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[http://www.visualizing.org/visualizations/welcome-anthropocene-felix-pharand-and-owen-gaffney Welcome to the anthropocene] (video) | [http://www.visualizing.org/visualizations/welcome-anthropocene-felix-pharand-and-owen-gaffney Welcome to the anthropocene] (video) | ||
| − | [http://www.ted.com/talks/johan_rockstrom_let_the_environment_guide_our_development.html Excellent video overview of our current status]: Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. [http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art32/main.html His research] has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems. TEDtalk. This [http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/mar/06/nine-planetary-boundaries-finessing-anthropocene/ LongNow talk] builds on Rockstrom. 3/12 | + | [http://www.ted.com/talks/johan_rockstrom_let_the_environment_guide_our_development.html Excellent video overview of our current status]: Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. [http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art32/main.html His research] has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems. TEDtalk. This [http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/mar/06/nine-planetary-boundaries-finessing-anthropocene/ LongNow talk] builds on Rockstrom. 3/12. [http://www.ecoshock.info/2012/06/planet-shift-no-return.html Rio Summit talk] 6/12 (audio). |
Related: A seminal study last fall in ''Nature'' put climate in perspective of 10 biophysical systems crucial to human health -- and it found biodiversity loss more troubling than any other [http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-22-scientists-identify-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-nature Link] | Related: A seminal study last fall in ''Nature'' put climate in perspective of 10 biophysical systems crucial to human health -- and it found biodiversity loss more troubling than any other [http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-22-scientists-identify-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-nature Link] | ||
Revision as of 16:52, 24 August 2012
Here you can get a quick but comprehensive overview of the current state of the planet.
Powerful video: She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite...Hurting...
Welcome to the anthropocene (video)
Excellent video overview of our current status: Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems. TEDtalk. This LongNow talk builds on Rockstrom. 3/12. Rio Summit talk 6/12 (audio).
Related: A seminal study last fall in Nature put climate in perspective of 10 biophysical systems crucial to human health -- and it found biodiversity loss more troubling than any other Link
Earth Policy Institute's excellent Eco-Economy Indicators
List of CO2 emissionsby country. In a new study, University of Michigan researchers accounted for both climate and GDP when looking at total emissions from each country. 7.12
Greenest U.S. cities and companies 6.12
Big Picture, Small Planet excellent short video overview by Medard Gabel, creator of online World Game by Buckminster Fuller. Short animated video on hunger
2009 State of the Planet from National Geographic (video)
Gapminder brilliantly allows you to visualize world demographic trends
If the earth were 100 people video
Top 10 polluted places Time Magazine version. Top 10 eco-disasters.
Top 10 Most and Least Green States.
Eco-disaster slideshow . Time Magazine's Top 20 green ideas.
Executive Summary of 2009 State of the Future report. Previous Executive Summary of 2008 .
AAAS Atlas of Population & Environment
UCSC Atlas of Global Inequality
List of US environmental laws and versions in plain English, for example, Clean Air Act.
David Christian teaches an ambitious world history course that tells the tale of the entire universe -- from the Big Bang 13 billion years ago to present day. TEDtalk video.
Earth
Video overview Click on State of the Earth link in left navigation bar. 2009?
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R Montgomery (book trailer) professor of geomorphology, University of Washington discusses the problem of global soil degradation and soil erosion and why it is one of the most significant environmental crises that face our species and planet for the next 400 years to come. another talk.
Air (More in-depth content)
Fire (metaphorically, Global Warming)
Bottom line, we have about five years, unless we've already hit hit the tipping point
Al Gore TEDTalk 20 min. video
Water (More in-depth content)
CBS News segment 1/10
video overview Click on State of the Earth link in left navigation bar, then water.
How farms create Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico (good overview)
E-waste (see also Consumption and Chemicals)
11/08 CBS 60 Minutes segment (video)
Overview from the National Resources Defense Council
Want to know more? Check out these general environmental websites:
Some environmental organizations
United Nations environmental info
Environmental Clearinghouse has info on a variety of topics.
Books
Ecosystems and human well-being By Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Program et al. 2005 Very detailed
Humanity's Footprint : momentum, impact, and our global environment / Walter K. Dodds New York : Columbia University Press, c2008 McHenry Stacks - GF75 .D65 2008 Link
Magazines/Journals
Time Magazine on science and environment.
(must be logged into UCSC computer to access:)
Online Courses
Environmental Health from Johns Hopkins University gives a good overview of different kinds of exposures to different toxins and their effects.
