Jerry Brown the American politician is talking about how far we have progressed with regards to climate change. He talks about how friendship, belief and other important human needs will speed up climate change. Jerry brown talks about how the world has changed in recent years for example oil and ...
Read More »COP 23 Bonn Fiji Bainimarama & Schwarzenegger
Master of Ceremony: Cathy Oke Councilor, Melbourne, Australia, ICLEI Global Executive Committee MemberSpeakers: Frank Bainimarama Prime Minister, Republic of Fiji, COP23 President Arnold Schwarzenegger R20 Founding Chair Bonn Fiji Commitment Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji and COP23 President, underscored subnational power: “We can draw from the power and enthusiasm ...
Read More »ENVIRONMENTAL LAW – CORMAC CULLINAN
FIRST HALF Human behavior is causing environmental problems and he decided to go into law to help solve them. He saw that the problem was deeper than the law itself. It lies in the way we look at the world. He went into the philosophy of law – jurisprudence. He ...
Read More »VETIRINARY DR. PETER ARDINGTON DISCUSSES ECOSYSTEM REHABILITATION
Pristine is relative to what type of ecosystem is in place at the time. The Sahara desert used to be a high rainfall area with jungle and as the rainfall dropped it became a desert. Does one now say that if it starts to come back we must start shoveling ...
Read More »CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION 3 – PROF. GREG LONDON
Jason Sole of Motherchannel interviews Gregory London the professor of epidemiology from UCT. This interview is very interesting as this man has inside knowledge and is very informed. The professor tells us that there are fewer labs to test for new problems. He tells us that there is a low ...
Read More »Craig Foster – The Octopus Teacher and the Origin of Man
The Origin of All Man In this episode we hear from Craig Foster who is in the South African parliament and he is talking to us about his wonderful adventure with a live wild octopus. Craig will be making a film, book and exhibition about his journey with a live ...
Read More »Stuart Scott – United Planet Faith + Science Initiative – Food and Climate Change
Stuart Scott (Executive Director of UPFSI) heads up a presentation at COP 22 on the food and climate change choices, food security and the impacts of climate change on food production. They cover quite a bit in terms of animal extinction and food security or rather food insecurity as climate ...
Read More »SOILS OF AFRICA ~ SOIL CARBON AND HEALTH WITH PROF. RATTAN LAL
At COP 22 Agriculture Day – Science to Action presentation, Prof. Rattan Lal of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Centre at Ohio State University, speaks on the Sustainable Management of Soil Carbon and Soil Health in Africa and the establishment of soil thresholds in the root zone of Africa. In ...
Read More »CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE ADAPTATION IN AFRICA ~ USAID ROB BERTRAM
At COP 22 Agriculture Day – Science to Action presentation, Dr Rob Bertram, Chief Scientist at USAID Bureau for Food Security, speaks on Adapting to Climate Change in Africa : from Science to Farmers. Firstly, I would like to congratulate the Kingdom of Morocco in raising the profile “Agriculture” in ...
Read More »CHAU LOON WAI ON REDUCTION OF CARBON EMISSIONS IN MALAYSIA
In this interview at COP 22, with Mr Chau Loon Wai, a lecturer at the City and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment at the University of Technology, Malaysia, talks on their progress in the last 6-7 years with respect to assisting cities in Malaysia, which are developing very rapidly, ...
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