Further Readings and Information about the Documentary Topics
- Winter 2021
- Ever Slow Green and The Green New Deal
- Ever Slow Green
- Tropical Dry Evergreen Forests of Peninsular India: Ecology and Conservation Significance. Full text scientific article. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F194008290800100203
- Auroville Botanical Gardens. https://auroville.org/contents/782
- Auroville: Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity. https://auroville.org
- The Green New Deal
- H.Res.109 - Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text
- Progressives formally reintroduce the Green New Deal. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/20/green-new-deal-congress-483485
- What Is a Green New Deal? Sierra Club. https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/what-green-new-deal
- A European Green Deal. Striving to be the first climate-neutral continent. https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en
- Ever Slow Green
- Peace with Nature & Solar For All
- Peace with Nature
- The Pax Natura Foundation: This tapestry of diversity at the very heart of nature is whole, indivisible, and manifests in the countless interconnections of each and every part. Our human family is but one thread in this interwoven fabric and yet mirrors, as do all its parts, the grandeur of the natural world and the organizing power of nature. We have an inherent right and solemn responsibility to live peacefully, not only with each other, but with every expression of nature’s bounty in the eternal web of life. https://paxnatura.org
- This country regrew its lost forest. Can the world learn from it? CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/americas/reforestation-costa-rica-c2e-spc/index.html
- Solar For All
- Community Solar Basics. The U.S. Department of Energy defines community solar as any solar project or purchasing program, within a geographic area, in which the benefits of a solar project flow to multiple customers such as individuals, businesses, nonprofits, and other groups. In most cases, customers are benefitting from energy generated by solar panels at an off-site array. https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/community-solar-basics
- Clean energy made easy. Connect your utility account to Arcadia to access clean energy in under two minutes. https://welcome.arcadia.com
- Peace with Nature
- Regeneration of Coral Reefs and Range (Pasture) Land (Herd Impact)
- Coral Reefs
- 50 Reefs: The 50 Reefs study identified not only a portfolio of 50 reefs to help with targeting conservation efforts, it also identified 20 additional sites that could be ideal for targeting conservation action. 50 Reefs has resulted in the first-ever research of its kind. The scientific study, “Risk-sensitive planning for conserving coral reefs under rapid climate change” was published in June 2018 in Conservation Letters. https://www.50reefs.org
- Gates Coral Lab: The Gates Lab conducts research on coral reefs, which are tropical marine ecosystems that protect coastlines, support tourism, and provide nutrition to many island nations. http://gatescorallab.com
- Secore International: giving coral reefs a future worldwide coral reef conservation through research, education, outreach, and restoration. http://www.secore.org
- Microfragmenting for the successful restoration of slow growing massive corals. Free full text scientific publication in the journal Ecological Engineering: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.08.017
- Reef Rescue: Feature documentary on scientists race to help corals adapt to warming oceans through assisted evolution. Aires April 21 on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/reef-rescue/
- Chasing Coral: From the director of Chasing Ice comes an epic adventure to capture our changing oceans. https://www.chasingcoral.com
- Herd Impact
- What is Holistic Management? Savory Institute: The authority on this type of grazing. The place where our farmer in Herd Impact learned about it: https://savory.global/holistic-management/
- Carbon Cowboys: Back when we were making carbon nation, it became clear to me (because I got to learn this stuff from a bunch of really smart people) that our soils offered a spectacular way to draw down carbon from the air, where it’s become a problem, and get it back into our soils, where it is sorely needed. The folks who were the best and fastest and most profitable at making this carbon shift (from air to soil), were the cattle farmers and ranchers in the carbon cowboys documentary. https://www.carboncowboys.org
- Coral Reefs
- Public Trust
- LCV NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL Scorecard: https://scorecard.lcv.org
- Michigan League of Conservation Voters: Holding your legislators accountable is as easy as... https://michiganlcv.org/at-the-capitol/legislative-scorecard/
- America's Best Climate Defense Lies in Public Lands: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/america-s-best-climate-defense-lies-in-public-lands/
- Mapping Public Lands in the United States: https://www.usgs.gov/news/mapping-public-lands-united-states
- What You Need to Know About Deb Haaland and the Department of the Interior: https://earthjustice.org/brief/2020/what-you-need-to-know-about-deb-haaland-and-the-department-of-the-interior
- Rereading: Robert Macfarlane on The Monkey Wrench Gang: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/26/robert-macfarlane-monkey-wrench-gang
- Legal Cost for Throwing a Monkey Wrench: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/science/earth/10leases.html
- The Trial of Tim DeChristopher: http://www.peacefuluprising.org/climate-trial
- Fantastic Fungi
- ‘Wood wide web’—the underground network of microbes that connects trees—mapped for first time. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/wood-wide-web-underground-network-microbes-connects-trees-mapped-first-time
- Exploring The Underground Network of Trees – The Nervous System of the Forest. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/exploring-the-underground-network-of-trees-the-nervous-system-of-the-forest/
- PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES by Paul Stamets: https://paulstamets.com/peer-reviewed-scientific-articles
- Paul Stamets' company Fungi Perfecti: https://fungi.com
- Magic Mushrooms As Medicine? Johns Hopkins Scientists Launch Center For Psychedelic Research. Say Psychedelics Could Treat Alzheimer’s, Depression And Addiction. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2019/09/12/magic-mushrooms-as-medicine-johns-hopkins-scientists-launch-center-for-psychedelic-research-say-psychedelics-could-treat-alzheimers-depression-and-addiction/
- John Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org
- Publications: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/publications
- Yasuni Man
- Ecuador’s isolated indigenous tribes: Stuck between oil and state neglect:
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/ecuadors-isolated-indigenous-tribes-stuck-between-oil-and-state-neglect/ - Ecuador: Yasuni - the most biodiverse place on Earth? https://www.plant-talk.org/ecuador-yasuni-biodiversity.htm
- Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0008767
- Ecuador’s isolated indigenous tribes: Stuck between oil and state neglect:
- The Social Dilemma
- Take Control - Center for Humane Technology: Here are a few important steps you can take right now to increase your well being and regain control. Start with your own devices and invite friends or family to join you. Our collective individual actions are creating a powerful growing movement. Together, we can change the system: https://www.humanetech.com/take-control
- How We Rebuild the System - Center for Humane Technology: Ad-driven technology platforms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter are some of the largest companies in human history. Addressing their harms won’t be easy. But together, we can chart the path forward and lay the foundation for more humane technologies. https://www.humanetech.com/rebuild
- Watson
- Sea Shepherd: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization
Established in 1977, our mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. We use innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations. https://seashepherd.org - Paul Watson on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Watson
- Sea Shepherd: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization
- Modern Nature and Sprayed
- GMOs – Top 3 Pros and Cons: https://www.procon.org/headlines/gmos-top-3-pros-and-cons/
- Roundup Maker to Pay $10 Billion to Settle Cancer Suits: Bayer faced tens of thousands of claims linking the weedkiller to cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Some of the money is set aside for future cases. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/business/roundup-settlement-lawsuits.html
- A Possible Link Between Pyriproxyfen and Microcephaly: Free full-text scientific publication: The Zika virus has been the primary suspect in the large increase in incidence of microcephaly in 2015-6 in Brazil. While evidence for Zika being the cause of some of the cases is strong, its role as the primary cause of the large number of cases in Brazil has not been confirmed. Recently, the disparity between the incidences in different geographic locations has led to questions about the virus's role. Here we consider the alternative possibility that the use of the insecticide pyriproxyfen for control of mosquito populations in Brazilian drinking water is the primary cause. Pyriproxifen is a juvenile hormone analog which has been shown to correspond in mammals to a number of fat soluble regulatory molecules including retinoic acid, a metabolite of vitamin A, with which it has cross-reactivity and whose application during development has been shown to cause microcephaly. Methoprene, another juvenile hormone analog that was approved as an insecticide based upon tests performed in the 1970s, has metabolites that bind to the mammalian retinoid X receptor, and has been shown to cause developmental disorders in mammals. Isotretinoin is another example of a retinoid causing microcephaly in human babies via maternal exposure and activation of the retinoid X receptor in developing fetuses. Moreover, tests of pyriproxyfen by the manufacturer, Sumitomo, widely quoted as giving no evidence for developmental toxicity, actually found some evidence for such an effect, including low brain mass and arhinencephaly—incomplete formation of the anterior cerebral hemispheres—in exposed rat pups. Finally, the pyriproxyfen use in Brazil is unprecedented—it has never before been applied to a water supply on such a scale. Claims that it is not being used in Recife, the epicenter of microcephaly cases, do not distinguish the metropolitan area of Recife, where it is widely used, and the municipality, and have not been adequately confirmed. Given this combination of information about molecular mechanisms and toxicological evidence, we strongly recommend that the use of pyriproxyfen in Brazil be suspended until the potential causal link to microcephaly is investigated further. https://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/a-possible-link-between-pyriproxyfen-and-microcephaly/
- Naled: Compound summary in PubChem, the an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH): https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Naled
- Ever Slow Green and The Green New Deal
- Fall 2019
- Pumped Dry: Pumped Dry: Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater
- Websites:
- PUMPED DRY: THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF VANISHING GROUNDWATER (Links to an external site.): In places around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to go dry, people are being forced to confront a growing crisis.
- Water, an essential element for life - Vatican.va (Links to an external site.): NOTE PREPARED BY THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE
- Water: The Ultimate Commodity (Links to an external site.): Investopedia is the world’s leading source of financial content on the web, with more than 20 million unique visitors and 60 million page views each month.
- Why trading water futures could be in our future (Links to an external site.): CNBC
- Commodification of water (Links to an external site.) on Wikipedia
- Groundwater depletion (Links to an external site.) from The USGS Water Science School
- Earth's largest groundwater aquifers are past 'sustainability tipping points' (Links to an external site.): Mashable, is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Powered by its own proprietary technology, Mashable is the go-to source for tech, digital culture and entertainment content for its dedicated and influential audience around the globe.
- Is the California drought America's water wake-up call? (Links to an external site.): Op-Ed in the LA Times by Jay Famiglietti, one of the world’s leading hydrologists
- Peer-reviewed Publications:
- The global groundwater crisis (Links to an external site.): Full free commentary by Jay Famiglietti, one of the world’s leading hydrologists
- Ethics and Water Governance (Links to an external site.): Free scientific and sociological publication in Ecology and Society from 2013.
- Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE (Links to an external site.): Full free research article by Jay Famiglietti’s research group.
- Pumped Dry: Pumped Dry: Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater
- Winter 2019
- A climate for Conflict: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/as-climate-change-parches-somalia-frequent-drought-comes-with-conflict-over-fertile-land
- Anote’s Ark:
- https://www.theweek.co.uk/98163/indian-island-at-risk-of-disappearing-due-to-rising-sea-levels
- A Plastic Ocean:
- Australia Has Reduced Plastic Bag Use by 80% Since July: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/australia-has-eliminated-billions-of-plastic-bags/
- Every Animal Pulled From the Deepest Part of the Ocean Had Plastic in Its Gut: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/mariana-trench-animals-plastic/www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/mariana-trench-animals-plastic/
- Microplastics found in gut of every sea turtle in new study https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/world/microplastic-pollution-turtles-study-intl-scli/www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/world/microplastic-pollution-turtles-study-intl-scli/
- Climate Adaptation Shorts: Tackling Climate Change: Adapting to a changed world, while reversing global warming to protect communities & ecosystems and promote climate justice. A CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL
LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS. | FEBRUARY 2019 Sierra Club - Winter 2018
- Oil & Water
- Remote Amazon tribe hit by mercury crisis, leaked report says: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2018/jan/24/amazon-tribe-mercury-crisis-leaked-reportwww.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2018/jan/24/amazon-tribe-mercury-crisis-leaked-report
- Oil & Water
- Death By a Thousand Cuts
- Environmental destruction, chaos bleeding across border https://www.eenews.net/stories/85634
- Charcoal Is Not the Cause of Haiti’s Deforestation https://haitiliberte.com/charcoal-is-not-the-cause-of-haitis-deforestation/
- Death by a Thousand Cuts: Charcoal and Deforestation Threatens Hispaniola http://cleancookstoves.org/about/news/08-23-2016-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-charcoal-and-deforestation-threaten-hispaniola.html
- Enviro Society: Haiti is Covered with Trees http://www.envirosociety.org/2016/05/haiti-is-covered-with-trees/
- "Death by a Thousand Cuts" highlights deforestation, murder in the Caribbean https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/go/film/reviews/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-highlights-deforestation-murder-in-the/article_f4606bd4-e307-53f1-ade8-882b50ec5785.html
- Death By A Thousand Cuts: Documentary charts the dangers of deforestation https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/20/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-documentary-charts-the-dangers-of-deforestation
- Additional Resources (Tom Wassmer)
• Deforestation Triggered By Charcoal Production Around The World: Large tracts of land have been subjected to deforestation in Africa due to unsustainable charcoal production. http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/world-regions-with-the-highestdeforestation-triggered-by-unsustainable-charcoal-production.html
• The impact of charcoal production on forest degradation: a case study in Tete, Mozambique. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094020
• Solar Cookers International empowers women with solar cooking tools, and that means cleaner air for all of us. http://www.solarcookers.org
• Africa’s Charcoal Economy Is Cooking. The Trees Are Paying. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/world/africa/africas-charcoal-economy-is-cooking-the-trees-are-paying.html
• Can solar cooking save the forests? – Ecological Economics Paper. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2da0/638bd7d62abf7a4236a1168579041bdd9713.pdf
• Solar cookers in developing countries. http://www.wot.utwente.nl/publications/solarcookers.pdf
Deforestation and Its Extreme Effect on Global Warming: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deforestation-and-global-warming/
• Brazil's Amazon rangers battle farmers' burning business logic: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/14/brazil-amazon-rangers-farmers-burning
• Stopping deforestation: Battle for the Amazon: http://www.nature.com/news/stopping-deforestation-battle-for-the-amazon-1.17223
- Chasing Coral
- Coral Reef Watch Satellite Monitoring and Modeled Outlooks: https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/index.php
- Coral Reef Ecosystems (CRE) Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia: http://www.coralreefecosystems.org
- THE 3RD GLOBAL CORAL BLEACHING EVENT – 2014/2017: http://www.globalcoralbleaching.org/
- Oceana was established in 2001 by a group of leading foundations — The Pew Charitable Trusts, Oak Foundation, Marisla Foundation (formerly Homeland Foundation), and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 1999, these foundations commissioned a study and discovered that less than 0.5 percent of all resources spent by environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went to ocean advocacy — an appalling statistic. No organization was working exclusively to protect and restore the oceans on a global scale. To fill the gap, our founders created Oceana: an international organization focused solely on oceans, dedicated to achieving measurable change by conducting specific, science-based campaigns with fixed deadlines and articulated goals. http://oceana.org
- The Ocean Agency (formerly known as Underwater Earth) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2010 by a group of ex-advertising execs and creatives. We believe, above all else, great communication is key to finding solutions. We've allowed the ocean to lose it's magic - we've allowed it to become irrelevant. That needs to change and it needs to change quickly. http://www.theoceanagency.org/
- The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) is an informal partnership between Nations and organizations which strives to preserve coral reefs and related ecosystems around the world. https://www.icriforum.org
- At the Fork & Cowspiracy
- Rollingstones article covering animal cruelty from undercover reporters. Warning: content is graphic, but it's a good read. http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists
- Nat. Geo addressing the issues and causes of deforestation http://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation/
- An impressive collections of documents from the Humane Society, covering chickens, pigs, cows, egg industry, dairy industry, and more http://www.humanesociety.org/news/publications/whitepapers/farm_animal_welfare.html
- An article similar to the Humane Society's collection, dwelling deeper into the treatment of animals as objects and profit https://veganoutreach.org/modernfarms/
- Two articles from PETA
- The Dairy Industry https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/cows/dairy-industry/
- The Egg industry https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/chickens/egg-industry/
- The Cornucopia Institute, through research and investigations on agricultural and food issues, provides needed information to family farmers, consumers and other stakeholders in the good food movement and to the media. We support economic justice for the family-scale farming community – partnered with consumers – backing ecologically produced local, organic and authentic food. Check out their scorecards for truly humane products: https://www.cornucopia.org
- From the Ashes
- Labor statistics on Coal Mining jobs in the US: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_212100.htm#00-0000
- Green Peace's information on Clean Coal's effect on the environment: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/clean-coal-pumps-green-oil/
- ABC's compiled information on the arguments for Coal: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/coal-versus-renewables-what-you-need-to-know/8269964
- Annual Coal Report done by the Energy Information Administraton which compiles information on the quantity and usage of coal in the U.S.: https://www.eia.gov/coal/annual/
- The Solutions Project: Right now, everything in our lives could be powered by clean, renewable energy. http://thesolutionsproject.org/
- Renewables Now Cheapest, But How To Enable Faster Renewable Energy Growth? http://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/22/renewables-now-cheapest-renewable-energy-costs-low-too-high/
- Wind and Solar Are Crushing Fossil Fuels: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/wind-and-solar-are-crushing-fossil-fuels
- A Scourge Returns: Black Lung in Appalachia: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/124-a13/
- Trump promised to bring back coal. Now some worry he will take away miners’ black lung benefits: https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/28/trump-black-lung/
- Mine environmental risk grows with bankruptcies in big coal - We the taxpayers are paying for irresponsible business strategies!: https://adrianoil.blogspot.com/2016/05/mine-environmental-risk-grows-with.html
- Before the Flood
- Information on tar sand. Includes petitions to sign. http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/tarsands/
- Information on palm oil deforestation. Say no to palm oil is a petition site to stop deforestation as a result of palm oil production. Rainforest rescue provides information on deforestation and what actions you can do. http://www.saynotopalmoil.com/Whats_the_issue.php and https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil
- Information on Leonardo being named UN Messenger of Peace. http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/2014/09/secretary-general-designates-leonardo-di-caprio-un-messenger-peace/
- Information on Paris Agreement. http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php
- Petition to sign to tell Trump we support clean power! https://act.nrdc.org/letter/clean-power-plan-171010
- CONFLICT PALM OIL by the Rainforest Action Network: https://www.ran.org/palm_oil
- Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO): RSPO will transform markets to make sustainable palm oil the norm http://www.rspo.org
- Climate Change Indicators in the United States: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators
- Changing climate: 10 years after An Inconvenient Truth: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/changing-climate-10-years-after-inconvenient-truth
- Many Atolls May be Uninhabitable Within Decades Due to Climate Change: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep14546
- Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-man-made-global-warming-emissions-climate-change
- 350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet, and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all. 350's network extends to 188 countries: https://350.org
- Death By Design
- For more information on Yvette and Mark Flores: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/07/toxic_substances_in_electronics_manufacturing_the_u_s_does_tragically_little.html
- An option for recycling cellphones (and helping provide people clean water): http://www.lifecellproject.org/
- Link to Apple’s Renew Program: https://www.apple.com/recycling/
- Information on studies of solvents causing cancer: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/tetrachlorethylene-perchloroethylene.html
- For more information on where e-waste ends up (Including Guiyu): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/following-the-trail-of-toxic-e-waste/3/
- iFixit is a wiki-based site that teaches people how to fix almost anything. Anyone can create a repair manual for a device, and anyone can also edit the existing set of manuals to improve them. Our site empowers individuals to share their technical knowledge with the rest of the world. https://www.ifixit.com
7. iameco (pronounced “I-am-eco”) is different. Over the past two decades, we’ve been working to create something truly unique: a sustainable, ecological, high performance computer, free from the harmful chemicals and heavy metals built into most computers. http://www.iameco.com
8. e-Stewards is the globally responsible way to recycle your electronics. http://e-stewards.org
9. Comprenew is a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring environmental care and increasing vocational preparedness through education for all people and segments of society, regardless of religion, ethnicity, or status, through best practice technology recycling services. It is Comprenew’s mission to protect people and the environment from problems associated with electronics by extending the economic lifecycle of used electronics. We act as a resource for the community to recycle and educate, while providing job readiness programs. http://comprenew.org
- Stink!
- The Environmental Working Group’s mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. With breakthrough research and education, we drive consumer choice and civic action.
- EWG provides guides e.g. for nontoxic cosmetics, cleaning products, and personal care products: http://www.ewg.org/consumer-guides
- https://consumerist.com/2017/08/30/whats-in-that-smell-pg-will-list-all-fragrance-ingredients-online/
- http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ingredient/702512/FRAGRANCE/#.WcvtfYWcHIU
- https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/trump-s-epa-sets-new-rules-chemicals-under-tsca
- https://earthjustice.org/features/firefighters-turn-up-the-heat-on-flame-retardants
- Sea the Truth
- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/oceans/critical-issues-overfishing/#close
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/10/29/just-how-badly-are-we-overfishing-the-ocean/?utm_term=.cb00573a4d84
- https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/overfishing
- http://overfishing.org/
- http://www.foodispower.org/commercial-fishing/
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/commercial_fishing.htm
- https://repository.lib.fit.edu/handle/11141/1403
- PBS NOVA Flint – Poisoned Water
- Disaster Day by Day: A detailed Flint crisis timeline (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- Flint Water Crisis Fast Facts (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- 5 Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in Flint Water Crisis (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- Taking Action on Flint Water (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- Flint’s Water Crisis Still Isn’t Over. Here’s Where Things Stand a Year Later (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- Flint Water Crisis (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- The Flint Water Crisis: How we got here and what’s next (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Flint — The Michigan Civil Rights Commission today (February 17, 2017) released their report on their year-long investigation into the civil rights implications of the Flint water crisis. After conducting three public hearings and taking testimony from more than 150 residents, experts and government officials, the Commission determined that the actions resulting in the poisoning of the city’s water supply abridged the civil rights of Flint residents under state law. http://www.michigan.gov/mdcr/0,4613,7-138-4952-405318--,00.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
- Water and Power
- Water, an essential element for life - Vatican.va: NOTE PREPARED BY THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE
- Water, an essential resource - European Commission: LIFE and the new European water policy
- Review: ‘Water & Power: A California Heist,’ With Citizens in the Crossfire: The New York Times
- Water: The Ultimate Commodity: Investopedia is the world’s leading source of financial content on the web, with more than 20 million unique visitors and 60 million page views each month.
- Why trading water futures could be in our future: CNBC
- Ethics and Water Governance: Free scientific and sociological publication in Ecology and Society from 2013.
- Groundwater depletion from The USGS Water Science School
- Earth's largest groundwater aquifers are past 'sustainability tipping points': Mashable, is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. Powered by its own proprietary technology, Mashable is the go-to source for tech, digital culture and entertainment content for its dedicated and influential audience around the globe.
- Is the California drought America's water wake-up call?: Op-Ed in the LA Times by Jay Famiglietti, one of the world’s leading hydrologists
- The global groundwater crisis: Full free commentary by Jay Famiglietti, one of the world’s leading hydrologists
- The Water Scarcity Problem That’s Destroying Countries
- Trash, Pollution
- Invisible Ocean: Plankton and Plastic www.invisibleoceanmovie.com
- Tara Oceans science www.embl.de/tara-oceans/start/
- PLANKTON CHRONICLES: THE PLANKTON CHRONICLES PROJECT IS A SHORT DOCUMENTARY SERIES COMBINING ART AND SCIENCE, REVEALING THE BEAUTY AND DIVERSITY OF ORGANISMS ADRIFT IN THE CURRENTS. planktonchronicles.org/en/
- Plastic Pollution is Killing Plankton. How the Loss of This Species Threatens the Oceans www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/plankton-under-threat-tiny-life-in-major-need-of-your-help/
- Mara G. Haseltine www.calamara.com
- Racing to Zero, in Pursuit of Zero Waste trash24.org
- Matter Of Trust.org Join Eco Enthusiasts For Renewable Resources matteroftrust.org
- EPA - Sustainable Management of Food www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food
- EPA - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle www.epa.gov/recycle
- SF ENVIRONMENT | DEPARTMENT OF ZERO WASTE sfenvironment.org/zero-waste/overview/zero-waste
- Zero Waste Toronto www.torontoenvironment.org/zerowaste
- Live Zero Waste livezerowaste.org
- Choosing a Life Without Trash www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDFrlV106iM
- Adrian Recycles www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=adrian%20recycles
- Trashed: Another great documentary. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trashed_(film)
- Invisible Ocean: Plankton and Plastic www.invisibleoceanmovie.com
- Population
- World Population
- U.S. and World Population Clock www.census.gov/popclock/
- Welcome to WorldPopulationHistory.org, an interactive site that lets you explore the peopling of our planet from multiple perspectives – historical, environmental, social and political. It is about the 2,000-year journey of human civilization and the possible paths ahead to the middle of this century. worldpopulationhistory.org/
- Population Education, a program of Population Connection, is the only national program with a strong emphasis on curriculum and professional development for K-12 educators that focuses on human population issues. www.populationeducation.org
- Since 1968, Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth or ZPG) has been America’s voice for population stabilization. We are the largest grassroots population organization in the United States—we have over 500,000 members, supporters, and participating educators! Population Connection works to ensure that every woman around the world who wants to delay or end childbearing has access to the health services and contraceptive supplies she needs in order to do so. www.populationconnection.org
- Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
- WORLD POPULATION DATA 2016 www.worldpopdata.org
- United Nations Population Division www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/index.shtml
- Population, total data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL
- Global population set to hit 9.7 billion people by 2050 despite fall in fertility www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/29/un-world-population-prospects-the-2015-revision-9-7-billion-2050-fertility
- Current Population is Three Times the Sustainable Level www.worldpopulationbalance.org/3_times_sustainable
- How many people can our planet really support www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160311-how-many-people-can-our-planet-really-support
- The Last Taboo www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/05/population-growth-india-vatican
- Too Many People, Too Much Consumption e360.yale.edu/features/too_many_people_too_much_consumption
- Development: Slow down population growth www.nature.com/news/development-slow-down-population-growth-1.19415
- Biologists think 50% of species will be facing extinction by the end of the century www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/25/half-all-species-extinct-end-century-vatican-conference
- Global Footprint Network www.footprintnetwork.org
- World Population
- Energy
- The Breakthrough in Renewable Energy
- Renewable energy breakthrough: Solar-powered reaction 100 times faster www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160901211410.htm
- Smart Solar Charging: A unique solution for accelerating the transition to renewable energy www.economicboardutrecht.nl/sites/nl.economicboardutrecht.www/files/Position%20paper%20smart%20solar%20charging%20-%20EN.pdf
- Learning About Renewable Energy www.nrel.gov/workingwithus/learning.html
- RENEWABLE ENERGY energy.gov/science-innovation/energy-sources/renewable-energy
- America’s First All-Renewable-Energy City www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/burlington-what-works-green-energy-214463
- The Solutions Project thesolutionsproject.org/
- The Future of Energy www.thefutureofenergy.org/
- 50 STATE 100% thesolutionsproject.org/resource/50-state-visions-infographics/
- 139 COUNTRY 100% thesolutionsproject.org/resource/139-country-100-infographics/
- Renewables Now Cheapest, But How To Enable Faster Renewable Energy Growth? cleantechnica.com/2017/01/22/renewables-now-cheapest-renewable-energy-costs-low-too-high/
- Wind and Solar Are Crushing Fossil Fuels www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/wind-and-solar-are-crushing-fossil-fuels
- Won't Pipe Down: wontpipedown.com/
- Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- Atlantic Coast Pipeline www.dom.com/about-us/news-center/natural-gas-projects-and-initiatives/atlantic-coast-pipeline
- Day 6: Trump expedites Atlantic Coast Pipeline among 50 priority projects pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/01/25/day-6-trump-expedites-atlantic-coast-pipeline-among-50-priority-projects/#sthash.teUb2yrk.dpbs
- Trump Team Has Ties to Atlantic Coast Pipeline Now Being Pushed by White House www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/trump-ties-atlantic-coast-pipeline
- Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline
- KXL Pipeline Project www.keystone-xl.com/
- 4 Key Impacts of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/impact-keystone-dakota-access-pipeline-environment-global-warming-oil-health/
- Who's Banking on the Dakota Access Pipeline? www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/who's-banking-dakota-access-pipeline
- Pipelines in Michigan and Adrian / Lenawee County
- The Problem with Enbridge Line 5 pipelines through the Great Lakes www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/problem
- Federal lawsuit aims to start Rover Pipeline construction in 3 counties www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2017/02/preserving_endangered_bat_comp_1.html
- What is the Nexus Pipeline? – NO NEXUS Pipeline nopipelies.org/resources/nexus-pipeline-information/
- Why the ET Rover Pipeline should not be permitted adrianoil.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-et-rover-pipeline-should-not-be.html
- Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- The Breakthrough in Renewable Energy
- Tourism and Climate Change
- The Goose with the Golden Eggs: Tourism on Costa Rica's Pacific Coast
- Center for Responsible Travel: http://www.responsibletravel.org
- Fly rarely and travel light: www.dw.com/en/fly-rarely-and-travel-light/a-37849614
- Tourism in Costa Rica: History and Development: www.travelcostarica.nu/tourism-in-costa-rica
- Take Nothing but Pictures, Leave Nothing but Footprints and Waste Nothing but Time: www1.american.edu/ted/costa-rica-tourism.htm
- The International Ecotourism Society (TIES): www.ecotourism.org
- How bad for the environment are cruise ships?
- Friends of the Earth: 2016 Cruise Ship Report Card: www.foe.org/cruise-report-card
- Murky waters: the hidden environmental impacts of your cruise: www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jan/05/cruise-ship-holidays-environmental-impact
- Cruise ship damages pristine coral reef. How big an impact do cruises have on the environment? www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2017/0315/Cruise-ship-damages-pristine-coral-reef.-How-big-an-impact-do-cruises-have-on-the-environment
- Hoping for a fresh sea breeze aboard a cruise ship? Better hold your nose! www.dw.com/en/hoping-for-a-fresh-sea-breeze-aboard-a-cruise-ship-better-hold-your-nose/a-37284464
- Thule – Tuvalu
- About the Film and Pay per View thuletuvalu.vhx.tv/
- Climate Change Indicators: Snow and Ice www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/snow-ice
- Arctic Sea Ice Minimum climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/
- Arctic ice melt could trigger uncontrollable climate change at global level www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/25/arctic-ice-melt-trigger-uncontrollable-climate-change-global-level
- This is climate skeptics’ latest argument about melting polar ice — and why it’s wrong www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/05/27/climate-skeptics-think-you-shouldnt-worry-about-melting-polar-ice-heres-why-theyre-wrong/
- Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/five-pacific-islands-lost-rising-seas-climate-change
- Low-lying areas of tropical Pacific islands walrus.wr.usgs.gov/climate-change/lowLat.html
- Many Atolls May be Uninhabitable Within Decades Due to Climate Change www.nature.com/articles/srep14546
- Pacific climate change science www.pacificclimatechangescience.org/
- The Goose with the Golden Eggs: Tourism on Costa Rica's Pacific Coast
- Conservation, Species extinction
- The Messenger
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology: http://www.birds.cornell.edu
- State of North America's Birds 2016: http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/
- The 1,300 Bird Species Facing Extinction Signal Threats to Human Health: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140825-bird-environment-chemical-contaminant-climate-change-science-winged-warning/
- Are there more endangered bird species than we think? http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/9/13569064/bird-endangered-species-red-list-geography-science
- Incorporating explicit geospatial data shows more species at risk of extinction than the current Red List: Publically available scientific journal article from November 2016: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/11/e1601367.full
- Species Extinction in General
- THE EXTINCTION CRISIS: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/
- Saving Species: http://www.savingspecies.org
- Other excellent films on this topic are:
- Racing Extinction: http://racingextinction.com (In our Library)
- Call of Life: http://www.calloflife.org (In our Biology Department)
- Photo Ark: Photo Ark is a multiyear National Geographic project with a simple goal—to create portraits of the world’s captive species before they disappear, and to inspire people everywhere to care. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photo-ark/
- Not only animal and plant species go extinct, we are also extinguishing the last traditional cultures on our planet. Like the Photo Ark above, Before they pass away is a monumental project by photographer (but I would also say ethnographer) Jimmy Nelson. He found and observed some indigenous tribes in various parts of the globe, “smiled and drank their mysterious brews before taking out his camera”, shared “vibrations, invisible but palpable”. These poses, evoking a sort of paradoxical family portraits, show on the one hand a closer harmony between the original condition of man and the universe, which in some way are the same entity, on the other hand a contamination (e.g. weapons) and a disintegration imposed by an imperialist subtle tendency that considers this people’s condition as a disease to be eradicated.
- The Messenger
- Climate change, Ocean Acidification and Environmental Advocacy
- Ocean Acidification
- Acid Ocean - Marine scientists across the world are racing to tackle the most urgent environmental challenge facing our planet today – ocean acidification. From the icy polar seas to the world’s most pristine coral reefs we track the latest scientific research. Heading the investigation is Dr Katharina Fabricius from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. She’s made a game-changing discovery. Nestled amongst Papua New Guinea’s stunning coral gardens is a unique reef – a window to the future of our oceans. Free on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePBQKgruyDI
- Years of Living Dangerously. Season 2, Episode 5: Collapse of the Oceans. http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/story/collapse-of-the-oceans/
- What is Ocean Acidification? http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F
- European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA). Ocean Acidification - the facts http://www.epoca-project.eu/index.php/what-do-we-do/outreach/rug/oa-the-facts.html
- OA Observations and Data. Access ocean acidification data for each of our observation programs. http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/OA+Observations+and+Data
- Smithsonian Institution. Ocean Portal. Ocean Acidification. http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-acidification
- Reviews and Syntheses: Ocean acidification and its potential impacts on marine ecosystems. Free peer-reviewed scientific paper. http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/1767/2016/
- Effects of Ocean Acidification on Temperate Coastal Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries in the Northeast Pacific. Free peer-reviewed scientific paper. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117533
- Solutions: Put a Price on Carbon https://theclimatesolution.com
- Citizens' Climate Lobby. We exist to create the political will for climate solutions by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power. https://citizensclimatelobby.org
- Environmental Advocacy and Activism
- Disobedience Discussion Guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k8984tFb66UQOf3Bmof146h_6ar8pWnqz0TmYgANz6I/edit
- Civil Disobedience By Henry David Thoreau 1849 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/civil.html
- This is what the largest civil disobedience in the history of the environmental movement looks like in Europe https://350.org/this-is-what-the-largest-civil-disobedience-in-the-history-of-the-environmental-movement-looks-like-in-europe/
- Break Free shows what the climate movement can do in 2016: Unwavering resistance. Fierce solidarity. Courage by the gigaton https://breakfree2016.org
- Civil disobedience is the only way left to fight climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/13/civil-disobedience-climate-change-protesters
- A Force More Powerful. 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action. http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/resources/nonviolent/methods.php
- International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. ICNC focuses on how ordinary people wage nonviolent conflict to win rights, freedom and justice. https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org
- Ocean Acidification
- Edward Abbey and the History of Environmental Activism
- Abbey's Web. Abbey's Web is dedicated to the life, works and values of author Edward Abbey. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently. http://www.abbeyweb.net
- National Park Services. History and People. Edward Abbey. https://www.nps.gov/arch/learn/historyculture/edward-abbey.htm
- EcoTopia: A design strategy for the new millennium. Ecology Hall of Fame. Dedicated to heroes of the American environmental movement. Edward Abbey. http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/edward-abbey/
- A Friend, Not a Role Model; Remembering Edward Abbey, Who Loved Words, Women, Beer and the Desert. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/books/friend-not-role-model-remembering-edward-abbey-who-loved-words-women-beer-desert.html
- Americans Who Tell The Truth: Models of Courageous Citizenship. Edward Abbey. http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/edward-abbey
- Tim DeChristopher disrupted an illegitimate Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction in December of 2008, by posing as Bidder 70 and outbidding oil companies for parcels around Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah. http://www.timdechristopher.org
- Some of the environmental activists in the movie that were inspred by Edward Abbey:
- KIERAN SUCKLING, Director- Center for Biological Diversity, a national nonprofit that advocates for endangered species and the wild places they live. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/about/staff/
- PAUL WATSON, Captain Paul Watson is one of the original co-founders of the Greenpeace Foundation. In 1977, Watson founded Sea Shepherd Conservation Society because he identified the need for an international direct-action organization focused specifically on marine conservation. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/paul-watson/
- Kim Crumbo, currently serves as Western Conservation Director for Wildlands Network and as Director of Conservation for Grand Canyon Wildlands Council. http://www.wildlandsnetwork.org
- Earth First! Media from the Frontline of Ecological Resistance http://earthfirstjournal.org
- Three environmentalists (MI-CATS 3) 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. https://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/3/michigan_activists_face_up_to_2
MI-CATS 3 Sentenced to Time Served & 13 Months Probation http://www.michigancats.org/mi-cats-3-sentenced/ - Milestones in Environmental Protection. Preservation and conservation milestones in the United States. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/earthdaytimeline.html
- New York Times. Timeline: 70 Years of Environmental Change. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/22/science/earth/20100422_environment_timeline.html
- A Fierce Green Fire: Timeline of Environmental Movement and History. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/a-fierce-green-fire-timeline-of-environmental-movement/2988
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Antibiotic resistance. WHO Fact sheet October 2016 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/antibiotic-resistance/en/
- Antibiotic / Antimicrobial Resistance, CDC August 17, 2016 https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/
- The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis. Part 1: Causes and Threats. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378521/
- The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis. Part 2: Management Strategies and New Agents. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422635/
- Fit and resistant is a worst case scenario with bacterial pathogens. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3870691/
- The Hidden Effects of Dairy Farming on Public and Environmental Health in the Netherlands, India, Ethiopia, and Uganda, Considering the Use of Antibiotics and Other Agro-chemicals. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00012
- Antibiotics Overuse in Animal Agriculture: A Call to Action for Health Care Providers. http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302870
- Race Against Antimicrobial Resistance Requires Coordinated Action – An Overview. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01536
- US reports first case of bacteria resistant to antibiotic of last resort. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/27/us-reports-first-case-of-bacteria-resistant-to-antibiotic-of-last-resort
- How KFC, Subway and McDonald’s can help the fight against antibiotic resistance. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/16/how-kfc-subway-and-mcdonalds-can-help-the-fight-against-antibiotic-resistance
- Use of strongest antibiotics rises to record levels on European farms. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/17/use-of-strongest-antibiotics-rises-to-record-levels-on-european-farms
- Algae Blooms and Death Zones
- Algae Blooms in the Great Lakes
- Forty-five years ago, Lake Erie was so polluted that TIME magazine warned it was “in danger of dying by suffocation.” A massive clean-up effort, involving everyone from local businesses to state and national policymakers, brought the lake back from the brink. Recently, algal blooms have once again tainted western Lake Erie with unhealthy, sometimes toxic, green slime. Why is this happening? http://lakeeriealgae.com
- Experimental Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom Bulletin http://www2.nccos.noaa.gov/coast/lakeerie/bulletin/bulletin_current.pdf
- Challenges in tracking harmful algal blooms: A synthesis of evidence from Lake Erie Full text science paper. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2015.01.001
- Why are CAFOs bad? http://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/why-are-cafos-bad
- Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs)
- Harmful Algal Blooms https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/harmful-algal-blooms
- Harmful Algae Blooms - Tiny Plants with a Toxic Punch http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/hab/
- Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms http://www.geohab.info
- Death Zones
- Hypoxia - In the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Hypoxia, or oxygen depletion, is an environmental phenomenon where the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water column decreases to a level that can no longer support living aquatic organisms. http://www.gulfhypoxia.net/
- The Gulf of Mexico Is About to Experience a "Dead Zone" the Size of Connecticut http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/06/gulf-mexico-braces-monsterous-dead-zone
- Hypoxia 101 https://www.epa.gov/ms-htf/hypoxia-101
- World's Largest Dead Zone Suffocating Sea http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100305-baltic-sea-algae-dead-zones-water/
- Stranded sea lion pups fall victim to California's 'ocean deserts' https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/08/california-stranded-sea-lions-pacific-ocean
- Oceanic Dead Zones Continue to Spread https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oceanic-dead-zones-spread/
- Algae Blooms in the Great Lakes
- Conservation, Species extinction, Global Warming
- Forest in the Sky (El Triunfo)
- An Introduction To Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: http://www.canopyintheclouds.com/learn/
- Tropical montane cloud forests: a challenge for conservation: http://bft.cirad.fr/cd/BFT_274_19-31.pdf
- Floristic Richness and the Conservation Value of Tropical Montane
Cloud Forests of Dothalugala Man and Biosphere Reserve, Sri Lanka http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.638.7680&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- Stop the Burning
- Deforestation and Its Extreme Effect on Global Warming: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deforestation-and-global-warming/
- Brazil's Amazon rangers battle farmers' burning business logic: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/14/brazil-amazon-rangers-farmers-burning
- Stopping deforestation: Battle for the Amazon: http://www.nature.com/news/stopping-deforestation-battle-for-the-amazon-1.17223
- The Marvelous Musical Report of the Marine National Monuments
- Marine National Monument Program: http://www.fpir.noaa.gov/MNM/mnm_index.html
- Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument: http://www.papahanaumokuakea.gov
- Marine Conservation Institute realized that the world needed a tool to provide real-time information on current and proposed MPAs and their effectiveness in protecting marine life. Thanks to the vision and generous support of the Waitt Foundation, we began working in 2011 to compile the information needed to create a robust database and interactive map that are integral components of MPAtlas. http://www.mpatlas.org/explore/
- Moving the Giants
- Archangel Ancient Tree Archive: https://www.ancienttreearchive.org
- Reforestation Doesn’t Fight Climate Change Unless It’s Done Right: https://thinkprogress.org/planting-trees-climate-change-solution-3e5b6979561f#.gr62l7ofl
- Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon: http://www.cifor.org/library/5544/tropical-reforestation-and-climate-change-beyond-carbon/
- Message in a bottle
- Mauna Loa Observatory: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/
- The Keeling Curve: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/
- Recent Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2 http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
- Forest in the Sky (El Triunfo)
- E-trash / Connected Disconnect
- Tin Trouble
- Death metal: tin mining in Indonesia. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/23/tin-mining-indonesia-bangka
- Mining for smartphones: the true cost of tin: https://www.foe.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/tin_mining.pdf
- THE COBALT PIPELINE: Tracing the path from deadly hand-dug mines in Congo to consumers’ phones and laptops. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/
- How Many Precious Metals Are in Your Home Electronics? http://urbanmining.org/2015/08/how-many-precious-metals-are-in-your-home-electronics
- Electronics Manufacturing Eats a Hole in the Earth Every Day. http://ifixit.org/manufacturing
- e-Stewardship
- e-Stewards is the globally responsible way to recycle your electronics. http://e-stewards.org
- Basel Action Network (BAN) is a trusted expert, compassionate advocate, and global partner for environmental justice. http://www.ban.org
- Electronic waste - an emerging threat to the environment of urban India. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24444377
- One of Michigan's certified e-waste recyclers: Comprenew: Comprenew’s mission is to protect corporations, people, and the environment from problems associated with electronics. Since 1986, some of the largest companies in America have used Comprenew to properly service, recycle, refurbish, and resell their used technology equipment. http://comprenew.org
- Offline is the new luxury
- Digital Disconnect - How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy: http://thenewpress.com/books/digital-disconnect
- Project Loon: More than half of the world's population is still without Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to extend Internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide. https://www.solveforx.com/loon/
- Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594754
- Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/02/google-microsoft-pact-antitrust-surveillance-capitalism
- Tin Trouble
- Underkastelsen aka Submission
- 85,000 Untested Chemicals. But Hey, Don't Worry! https://www.organicconsumers.org/bytes/organic-bytes-529-trust-feds-are-they-kidding
- 5 years after the film "Underkastelsen" (Submission) by the author of the film on Youtube (14 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5_nlT6S48
- Toxic Chemicals Found In Minority Cord Blood: http://www.ewg.org/news/news-releases/2009/12/02/toxic-chemicals-found-minority-cord-blood
- Dioxins and dioxin-like chemicals in blood and semen of American Vietnam veterans from the state of Michigan: http://tinyurl.com/h6lgcns Full Article as PDF here
- Determination of Glyphosate residues in human urine samples from 18 European countries: https://www.foeeurope.org/weed-killer-glyphosate-found-human-urine-across-Europe-130613
- Glyphosate Found in Urine of 93 Percent of Americans Tested: http://www.ecowatch.com/glyphosate-found-in-urine-of-93-percent-of-americans-tested-1891146755.html
- The Detox Project: The Detox Project is a research platform that brings awareness to the public by testing for man-made chemicals in our bodies and in our food at a very personal level. http://detoxproject.org
- TEDX (The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Inc.) is the only organization that focuses primarily on the human health and environmental problems caused by low-dose and/or ambient exposure to chemicals that interfere with development and function, called endocrine disruptors. http://endocrinedisruption.org
- Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/why-the-united-states-leaves-deadly-chemicals-on-the-market/
- Estimating Burden and Disease Costs of Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the European Union: http://press.endocrine.org/doi/10.1210/jc.2014-4324
- Environmental pollutants and child health—A review of recent concerns: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1438463916300396 Full text PDF here
- Early Life Origins of Metabolic Syndrome: The Role of Environmental Toxicants: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24883264
- The Tax Free Tour
- Wikipedia - Tax Avoidance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance
- The Panama Papers @ The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: https://panamapapers.icij.org
- WE’RE NOT BROKE - Another excellent documentary available at the library tells the story of U.S. corporations dodging billions of dollars in income tax, and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration to the streets…and vow to make the corporations pay their fair share. http://werenotbrokemovie.com
- Tax avoidance @ theguardian: https://www.theguardian.com/business/taxavoidance
- Journal of Business Ethics: Tax Avoidance as a Sustainability Problem - Free through the SHU library: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-016-3162-2
- TTIP: Might is Right
- The TTIP and TPP trade deals: enough of the secrecy @ theguardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/04/ttip-tpp-trade-deals-secrecy-greenpeace-leak
- TPP, TTIP: Eliminating Nations, Turning over the World Economy To Mega-corporations. Obama’s Secret Trade Deals vs. Trump and Bernie @ GlobalResearch.ca: http://www.globalresearch.ca/tpp-ttip-eliminating-nations-turning-over-the-world-economy-to-mega-corporations-obamas-secret-trade-deals-vs-trump-and-bernie/5522947
- WikiLeaks - The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA @ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw7P0RGZQxQ
- Stop the TPP and TTIP @ SumOfUs: https://actions.sumofus.org/a/tpp-lawsuits
- TTIP & TPP – A Good Agreement for Who? Nobel Laureate, Joseph Stiglitz Stiglitz, talks about the two major multi lateral agreements, TPP and TTIP and who they benefit @ New Perspectives on Global Economic Dynamics: https://ged-project.de/topics/international-trade/effects_of_regional_trade_agreements/tpp/ttip-tpp-a-good-agreement-for-who/
- The Man Who Stopped the Desert
- The Man Who Stopped the Desert
- Film Site: http://www.1080films.co.uk/yacoubamovie/
- What Yacouba Did Next: http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/the-man-who-stopped-the-desert-what-yacouba-did-next/
- More info about the technique of planting pits: http://www.sswm.info/content/planting-pit
- Green Gold - Documentary by John D. Liu
- Introduction to Agroecology: Green Gold- "The Source of Wealth is [are] the Functional Ecosystems":
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/18/1198024/-Introduction-to-Agroecology-Green-Gold-The-Source-of-Wealth-is-are-the-Functional-Ecosystems - PROFILE AND WORK OF JOHN D.LIU ON ACADEMIA.EDU: https://knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu
- Environmental Education Media Project: http://eempc.org
- What if... we change: http://www.whatifwechange.org
- Permaculture Research Institute: FINDING SUSTAINABILITY IN ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION:
http://permaculturenews.org/2012/11/17/finding-sustainability-in-ecosystem-restoration/ - Permaculture Research Institute: GREENING THE DESERT II: http://permaculturenews.org/2009/12/11/greening-the-desert-ii-final/
- Introduction to Agroecology: Green Gold- "The Source of Wealth is [are] the Functional Ecosystems":
- The Salt of the Earth: Film about the life and work of one of the greatest photographers of this century: SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
- Film Website: http://sonyclassics.com/thesaltoftheearth/
- Institito Terra: http://www.institutoterra.org/eng/
- International Center of Photography: SEBASTIÃO SALGADO Genesis: http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/sebastião-salgado-genesis
- Two more examples that I could not fit into this last session of the semester:
- Jadav Payeng - The Forest Man: One Man Single-Handedly Plants Forest Bigger Than Central Park:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/10/28/jadav-payeng-forest-man-majuli_n_6026242.html
Jadav Payeng on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_Payeng - Ethiopia Rising is the story of the phenomenal environmental transformation of a nation told through the experience of one man, Aba Hawi, who mobilizes an entire community to regenerate the surrounding hillsides, and in doing so saved his village from certain extinction.
- World Resources Institute: Film Screening- Ethiopia Rising: From Red Terror to Green Revolution:
http://www.wri.org/events/2015/09/film-screening-ethiopia-rising-red-terror-green - Film Website: http://www.ethiopiarising.com/index.html
- World Resources Institute: Film Screening- Ethiopia Rising: From Red Terror to Green Revolution:
- Jadav Payeng - The Forest Man: One Man Single-Handedly Plants Forest Bigger Than Central Park:
- The Man Who Stopped the Desert
- Green
- Update July 2016: The clock was ticking since we watched the documentary GREEN in April. Every species lost is gone forever. We are leaving a plundered and poisoned planet to our children. I am ashamed - and ask the spirit of the world for forgiveness...
Bornean Orangutans and whale sharks are near extinction due to humans, conservationists warn: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bornean-orangutans-whale-sharks-winghead-shark-are-near-extinction-endangered-humans-a7128746.html - Indonesia is Burning and bans Leonardo DiCaprio for speaking out the truth: https://indonesiaburning.com http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35945175
- Doritos, Coca Cola and Palm Oil http://action.sumofus.org/a/doritos-palm-oil/
- PepsiCo Reacts to New Ads Slamming Doritos Over Lax Palm Oil Policy
- The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil RSPO: http://www.rspo.org
- Years Of Living Dangerously - End of The Woods (Indonesia Deforestation Scenes Only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORnA5ZdWMWQ
- Update July 2016: The clock was ticking since we watched the documentary GREEN in April. Every species lost is gone forever. We are leaving a plundered and poisoned planet to our children. I am ashamed - and ask the spirit of the world for forgiveness...
- Inside the Garbage of the World
- Avoid trash (better than reduce - none!): How to live zero waste: http://www.livezerowaste.org/#!how-to/csgz
- Film Website: http://www.pcmcfilms.com
- Plastic Is Everywhere, Even in Antarctica: http://www.care2.com/causes/plastic-everywhere-antarctica.html
- Dr Mark Anthony Browne - Plastic Fibers: https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~browne
- Some of Mark's publications:
- Racing Extinction
- Film Website: http://racingextinction.com
- Saving Species: http://www.savingspecies.org
- Another excellent film on this topic is: Call of Life: http://www.calloflife.org
- Photo Ark: Photo Ark is a multiyear National Geographic project with a simple goal—to create portraits of the world’s captive species before they disappear, and to inspire people everywhere to care. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photo-ark/
- Not only animal and plant species go extinct, we are also extinguishing the last traditional cultures on our planet. Like the Photo Ark above, Before they pass away is a monumental project by photographer (but I would also say ethnographer) Jimmy Nelson. He found and observed some indigenous tribes in various parts of the globe, “smiled and drank their mysterious brews before taking out his camera”, shared “vibrations, invisible but palpable”. These poses, evoking a sort of paradoxical family portraits, show on the one hand a closer harmony between the original condition of man and the universe, which in some way are the same entity, on the other hand a contamination (e.g. weapons) and a disintegration imposed by an imperialist subtle tendency that considers this people’s condition as a disease to be eradicated.
- Let's Make Money
- Panama Papers - tax havens of the rich and powerful exposed: BBC article: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35960329 Full coverage: https://panamapapers.icij.org
- Stop Tax Dodging: https://action.oxfamamerica.org/stoptaxdodging/
- Quotes by Hermann Scheer from the end of Let’s Make Money
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." If we want to stick to this humanitarian principle, the distribution of wealth has to be different. Distribution should be in favour of our whole society, and not in favour of a few individuals. Only then can you preserve the humanitarian principle. If we do not change the system, there will be new selection mechanisms: Selection mechanisms between states, between races, between religions, between people entitled to use resources and those not entitled, between valuable people and those who are not valuable. In this case, the monetary value of a human being will prevail, and a new barbarian era will begin. This is ineluctable.
- In the end, the average citizen will pay for it. The so-called "little man" -or the "little woman" – people, who have no influence whatsoever on the process, unless they get organized, unless they find someone to represent their interests, strong enough to stop this process.
- We are now at the Reichstag, the seat of the German Parliament. Here we see traces of World War II, which ended with the capture of the Reichstag by Russian soldiers, who wrote their greetings to their homeland. This should remind us of the fact that without a new form of distribution of wealth, without a solution for the question of the environment by using renewable instead of non-renewable resources, which will not be sufficient for all of us, all things that ended here with World War II will repeat themselves in a different form.
- Hermann Scheer (April 29, 1944 – October 14, 2010) was a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag (Parliament), President of Eurosolar (The European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy. In 1999, Scheer was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his "indefatigable work for the promotion of solar energy worldwide". (Wikipedia)
- Links:
- Building a world economy without money:
- (Unconditional) Basic Income
- Monsanto and GMOs
- Lawsuit Challenges FDA’s Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/4317/lawsuit-challenges-fdas-approval-of-genetically-engineered-salmon
- America’s Favorite Poison: Are millions suffering needlessly because the EPA hid the dangers of Roundup?
- The Great GMO Cover-up, Part 1: FDA scientists’ health warnings about GMOs have proven true and we are suffering as a result.
- The Great GMO Cover-up, Part 2: Companies Hide Dangers; Attack Scientists
- In Organic We Trust
- Locating good food with minimal cruelty for animals
- Unsorted
- Other Worlds is a women-driven education and movement support collaborative. We compile and bring to light alternatives flourishing throughout the world – ones opening spaces for economic, political, social, and environmental justice, and meaningful democracy – in order to inspire and incite others. We also directly support the movements that are propelling the alternatives. http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org
- Climate Change
- Changing climate: 10 years after An Inconvenient Truth: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/changing-climate-10-years-after-inconvenient-truth
- Pollution
- Pesticides
- Bayer and Syngenta pesticides endanger tens of thousands in Punjab (India)
- Pesticides