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How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion -- and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate. "We can't give in to despair," she says. "We have to go out and look for the hope we need to inspire us to act -- and that hope begins with a conversation, today."
How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion -- and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate. "We can't give in to despair," she says. "We have to go out and look for the hope we need to inspire us to act -- and that hope begins with a conversation, today."
Eco-America video
Eco-America video
God's Work Our Hands: Caring for Creation Today
Pollination: it's vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film "Wings of Life," inspired by the vanishing of one of nature's primary pollinators, the honeybee.
6-25-20: A PBS Newshour report documents an historic heat wave that is occurring in the Arctic, already the fastest-warming place on Earth due to the increasing accumulation of greenhouse gases. Dr. Merritt Turetsky, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, has studied the Arctic for decades. She joins William Brangham to discuss causes and consequences of the Arctic's rising temperatures.
6-25-20: A PBS Newshour report documents an historic heat wave that is occurring in the Arctic, already the fastest-warming place on Earth due to the increasing accumulation of greenhouse gases. Dr. Merritt Turetsky, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, has studied the Arctic for decades. She joins William Brangham to discuss causes and consequences of the Arctic's rising temperatures.
Environmental Justice Explained
Environmental Justice Explained
We already know that pollution and climate change negatively affect people’s health and quality of life. But we’re not always clear about which people are most exposed and impacted.
The harm that comes with rising seas and contaminated water systems isn’t evenly distributed. To the contrary: Those who are already disadvantaged by race, wealth, and income are usually the most affected by environmental disasters. Without recognizing that inequality, we’re not always solving the problems with our water, air, and soil in ways that serve the people who need it most — which is why environmental justice is a critical part of planning a green future that’s good for everyone.
If you’ve never heard the term “environmental justice” before, or if you just want to know more about it, watch our video above.
Explaining Carbon Footprint
Explaining Carbon Footprint
You've probably been hearing a lot about climate change and how you should reduce your carbon footprint. But what's that exactly? Just like an actual footprint, it's a mark you leave upon the environment. No, not with your shoes but with every action that releases "Carbons". Those are the harmful gases, such as Co2, which are pumped out by burning fossil fuels, like oil or gas. And the more fuel is used, the bigger your footprint will be. You may think that by driving your car, the only carbons you release come from the engine, but no. Consider the carbons that are emitted just to get fuel into the tank: From the energy needed to extract the oil from underground, the pollution caused by transportation and refinement, to the final delivery to your local petrol station. Not to mention the Co2 released by manufacturing your car in the first place. More than you thought, eh? So unless you live in a cave; you and everything you own has it's own carbon footprint: Read a book -- Printing and distributing it uses energy. Brush your teeth and your tools will have a history in a factory. Even something as basic as an apple could have travelled hundreds or even thousands of miles to end up in your local supermarket. You see, it's pretty much impossible to leave no carbon footprint behind. But by thinking about your actions and personal choices, maybe you can make your feet just that little bit smaller and really help to put the boot into climate change.
Bill McKibben: America's preeminent voice for climate action
Bill McKibben: America's preeminent voice for climate action
Bill encourages faith groups to act because of the urgency of action to insure the well being of future generations across our planet
Sea Level Rise is Happening on the MD Eastern Shore
Sea Level Rise is Happening on the MD Eastern Shore
In Maryland's Dorchester County sea level rise has already profoundly altered the landscape, and how people go about their daily lives. The similarities of their landscape with the low lying "reclaimed" marshlands in South Dunedin and in Thames are striking. Watch this video and take a glimpse into how the future, and see how our communities will look in a few short years.
Tapped film
Tapped film
Tapped is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil.
We Stand For Wildlife
We Stand For Wildlife
As human beings, we connect to nature with a force as strong as the pull of gravity. We depend on nature. Zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, national parks, the conservation movement—indeed, the Wildlife Conservation Society—were all created with a desire to maintain and strengthen that connection.
Our human footprint keeps growing. In the time since the Renaissance, the global human population has grown from a half billion to over seven billion. By 2050 that number could reach 10 billion, filling nearly all the lands and scouring nearly all the seas. Our movements and actions are—and will continue to be—the prevailing reality for every other living thing on the planet. More than half of the people on the planet live in cities, where zoos and aquariums provide a window into nature. Our demands for food and water have a global reach; our choices have an impact on the planet.
Amidst these exploding pressures on our Earth and its limited resources, we have developed a strategy that we call WCS: 2020. We launched a new website, brand identity, and logo to support it. The "W" stands for wildlife.
Saving wildlife is our history and our future. With this strategy, we renew our commitment to the protection of the world's wildlife.
Forests for Life Partnership
Forests for Life Partnership
Five leading organizations have committed to maintaining the ecological integrity of the world’s forests. WCS, the United Nations Development Programme, World Resources Institute, Global Wildlife Conservation and Rainforest Foundation Norway will pool expertise, resources, and capacities to conduct compelling new science, advocate for policy change, and mobilize large scale action on the ground – with the aim of securing a billion hectares of the most intact forests remaining.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Wildlife Conservation Society
A celebration the Wildlife Conservation Society's work saving wildlife and wild places around the globe for more than a century.
Delaware Botanic Gardens in Selbyville, DE
Delaware Botanic Gardens in Selbyville, DE
Rain garden ideas for churches
9-19-2010 Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the climate crisis. Living ecosystems like forests, mangroves, swamps and seabeds can pull enormous quantities of carbon from the air and store them safely, but natural climate solutions currently receive only 2% of the funding spent on cutting emissions.
3-11-2013 Even though this lecture at the Scripps institute of Oceanography was given 9 years ago the content is even more salient today. The urgency so well illustrated by Dr. Somerville is now far greater. In the next ten years we face the prospect of exceeding the carbon budget that will insure our planet will have warming beyond 2 degrees centigrade. Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville, a world-renowned climate scientist and author of “The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change,” discusses the scientific case for urgent action to limit climate change. Recorded on 03/11/2013
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