Bill Moyers: Ending the Silence on Climate Change Ending the Silence on Climate Change from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. Remember climate change? The issue barely comes up with any substance in our current political dialogue. But bringing climate change back into our national conversation is as much a communications challenge as it is a scientific one. This week, in an encore broadcast, scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, joins Bill to describe his efforts to galvanize communities over what’s arguably the greatest single threat facing humanity. “[A] pervasive sense up to now has been that climate change is distant — distant in time, and distant in space,” Leiserowitz tells Bill. The show also includes a short video portrait of photographic artist Chris Jordan, whose work helps us understand the scope of American consumerism and consumption. © 2013 Public Affairs Television Inc.
TERRA: The Nature of Our World *Video Podcast* :: Home The Venus Project Wald | Internationales Jahr der Wälder 2011 NABU.de Themen WaldJahr der Wälder 2011Wir brauchen mehr Urwälder Deutschland braucht Urwälder Waldvernichtung geht zu Lasten von Klima- und Artenschutz Jeden Tag verliert unser Planet rund 356 Quadratkilometer Wald. 05. Jeden Tag verliert unser Planet rund 356 Quadratkilometer Wald, vor allem in den Tropen, aber auch in den weitläufigen Gebieten der russischen Taiga. Auch in Deutschland gibt es wieder Urwälder. Der NABU fordert deshalb, die Beschlüsse der Weltklimakonferenz in Cancún zügig umzusetzen und einen globalen Fonds zum Schutz der Wälder aufzulegen. Der NABU fordert ungestörte Waldentwicklung auf 10 Prozent der Fläche. „Das internationale Jahr der Wälder sollte auch für uns in Deutschland ein Ansporn sein, noch mehr für den Schutz des Waldes zu tun. Wirkliche Naturwälder, in denen sich der Wald ungestört nach den Gesetzen der Natur entwickeln kann, gibt es in Deutschland heute gerade mal auf ein Prozent der Waldfläche. Mehr zum Thema Das können Sie tun Mehr
Optimum Population Trust Why We Cant Clean Up the Pacific Gyre :: Fake Plastic Fish | Live Life With Less Plastic Over the next few years you are going to hear a lot of claims about programs to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The floating island of plastic garbage twice the size of Texas. The trash patch. The area Captain Charles Moore discovered ten years ago. Don’t be fooled! The Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island. First of all, it’s a misnomer to call it an island. There are several ocean gyres full of plastic. The problem is even bigger than cleaning up the North Pacific Gyre. We’re Dumping More Plastic Into the Ocean Than We Can Clean Up. How can we ever clean it up when every day, more and more single-use disposable products are manufactured, used, and disposed of? Focusing on Cleanup Misdirects Attention from the Real Issue. The Plastics Industry sponsors cleanup efforts without reducing the production of single-use disposable plastics in the first place. You are encouraged to implement the sections and steps that help achieve your company’s specific goals. What experts have to say