Multimedia

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Video

Great video on global warming***

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


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


Art

Environmental art


Images

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