Without Water The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatisation of water supplies. More than a billion people across the globe don’t have access to safe water. Every day 3900 children die as a result of insufficient or unclean water supplies. The situation can only get worse as water gets evermore scarce.
Energy is the single most critical challenge facing humanity worlwide. Within the next few decades we must find a new energy source that can provide at least 10 terawatts of clean, low-cost power. The answer to this can only come from revoulutionary breakthroughs in the physical sciences and engineering. Such breakthroughs will certainly happen. But can they be made soon enough to avoid the hard economic times, terrorism, war, and human suffering that will otherwise occur? Presented by Dr. Richard Smalley (1943-2005), 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Rice University. Recorded July 8th, 2003.
The era of cheap oil may be over and a growing number of analysts predict production is about to peak before significantly falling behind demand. Jonathan Holmes investigates.
Music and the Brain: From Perception to Emotion
brought together neuroscientists, performing artists, and the public all participating in a gathering which discussed the interpretation of emotions, creativity, and improvisation. The public event was held during the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) in Geneva. Participants included, EDAB vice chairman, Pierre Magistretti, Federal Institute of Technology and Lausanne University Hospital; Francois Ansermet, Geneva University Hospital; Gary Magby, Lausanne Music Conservatory; Solenn’ Lavanant, opera singer; Ioanna Bentoiu, opera singer; Richard Rentsch (www.richard-rentsch.com), composer and Orazio Sciortino (www.oraziosciortino.com). The Dana Foundation - Webcast Archive
A Crude Awakening : The Oil Crash is an award-winning documentary film about peak oil, produced and directed by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack. ( http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/ )
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash explores key historical events, data and predictions regarding the global peak in petroleum production through interviews with petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, and political analysts. The film contains contemporary footage interspersed with news and commercial footage from the growth heyday of petroleum production. The documentary focuses on information and testimony that supports the projection of a near-term oil production peak. The documentary examines our dependence on oil, showing how oil is essential for almost every facet of our modern lifestyle, from driving to work to clothing and clean tap water. A Crude Awakening asks the tough question, "What happens when we run out of cheap oil?" Through expert interviews, the film spells out in startling detail the challenges we would face in dealing with the possibility of a world without cheap oil—a world in which it may ultimately take more energy to drill for oil than we can extract from the oil the wells produce.
Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute presents at the Conference on Michigan's Future: Energy, Economy and Environment in November 2008. Heinberg is the world's premiere peak oil educator, having authored four unique and compelling books on the subject. In this presentation, Heinberg discusses the history of human's control of energy and what can be done to prepare for the energy challenges of the future. Heinberg reviews peak oil depletion and takes an overall view on what we need to do to find the path to sustainability.
Ecologist Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Power Down, The Oil Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything, talks about energy wars, global climate change, the false solutions of natural gas, coal and nuclear power and points the way to a peaceful post-carbon future through efficiency, conservation and localization of decentralized renewable energy sources.
Eduardo Galeano: "El mundo se divide en indignos e indignados"
The Crime of Ecocide
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"... move away from property laws to trusteeship laws, so rather than I own, to I owe. I owe a duty of care to this planet."
12-year old Victoria Grant explains why Canada (her homeland) and most of the world, is in debt.
"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London
In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]
McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15] http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html
I am just an anonymous citizen who firmly believes that we are the ones we are always waiting for. No saviors, heroes, leaders, gurus, or superior or inferior, we are all equals, and we need to think and behave as if it matters.
A World Without Water
