Cradle to Cradle Design

Working Conditions

What is a Sweatshop?

 Pakistan Clothes Factory

Bangladesh Clothing Factory

Bangladesh Building Collapse

Child Labor in Bangladesh Factory

 

Sweatshop Free Products? 
Union Made Products 

conflict minerals, e-waste and cradle to cradle design

Conflict Minerals (Wars over Resources)

Cradle to Cradle Design

3d Printing

RepRap
   

Organs  
Weapons?

Sustainable Energy?

Power/Energy

University of Minnesota at Morris
Tough Stuff -Solar
Solar roadways
Peswiki (make your own power plant)
Zoetrope (do it yourself wind turbine)
Husk Powers
Wind Power through Kites
Energy and Saving Lives
Geothermal Energy
Tidal Wave Energy and Florida Ocean Energy

Bill Gross on New Energy
Jonothan Trent: Algae Pond Energy
Juan Enriquez: Using Biology to Rethink the Energy Challenge
Former Governor Jennifer Granholm on "A Clean Energy: Race to the Top"

Nuclear Energy Issues (Fukushima, Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island)

How Nuclear Plants work


   



Fukushima (Japan)

Fukushima What Happened?

Fukushima Two Years Later


Below: The tsunami that caused the accident
Written on 4.6.11

"The latest official death toll is 11,828, with more than 15,500 still missing.

A powerful 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit Japan on March 11 at 1446 local time (0546 GMT), unleashing massive tsunami waves that crashed into Japan's northeastern coast of Honshu, the largest and main island of Japan, resulting in widespread damage and destruction. According to the Government of Japan (GoJ), as of Friday (April 1), 11,734 people are confirmed dead and 16,375 people are reported to be missing. (Kyodo, Reuters, April 1) There are no new figures for the number of injured, but the UN reported last week that 2,766 people were injured. Casualty numbers are likely to increase as emergency teams continue to reach and assess affected areas. The earthquake sparked widespread tsunami warnings across the Pacific. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the shallow quake struck at a depth of six miles (10 km) (20 km deep according to Japan's Meteorological Agency), around 80 miles (125 km) off the eastern coast of Japan, and 240 miles (380 km) northeast of Tokyo. (from http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ADGO-8FJKXT?OpenDocument)

A Satellite image of the devastation caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami

  Satellite Images of the effects of the tsunami











 Chernobyl (Ukraine)


Chernobyl What Happened?

Chernobyl Exclusion zone

Chernobyl 25 years later

Fallout Clouds (radiation is dispersed in the air over Europe)

 



 3 Mile Island (United States)

                                                      3 Mile Island What Happened?

How do we get our energy?

 Issues with energy...


A) Is Natural Gas Cleaner? 

What is Fracking?

Radio program about Natural Gas

B) OIL Rigs (do I need to remind you?)

Not to mention the gulf is already sick (GULF DEAD ZONE)


C)  TAR SANDS 
Oilsands can be 'a curse' to Canada, Cameron says - CTV News

2013 Oil Pipeline Break

Keystone XL Pipeline

D)  Can Coal ever be clean? 

Dec 2008 

NY Times reports Coal Ash in America

Three coal ash spills in  4 months

Oct 2000

E) The Price of Gas!

US DEBT

*click* National Debt *click*

Household Debt  (People who owe more money than their property worth).

Debt owed by Individuals, what kind of debt is it?

Current as of April 2013

U.S. household consumer debt profile:

• Average credit card debt: $15,204 (for more on credit card debt)
• Average mortgage debt: $148,818
• Average student loan debt: $33,005 (for more on student loan debt)

In total, American consumers owe:

• $11.28 trillion in debt
  • A decrease of 1.4% from last year
• $848. billion in credit card debt
• $7.93 trillion in mortgages
• $1,007.6 billion in student loans (More on National Student Debt)
  • An increase of 11.9% from last year

Student Loan Debt in MN

Water

LIFESAVER ADVERTISEMENT/CAMPAIGN FOR HAITI

Lifesaver Systems Jerrycan in Haiti from OB UK on Vimeo.




Young People are Changing the World:  Roots and Shoots Foundation

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03192010/watch3.html

Power/Energy

University of Minnesota at Morris
Tough Stuff -Solar
Peswiki (make your own power plant)
Zoetrope (do it yourself wind turbine)
Husk Powers
Wind Power through Kites
Energy and Saving Lives
Geothermal Energy
Tidal Wave Energy and Florida Ocean Energy

Designing for Change
Cradle to Cradle Design
A Sustainable Future
Coral Village  and  Transforming Apartment
Venus Project
Solar Roadways
Vertical Farms 
13 Green Buildings

Bio Materials

Bio-Materials 

Growing Your Home and Archinode
6 Ways Mushrooms can save the Planet
Mushrooms the new Plastic

Guerrilla: noun. freedom fighter, partisan, irregular, underground fighter, member of the underground or resistance.

Gardener: noun. One who works in or tends a garden for pleasure or work.



For more on Guerrilla gardening see this website (photos and videos)

What about making graffiti out of bio-materials? 

Graffiti made from moss

 



So that guy is doing it in Ethiopia.... but what about this dude in India?

Slavery Footprint

How many labor slaves do you have working for you?

teen builds fusion reactor

Hans Rosling

Minneapolis Recycling 

Minneapolis "What to do List"

What do my recycled goods become (not a complete list)?

Story of Stuff

TV about Stuff (On the Education channels only)

 Shows about getting a LOT of stuff

Storage Wars


Hoarders

Extreme Couponing


Stuff

Shows about how our stuff is made

How Stuff Works


Modern Marvels


Shows about the hobby of collecting stuff

Pawn Stars

American Pickers

Antiques Roadshow

Shows About the Job of getting/making our stuff

Dirty Jobs

Deadliest Catch

American Chopper

American Logger

Gold Rush Alaska