Bernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes -- the wind in the trees, the chirping of birds, the subtle sounds of insect larvae -- for 45 years. In that time, he has seen many environments radically altered by humans, sometimes even by practices thought to be environmentally safe. A surprising look at what we can learn through nature's symphonies, from the grunting of a sea anemone to the sad calls of a beaver in mourning.

Published on Jul 15, 2013

Allan Savory is President and Co-founder of the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes -- and his work so far shows -- that a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert. Published on Mar 4, 2013

Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too. More of his lectures on his Website here.

Is the future fixed? The Perimeter Institute founder rethinks the nature of the universe in his new book, Time Reborn. With Robert J. Sawyer. Visit www.torontopubliclibrary.ca.Published on May 17, 2013

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We are off the edge of history. Watch Professor Lord Anthony Giddens discuss the politics of climate change as part of Durham Castle Lecture Series on 31st October 2012.

Published on Nov 7, 2012

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Jessy Tolkan serves as the Executive Director for the Energy Action Coalition,a coalition of 50 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S.and Canada, and hub of the Youth Climate Movement. The Energy Action Coalition leverages the powerof young people to organize on college campuses, high schools,and in local communities to build models of the clean energy future.Prior to her work at the Energy Action Coalition, Tolkan worked withleading advocacy and grassroots organizations including:United States Student Association, Young Democrats of America,and Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. As of February 15, 2010, Jessy willbegin her new role as the Political Director for Green For All,an organization committed to building the green economy strongenough to create millions of green pathways out of povertyfor low income people. In 2008, Tolkan was named one of 100 agentsof change by Rolling Stone Magazine. Uploaded on Feb 25, 2010 Source

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition intends to serve as a forum for assessing progress in addressing the challenge of short lived climate pollutants and for mobilizing resources to accelerate action. It works to catalyse new actions as well as to highlight and bolster existing efforts on near-term climate change and related public health, food and energy security, and environmental issues.

Published on Mar 26, 2013

The Surui Cultural Map shows the Surui tribe of the Amazon's vision of their forest, including their territory and traditional history. To create this map, Surui youth interviewed their elders to document and map their ancestral sites, such as the site of first contact with western civilization in 1969, places where the tribes battled with colonists in the 1970s, as well as places of interest, like sightings of jaguars, capybaras and toucans. To preserve their forest and their livelihood, the Surui are entering the Carbon Credit marketplace with software called Open Data Kit to measure carbon and monitor any illegal logging in their forests using Android smartphones.

Google Earth Outreach gives nonprofits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth & Maps to hundreds of millions of people.

The World Bank warns that rising temperatures could be disastrous, and urges more action to "Turn Down the Heat."

Published on Feb 25, 2013, Sustainability, Global Warming, Climate Change.