Multimedia

Note: new content will often be in gold font. Highly rated content will have ***

Video

Crittercam is a videocamera attached to ocean animals to observe their behavior. UCSC alum will show this work April 5th at UCSC.

Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore's Dilemma (Ch 1. online free)

Global Warming skeptic comes clean

Dolphins playing with bubbles

Avery Lovins on the Oil Endgame, a TEDtalk. See also www.oilendgame.com

GreenTV

Earth Circle Cinema is a sort of NetFlix for green videos. Here are previews

Earthday TV will host the 1/30 webcast with Van Jones and has many other videos archived

The Story of Stuff an excellent look at consumption ***

Great video on global warming***

Lester Brown talk at Google Jan 2006

James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia Strong language. In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life -- the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about.

Interview with creator of Virtual Reality eco-village in Second Life, Etopia.

Background on wildfires

Majora Carter works for Environmental Justice in the Bronx 20 min.****

The Meatrix, animated short film about the meat industry

UCSC's Predatory Bird Group video archives of falcon nest in San Jose***

Whales off Hawaii

Osprey 2 1/2 min.

Audio

Sites:

Quest KQED NPR San Francisco has great Califonia environmental stories

KPFA's Terra Verde with Pratap Chatterjee Fridays 1-1:30 pm. A live public affairs program focusing on investigating and analyzing environmental issues from a global perspective. Archives online.

Living on Earth NPR weekly environmental program. Archives online.

Stories:

NPR interview with Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, gives us a primer on the expansive history — and the endangered future — of this seedless, sexless fruit.

Global Warming skeptics meet in NY

Obama on Climate Change

Diamonds to Rice Land devastated by mining is becoming productive

Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0 an Environmental Call to Action (audio interview) Free download of book

Three Gorges Dam in China is a massive project with huge ecological end social effects (audio and images)

Gore speaks in Bali Conf. Also an inspiring talk by David Kucinich on greening the US.

Climate Connections NPR and National Geographic team up to provide great info on climate change

Do you know where your blue jeans have been? We follow the path of a pair of jeans, from the cotton fields to the seamstresses to the retail store. Rachel Louise Snyder's new book is Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade. audio interview

An amazing whale story (Realplayer required)***

Naturalist Craig Childs, author of The Secret Knowledge of Water

A Gap in Nature Author Tim Flannery on extinction (see link to audio interview)

'Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest' by Sy Montgomery (several chapters on audio)

Websites

Follow the oil money in politics. A dynamic map ***

Care2 gives various kinds of eco and demographic info based on geography

eNature allows you to identify, track and report wildlife in your area

Gapminder allows you to see demographic trends in a very powerful way. ****

Scorecard Type in your Zip Code and see who's poisoning your home town

Pesticide Use in CA useful lists by county and chemical

UCSC Atlas of Global Inequality ****

Wiser Earth a directory of people and organizations in the fight

Worldmapper ***

Calculate your ecological impact on the planet

Art

Environmental art

Graphic Novel on Diane Wilson Wilson's book, An Unreasonable Woman

Images

Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a collection that tells the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Hoping for a glimpse of the world the way it was in the age of photosynthesizing stromatolites, "back before the sky turned blue," Lanting journeyed to a remote lagoon in Australia, the only place in the world where stromatolites still exist. The story moves forward from there, via a lyrical collection of photographs set to a soundtrack from Philip Glass. TEDtalk video

Stunning images of accumulated consumer goods and resources by Chris Jordan

Edward Burtynsky

Valerie Ucumari's photos of animals

Please send your suggestions for content to Patrick McKercher mailto:pmmckerc@ucsc.edu