Environmental

Kerby Anderson’s Point of View

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This clip profiles Claire, a Rhodes student who rocks out to Grahamstown’s top bands in her spare time. A must see!

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This short film tells the story of how the Environment Agency is working to improve bathing water in England and Wales, by using science to better understand the sources of pollution. To find out more visit the Environment Agency website at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/recreation/119111.aspx

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Livestock’s long shadow,06.11.29

http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.pdf

According to the 390 page 2006 United Nations report “Livestock’s Long Shadow”, the livestock sector (primarily cows, chickens, and pigs) emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to our most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The report recommends an immediate halving of the world’s livestock numbers, in order to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock

Q&A of Japan’s research whaling in the Antarctic

http://www.icrwhale.org/QandAResearch…

Current population estimates of whales(IWC)

http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation…

Data from Japanese investigation in 2005-2006
a) When there is no interference
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???104 seconds?????57.6?
b) In case anti-whaling group’s interference
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???258 seconds?????48.0?

Data from Norway in 2000
time to death?? instantaneous death
136 seconds?????78%

http://www.icrwhale.org/gpandsea-geik…

http://luna.pos.to/whale/jpn_hna_deer…

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The National Science Foundation(NSF) Program GK12 was just taken onboard by the University of Houston Central Campus. This video was made to introduce one of the graduate students to a class of Fonville Middle School students that he would be working with all year long. It is made in a comical way, but it shows a little of what it is like to be an environmental engineering graduate student at the University of Houston. It is certainly possible that small sections of it could easily be used to introduce the topic of field sampling, environmental studies, or GIS in the classroom.

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S. Fred Singer from the Science & Environmental Policy Project, refers to Spain as a failed attempt on implementing a green economy. Javier Sierra from the Sierra Club argues this statement saying Spains failed economy has nothing to do with green jobs, but with the real state bubble.

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Video about the influence that humans have and are having on our planet.

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