Archive for December 2012

Top Environmental Documentaries and Movies

December 31, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Here is a list of some of the best documentaries and movies with an environmental theme. Many of these films deal with fossil fuels and they all deal with the environmental implications of human activity. Some of the older movies like "Baraka" and "Koyaanisqatsi" date back more than two decades...

Promised Land: A Review by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

December 31, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Written by costars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, this Gus Van Sant film shows how farmers hit hard hit by recession must decide whether they are going to take the money offered by gas companies that want to employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on their lands. In this article Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

Infrastructure Planning: The Planning Inspectorate, Hybrid Bills and Community Engagement (Event)

December 30, 2012 Add Comment Edit

This event will take place on Tuesday, 22nd January 2013 at the Johnnie Walker Room, The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London. This seminar will provide a timely opportunity to discuss how planning for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) is being handled under the new system....

Water Industry Customer Conference (Event)

December 30, 2012 Add Comment Edit

This event will take place on January 24th 2013 in Birmingham, UK. The conference will address the role of the customer in the changing water industry. No longer a silent service provider, the sector has to realign as customer-facing, not only in the call centre, but throughout the supply chain. The...

Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2013 (Events)

December 30, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2013 includes five major events that will take place January 13-17th in the United Arab Emirates. These five events offer a significant platform for international dialogue and cooperation. Together they are expected to welcome over 30,000 participants from 150 countries,...

Ninth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability (Event)

December 30, 2012 Add Comment Edit

This event will take place on January 23-25 2013 in Hiroshima, Japan. Opportunities will be provided for conference participants to interact, converse, and learn from each other. Built in to the conference program are a number of sessions and events that are designed specifically to promote interactions...

DEBATE: McKibben vs. Epstein—Are Fossil Fuels a Risk to the Planet? (Video)

December 29, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Related ArticlesThe Implications of the US being a Global Leader in Fossil Fuel ProductionStudents Advocating Divestment from Fossil FuelsBurning Fossil Fuels and Staying Within the 2 Degree LimitPresident Clinton on What People Need to Know about Renewable EnergyFossil Fuels are the Most Hated Industry...

A Brief History of Anthropogenic Climate Change (Video)

December 29, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Related ArticlesClimate Change is Already Killing 400000 People AnnuallyBoxer's Climate Change Caucus Breeds Hope for LegislationPricewaterhouseCoopers Climate Change WarningUS Climate Change PolicyThe Cherry-Picking of Climate Change SkepticsObama Addresses Solutions to Climate Change Long Before...

Anti-Fracking Movie Trailer Promised Land (Video)

December 29, 2012 Add Comment Edit

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Children and the Future of Sustainability

December 28, 2012 Add Comment Edit

As the most vulnerable members of our societies, environmental destruction impacts children first and foremost. Children are also those who are most likely to endure the impacts of a polluted environment over the longest period. Climate change is already killing one thousand children every day. The...

EPA Chief Forced Out By Dirty Industries and Anti-Environment Republicans

December 28, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Late in December, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that she will be stepping down after a little less than four years in the job. From the outset Jackson, a chemical engineer, was plagued by conservative critics who did not want the EPA to play a prominent...

Help Support the Training of Climate Leaders

December 27, 2012 Add Comment Edit

There are few things we can do on this Earth that are more important than supporting environmental education. The Climate Reality Project is an organization of more than 4,000 volunteers who travel the country to deliver Al Gore's climate change presentation to hundreds of thousands of people in schools,...

Sustainable Learning Online: UNESCO's Young Masters Programme

December 27, 2012 Add Comment Edit

In 2011 UNESCO inaugurated a global online education programme for 16–18 year-old students to learn about sustainability issues and solutions. The Young Masters Programme (YMP) is a free global web-based education and learning network about sustainable development. The programme is open for secondary...

December 27, 2012 Add Comment Edit

In the words from Mother and Director Francine Cavanaugh: We are documentary filmmakers but parents first. I was four months pregnant when we began filming over 6 years ago in Coal River Valley WV. Our first visit was to the local elementary school and we were blown away by its proximity to a large...