Typhoon no. 6 is passing, as I am writing this reflection. It is the rainy season and the central region of Vietnam is the most strongly affected by such disasters.  With climate change, these storms are becoming stronger and more unpredictable each year. The Thua Thien Hue province is known for its variety of flavorful [...]

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Press release from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business – Amy Spooner The WaterWheel literally lifts a huge burden from the shoulders of women and girls. – Cynthia Koenig Most of us don’t think twice about turning on a faucet and seeing potable water pour out. But for an estimated one billion people [...]

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In this TED video, Van Jones frames plastic pollution in terms of social justice. Plastic trash affects poor people and poor countries “first and worst.” Van Jones Bio Tweet

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6 Lessons the Climate Movement Can Learn from Dr. King’s Legacy It’s Getting Hot in Here – Ethan Nuss Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Smoke and Mirrors Inside Higher Ed Over the past few years, as the [...]

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The greater part of the soul lays outside the body…treatment of the inner require treatment of the outer. – Hippocrates Natalie Jeremijenko’s Environmental Health Clinic at NYU is redefining the approach to health, by prescribing environmental art and activism as vehicles to improve collective health, by improving our environment. About Natalie Jeremijenko Tweet

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Renown aerial photographer, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, has spent decades photographing the earth from the sky. His remarkable perspective compels him to speak to us about our future. In this TED talk, Arthus-Bertrand reviews his three most recent projects on humanity and its habitat. Follow this link to watch his breathtaking film HOME. This film was conceived [...]

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By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley In the developing world, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen as being in conflict with alleviating poverty, since improving the standard of living is usually associated with increased energy use. A clean energy development initiative in rural Nicaragua, however, demonstrates that there are cost effective steps developing nations can [...]

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Adam Werbach Keynote Speech at the Teens Turning Green National Summit, Feb. 5, 2010 You were born to save the planet. The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and it has all been leading up to you. 4.4 million years ago an ancestor we now call ARDI roamed the land of Ethiopia, and her life [...]

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