida April 18, 2021
- The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution: Frank White April 18, 2021
- The Overview Effect: Freethink@Harvard April 18, 2021
- Astronaut describes seeing sunrise from Space for first time April 18, 2021
- After the Green Revolution Who “Owns” Agriculture? The Fatal Mistake of Misplaced Market Metaphors | EV & N 386 | CCTV April 18, 2021
- Midday Science Cafe- Adapting to Change: The Future of California’s Water- E nergy Nexus April 17, 2021
- Egypt’s Dam Problem: The Geopolitics of the Nile April 17, 2021
- Explained | World’s Water Crisis | FULL EPISODE | Netflix April 17, 2021
- Full Frame: China -U.S. Relations with Max Baucus April 17, 2021
- A68: Iceberg that became a social media star melts away – BBC News April 17, 2021
- Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World: J. C. Sharman, Professor Andrew Phillips April 17, 2021
- On Contact: Securing Democracy with Glenn Greenwald April 17, 2021
- How Climate Change will affect businesses in the U.S. April 17, 2021
- A Testament of Hope – A Celebration of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. April 17, 2021
- Take a look at modern agriculture in Xinjiang April 16, 2021
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FOCUS: Harvard Tries to Subvert Votes Too – Bill McKibben
By Bill McKibben, The Boston Globe 26 March 21 The 2020 elections, at Harvard and in the US, have shown what a majority of voters want: climate action and inclusive governance. Voter suppression is truly ugly business. From Georgia to … Continue reading
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The Waste Makers: Vance Packard (Bill McKibben, introduction)
. An exposé of “the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals,” The Waste Makers is Vance Packard’s pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, … Continue reading
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Is There Anything Funny About the Climate Crisis? – Bill McKibben
Norfolk, Virginia, is one of seven cities in the region known as Hampton Roads, which is among the metropolitan areas most vulnerable to coastal flooding in the world. Like New Orleans, Norfolk sits extraordinarily low to the sea—just seven feet … Continue reading
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“A Big Deal”: Bill McKibben on Rutgers Fossil Fuel Divestment & the Future of Climate Justice
Democracy Now! – Mar 10, 2021 Rutgers University has voted to begin divesting from fossil fuels, following a campaign by the student-organized Endowment Justice Collective that grew out of the Global Climate Strike in 2019. The organizing efforts led to … Continue reading
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The Enormous Risk of Atmospheric Hacking | Bill McKibben | The New Yorker
Sweden may soon be the site for a test of geoengineering technology.Photograph by Markus Thomenius / Alamy ometime in the next two weeks, an independent advisory committee is expected to issue a recommendation on a request from a team of … Continue reading
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Bill McKibben & Vandana Shiva in Conversation – Social Transformation: Visions & Mobilizations
Right Livelihood Foundation Nov 22, 2020 Before the coronavirus pandemic, we already knew social transformation was necessary. Now we know it’s possible. Political and economic policies that were previously fringe are now front and center in national and international conversations. … Continue reading
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Bill McKibben – The Climate Crisis – The New Yorker
Every year at this time, the International Energy Agency publishes its annual World Energy Outlook, which is the equivalent of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue for oil executives. That is, it incarnates their fantasies, especially the one about how this … Continue reading
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Mary Berry and Bill McKibben In Conversation
Schumacher Center for New Economics Aug 27, 2020 Jodie Evans moderated a conversation between Mary Berry and Bill McKibben on August 27, 2020 as part of the Schumacher Conversation series. More information at http://www.centerforneweconomics.org.
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Living on Earth: Bill McKibben on the Divestment Movement
Smoke from the Camp wildfire in Ukiah, California. (Photo: Bob Dass, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) http://ecoethics.net/YSOLI/201907-Climate/Audio/20200626-LOE-Bill-McKibben.mp3 Harvard is one of the latest in a series of wealthy institutions around the world announcing steps towards pulling their investments in the fossil … Continue reading
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Making a Planet Worth Saving | The New Yorker | Bill McKibben
The events of the past few weeks make one wonder: If we’re just going to use solar power instead of coal to run the same sad mess of unfair and ugly oppression, is it really worth it?Photograph by Vanessa Charlot … Continue reading
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