Multimedia
Video
Avery Lovins on the Oil Endgame, a TEDtalk. See also www.oilendgame.com
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.
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***
Audio
Diamonds to Rice Land devastated by mining is becoming productive
Quest KQED NPR San Francisco has great Califonia environmental stories
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
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
Wiser Earth a directory of people and organizations in the fight
Art
Images
Stunning images of accumulated consumer goods and resources by Chris Jordan
Valerie Ucumari's photos of animals
Please send your suggestions for content to Patrick McKercher mailto:pmmckerc@ucsc.edu
