GENERAL RESOURCES ON SCIENCE AND MATHS

- An open source project providing video classes on hundreds of science, maths and humanities subjects:
 http://www.khanacademy.org/

FILMS

- "Home", by Yann-Arthus Bertrand:
http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject

- Logan's run (1976)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/

- "The power of community: how Cuba survived peak oil" (Cuba after the collapse of the Soviet Union):
http://www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php

Also in:
http://www.foodmatters.tv/_webapp/The_Power_of_Community

CONFERENCES, SUMMITS, BIENNALS, ETC

- 7th Biennial International Workshop: "Advances in Energy Studies 2010: Can we break the addiction to fossil energy?", Barcelona, 19-21 October 2010

 http://www.societalmetabolism.org/aes2010.html

MULTIMEDIA

FILMS

- "Home", by Yann Arthus Bertrand

http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject

PODCASTS

- "Costing the Earth", BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4wn 

(I'm listing here the BBC resources which have been mentioned in the course fora, together with my complaint that web users from abroad can't use them, something quite absurd in the times of the "global village") 

- Courts and climate change:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00v72r3/Costing_the_Earth_Can_Lawyers_Save_The_World 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v72r3#synopsis

BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS

- CLIMATE CHANGE
- Fred Pearce's books:

• The Coming Population Crash: and Our Planet's Surprising Future , 2010 ISBN 978-0807085837
• The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth About Global Warming, Guardian Books, 2010 ISBN 978-0852652299
• Confessions of an Eco Sinner. Eden Project Books. 2008. ISBN 9781905811106. 
• Climate tipping points loom large
• The Last Generation. Eden Project Books. 2007. ISBN 9781903919880. 
• With Speed and Violence: Why scientists fear tipping points in climate change. Beacon Press. 2007. ISBN 9780807085769. 
• When the Rivers Run Dry. Eden Project Books. 2007. ISBN 9781903919583. 
• Earth: Then and Now. Mitchell Beazley. 2007. ISBN 9781845332464. 
• Deep Jungle. Eden Project Books. 2006. ISBN 9781903919569.

-ECOECONOMY


- ECO-ECONOMY: BUILDING AN ECONOMY FOR THE EARTH
http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/books/eco/eco_table_of_contents

- Universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to institutional investors

 http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/universal_ownership.pdf 




-ECOPSYCHOLOGY

- COMMON CAUSE: THE CAUSE FOR WORKING WITH OUR CULTURAL VALUES

http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/common_cause_report.pdf

- GAIA

- James Lovelock's books:

• (2000) [1979] Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286218-9. 
• with Michael Allaby (1983). Great Extinction. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-18011-X. 
• with Michael Allaby (1984). The Greening of Mars. Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-32967-3. 
• (1995) [1988]. Ages of Gaia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-393-31239-9. 
• (2001) [Gaia Books 1991]. Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-521674-1. 
• (1991). Scientists on Gaia. Cambridge, Mass., USA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-19310-8. 
• Gaia: Medicine for an Ailing Planet. Gaia Books. ISBN 1-85675-231-3. 
• Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860429-7.  (Lovelock's autobiography)
• The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity. Santa Barbara (California): Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9914-4. 
• The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy It While You Can. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1846141850.

-SPIRITUALITY AND ENVIRONMENT

- "SOIL AND SOUL: PEOPLE VERSUS CORPORATE POWER", by Alastair McIntosh

http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/soilandsoul.htm

 

IN THE NEWS

IN THE NEWS

- Artic climate change:

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/10/22/22climatewire-the-arctic-shifts-to-a-new-climate-pattern-i-86771.html 

- Artic:

"Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely" 

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/

- Bears in Japan and climate change

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8075916/Bear-attacks-in-Japan-rise-due-to-climate-change.html

- Coral reef and algae

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9070000/9070148.stm

- Draft global plan for saving biodiversity:

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/10/18/a-planet-in-square-brackets/

http://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/cop/cop-10/official/cop-10-01-add2-rev1-en.pdf  

- Hungary: toxic sludge case

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/10/toxic-sludge-hungary-reservoir-collapse 

- Hunger index: one billion without food

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11503845

- India and Brazil include "natural wealth" levels in GDP figures:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/oct/24/biodiversity-dollars-and-sense

- Invasive species:

s http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/10/04/the-aliens-are-coming/

- Otters are back

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/wildlife/110740.aspx

- Population dynamics and emissions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11514248

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/09/30/1004581107.full.pdf+html 

- Public awareness of biodiversity almost inexistent:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/16/public-awareness-biodiversity-crisis

- Windfarms and weather

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11470261 

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/09/28/1000493107.abstract

GENERAL RESOURCES ABOUT ENVIROMENTAL ISSUES

SITES OF GENERAL INTEREST

- Directory of environmental resources in "Intute":

http://www.intute.ac.uk/environment/

- Earthwire:

http://www.earthwire.org/climate/

- Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity:

http://www.teebweb.org/

- Environmental knowledge for change (UNEP/GRID Arendal)

http://www.grida.no/

- Environmental podcasts:

http://www.podfeed.net/category_list.asp?id=20

- Forum for the future

http://www.forumforthefuture.org/

- Planet Earth site:

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/

- MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, ETC

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/?source=NavEnvHome

INDIVIDUAL TOPICS

ARTIC

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/

BIODIVERSITY

Actions for Europe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/04/biodiversity-100-actions-europe

BIRTH CONTROL AND DEMOGRAPHY

- Birth control and immigration (Italian immigration in Belgium in the 60s):

http://www.springerlink.com/content/e6p781252x125180/  

- Contraception in Chile (birth control and social class):

http://www.cimacnoticias.com/site/07052801-Chile-retrocede-el.17776.0.html 

- Ethics of mass contraception:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/contraception/mass_birth_control_1.shtml

- Optimum population trust:

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/index.html

CLIMATE 

- FAQ Climate Change (New Scientist):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9913-faq-climate-change.html?full=true

- MET OFFICE UK:

- Monitoring

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/

- Projections

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/projections/

- NASA CLIMATE TIME MACHINE:

http://climate.nasa.gov/ClimateTimeMachine/climateTimeMachine.cfm

DEBT

- Debt, poverty and exports in Africa (in French):

http://www.arte.tv/fr/semaine/244,broadcastingNum=1203045,day=6,week=42,year=2010.html 

- Jubilee Debt campaign and climate change:

http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/Debt%20and%20Climate%20Change+3337.twl

DIGITAL DUMP

- Western digital dump in Africa:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440802/


ENERGIES

- Zero carbon Britain:

http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/

FISHING

- End of the line: "Imagine a world without fish"

http://endoftheline.com/

GLOBAL WARMING

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

Data from NASA:

http://climate.nasa.gov/

And a skeptical point of view about it:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-greenhouse-gas.htm   

PLASTIC

Plastic: devastation....

"Discover what the planet might look like to geologists of the far-off-future… the stubborn longevity of plastic and radioactive waste"
http://radio.seti.org/episodes/Earth_A_Millennium_Hence

and creation 

- Transforming plastic trash into art

Podcast: 

http://artheals.libsyn.com/judith-selby-lang-and-richard-lang-transforming-plastic-trash-into-art

Site:


http://www.beachplastic.com/beach_plastic/Shore_Stories.html
Blog:
http://www.plasticforever.blogspot.com/  

- The "Flip-Flop" project:
http://www.swahili-imports.com/home/si3/page_5146/uniqueco__the_flip_flop_project.html

 

SPIRITUALITY AND ENVIRONMENT

- Alliance of Religions and Conservation:

http://www.arcworld.org/

- Green Faith:

http://greenfaith.org/