Creating a Climate of Change: A Sustainable Future for the Living Earth w Jeremy Rifkin
Join acclaimed social thinker Jeremy Rifkin, and authors and educators Gregory Cajete and Melissa K. Nelson to explore how we can incorporate the values of sustainability in our culture. Harnessing renewable energy and sharing it with others on smart power grids that stretch across continents... Reclaiming our powerful connection to place and to the empathic traditions of indigenous cultures... Revitalizing body and mind with a healthful diet and food sovereignty: Learn with our distinguished speakers as they share these and other strategies for accomplishing the cultural changes that will help us attain environmental health and balance in an endangered world. The symposium opens with a special blessing by the Acoma Buffalo Dancers.
Gauranga Das: Greed to Green: The Art of Sustainable Living | Talks at Google
What do the following have in common: Global warming, energy crisis, urbanization, global water shortage, nuclear proliferation, loss of biodiversity, high unemployment rates, unstable economy, war and terrorism ?
Answer: Our attitude - the greed with which we deal with nature and one another in an exploitative manner instead of in a mood of sharing and serving. As a Native American proverb goes, “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, but we borrow it from our children!
Inspired by that vision, the Govardhan Eco Village (GEV) project began near Mumbai as a humble but bold attempt to solve these tough global problems by highlighting the importance of living a life in harmony with nature and to create a model of a community based on the principles of sustainable living.
Integrating traditional Vedic wisdom with modern approaches, GEV has made tremendous innovations in multiple areas such as alternate energy, water conservation, green sewage management, soil biotechnology, green building technologies, organic farming and animal care. GEV has won many accolades, most recently: the five-star rating from GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment), the best paper award at the 2014 International Conference on Agricultural, Ecological and Medical Sciences, and the prestigious SKOCH award - India's highest independent civilian honor.
In this talk, Gauranga Das, an IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) graduate and Director of Govardhan Eco Village, will present a deep-dive on some of the indigenous technologies used in this project and the art of sustainable living based on their decade-long experience.
How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert, begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes -- and his work so far shows -- that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert.
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Great Writers of the West: John Steinbeck and the Environment (ArtsWest 2017)
Presentations from the ArtsWest symposium at Stanford University on May 10, 2017.
The world seemed on the brink of catastrophe when John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Today we are confronted with our own cataclysmic moment in time. Steinbeck’s compassionate explorations of inequality, poverty-induced human migration, and environmental degradation yield insights we are at pains to grasp. As perhaps no other novelist before or since, Steinbeck had a fundamental ecological awareness. He shows us that people are not separate from the land on which we tread, and in fact share a common fate.
Living Steinbeck by Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
The Ecology of Humans by William Souder, Writer
We Ain't Foreign: Race, Land, and Nation in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrathby Sarah Wald, University of Oregon, Department of English and Environmental Studies Program
Sea of Cortez and the 'Toto Picture' by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Writer
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Gavin Jones, Stanford University, Department of English
Steinbeck's Holism, Susan Shillinglaw, National Steinbeck Center
Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Aaron Sachs
In recent years, environmental justice scholarship has exploded. But virtually every relevant piece of work has understood the history of environmental justice as dating only to the late 20th century. This talk goes back to the 17th century, seeking to trace and analyze the evolution of a positive environmental rights discourse in European and American history. Having established our opposition to environmental injustice, we might want to ask: what exactly are we aiming for, in positive terms? What are the components of environmental justice? Is there any common ground left to stand on? And how might a deeper historical perspective help us answer these questions?
Aaron Sachs (AB ’92) is Professor of History and American Studies at Cornell University, where he has taught since 2004. In 2006, he published The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Viking), which won Honorable Mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, given to the best first book in the field of U.S. history by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). In 2013, he published Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Yale U. Press), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. Sachs has also published articles in such journals as Environmental History, Rethinking History, American Quarterly, and History and Theory. In his graduate teaching, he works with students not only in History but also in English, Science and Technology Studies, History of Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Anthropology, and Natural Resources. At Cornell, Sachs is the faculty sponsor of a radical underground organization called Historians Are Writers, which brings together graduate students who believe that academic writing can be moving on a deeply human level. He is also the founder and coordinator of the Cornell Roundtable on Environmental Studies Topics (CREST). Sachs is currently at work on book projects focusing on environmental modernity; environmental justice; and environmental humor.
Earth(ly) Matters: Blue Ecologies II
Moderator: Claire Brault (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Cogut Institute for the Humanities and Department of Political Science, Brown University)
Speakers:
Stacy Alaimo (Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Arlington) presents her talk titled,
Composing Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss
Bathsheba Demuth (Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society) presents her talk, Whales, Whalers, and Thinking the Ocean through Cetacean Labor
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Saturday, April 7, 2018
Brown University
Thomas Woltz, “Threatened Landscapes: Designed Countermeasures of N. B. W. Landscape Architects”
Public parks are a source of civic identity for the communities they serve – inclusivity and authenticity are crucial. Similarly, memorials are bastions of democratic exchange and act as repositories of our cultural past and evolution. Thomas Woltz will present projects from the portfolio of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) that demonstrate the power of the firm’s research-based design to reframe our relationship with civic, ecological, and cultural systems within the public realm. Lastly, Thomas will present NBW projects that prioritize the ecological health and resilience in agriculturally productive landscapes and reveal surprising connections between these typologies.
Over the past two decades of practice, landscape architect Thomas Woltz has forged a body of work that integrates the beauty and function of built forms with an understanding of complex biological systems and restoration ecology. As principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW), a 45-person firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia and New York City, Woltz has infused narratives of the land into the places where people live, work and play, deepening the public’s enjoyment of the natural world and inspiring environmental stewardship. NBW projects create models of biodiversity and sustainable agriculture within areas of damaged ecological infrastructure and working farmland, yielding hundreds of acres of reconstructed wetlands, reforested land, and flourishing wildlife habitat.
Presently, Thomas and NBW are entrusted with the design of major public parks across the United States, Canada and New Zealand, they include Memorial Park in Houston, Hudson Yards in New York City, NoMA Green in Washington DC, Cornwall Park in Auckland, the Aga Khan Garden in Alberta, Canada, and three parks in Nashville, including Centennial Park.
In 2013 was named Design Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal magazine and in 2017 Fast Company named Woltz one of the most creative people in business.
Chris Martenson - The Folly of Unfettered Finance (Part 2)
Chris Martenson joins us again today for a lighthearted look at the finance industry, how it cultivates the worst parts of human nature, how it shapes us to serve the interests of the money masters, and the damage it is doing to humanity's future prospects. Chris is best known for his free 'Crash Course' on Money and Banking available at which we recommend highly.
2017 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: De-Extinction
Neil deGrasse Tyson and panelists discuss de-extinction in the 2017 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History. Biologists today have the knowledge, the tools, and the ability to influence the evolution of life on Earth. Do we have an obligation to bring back species that human activities may have rendered extinct? Does the technology exist to do so? Join Tyson and the panel for a lively debate about the merits and shortcomings of this provocative idea.
2017 Asimov Debate panelists are:
George Church
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University and MIT
Hank Greely
Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford University
Gregory Kaebnick
Scholar, The Hastings Center; Editor, Hastings Center Report
Ross MacPhee
Curator, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology; Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School
Beth Shapiro
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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The late Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific and influential authors of our time, was a dear friend and supporter of the American Museum of Natural History. In his memory, the Hayden Planetarium is honored to host the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate—generously endowed by relatives, friends, and admirers of Isaac Asimov and his work—bringing the finest minds in the world to the Museum each year to debate pressing questions on the frontier of scientific discovery.
2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?
2015 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Water, Water
2014 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Selling Space
2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing
2012 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Faster Than the Speed of Light
2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Theory of Everything
Rose Center Anniversary Isaac Asimov Debate: Is Earth Unique?
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Here be Dragons 2018: Track A
Sea monsters such as the kraken, prister, and rosmarus indicated uncharted territory on elaborate new maps of the world in medieval times. Despite many advances in mapping technology and data acquisition in the last 500 years, our ocean remains largely uncharted and poorly understood.
Here be Dragons convened explorers, innovators, artists, scientists, and storytellers to identify the uncharted territories that still exist in ocean exploration and storytelling. In response, MIT students will work with explorers to develop and present collaborative projects to deploy new and emerging technologies in the field that address gaps in our understanding and sharing of the ocean. Select proposals will be funded for Rapid Field Deployments.
In collaboration with the National Geographic Society and New England Aquarium.
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PubTalk 4/2018 - Coral Reefs
Title: The Role of U.S. Coral Reefs in Coastal Protection - Rigorously valuing flood reduction benefits to inform coastal zone management decisions
* Coral reefs are a first line of coastal defense
* We can account for the physical defense that reefs provide
* We can provide value-based information to guide restoration efforts at management-relevant scales (10s of meters)
* We can direct ecosystems restoration efforts to reduce risk and increase the resiliency of coastal communities
The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, The Junkyard Planet, with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants hope to find Merlin, which they think will be their ticket to wealth and prosperity. But is Merlin real, or just an old rumor? And if they find it will it save them, or tear them apart?
Chapter 1 - 00:00
Chapter 2 - 19:54
Chapter 3 - 32:36
Chapter 4 - 47:40
Chapter 5 - 1:10:53
Chapter 6 - 1:28:29
Chapter 7 - 2:01:28
Chapter 8 - 2:20:02
Chapter 9 - 2:36:43
Chapter 10 - 2:57:02
Chapter 11 - 3:23:45
Chapter 12 - 3:40:09
Chapter 13 - 3:58:52
Chapter 14 - 4:13:42
Chapter 15 - 4:47:20
Chapter 16 - 5:09:31
Chapter 17 - 5:28:32
Chapter 18 - 5:45:25
Chapter 19 - 6:08:45
Chapter 20 - 6:25:55
Chapter 21 - 6:44:31
Chapter 22 - 7:12:23
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
Jack Holloway, a prospector on the planet Zarathustra discovers small furry creatures. These creatures are obviously intelligent, but are they animals or are they sapient? If they are sapient the planet will be declared a protected zone and the company that is developing the planet commercially will lose their exclusive rights to the resources...
Chapter 01 - 00:00
Chapter 02 - 23:20
Chapter 03 - 50:23
Chapter 04 - 1:07:42
Chapter 05 - 1:20:03
Chapter 06 - 1:52:39
Chapter 07 - 2:22:13
Chapter 08 - 2:48:48
Chapter 09 - 3:13:08
Chapter 10 - 3:31:23
Chapter 11 - 3:53:56
Chapter 12 - 4:09:22
Chapter 13 - 4:35:08
Chapter 14 - 4:43:51
Chapter 15 - 5:15:53
Chapter 16 - 5:26:02
Chapter 17 - 5:42:59
National Liaison Committee Meeting: Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
In this video, three speakers explain U.S. Geological Survey research on harmful algal blooms (HABs) and the nutrients that cause these toxic emerald-green blooms in the Nation’s lakes, reservoirs, and coastal waters. Jennifer Graham and Tom Stiles discuss how USGS science is contributing to the development of early warning systems and predictive tools to guide management decisions in this area of emerging concern. Paul Capel follows this with a discussion of research on nutrients in Chesapeake Bay and how it can help set realistic expectations for managing nutrients in one of the Nation’s most valued waterways.
The Human Age: Our Anthropocene Conundrum, presented by guest lecturer Dennis Dimick
Dennis Dimick, former picture and environment editor for National Geographic, delivers a narrated visual journey through the Anthropocene—the past three centuries of human activity culminating in our fossil-fueled modern world. Presented by the SOJC’s Media Center for Science and Technology, Dimick's talk makes a case that, while humans have created great prosperity on Earth, it's at a cost we must now reckon with. As we approach a turning point, Dimick says, communicators can help convince policy makers and the public that we must make an energy transition before it’s too late.
This lecture was made possible by funds from the Robert and Mabel Ruhl and Richard W. and Laurie Johnston lecture series.
Dimick is co-founder of Eyes On Earth, a project to inspire a new generation of environmental photographers. A son of fisheries biologists, Dimick grew up on a sheep and hay farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
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Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest
By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits believes he has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems. UPDATE: December 2012: The core content of this talk has been challenged on a number of grounds. For details, and for Willie Smits' response to these criticisms, please see this page:
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City of Santa Rosa Council Meeting January 29, 2019
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Best Out Of Waste | Model Making Task | Hunnarbaaz! Skilled To Win!
Waste management is a huge task which several authorities deal with. Some students come out with interesting ideas to tackle this issue!
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Slavery and Global Public History Conference: Facing or Deflecting the Past in Exhibitions
Saturday, Session 1
Publics, as much as historians and large cultural institutions, define how difficult history is remembered or forgotten. Smaller and independent sites and communities increasingly tell local stories of slavery and history that reflect local public memory and desires to remember or disremember a specific past.
Speakers:
Mary N. Elliott, Museum Specialist, The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
Michael Frazier, African Burial Ground National Monument, National Park Service
Meredith Hardy, Archeologist, Southeast Archaeological Center, National Park Service
Ibrahima Thiaw, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (IFAN), University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal
Jennifer Tosch, Founder of Black Heritage Tours, The Netherlands & New York State
Moderator: Françoise N. Hamlin, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Brown University
December 3, 2016
Brown University
City Of Boulder Open Space Board of Trustee Meeting 4-10-19