Sustainability Teaching Resources ‐ Videos
* Global Weirding: Dr. Katherine Hayhoe, Director of the Climate Science Center Texas Tech University has created a series of short information clips called ‘Global Weirding’, produced by PBS Digital Studies. These are 5‐7 minute clips addressing misconceptions, myths and realities of climate change science. They are a perfect length to easily integrate into your classes. I have watched a handful and they are very engaging and clearly pitched for a general, non‐scientific, audience. Go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow
* Climate Lab ‐ University of California, Carbon Neutral Initiative https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/climate‐lab Launched this year ‐ provides 6 very well done, short videos (about 8‐10 minutes) addressing a number of topics:
1. Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change 2. Going Green shouldn't be this hard 3. Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness. 4. Food waste is the world's dumbest problem. 5. Fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power 6. Scientists aren't really the best champions of climate science
***** * Years of Living Dangerously – Season One All episodes from Season One available on HOnCC Library Streaming and on demand or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpB8sbYuefrX6bblUFUM1hQ
Episode One: Dry Season “Harrison Ford goes to Indonesia to investigate how the world's appetite for palm oil has inadvertently created one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Back in the U.S., Don Cheadle meets a climate scientist and Evangelical Christian, with a very different explanation for the Texas drought. And Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas L. Friedman travels to Syria, examining how climate change can be a stress point in a volatile political situation.”
Episode Two: End of the Woods “Harrison Ford continues his investigation into the global effects of the palm oil industry, exploring the corruption that has deforested the Indonesian landscape and created the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joins an elite team of wild-land firefighters known as "Hot Shots" as they battle a new breed of forest fires made more deadly by climate change, and discovers another killer wiping out trees at an even faster rate than the fires.”
Episode Three: The Surge “MSNBC's Chris Hayes shadows Staten Island's Republican Congressman and climate change skeptic Michael Grimm in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, questioning what he might have learned about climate change in the process. Conservationist M. Sanjayan travels to the far ends of the earth--including Christmas Island--to interview some of the world's top climate scientists as they collect key data unlocking the future of our planet's changing climate.”
Episode Four: Ice and Brimstone “Lesley Stahl of '60 Minutes' travels to Greenland to investigate the effects of global warming in the Arctic. Down south, Ian Somerhalder travels to North Carolina to listen in on both sides of the evangelical community's debate over climate change and finds himself caught in the middle of not only a religious debate, but a familial one: the father is a megachurch preacher who doesn't believe in climate change; the daughter is an activist trying to shut down the local coal-fired power plant.”
Episode Five: True Colors “Olivia Munn profiles climate-conscious Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State, discussing the issues he's faced since being elected. Meanwhile, 'New York Times' columnist Mark Bittman probes New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on the topic of man-made climate change during the rebuilding of his state's coastline in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Christie once acknowledged the scientific consensus on climate change, but steadfastly refused to discuss it during the rush to rebuild.”
Episode Six: Winds of Change “America Ferrera profiles prominent skeptic James Taylor of the Heartland Institute as he crusades against clean energy, and investigates the battle over the future of renewable energy in the US. New York Times columnist Mark Bittman returns to conduct a yearlong investigation into natural gas, which has been touted as "America's energy source" and a way towards a cleaner, greener future. But is it true?”
Episode Seven: Revolt, Rebuild, Renew “Jessica Alba meets three members of Climate Corps - an innovative MBA-focused program - as they try to convince America's corporations that sustainability can actually boost their bottom lines. Pulitzer Prize- winner Thomas L. Friedman finds himself in Egypt to explore how what happens in the wheat fields of Kansas plays out on the volatile streets of Cairo. And MSNBC's Chris Hayes reveals an intimate story about life after Superstorm Sandy, with the most economically vulnerable trying to survive the impacts of climate change.”
Episode Eight: A Dangerous Future “Matt Damon investigates the impact of extreme heat on human health and mortality, with a focus on research that has uncovered how rising temperatures are creating a worldwide public health emergency. Michael C. Hall visits Bangladesh to explore the prediction that by 2050, a global migration of upwards of 150 million people will produce the single most daunting burden to our future. And Thomas L. Friedman travels to Yemen to conclude his look into how climate stress can push volatile political situations over the edge.”
* Years of Living Dangerously: Season Two – some episodes available on available on HonCC Library Streaming
Collapse of the Oceans: At the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Joshua Jackson investigates the devastating impacts of ocean warming on coral reefs and looks at the predicted impact on ocean ecosystems, and on our own food supply, of ocean acidification. He travels to the Philippines, whose citizens rely heavily on healthy reefs for food and other ocean products and for protection from storms. He finds that fishermen are no longer able to sustain their families because of the increasing scarcity of fish
Fueling the Fire: Arnold Schwarzenegger explores how the military is adapting to climate change and limiting national security risk by increasing energy efficiency and using renewables, but needs to increase the pace of this adaptation. In Kuwait, he sees how fuel convoys are responsible for most US soldier deaths. He finds how our armed forces are dealing with an increased number of climate-related military conflicts and natural disasters. Cattle ranching, drought, deforestation, massive hydroelectric dams and illegal mining threaten the Amazon rain forest, which is losing 2 million acres a year to clearing. The degradation of the Amazon accounts for 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than half of which is caused by clearing forests for cattle ranching. Native Brazilian Gisele Bündchen tours the extent of the damage and joins the national environmental police as they fight to end illegal deforestation. She meets indigenous people and activists trying to protect the forest and flies over the Amazon to view huge patches of deforested and burnt land, logs piled high on trucks and barges, drought-stricken fields and vast cattle ranches that were once lush, thousand-year- old tropical rainforests. She learns that if Americans shifted to more plant-based foods, it would make a big impact in the fight against global warming.
The Uprooted: In Africa, Thomas Friedman finds an increasing population of refugees fleeing wars, rising sea- levels, desertification and hurricanes, as up to 1 billion people are expected to become climate refugees over the next century. Young men left without the prospect of farming are more likely to join extremist groups. Don Cheadle explores how Governor Jerry Brown is fighting both climate change and the historic California drought. A Central Valley scientist shows Cheadle the danger of a global water and food crisis, and he observes the problems that climate change is causing for farm families with no crops.
Gathering Storm: Jack Black explores how Miami and other low-lying coastal areas can survive rising sea- levels caused by climate change. Although the political and business community is largely in denial, and many locals are unaware of the cause of the increasing flooding, he finds a few legislators, residents, activists and scientists racing to solve the problem before disaster strikes. Ian Somerhalder travels to the Bahamas where he looks at historical evidence and explores a blue hole, diving and taking core samples of the ocean floor with scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to learn how the warming of the oceans' surface will increase the strength and destructiveness of hurricanes and superstorms. ****** * Virtual Tour of a Cloud Forest https://honoluluccblog.com/2017/06/27/take‐a‐virtual‐360‐tour‐of‐the‐ka%CA%BBala‐cloud‐forest/