• BE SURE TO LOOK ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM FOR MORE ARTICLES RELATIVE TO YOUR SUBJECT AREA AND THE SOLUTIONS ARTICLES!

WEBLINKS TO REPORTS, FILMS INFO HERE

DOCUMENTS ARE BELOW THIS AT THE BOTTOM! 

EPA website pages prior to Trump= https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/

SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS- find them here and in documents below these links! :)

For Systemic Change-

Understanding the socially constructed operating system that is being implemented on Planet Earth: Please read these articles before starting your presentation, knowing this material is essential in seeing how these systems impact everything and how privileged, consumptive societies try to get off the hook by blaming others

The have and the have nots-and the Health of Everyone: The Relationship between Social inequality and environmental degradation-when we divide against each other our relationship with the earth becomes more destructive:

Inequality and Environmental Quality:

• https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122646

• https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/media/_media/working_papers/laurent_inequality-pollution.pdf

• https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2018-10-30-connecting-the-dots-between-social-inequalities-and-environmental-change.html?sv.target=12.6b0e412217ca41dcf871cd2&sv.12.6b0e412217ca41dcf871cd2.route=%2Fsettings

Consumption and Environment-Let's find out what is really driving ecological destruction, climate change, emerging diseases, social fragmentation and a whole list of global issues

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800919310201?dgcid=author

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792934/

• https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/population-environment 

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3211385/

Building a Desirable, Sustainable Economy(operating system)

• • https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Building_a_Sustainable_and_Desirable_Economy-in-Society-in-Nature.pdf

  • https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/1951Sustainable%20Consumption.pdf

  • Better Growth, Better Climate chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/viewer.html?pdfurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnewclimateeconomy.report%2F2016%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2014%2F08%2FBetterGrowth-BetterClimate_NCE_Synthesis-Report_web.pdf&clen=3707794&chunk=true

• • https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/1951Sustainable%20Consumption.pdf

  • http://www.greenworker.coop/

  • https://sustainable-economy.org/

  • https://steadystate.org/

  • http://www.theselc.org/community-currencies/

  • http://www.sustainable.org/economy

  • Updated: Bhutan happiness Economy-https://ophi.org.uk/policy/national-policy/gross-national-happiness-index/

  • http://www.teebweb.org/

  • http://donellameadows.org/sustainable-economies/

  • https://bealocalist.org/events/local-sustainable-economies-conference/

  • https://sustainabilitytreaties.org/draft-treaties/sustainable-economies/

  • http://gift-economy.com/

  • https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/new-hedonism-post-consumerism-vision

Voting Resources-the positive/healing impact of democracy:

• VOTE SMART: https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

• League of Conservation Voters-National, State Voting Records on Environmental/Sustainability Issues

  • http://scorecard.lcv.org/?p=m&year=2019

  • https://www.lcv.org/-main site

• Why Voting Should Be in Everyone's slide show:

  • https://votergy.org/2018/03/09/men-and-women-fought-and-died-for-your-right-to-vote/

  • VOTE FOR EARTH: https://www.earthday.org/campaign/vote-earth/

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other reports:

• https://www.globalgoals.org/

• Fosterning and Communicating Sustainable Lifestyles-https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/sites/default/files/20170209_un_communicating_sust_lifestyles_fullreport_lores_2016.pdf

Conventions and Treaties to Promote Global Health and Sustainability

• https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20170112.058262/full/

• http://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/80(12)970.pdf

• https://issues.org/susskind/

• https://www.unece.org/env/treaties/welcome.html

• https://ips-dc.org/global_environmental_protection_in_the_21st_century/

Congressional Legislation to Impact Climate Change

• https://www.c2es.org/content/congress-and-climate-change/

• https://www.clf.org/making-an-impact/global-warming-solutions-act/

• https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-change-laws-around-world

Climate Resilience Communities-Plan for Change

• https://movementstrategy.org/b/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Pathways_2_Resilience_EBook-Full-2015.pdf

• https://toolkit.climate.gov/reports

• https://gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation/report

• https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/04/fact-sheet-what-climate-change-means-your-health-and-family 

Coping with Climate Change Distress:

• https://www.psychology.org.au/getmedia/cf076d33-4470-415d-8acc-75f375adf2f3/coping_with_climate_change.pdf.pdf

Conservation:

World Wildlife Fund Solutions Report: https://www.worldwildlife.org/blogs/sustainability-works/posts/solutions-for-saving-biodiversity

Transitioning from a Consumption based Society-UN Science Group-

• https://bios.fi/bios-governance_of_economic_transition.pdf

Tackling Consumption Globally:

• https://movementgeneration.org/save-the-planet-from-capitalism/

Alex Steffen TED TALK From World Changing.org:

•  https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_steffen_sees_a_sustainable_future

Heat Waves 2018 and Societal Collapse a glimpse of why we must change-

• https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/global-heatwave-is-symptom-of-early-stage-cycle-of-civilisational-collapse-efef3c1dd7eb

Naomi Klein-This Changes Everything-Climate VS. Capitalism-

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlwzOPxN-QA

Stories of Climate Impacts and Innovations in Asia -

• http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/545401487157874773/pdf/112827-WP-Stories-of-Impact-Climate-Change-South-Asia-PUBLIC.pdf

International Union for Conservation of Nature-Solutions: 

• https://www.iucn.org/theme

350.Org

• https://350.org/about/

Great U.S. magazine that covers important global Sustainability and Human rights events and solutions 

• http://www.yesmagazine.org/

Contacting your legislators:

• https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

Local, Regional  and National Organizations to get involved with:

• Beyond Toxics:  https://www.beyondtoxics.org/

• Oregon Environmental Justice: http://www.opalpdx.org/

• http://world.350.org/eugene/

• Oregon League of Conservation Voters-https://www.olcv.org/

• WaterKeeper Alliance-https://waterkeeper.org/

  • Oregon Wild-https://oregonwild.org/

• Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide-https://www.elaw.org/

See service learning form and 

• http://www.eco-usa.net/orgs/or.shtml

• http://www.oneoregon.org/who-we-are/

Reports, Research and Documents to answer the Group Presentation Questions for the Presentation:

Group 1- Biodiversity and Ecosystems:

• 2021 Report UNEP-Making Peace with Nature

• United Nation Environment Program: https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/ecosystems-and-biodiversity

• Tranformative Actions on All Biodiversity Loss

• Report on Global Food System Impacts on Biodiversity

• LIVING PLANET REPORT 2020 

• The Convention on Biological Diversity

  • Biodiversity and Human Health

    • https://www.cbd.int/health/aichi.shtml

• Exploring Connections Among Nature, Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Human Health and Well-being

• Pathways Linking Biodersity and Human Health: A Conceptual Framework

• Research: Need for Ecocentrism in Biodiversity Conservation

• UN Global Forests Report 2021

  • State of our Forests 2018: http://www.fao.org/3/I9535EN/i9535en.pdf

• https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/report-health-and-biodiversity-demonstrates-human-health-benefits

• https://therightsofnature.org/ron-events/2011-book-release/

• http://www.who.int/globalchange/ecosystems/biodiversity/en/

• The Economics of Saving Biodiversity and Ecosystems-http://www.teebweb.org/

• Some solutions to help biodiversity: https://seasonalight.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/10-things-we-all-can-do-to-help-biodiversity/

• Schmalhausens Law-https://apha.confex.com/apha/134am/techprogram/paper_138609.htm

• https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/biodiversity-critical-maintaining-healthy-ecosystems

• http://swed.bio/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SwedBio-brief_Health-and-Biodiversity_2016.pdf

• https://www.iucn.org/news/secretariat/201703/iucn-welcomes-first-ever-un-report-acknowledging-healthy-ecosystems-human-right

• https://www.esa.org/esa/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/biodiversity.pdf

• Levels: http://www.biosbcc.net/green/onlinetext/biodiv/biodivlevels.htm

• Ecosystems and health-https://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents/document.763.aspx.pdf 

• https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(17)30010-4/fulltext

• Species Extinction Rates

  • https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/114/30/E6089.full.pdf

  • http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253.full

  • https://www.pnas.org/content/114/32/8440

• FILM SHORTS:

  • Understanding Biodiversity film short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bE-Pydad7U 

  • Film short on Biodversity system issues: https://vimeo.com/199890106

Group 2-Oceans, Wetlands and Water

• Oceans

  • 2021 Report UNEP-Making Peace with Nature

  • UN 2nd World Assessment on Oceans

  • Solutions for the Ocean:http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/ioc-oceans/focus-areas/rio-20-ocean/10-proposals-for-the-ocean/

  • UN NEWS on Oceans: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/01/1081742

  • State of the Oceans:https://eia-international.org/ocean/the-state-of-the-ocean/

  • http://www.fao.org/3/i9540en/i9540en.pdf

  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00037/full

  • https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/finding-answers-in-the-ocean/

  • http://www.stateoftheocean.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/State-of-the-Ocean-2013-report.pdf

  • http://www.scribd.com/doc/252895010/Rogers-2014-State-of-the-Oceans    Powerpoint

  • http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/problems/

• Wetlands-(directly related to water)

• Wetlands-The unsung heroes of the Earth:

  • https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/wetlands-unsung-heroes-planet

  • Global Wetland Outlook 

• https://www.epa.gov/wetlands

  • http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/outreach/facts_contents.cf 

  • 
    

  • Social Activism for the environment and for our health at work: https://savesfbay.org/what-we-do/restoring-our-wetlands

  • https://friendoftheearth.org/conservation-project/save-the-wetlands/

  • https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/water/wetlands/

  • 
    

  • The Power of Wetlands for Climate Mitigation-

    • https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/wetlands-climate-change/

  • The Climate Impact on Wetlands:

    • https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Wetlands/Tools-resources/Wetlands-climate-change

  • Climate Adaptation and Wetland Protection:

    • https://www.epa.gov/arc-x/climate-adaptation-and-wetland-protection

• Water

  • Privitization of Water and it's impact:

    • https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2015/08/02/water-privatization-facts-and-figures/#:~:text=The%20central%20issue%20with%20water,Privatization%20limits%20public%20accountability.

  • Global Water Issues: 

    • https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/water

  • Global Water Sanitation and Access:

    • https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/wash_statistics.html

  • 100 Water Questions/Answers to Address the Global Water Supply, Access and Sanitation issues:

    • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033222200210X

  • U.S. Global Water Strategy(under Biden administration):

    • https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/water-and-sanitation/us-global-water-strategy

  • Healthy Watersheds (EPA before Trump)-https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/hwp/learn-about-healthy-watersheds-their-assessment-and-protection_.html

  • Water Quality-Issues, Solutions EPA

    • https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics/water-topics

  • http://water.epa.gov/drink/guide/upload/book_waterontap_full.pdf

  • The Story of Bottled Water:https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-bottled-water/

  • The Problem with Bottled Water-https://www.augsburg.edu/green/2018/01/17/environmental-impacts-of-bottled-water/

  • http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/

  • http://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/water/

  • http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs391/en/

  • https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/publications/740/files/original/10-20_World_Water_Forum_WP_FIN_15_122.pdf?1416335200

  • https://keepnestleout.wordpress.com/

  • http://bark-out.org/tags/oxbow-springs

  • https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/top_10_pdf.pdf

• Water Pollution Resources:

  • https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/water-poll/index.cfm

  • http://www.epa.gov/owow_keep/NPS/index.html

  • https://water.usgs.gov/edu/waterquality.html

  • http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/pollution/03pointsource.html

 Group 3-Climate Change, Forests and Air Pollution

• 2021 Report UNEP-Making Peace with Nature

• Latest IPCC reports and summary to policy makers -includes solutions for systems change

  • 5/2022: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-3/

• Inside Climate News: 

  • https://insideclimatenews.org/

• Climate Change and Health Fact Sheets EPA (prior to Trump)

  • https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-change-and-health-factsheets_.html

• Health and Climate Change

  • Lancet Journal-Climate Change and Health Report

  • https://health2016.globalchange.gov/

  • https://ecoamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ea-apa-psych-report-web.pdf

• Outcomes of an unsustainable economy for young American's 2018...changing is essential to living now more than ever on planet earth.

  • https://off-guardian.org/2018/06/13/new-study-on-rising-suicide-rates-in-the-us-suggests-capitalism-is-quite-literally-killing-americans/

• Climate Solutions: 

  • https://unfccc.int/

  • https://www.drawdown.org/

  • https://www.sunrisemovement.org/

  • https://350.org/

    • http://world.350.org/eugene/

  • https://www.climatesolutions.org/

  • https://www.edf.org/card/10-climate-solutions-will-help-us-fight-back

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676916/

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report for Policy Makers-http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf

• Plain Facts and Human impacts on Climate Change-http://scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2183&context=jaas

• http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/climatechange/health_impacts/index.cfm

• http://www.who.int/globalchange/en/

• Methane Level updates-Abstract 2013: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/50/20018.full

• Ozone Depletion Science- http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/

• Air Pollution-

  • State of the Air-Report American Lung Association

  • -http://www.momscleanairforce.org/air-pollution-resources/

  • -http://www.cleanerandgreener.org/resources/air-pollution.html

  • Center for Science Education-Air Pollution

  • -https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution

• Indoor specific Air Pollution-

  • http://www.epa.gov/iaq/ia-intro.html

  • https://www.cpsc.gov/Safety-Education/Safety-Guides/Home/The-Inside-Story-A-Guide-to-Indoor-Air-Quality

• Forests:

  • UN Forests and Climate Change Report 2019: 

    • https://www.un.org/esa/forests/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/UNFF14-BkgdStudy-SDG13-March2019.pdf

  • Forest Defense is Climate Defense Report-Oregon Wild's proposed plan (with scientific back up). 

    • https://oregonwild.org/sites/default/files/oregon-wild-forest-climate-report-2018-web.pdf

  • State of our Forests: FAO Global Report 2022 :

    • https://www.fao.org/publications/home/fao-flagship-publications/the-state-of-the-worlds-forests/en

  • http://www.conservation.org/what/Pages/forests.aspx

  • http://www.conservation.org/what/Pages/forests.aspx 

  • http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/forests/

  • http://www.nature.com/news/carbon-sequestration-managing-forests-in-uncertain-times-1.14687

  • https://www.carbonbrief.org/shrinking-of-forest-carbon-sink-under-climate-change-may-be-less-than-anticipated

  • http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/45904/icode/

  • http://www.globalforestwatch.org/english/index.htm

  • http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts/forests.html

  • http://www.americanforests.org/who-we-are-about-us/

  • https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228833/9780108507632.pdf

Group 4-Chemicals/Heavy Metals:

• 2021 Report UNEP-Making Peace with Nature

• Environmental Working Group on PFAS Forever Chemicals

• Oregon Environmental Council: https://oeconline.org/health/

• Stockholm Convention on POPS-Persistent Organic Pollutants:

  • https://www.unido.org/our-focus-safeguarding-environment-implementation-multilateral-environmental-agreements/stockholm-convention

  • http://chm.pops.int/Home/tabid/2121/Default.aspx#LiveContent[convtext]

  • https://www.state.gov/key-topics-office-of-environmental-quality-and-transboundary-issues/stockholm-convention-on-persistent-organic-pollutants/

• Institute for Political Economy-https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/08/17/is-capitalism-killing-us/

• Beyond Toxics (Eugene)-http://www.beyondtoxics.org/

• Environmental Working Group-https://www.ewg.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiAiarfBRASEiwAw1tYv0tNm4U4CBqbgfo1v0s5R-Hr9VJYbhb5Hqw6eltnRhr6_rwRn5udoRoCJIwQAvD_BwE

• Environmental Racism:

  • https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-trump-administration-finds-that-environmental-racism-is-real/554315/

  • https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2016/04/25/136361/5-things-to-know-about-communities-of-color-and-environmental-justice/

• Oregon Environmental Justice: http://www.opalpdx.org/

• Environmental Justice information:https://www.ejnet.org/ej/

• Pesticide Action Network http://www.panna.org/

• Our Stolen Future: http://www.ourstolenfuture.com/

• Decreasing Environmental Cancer risk http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/annualReports/pcp08-09rpt/PCP_Report_08-09_508.pdf

Persistent Organic Pollutants Info.  (See and share the story see the film out recently all about PFOA, PFAs! Trailer here(https://www.focusfeatures.com/dark-waters)

• • PFOA, PFA's Mapping the Toxins: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2019_pfas_contamination/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3eTEjuWI5gIVuh-tBh3opw4fEAAYASAAEgIxwfD_BwE

  • National Institutes of Environmental Health PFAS Report: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/pfc/index.cfm

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• World Health Organization Report on Transboundary Pollution from Heavy Metals and other POP's.http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/78649/E91044.pdf

• http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.fooddemocracynow.org/images/FDN_Glyphosate_FoodTesting_Report_p2016.pdf

• http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/IR5_en.pdf

• Hazards of Heavy Metals 2016 Analysis- http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/68/1/167.full.pdf+html

• Cadmium Research-

  • https://www.asyousow.org/our-work/environmental-health/toxic-enforcement/lead-and-cadmium-in-food/lead-and-cadmium-in-food-faqs

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1578573/

  • https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/cadmium/

  • https://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2015/04/toxic-cadmium-jewelry-states-lead-protecting-kids

  • https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2018/03/08/California-Superior-Court-settles-heavy-metal-chocolate-lawsuit

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780235/

  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/02/11/lead-and-cadmium-in-chocolate-noooooooooooo/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.15eecaeedca1

• OTHER HEAVY METALS and HEALTH EFFECTS

  • Manganese and other metals here-use search: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=100&tid=23

• CFC's and HFC's Info:

  • https://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/chemicals.php?id=9

  • http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/HFC_report.pdf

  • http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2009/5/HFCs-Fgases.pdf

• Pesticides-http://www.beyondtoxics.org/work/pesticide-reform/forestry-pesticide-project/

  • Aerial Spraying in Oregon- http://www.beyondtoxics.org/work/pesticide-reform/forestry-pesticide-project/oregons-industrial-forests-and-herbicide-use-dec-2013-report/

Group 5-Biodiversity and Emerging Disease Info:

• 2021 Report UNEP-Making Peace with Nature

• Outcomes of an unsustainable economy for young American's 2018...changing is essential to living now more than ever on planet earth.

  • https://off-guardian.org/2018/06/13/new-study-on-rising-suicide-rates-in-the-us-suggests-capitalism-is-quite-literally-killing-americans/

• https://www.ucdavis.edu/one-health/habitat-destruction-and-biodiversity-loss-root-emerging-infectious-diseases/

• The Global Movement of People, Products, Pathogens and Power-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56593/

• Globalization and Infectious Diseases: https://www.who.int/tdr/publications/documents/seb_topic3.pdf

• https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/59/11/945/251209

• https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(17)30010-4/fulltext

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20370/

• https://www.cbd.int/2010/biodiversity/

• http://www.who.int/globalchange/ecosystems/biodiversity/en/

• https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/52/10/929/355136

• http://chge.med.harvard.edu/topic/biodiversity-and-infectious-diseases

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biodiversity/

• https://www.nap.edu/read/10636/chapter/5

• https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06536

• http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953604004538

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5413872/

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