Lectures tagged "Humans & Nature"


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The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World
Ted Conover
March 4, 2010
00:44:54
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer Ted Conover discusses the history, impact, and future of the global road system and his new book, The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today.
Eternally Green: Natural Burial and New Cemetery Landscapes
Mark Harris
February 13, 2010
01:05:00
Environmental journalist Mark Harris presents a history of the changes in American burial practices, from natural burials in the 17th and early 18th century, to the beginning of the funeral industry during the Civil War, to today's modern funeral with embalming (and its toxic chemicals), metal caske
Patti Callahan Henry: The Power of Reading and Writing
Patti Callahan Henry
February 2, 2010
00:55:11
National bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry talks about why she writes and how she came to writing as a career.
Role of Citizen Action in Solving Global Warming
Ken Ward
January 28, 2010
00:58:55
Graphic designer Ken Ward and community organizer Andree Zaleska discuss how ordinary citizens can contribute to finding solutions to global warming.
Health Impacts of Global Warming
Kim Knowlton
January 28, 2010
00:43:52
Kim Knowlton, DrPH, who was among the scientists who participated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report, discusses "Global Warming: A Matter of Health". Dr.
Arctic Warming: Risks for Methane Emissions
Ronald Prinn
January 28, 2010
00:46:39
Dr. Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, shares the result of his project measuring the rates of change in atmospheric concentrations of trace greenhouse gases.
After Copenhagen: Real Solutions for Global Climate Change
James Hansen
January 28, 2010
01:42:00
The December 2009 Copenhagen talks on global climate change failed to produce a new international accord, and environmental scientist James Hansen is not wasting time bemoaning that failure.
Coyote at the Kitchen Door
Stephen DeStefano
January 23, 2010
00:55:36
Wildlife biologist Stephen DeStefano, author of Coyote at the Kitchen Door; and photographer Amy Stein, whose work addresses how bears, deer, fox, coyote, and birds are increasingly encroaching upon areas considered to be "ours", discuss the blurred boundary between human life and wildlife