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Transformative Climate Communities in California With Nancy Faulstitch and Eloy Ortiz, Regeneración Pajaro Valley
The State of California has created a program called “Transformative Climate Communities,” focused on making low-income, urban areas more resilient, efficient and responsive to...
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The Past and Future of Sustainable Communities with Peter Calthorpe, Architect & Urban Designer
The world’s cities are big and getting bigger. By 2050, 80% of the world’s people will live in cities. Can cities be made sustainable? ...
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Biologists Unite! The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services with Professor Daniel Suarez, Middlebury College
Over the past several decades, there has been a concerted effort by biologists, economists and others to put a value on nature’s services: what...
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The Water Remembers—My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life with Amy Bowers Cordalis Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group
The removal of four dams from the Klamath River in Northern California is rapidly becoming one of the great recent success stories in conservation...
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Secret Sounds of Ponds and Other Animal Music with Professor David Rothenberg, NJ Institute of Technology
Who knew that ponds make music? To the eye and ears, they seem silent and tranquil—except at night when, maybe, choruses of frogs serenade...
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Plutonium Pit Production--The Risks and Costs of US Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons with Dr. Dylan K. Spaulding of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Nuclear weapons have been with us for 80 years. There are fewer today than was the case at the height of the Cold War,...