Multimedia
Note: new content will often be in gold font. Some highly rated content will have *** (or even ****)
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Video
Live Cams
Sites:
TED is a conference that takes place early in the year in Monterey. It brings together the smartest, most passionate and creative people on the planet. These 20 min videos never fail to inspire.
TEDTalks on the environment On animals Bold Predictions, Stern Warnings****
EcoLive TV great site
KQED Science website has local Bay Area programs, many on the environment, as well as links to PBS shows, including Heat, on global warming, as well as a variety of blogs to stay up to date on eco-issues.
Brave Nation is offering a series of talks, relating especially to environmental justice with Van Jones and others.
SnagTV offers environmental films online for free.
The Guardian (online site of UK newspaper) has audio and video of environmental news.
2008 Aspen Environment Forumincluding Van Jones, Majora Carter (EJ), Amory Lovins, Tim Kunstler (city design), Lester Brown, EO Wilson and many more.
Pacific Environment.org has videos especially on ocean and China.
Berkeley Institute of the Environment
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.
Stories
Ocean Animal Emergency Features UCSC folks. You can volunteer to help at Marine Mammal Center (see volunteer page).
Pacific gyre filled with plastic. PBS news segment featuring UCSC folk.
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean. See also longer video TEDtalk
Paul MacCready: Nature vs. humans, and what we can do about it (TEDtalk video)
Jared Diamond, author of Collapse (TEDtalk video
Big Picture, Small Planet excellent short video overview by Medard Gabel, creator of online World Game by Buckminster Fuller.
Rachael Carson program by Bill Moyers, includes a play based on Carson.
Crude Impact: Oil Companies and the Environment from LinkTV
Fox News Attacks Global Warming from Brave New Films (partisan)
the REAL journey to the center of the earth (TEDtalk)
Jill Bolte-Taylor discusses insights based on her experience of having a stroke. Inspiring TEDtalk.
Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter -- and thus, growable. Our whole approach to fuel, he argues, needs to change. TEDTalk video.
Chris Jordan makes stunning images that give us a sense of how much we are consuming, among the effects of other decisions, collective and not, conscious and not.
Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate. TEDtalk video.
Al Gore's followup to Inconvenient Truth TEDtalks
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). Video of debate with John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods Video link (Realplayer required). Their correspondence, which has explored such issues as organic and local food, animal agriculture, and the role of Whole Foods, is available at Whole Foods site and Michael Pollan site.
Global Warming skeptic comes clean
Dolphins playing with bubbles
Avery Lovins on the Oil Endgame, a TEDtalk. See also www.oilendgame.com
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
Sites:
Quest KQED NPR San Francisco has great California environmental stories.
National Public Radio stories on the environment
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:
EO Wilson, wonderful interview on his life and work with ants. Includes excerpt from his new book, Superorganisms
Ig Noble Prizes for experiments that cannot and should not be replicated. Pure fun for the seriously nerdy.
Tom Friedman interview based on his new book Hot, Flat and Crowded excerpt/intro 09/08
Quest story on CA native plant impact by global warming Related story on water supply .
Brent Stirton, Chronicling the Virunga Gorilla Murders
Elizabeth Royte interviewed on new book Bottlemania on water bottles.
Elizabeth Royte's new book Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (includes Podcast interview) Her previous book Garbage Land is a good read.
Boat Made of Plastic Bottles to Sail the Pacific. How do you raise awareness about plastic debris floating in the Pacific? You sail a boat made out of 15,000 plastic bottles from California to Hawaii. Marine scientists Joel Paschal and Marcus Erikson discuss their voyage.
Navajo Nation Pushes for Uranium Cleanup. May 30, 2008 · Despite the lure of potentially big money, the Navajo Nation has banned uranium mining on its reservation, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In part, the decision reflects deep Navajo concerns about how past mining activities have damaged health and the environment.
Goldman Eco-Hero prize (Audio interview with four 2008 winners).
Interview with Jeffrey Sachs, an economist interested in ecological and social justice issues.
Adam Werbach. Once the youngest president in the history of the Sierra Club, San Francisco-based Adam Werbach has served as a sustainability consultant to Wal-Mart and recently sold his firm to global advertising giant Saatchi and Saatchi. He discusses his goal "to construct a consumer movement for sustainability" -- and about the risks of corporate "greenwashing."
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
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
Encyclopedia of Earth a green Wikipedia?
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
Graphic Novel on Diane Wilson Wilson's book, An Unreasonable Woman
Images
Jim Balog won the Rowell Award. Here he documents global warming
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. TEDtalk video PBS episode
Photographer Edward Burtynsky documents how humans alter the world, and to a lesser degree the people engaged in doing the work (example). Video of TEDtalk accepting his award. A video, Manufactured Landscapes, (trailer) was made about his trip to China and its factories and the Three Gorges Dam. Excerpt.
Valerie Ucumari's photos of animals
See also Social Documentation
Please send your suggestions for content to Patrick McKercher mailto:pmmckerc@ucsc.edu
