Environment and Development / Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento (multi-lingua)

Paul Hawkens talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.

Paul Hawken

Michael Stone wraps his recent trip to Copenhagen with interviews with Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva and George Monbiot. Along with what was accomplished out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and what is ahead...

BillMcKibben, American environmentalist and writer, is the founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign. Bill frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he has been at the forefront of organizing and leading the largest civil demonstrations against global warming in history. It has been 3 decades since he wrote the End of Nature. www.350.org

George Monbiot is a journalist, author, academic & environmental & political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper. He is on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine. His latest book Heat, is a must read for anyone serious about understanding Global Warming. www.monbiot.com
 
Vandana Shiva, is a physicist, philosopher and leader in the global agriculture movement. She is known as one of most eloquent speakers who help fight for people's rights.. She is directing an international movement on Food Rights. She also established Navdanya (a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights in India.) www.vandanashiva.org

Michael Stone with Bill McKibben, Vandana Shiva and George Monbiot - Copenhagen in Retrospect

The traditional approaches to development in academic or policy circles have not coped, by and large, with the transformation of the processes of development under the conditions of multidimensional globalization, technological change, multiculturalism, and ecological consciousness. In this public lecture Manuel Castells explores a reconceptualisation of development in the global information age.

Manuel Castells Reconceptualising Development in the Global Information Age

Elva Arrieta, Fernando Illanes, M. Teresa Larrea, Diego Mory y Vanity Torres

Resumen "La Sociedad Red" de Manuel Castells

Speaker(s): Professor Lord Giddens | Professor Lord Giddens published The Politics of Climate Change in 2007and is currently preparing a new edition for publication in 2015. In this lecture he will consider how much progress has been made since the work was first published in containing global warming - arguably one of the greatest threats to a stable future for humanity. Anthony Giddens is a former director of LSE and a Member of the House of Lords. Credits: Tom Sturdy (Audio Post-Production), LSE AV Services (Audio Recording).

The Politics of Climate Change 2014: what cause for hope? [Audio]

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Eco Schools: Educating for Sustainable Communities | Fritjof Capra, Cheryl Charles, and David Orr

Liz Chatterjee ties together some threads discussed in previous weeks - the politics of knowledge production, imperialism, the difficulties of translation - to offer some alternative views of the relationship between academia and activism. 

Academia and Activism: Some Alternatives (Liz Chatterjee)

So far we are trying to deal with climate change at the wrong time scale.  A really deep problem cannot be solved by shallow innovations, no matter how clever.  The scale of climate change requires thinking and acting in multi-decade terms at the level of infrastructure—personal as well as societal.  Get it right, and “the result can be like living in a beautifully managed garden.”

Saul Griffith is an inventor and meta-inventor, currently founder of Otherlabs in San Francisco (devising such things as soft robotics, soft exoskeletons, cheap solar tracking, and conformable gas tanks.)  He is a MacArthur Fellow and frequent TED dazzler.  His 02009 SALT talk on Climate Change Recalculated: http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/jan/16/climate-change-recalculated/ is the most viewed video in our twelve-year series.

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The Art of Relationships: From Ecology to Healing | Fritjof Capra, Jeannette Armstrong...

The slow-food movement has reached dizzying heights on the sun-baked altiplano of Bolivia, in the Andean highlands. Here, small-scale producers are making the most of scarce water supplies, ample sun, a few inexpensive materials and local expertise to eke out a living in some of the highest elevation farmland in the world. 

Ecological Food in Bolivia

The city of Curitiba, in southern Brazil, is famous for innovation and rational development.  It was one of the first cities to market itself as "green" in a 1980s advertising campaign. And it is.

Curitiba: Sustainable City

Jose Maria Figueres is the President of the Carbon War Room, an organization that supports initiatives by private companies to reduce their carbon emissions. And previously he was the president of Costa Rica. We talked with Figueres about why he sees moving towards low carbon economies as an opportunity to combat other issues such as poverty, and about Costa Rica's own ambitious efforts to become carbon neutral by 2021. 

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Ex President of Costa Rica - 'Creating Low Carbon Economies is an Opportunity'

How our cities are run and designed can have a huge impact on the carbon footprint we have as individuals. Is there convenient and affordable transit available for example? Or are the buildings heated and cooled efficiently?  But fortunately cities around the world are increasingly making their planning decisions with climate emissions in mind. In fact, actions by cities have been a rare bright spot in an otherwise mostly stagnant decade when it comes to climate action. We speak to Mark Watts - who leads a group called the C40 made up of some of the world's biggest cities  -  about some of the ways that cities are leading the way on climate. 


How Cities Are Leading The Way on Climate

"Latin Pulse" changes tempo this week to look at Afro-Latin American culture and music. This special program looks at how music in the region has an impact on youth movements and social groups. The program includes sections on Cuban rap, baile funk from Brazil, and cumbia from Colombia. The program also features our usual news review of the week, including a discussion about Latin American trade.
In-Depth Interviews:


Katrin Hansing of the City University of New York (CUNY); and
Adrian Loving of Marymount University.


Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell
Associate Producer: Vanessa Haces-Gonzatti


For a full playlist of songs included in this program, please go here: https://www.box.com/shared/static/v…92ycss1u751.pdf


The photo is by Oriana Eliçabe of Barcelona, Spain via Flickr using a Creative Commons license. The photo shows Cuba's Los Aldeanos in concert in Spain in 2010. The original file can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/orianomada/5035817171/


“Latin Pulse” is produced at American University’s School of Communication. This program is affiliated with the university’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies (CLALS), and with Link TV.
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Social Movements & Music in Latin America (Lp11182011)

"I now believe there are over one million organizations working toward ecological sustainability and social justice. This is the largest social movement in all of history, no one knows its scope, and how it functions is more mysterious than what meets the eye. What binds it together is ideas, not ideologies. The promise of this unnamed movement is to offer solutions to what appear to be insoluble dilemmas: poverty, global climate change, terrorism, ecological degradation, polarization of income, loss of culture." Paul Hawken is the author of Blessed Unrest and co-author of Natural Capitalism.

Paul Hawken - The New Great Transformation

Palestra proferida no Rio de Janeiro, em 29.03.2012.

PALESTRA DE FRITJOF CAPRA SOBRE SUSTENTABILIDADE

Speaker(s): Professor Manuel Castells | How are Social Movements shaped by the availability of horizontal communication networks based on the Internet and wireless communication? How can indignation become collective action by the connection between neural networks, digital social networks and urban networks? Which are the cultural and political consequences of these developments? Case studies in different contexts ground a theory of power and social change in the network society presented in the book Communication Power (Oxford University Press, paperback edition 2011) is to be presented in this lecture. Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is a Harold Lasswell Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, as well as a fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, a fellow of the Academia Europea, a fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the British Academy. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:30:00 GMT

Social Movements in the Age of the Internet [Audio]

Our university departments are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary where people from different backgrounds come together to keep each other in check while tackling large issues that have a lot at stake. One place this is happening is in synthetic biology, where computer scientists, engineers, biologists, ethicists, sociologists and artists “hold hands” in the lab as they develop new approaches to genetic engineering. Dr. Hilary Rose gets real on the promise of interdisciplinarity, and explains her concerns about what she thinks might be the dulling of criticality through such endeavours. Somehow, amazingly, she also manages to touch on feminism, the radical science movement, and Occupy!

Dr. Hilary Rose is a prominent British feminist of sociology of science and social policy. Currently she is Visiting Research Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Bradford and Professor Emeritus of Physick, Gresham College, London. In 1997 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Uppsala for her contribution to the feminist sociology of science and in 2001 her book Love Power and Knowledge: Towards a feminist transformation of the sciences was listed one of the “101 Best Books of the 20th Century” (Mulheres Seculo XX 101 Livros) published by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.

The Tympanic Eclipse: academia and activism - DR. HILARY ROSE

Speaker(s): Dr Jean-Paul Faguet | Dr Faguet will speak about his new book Decentralization and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia. Jean-Paul Faguet is reader in the political economy of development at LSE. Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:30:00 GMT

Decentralization and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia [Audio]

Steven Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the
director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of physics and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley. He was previously at Stanford and Bell Laboratories. At Stanford, he helped start Bio-X, a multidisciplinary initiative linking the physical and biological sciences with engineering and medicine. In 2009 Prof. Chu was appointed the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Prof. Chu's first lecture gives a brief history of how scientific revolutions build on previous scientific revolutions, focusing on physics from Ptolemy to Copernicus, Kepler and Newton, and on to today’s counter-intuitive physical theories. Jul 29, 2010

The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions

Transforming Curitiba from the "greenest city on earth" to an ecocity. Urban ecology, permaculture and community projects for bottom up eco & social change. 

"Ecocity Group Curitiba" founder Duncan Crowley is currently doing a 2 year Masters Research programme in the public university UFPR, in MADE (Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento / Environment and Developement). His research area is: "From the village to the city: Confronting climate change by creating ecocities ". 