Shikoku, Japan: Iwayaji Temple on the island. Credit JTB/UIG, via Getty Images |
Sri Lanka: A peacock in Yala National Park. Credit Kevin Schafer/Corbis |
Presho, South Dakota: Badlands National Park, Credit Jayce Bartok
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Visions of Paradise
- Building the Bridge at Q'eswachaka - MIT engineers document one way humans work together to build and sustain in harmonies
- NASA Released Stunning Footage of Earth from Space Station
- A short video collage: "What a Wonderful World"
Seeking Sustainable Possibilities
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- Global Cooperation in the Age of Sustainable Development, Vuk Jeremić and Jeffrey Sachs
- The Sustainability Consortium https://www.sustainabilityconsortium.org/
- Bee Downtown: Making a change to offset climate change in downtown Durham, NC
- Google Science Fair: High School Girl Turns Bananas into Bioplastics http://omeleto.com/214197/
- Healthcare Discounts in Borneo Discourage Logging - Creative solutions through partnership, May 12, 2016
- Climate Action Doesn't Hinge on One Great Message - Jack Zhou, Duke University Kenan Center for Ethics , April 29, 2016
- The Citizens Climate Lobby - the originators and promoters of the carbon fee and dividend; great blog
- Constructive Engagement is the key to climate action - January 7, 2016 article at Nature.com - Entertain diverse approaches!
- Ideas for Getting Clean Drinking Water - The Atlantic
- U.S. Carbon Pricing Proposals 2015 from The Climate Colab Context (including The Little Engine That Could)
- The Climate CoLab - Supported by the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence - and many others.... inspired by Wikipedia, a platform for collective thinking about climate change. You can join as a Member for free!
- United Nations Conference on Climate Change: New Draft Action Plan November 30 - December 5, 2015
- Breakthrough Energy Coalition: Renewable non-carbon-producing energy development!
- Environmental Defense Fund, Creating Solutions!
- Into the Wind! The Power of Wind - AWEA Blog
- Cube Hydro Partners - Investing in Hydropower
- NC Climate Justice - ReAnnual Climate Justice Summit links
- Interfaith Power and Light - Take the Paris Pledge!
- NC Interfaith Power and Light, "A Hope-Filled Response to Climate Change"
- NC WARN, "Building People Power for Climate and Energy Justice"
- What is Water Worth? Forbes Magazine, May, 2014.
- Can Efficiency Save Our Natural Resources? NC Spin, Nov. 6, 2015.
- National Geographic Explores Bill Nye's "Climate Change Denial" - New York Times Dot Earth, Nov. 2, 2015.
- How to Make the Most of Carbon Dioxide, Nature, October 28, 2015.
- The Carbon Underground - Regenerative Farming
- 50 Breakthroughs - Transformative Technologies
- NASA Climate Scientist (and stand-up comedian) Dr. Josh Willis: "No Way Back: Charting Irreversible Climate Change..."
- E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
- Biodiversity Days with E. O. Wilson
- The Club of Rome
- The Limits to Growth - Summary of 30 Year Update by Donella Meadows
- YouTube: June 6, 2012, "What was the message of The Limits to Growth ?"
- The Club of Rome Facebook page
- Dambisa Moyo's December 2015 TED Talk: Economic Growth is the Defining Issue of Our Time
- The Climate Reality Project
- Climate Policy Initiative: Positive alternatives: Here are ways to invest in sustainable energy sources.
- The Power of Wind
- Triangle Land Conservancy
- Biomimicry Institute
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Porosity - the practice of opening to and acknowledging the interconnectedness of all things
- The Great Transition
- Genuine Progress
- U.S. GAO: High Risk List: Better Managing Climate Change Risks
- U.N. Panel on Global Warming Warning
Current News Articles
- A New (Simple) Way of Visualizing Global Warming - Washington Post, May 11, 2016
- Leonardo DiCaprio and Fred Krupp: Five Ways to Deliver on the Paris Climate Agreement The Guardian
- NASA: Global warming is changing how Earth wobbles - April 2016
- Al Gore: TED 2016: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change
- James Hansen, director of the Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions program at Columbia University, describes findings of paper published in March 2016 - why models seem to be underestimating the approach of irreversible climate change
- ExxonMobil: The Road Not Taken - Exxon's own research on climate change, Climate Insider
- The Diane Rehm Show - Climate Change, ExxonMobil, and Columbia University
- Executive Deception: Fossil Fuel Divestment and False Logic of Ivy League Presidents
- Before We Drown, We May Die of Thirst, Nature, October 28, 2015.
- King Coal and the Queen of Subsidies, Science Magazine, Sept 18, 2015 (PDF)
- Undamming Rivers: A Chance for New Clean Energy Source
- In Clash of Greens, A Case for Large-Scale U.S. Solar Projects
- The Next Great Extinction is Underway Underseas Now
- How the Arctic Melt Relates to Extreme Cold Northeast Winters
- Deaths in China Linked to Pollution
- Floods in Japan, September 10, 2015
- Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land
- Honey Bees and Flowers' Smell
- Forgotten Students of California's Drought
Books and Videos
Environment and Economics:
- Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything (also an excellent full-length documentary movie )
- Gwynne Dyer, Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats
- William Nordhaus, The Climate Casino
- David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World
- Ugo Bardi, Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet
- Ernst Ulrich van Weizsacker, Charlie Hargroves, Michael H. H. Smith, Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity
- Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America
- Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism
- Charles Hargroves and Michael Smith, The Natural Advantage of Nations
Psychology and Behavior
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, a book that gives insight into how to structure opportunities, by Daniel Pink
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, a book about crafting ideas that change how people think of themselves and the world, by Stanford University professor Chip Heath and his brother, Dan Chip, who is here at the Duke Fuqua School of Business.
- Fostering Sustainable Behavior - a book covering pragmatics
- Consciousness and the Social Brain - a book by Princeton University professor of psychology Michael Graziano presenting his theory of consciousness
- How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change - trailer of an Official Selection 2016 Sundance Festival Film by Josh Fox
- What Millennials Talk About When They Talk About Climate Change - A Video from Solutions Grassroots Tour