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Last Saturday, May 5, people around the world marked Climate Impacts Day. In honor of the day, we decided to connect some of the dots between extreme weather and food, water and energy in the U.S. during 2011.
Last Saturday, the folks at 350.org and others around the world participated in a global event designed to demonstrate that climate change is no longer a shadow looming on a distant horizon. It’s evident in an upsurge in extreme weather — how do you connect the dots?
Our Hero: Jessica Yu, Director of “Last Call at the Oasis”
In her new movie "Last Call at the Oasis," Oscar-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu trains her lens on the world water crisis, with a particular emphasis on the United States – a nation that is little aware of its burgeoning water quality and quantity problems.
Between the series' DVD release and recent controversy over how climate change was—or was not—tackled by BBC producers, it’s a good time for us to check out Frozen Planet for those of you who may have missed it. Come for the polar bears, stay for the timelapse ice melts. Plus: penguins!
Last week, 250 science high school students saw a preview of the soon-to-be released water documentary Last Call at the Oasis. In this podcast we talk with Kai Olson-Sawyer about the screening of the film.
You say no one recognizes the horrible pollution problems that will arrive when hybrid and electric cars are junked and their batteries are dumped into landfills? Actually, there are two reasons why that's not likely to happen.
We’ve been talking about corporate “greenwashing” for a while, now, but if food activists have been hard at work talking to consumers about food systems, so have food marketers.
In this new video project from the IATP Food and Community Fellows, Food Justice From The Ground Up, we hear from each of them.
Undeterred by last month's dismissal, the farmers behind OSGATA et al vs. Monsanto continue to press their case. Meanwhile, Vernon Brown, a farmer who was sued by the biotech behemoth, is taking his case to the Supreme Court.
On May 5, thousands of communities will join together to “shine a spotlight on the connections between extreme weather and climate change.”
