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Title: "The Ecologist" online
Description: "Founded in 1970, ?The Ecologist? is the world?s most widely-read environmental magazine. Published in four continents, The Ecologist is read by over 200,000 people in 150 countries. A key player in major environmental campaigns against GM crops, rainforest destruction, climate change and the impact of globalisation, The Ecologist?s early-warning signs have helped set environmental and political agendas across the world...."
Source/publisher: "The Ecologist"
Date of entry/update: 2005-01-30
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Language: English
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Title: Center for the advancement of the steady-state economy (CASSE)
Description: "Perpetual economic growth is neither possible nor desirable. Growth, especially in wealthy nations, is already causing more problems than it solves. Recession isn?t sustainable or healthy either. The positive, sustainable alternative is a steady state economy. Learn More >>
Source/publisher: CASSE
Date of entry/update: 2012-11-09
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Language: English
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Title: Earthrise (video series)
Description: "Earthrise is Al Jazeera?s award-winning environmental show. Now in its seventh season, earthrise continues to champion the individuals and grassroots initiatives exploring solutions to the environmental challenges we face today. From Sweden to the Seychelles, Myanmar to Mozambique, earthrise?s diverse team of reporters meet visionaries, global and local, who share their innovations and experiences, inspiring us all to get more involved..."
Source/publisher: Aljazeera
Date of entry/update: 2015-03-19
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Language: English (speech and/or subtitles)
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Title: EcoWatch
Description: Home Climate "EcoWatch is one of the nation?s [USA] leading environmental news sites engaging millions of readers every month. We are at the forefront of uniting all shades of green to ensure the health and longevity of our planet. EcoWatch is leading the charge in using online news to drive fundamental change...... Energy... Food... Health... Adventure... More+
Source/publisher: EcoWatch
Date of entry/update: 2016-09-11
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Language: English
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Title: eTekkatho - Educational resources for the Myanmar academic community
Description: "eTekkatho is a digital library especially designed for the academic community in Myanmar. The library is delivered over a very low bandwidth website and is also available over local area networks at partner institutions in Myanmar. The project is not-for-profit and access to the library is free. Anyone can use the library and no registration is required......SUBJECTS: "Earth sciences... Environment... Human geography... Physical geography... Research tools and methods... South East Asia and related country studies... Supporting subjects... Computing and IT... English language... Mathematics
Source/publisher: University of Manchester
Date of entry/update: 2013-11-19
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English (Burmese?)
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Title: Roots and Resources - global and regional experience and analysis
Description: Link to another sub-section of the Library
Source/publisher: Online Burma/Myanmar Library
Date of entry/update: 2015-05-22
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Language: English
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Title: The Spectre of Hope
Description: "THE SPECTRE OF HOPE brings together art critic John Berger, author of WAYS OF SEEING, and world-renowned photographer Sebastião. Critic and writer John Berger talks with brazilean photographer Sebastião Salgado on his photographs book Migrations..."
Source/publisher: Sebastião Salgado and John Berger via YouTube
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-11
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Title: Emissions Gap Report 2019
Summary: "As the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit climate change, it is crucial to track progress towards globally agreed climate goals. For a decade, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report has...
Description: "As the world strives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit climate change, it is crucial to track progress towards globally agreed climate goals. For a decade, UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report has compared where greenhouse gas emissions are heading against where they need to be, and highlighted the best ways to close the gap. What’s new in this year’s report? Update on emissions gap The report presents the latest data on the expected gap in 2030 for the 1.5°C and 2°C temperature targets of the Paris Agreement. It considers different scenarios, from no new climate policies since 2005 to full implementation of all national commitments under the Paris Agreement. For the first time, it looks at how large annual cuts would need to be from 2020 to 2030 to stay on track to meeting the Paris goals..."
Source/publisher: UN Environment Programme (UNEP) (Nairobi)
Date of entry/update: 2019-11-30
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Title: HOME - Yann Arthus-Bertrand (English version) - (video)
Description: "Home is a 2009 documentary directed by French photographer, reporter and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand and produced by Luc Besson. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows how tightly linked Man and nature are, and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet. The English version of the film is narrated by Glenn Close. Yann Arthus-Bertand is especially known for his book Earth from Above, published in 1999. As a aerial photographer, the main goal of his work is to help people see how beautiful Earth is and to raise awareness of the negative impact of human activities on our ecosystem..."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (film-maker), Armand Amar (composer)
Source/publisher: GoodPlanet Foundation
Date of publication: 2015-07-15
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-05
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Title: HUMAN's musics
Sub-title: A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Composed by Armand Amar
Description: "HUMAN's Musics - A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Composed by Armand Amar "I am deeply taken with traditional music, it moves me, it connects you to emotion. The idea with HUMAN was to create songs that would reflect the same emotion generated by the interviews. I wanted things to open up, to open up one’s heart, to let the sadness be without any restraint. HUMAN has been one of these rare moments in my life as a film composer during which I could express all these different cultures at the same time : either working on minimalist songs or meeting with these singers and musicians coming from all around the world. Which note did I first produce ? I had more like a global vision in mind, an atmosphere that would merge into the film and that would bring people together, this was my starting point. The part I created for the Mongolian sequence might be the best summary of the atmosphere I wanted the film to have. "
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Armand Amar
Source/publisher: www.goodplanet.org
Date of publication: 2017-05-19
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-10
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Title: The Man Who Planted Trees
Description: "The Man Who Planted Trees (French title L?homme qui plantait des arbres) is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953. It tells the story of one shepherd?s long and successful singlehanded effort to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the Alps in Provence throughout the first half of the 20th century. The tale is short—only about 4000 words long. It was written in French, but first published in English..."
Jean G. Giono
Source/publisher: Jean Giono
Date of publication: 1952-11-30
Date of entry/update: 2015-09-18
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Language: English, Francais
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Title: Environment360
Description: Reporting, Analysis, Opinion & Debate
Source/publisher: Environment360
Date of entry/update: 2015-04-18
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Language: English
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Title: International Energy Outlook 2013 - With Projections to 2040
Description: The International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013) projects that world energy consumption will grow by 56 percent between 2010 and 2040. Total world energy use rises from 524 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) in 2010 to 630 quadrillion Btu in 2020 and to 820 quadrillion Btu in 2040 (Figure 1). Much of the growth in energy consumption occurs in countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),2 known as non-OECD, where demand is driven by strong, long-term economic growth. Energy use in non-OECD countries increases by 90 percent; in OECD countries, the increase is 17 percent. The IEO2013 Reference case does not incorporate prospective legislation or policies that might affect energy markets
Source/publisher: US Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Date of publication: 2013-07-25
Date of entry/update: 2013-09-11
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Title: The Limits to Growth (Wikipedia)
Description: "The Limits to Growth is a 1972 book about the computer modeling of unchecked economic and population growth with finite resource supplies.[1] It was commissioned by the Club of Rome and was first presented at the 3. St. Gallen Symposium. Its authors were Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, J?rgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. The book used the World3 model to simulate[2] the consequence of interactions between the Earth?s and human systems. The book echoes some of the concerns and predictions of Thomas Malthus in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798). Five variables were examined in the original model, on the assumptions that exponential growth accurately described their patterns of increase, and that the ability of technology to increase the availability of resources grows only linearly. These variables are: world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion. The authors intended to explore the possibility of a sustainable feedback pattern that would be achieved by altering growth trends among the five variables under three scenarios. They noted that their projections for the values of the variables in each scenario were predictions "only in the most limited sense of the word," and were only indications of the system?s behavioral tendencies.[3] Two of the scenarios saw "overshoot and collapse" of the global system by the mid to latter part of the 21st century, while a third scenario resulted in a "stabilized world."[4]
Donella H. Meadows Dennis L. Meadows Jørgen Randers William W. Behrens III
Source/publisher: Wikipedia
Date of publication: 1971-11-30
Date of entry/update: 2012-11-22
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Language: English
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