Video of Hero Doc Hendley’s premier on the TEDx Stage at Asheville, NC on August 29, 2010. Doc is founder of Wine to Water, a non-profit promoting clean water resources in poverty stricken countries worldwide. This video compliments the interview of Doc Hendley by Dick Gordan of The Story as reported in this blog post. He ends this presentation with “Here’s to being a nobody.”... [Read more]
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Wine Into Water works for us all
This morning I woke up early, opened one eye, grabbed my iPhone, and chose the podcast, American Public Media (APM) The Story with Dick Gordan, the one titled, Fix a Well and Change the World. It woke me up. It’s an interview with Doc Hendley of the group Wine to Water. He talks about his transition from bartending in Raleigh to working to bring clean water to people in Darfur. Despite the violence... [Read more]
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Advancing Science, Serving Society in a Hostile Environment
In Friday’s post about climate change I referenced four videos, one of which features Prince Charles denouncing the climate change deniers. What I didn’t refer to is the public Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Regarding Personal Attacks on Climate Scientists. “We are deeply concerned by the extent and nature of personal... [Read more]
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Changing Climate Patterns
Climate change is on the surface a hot potato. There are all sorts of folks from Prince Charles to Prof Naomi Oreskes pointing out the folly of ignoring the scientific consensus on the warming of our earth and its cause – us. One thing YOU can do is look at the evidence and come to your own conclusions. Today’s issue of the Sustainability Information Diet (SID*) features two videos... [Read more]
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Water Canary by Sonaar Luthra
Just added from the TED collection this video presentation by Sonaar Luthra. After a crisis, how can we tell if water is safe to drink? Current tests are slow and complex, and the delay can be deadly, as in the cholera outbreak after Haiti’s earthquake in 2010. TED Fellow Sonaar Luthra previews his design for a simple tool that quickly tests water for safety — the Water Canary.
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Announcing the Sustainability Information Diet (SID)
Introducing the Sustainability Information Diet (SID)
SID is all about increasing sustainability awareness on the Web which is awash in information resulting in search results running to thousands of possibilities and our eyes seeing but the first three or four listings. Here’s a heat map of the results page, Google search. A listing of a YouTube video on page one of the results catches... [Read more]
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Worth a Million Words About Global Warming
“Worth a million words via Seth’s Blog – We all know how much a picture is worth. What about a good short video…” His blog offers a click through to this NASA animation of temperature data from 1880-2011 reflecting that the global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which... [Read more]
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Creating the Internet of Energy by Dr. Ryan Wartena
Just added Dr. Ryan Wartena, CEO, President, and Founder of Growing Energy Labs, Inc (GELI) to the Renewable Energy and Smart Grid special collection on EarthSayers.tv, voices of sustainability. In this video he asks, why haven’t we used solar all these years and how the Internet of Energy addresses the major roadblock – storage. Much as Google’s founders foresaw the potential of the... [Read more]
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Reach Out and Educate with Your Voice
And make sure you are on YouTube. Why? In October 2011, 201.4 billion videos were viewed online, with the global viewing audience reaching 1.2 billion unique viewers age 15 and older. Google Sites led as the top global video property with nearly 88.3 billion videos viewed on the property during the month, accounting for 43.8% of all videos viewed globally. YouTube.com was the key driver of video viewing... [Read more]
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
PBS, Citizen Journalism, and Content as King
This is an excellent panel discussion held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on November 29, 2011 featuring Paula Kerger head of PBS and John Boland head of the SF local station, KQED talking about the future of the Public Broadcasting. Core is the story itself, content remaining king so part of their content strategy is finding the market failures, the important things to society that the... [Read more]
