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20 Apr 2018 |
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The Hidden Cost of Hamburgers
The Center for Investigative Reporting presents the hidden environmental costs of meat consumption and animal products. The video presents comparisons between transportation-related emissions and emissions associated with livestock, while making suggestions for individual and community level behavior change.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?
This short video produced by the Global Climate and Health Alliance explains how climate change threatens human health and the perspective that this challenge is an opportunity to improve health and equity.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Building Community Preparedness to Extreme Heat
On May 26, 2016 the National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy held a webinar focused on building community preparedness to extreme heat as part of FEMA’s PrepareAthon Extreme Heat Week. The webinar was planned as part of an interagency collaboration (including NOAA, CDC, FEMA, DOD, OSHA, SAMHSA, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Webzine Video on Health and Climate
Climate change is above all a question of public health. Doctors are in the front-line in responding to the harm from climate turmoil. We have a privileged position and a moral duty to protect and promote the population’s health.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Aaron Bernstein on Biological Diversity and Medicine
Plants, animals, and microbes have led to the development of treatments for many diseases including cancer, glaucoma, malaria, inflammatory disorders, high blood pressure, and many other disorders. The staggering loss of biodiversity today affects the ability of researchers to tap natural sources for medicine and exposes people to ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Games for a New Climate
This is “Games for a New Climate” by Pardee Center. This video demonstrates how games speed up learning, dialogue and action on climate risks: they involve decisions with consequences, enabling players to inhabit the reality of climate-risk management and test possible future scenarios in a captivating and fun way.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict: full academic talk at USGS
Full academic talk at USGS about quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict
20 Apr 2018 |
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Coal Blooded
This is “Coal Blooded” by Jacqueline Patterson on Vimeo.Here first hand from communities directly affected by coal fired power plants that were ranked in the Coal Blooded Report, including: State Line Generating Plant in Hammond, Indiana; Gallagher Generating Station in New Albany, Indiana; Cherokee Generating Station in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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CDC Grand Rounds: Climate Change and Health – From Science to Practice
Changes occurring in the world’s climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. These threats are wide-ranging, including decreased air quality and increases in extreme weather events, wildfire, and illnesses transmitted by water, and disease-carriers, such as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Diet and Climate Change: Cooking up a Storm
While epidemics of chronic disease are currently by far the leading causes of death, climate change is considered the greatest public health threat. This video explains how people can eat to combat dietary diseases and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.