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On March 2nd, over 1,000 people came out to tell President Obama and Secretary Kerry to reject the northern leg of Keystone XL.
Posts Categorized: Human Impact
We Need To Fight
An excerpt from Bill McKibben’s 2011 PowerShift Speech calling EVERYONE to action on Climate Change. Learn more at 350.org
World Under Water
CO2 emissions are rising. So is the sea level. Soon, the threat will be at your doorstep. Visit http://worldunderwater.org to see for yourself.
we walk blood earth
One of Scotty Hardwig earliest screendance films, “we walk blood earth” premiered at the 9th International Screendance Festival in 2011. Five lone humans call out in vain for salvation against the wind and red sands of a lonely desert. This place is barren, unforgiving, and beautiful: the earth of blood that we must walk. When we… Read more »
Climate 101
Released 2 years ago and narrated by the ever favourite Bill Nye, this short explains the basics of climate change. This short was created for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Progress, and like many works assoicated with the Al Gore name received some backlash on the internet. In an effort to be unbiased, here is a… Read more »
At What Cost?
The stories of residents living near Duke Energy’s Belews Creek coal-fired power plant in Stokes County, N.C., center on the resilience of a close-knit community — but they also reveal a toxic legacy of decades of coal pollution. People like Annie Brown have raised their children and grandchildren here, largely unaware of the toll coal… Read more »
5 Human Impacts on the Environment: Crash Course Ecology #10
Videoblogger Hank Green gives the run down on the top five ways humans are negatively impacting the environment and having detrimental effects on the valuable ecosystem services which a healthy biosphere provides. Crash Course is an Webshow created to educate viewers on a variety of topics.