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Alarming Acceleration
of Arctic Warming Detected
Case Focus: Arctic Melt
videos: C.Christo & M.Wilkinson
Updated with new links, 2/18
E.O.Wilson: "The world is full of amateurs: gifted amateurs, devoted amateurs... Anybody can pick up information in interesting places, find new species or rediscover what was thought to be a vanished species, or some new biological fact about a species already known, and can provide that right into The Encyclopedia of Life."
NYTimes' David Pogue interview with E.O.Wilson: transcript
Dramatic new videos of methane release and a meltwater 'moulin' in Case Focus: "Arctic Melt"
Jungle Reforestation The latest film from the "Report From the Forest" series, on the jungle reforestation work of Julio Arce, Professor Ethnobotany, University of Iquitos, Peru; with a focus on medicinals and other human-ally species. Watch the video here.
Case Focus: The Shipibo People
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| A bumble bee gathers pollen in apple blossoms, Santa Fe, May 7. (photo S. Miller)
See Ecoversity's beekeeping course schedule and beekeeping videos, including scenes from the 2009 courses, at our Beekeeping TV page. |
Ecoversity is a non-profit educational center which explores and demonstrates concepts of sustainable living, ecological design, and responsibility for the wise stewardship of the Earth.
Established in 1999 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ecoversity focusses on practices and solutions designed to regenerate the Earth and revitalize the human spirit.
The Green Patriarch:
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
The name "Green Patriarch' is hardly sufficient to describe this amazing man, who, while still in the grip of the tidal forces of human history unleashed by the collapse of the Roman Empire, is one of the few who really grasps the significance of the current moment for the future of humanity and Creation. His quiet and persevering influence has been great, up there with Al Gore, maybe more so. This is a powerful film on a true spiritual leader working behind the scenes to change the way humanity relates to Earth and Nature. (watch The Green Patriarch)
May 7. Bartholomew has written a commentary on the Gulf oil disaster at the HuffingtonPost.
Storms of My Grandchildren: James Hansen's Bottom Line
James Hansen, dean of US climate scientists, first warned the world of the danger of radical climate change due to CO2 emissions a generation ago; he considers himself a scientist and 'not a communicator' and hoped that his research would be enough to motivate necessary policy changes. A few years ago he decided he had to do more, and he has been speaking out ever since. "Storms of My Grandchildren" is his first book, and as the title implies, represents his effort to set the record straight in a comprehensive way on the question of human-caused climate change, and deliver a blunt warning to us about our future on Earth.
Hansen's book is a review of the relatively short but lively history of climate science and the growing recognition- and denial- of the dangers of the use of fossil fuels. It is also a call to arms beyond political boundaries and especially the boundaries of what is deemed 'practical'. His critique of "cap and trade" as a policy response is devastating and convincing (he favors a carbon fee at the source), and he denounces the posturing, and double-dealing of polluters as well as the half-hearted and half-witted efforts of compromised NGOs.
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| Venus, once covered in water,
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In a chapter titled "The Venus Syndrome", Hansen looks at the case of Venus, whose own runaway greenhouse effect left it baked and desolate a long time ago, and explores where on the curve of our own climate forcing might lie our point of no return, where catastrophic runaway warming is initiated here on Earth. Hansen's fear is not so much of a 3° or 6° rise in global temperature, as that rising atmospheric CO2 brings us ever closer to Earth's point of no return.
Hansen frequently uses the phrase "if we burn all the fossil fuel" instead of, for example, 'if we don't stop burning fossil fuels'. They mean of course the same thing, but his formulation has the advantage of spotlighting the total carbon injection, and then modeling the resulting climate forcing and climate change.
Bottom line: If we burn all the fossil fuels, the ice sheets will melt entirely, raising sea levels by 250 feet, the warmer seas triggering the massive release of the methane hydrates, setting the stage for the runaway greenhouse.
"After the ice is gone, would Earth proceed to the Venus syndrome, a runaway greenhouse effect that would destroy all life on the planet, perhaps permanently? While that is difficult to say based on present information, I've come to conclude that if we burn all reserves of oil, gas and coal, there is a substantial chance we will initiate the runaway greenhouse. If we also burn the tar sands and tar shale, I believe the Venus syndrome is a dead certainty."
Hansen's response to Obama's offshore drilling announcement
Video: Hansen talks about "Storms of My Grandchildren"
'Storms' website / 'Storms' at Amazon
COP15 - Copenhagen Climate Conference Final Updates
Adi Pieper: Solar Power Systems
Ecoversity hosted Adi Pieper's Santa Fe Community College class studying solar power systems on May 15th.
watch a slideshow
ADI Solar website
Earthworks Institute at Ecoversity
Earthworks Institute, a non-profit environmental services organization based in Santa Fe, held a training at Ecoversity in March. Earthworks' mission is "to help communities build capacity to restore, protect, and live in harmony with their natural environment- through an integrated approach bringing together education, community-driven land stewardship, watershed restoration, land-use planning and policy work, and a green-collar climate corps."
Director Dana Richards writes about the EarthWorks Institute in April's Greenfire Times.
Earthworks Institute website
Ecoversity Tour
Boys and Girls Club of Santa Fe
Ecoversity hosted students of the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Fe on a tour of the facilities on February 16. Watch a slide show here
from "Bee Meditation" A new film from Kanseki, of the bees at Ecoversity.
Beekeeping 2010
You may find a schedule of 2010 Beekeeping courses here, including a description of each course. See more new bee films, including Talon Van Howten and the 2009 beekeeping courses, at Beekeeping TV
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Current rate estimated at 2-4 million gallons per day. Pressure: 40-70,000 lbs per square inch. (vs normal 1,500 psi). Methane content: 40% (normal is 4-10%). Evidence of other leaks from seafloor. Nuclear option raised again. See the latest key video reports on the oil gusher in the Gulf here
Alert! Wash those 'prewashed' bagged greens- a recent survey found 39% were contaminated! (see report)
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Transitions Radio
Interview 5/12/10: Ecoversity's Jeff Harbour with Alan Hutner for Transitions Radio (to be broadcast on KBAC 98.1FM) (listen)
Santa Fe New Mexican 11/28/08
"A New Energy Frontier"
KSFR: Diego Mulligan Interviews
- Mar 24 2009: Diego interviews Andrew Fikiforuk, author of Tar Sands
-Interview with Ecoversity's Jeff Harbour and Willem Malten, 12/30/08 (mp3)
-Interview with Alphonz Viszolay 12/16/08 (mp3)
"The Genius in All of Us"
Author David Shenk at the Commonwealth Club takes us beyond 'nature v. nurture'. (video)
2010 Year of Biodiversity
UN General Secretary Ban-Ki Moon announces The Year of Biodiversity 2010.
Watch video
PBS Frontline: HEAT
Frontline's powerful program on human-caused global warming can be seen online here.
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