Showing posts with label What We Are Watching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What We Are Watching. Show all posts

Monday, March 10, 2014

What We Are Watching



In the highly celebrated documentary Your Environmental Road Trip, three friends hit the road to explore every state in America in search of the extraordinary innovators and citizens who are tackling humanity's greatest environmental crises. This film has been called "a groundbreaking adventure and a celebration of the American spirit in the face of adversity - a thought-provoking, inspiring, and sometimes hilarious, documentary about the courageous and creative individuals, groups, businesses and leaders of this country who are tackling the greatest environmental threats in history. " Called into action by the ever-increasing threats of planetary catastrophe (from climate change to toxic pollution, from water scarcity to habitat destruction), three adventurers supend their lives, pool their collective life-savings, and set off on a first-of-its-kind, 50-state, year-long journey of discovery to personalize sustainability and to answer a critical question: ARE WE DOOMED?

Sunday, February 9, 2014

What We Are Watching


From farmer to biodiversity expert, Cary Fowler, helps to manage the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle. Some call this site The Doomsday Vault, due to the fact that it is "nothing less than a backup of the world's biological diversity in a horticultural world fast becoming homogenous in the wake of a flood of genetically identical GMOs." In this TED talk he shares with us critical information about how biodiversity can save agriculture in a warming world.