BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Fukushima Updates

Continuing our discussion of natural and man-made disasters...

Reminder of the devastation caused by the tsunami (satellite photos)

Today:

Special Reports

Taiwan Fallout

US West Coast

Fukushima Ghost Towns

Cradle to Cradle Design

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!

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?

teen builds fusion reactor

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

Good Water: Fighting The Gold Mine

Good Water: Fighting The Gold Mine   Part of a larger series GOOD WATER

MORE MORE MORE

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/wearable-collections-clothing-recycling_n_866839.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/huffpost-greatest-person-david-auerbach_n_869354.html

http://noimpactproject.org/educators-middle-high-school-environment-curriculum-html/

http://www.radicalsimplicity.org/home.html
http://www.onearth.org/article/radical-simplicity


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZjZw2BeG0&feature=feedu

http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toaster_from_scratch.html

http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

http://www.preserveproducts.com/recycling/index.html


http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/solid-waste/


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/earth-2100-final-century-of-civilization/


endciv


http://www.laborrights.org/sites/default/files/publications-and-resources/sweatshop_hall_shame_2010.pdf

http://www.thefutureoffood.com/


http://www.thecorporation.com/

behind the swoosh


http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/minneapolis-the-green-scare-using-terrorism-laws-to-silence-political-activists/916/

http://www.worldchanging.com/


http://www.laborrights.org/


http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/section.cfm?topic=16


http://affluenza.org/

http://onthecommons.org/

http://retailanarchy.com/

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/extreme-couponing

http://www.aetv.com/hoarders/

http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/

http://www.lesblank.com/more/TeaFilm.html

collapse

food inc

climate of change

tapped

blue gold

dirt!

america the beautiful

the greatest movie ever sold

cradle to cradle design

transforming apartment

no impact man

tattoo advertisements

consumer protections

Questions:

A) What do you personally need for a day? Week?  a year? 10 years? Your life?

(record the stuff and people that come to mind in order)

What about as a small community?  -are the needs different? in what way?

B) What do you want in your future house? What will it look like? What does society expect it to look like?

C) When you spend time with friends or family, how much of that time is spent focused on stuff? Which stuff? Is there a difference between kinds of things?  Can some stuff be a good for conversation/play?

D) Is more better? Is growth good? 

E) Is having more choice better?

F) Does freedom mean freedom to buy?

G) What is the hidden cost of cheap goods?

H) Is organic better? Is local better? Is vegetarian better? Is seasonal food better?  is Humane treatment important?

I ) What is in your room?

J) How much do you waste in a day?

K) What is recyclable, reusable, reducible, avoidable?  What can be recycled in Minneapolis?

L) How do we keep civilization alive? Is it possible? Is civilization good?

M) Where is your stuff from? Technology, clothes, food, other stuff? 

N) Where are the materials to our stuff from?  How do we get them?

O) Can you make a toaster?

P) How many of the shows/commercials on tv are about stuff?

Q) Who are your “Joneses?”

R) What does the middle class look like?

S) Does stuff, require more stuff?

T) What are the working conditions like to make our stuff?

U) What does the process of making stuff do to the environment?

V) What is garbage? What is the impact of trash?

W) What is the Story of stuff?

X) What is affluenza?

Y) What is the commons? Is the tragedy of the commons real?

Z) What is green?

1) Are we working too hard? What would happen if we didn’t work so hard?

2) Are there better ways to distribute impacts?

3) What could we do instead producing and consuming stuff?

4) How does our system impact our health, relationships, environment, community, values, others

5) What is important to “quality of life?”

6) What is the role of corporations, Financial institutions and governments?

7) Is there a difference between systematic violence and protester violence?

8) What is a farmers market?

9) What can we make?

10) What is life like without negative impact? How do we do it?

11) What is the role of design in making products? How can design be used to make things better?

12) What is the role of bio-mimicry? how can we use it to make things better?

13) What is life like without advertising?

14) How could we make the school waste free?

15) How could we make recycling work at school? at home?

16) What is the role of a citizen vs a consumer?

17) What can we cut out of our lives?

18) What can we add to make our lives better?

19) What is externalizing costs?

20) Where is away?

21) Is mass productivity good?

22) Is unemployment real?

23) Capitalism? Socialism? Communism? Anarchy? Consumerism?

24) Technology?

25) Pollution?

26) What is fair? free? prosperity? human rights? is disparity necessary/inevitable?

27) How do we avoid collapse? is it possible?

28) Overpopulation?

29) Consumer protections?

30) what do you need in your space ship? To survive? To start over?