join mark ruffalo nov 21: save the delaware river
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email president obama now http:bitlyue1vhlsign up for a bus to trenton here: http:bitlyvzmoq6on nov 21st we are standing up for our water : join mark in trenton nj where we will tell obama wall street and the delaware river basin commission that our health and our lives are not collateral damage for the oil ampamp gas industryon nov 21st the drbc will vote on quotfrackingquot hydraulic-fracturing regulations that will allow thousands of gas wells to be drilled in the delaware river basin -- the largest unfiltered drinking water supply in the world stand up for new york new jersey delaware and pennsylvaniago towwwwaterdefenseorgfor details____________________________music by: ceiri torjussenspecial thanks to josh fox and gasland the movie

do trees communicate
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in this real-life model of forest resilience and regeneration professor suzanne simard shows that all trees in a forest ecosystem are interconnected with the largest oldest quotmother treesquot serving as hubs the underground exchange of nutrients increases the survival of younger trees linked into the network of old trees amazingly we find that in a forest 11 equals more than 2suzanne w simard - faculty profile live link with tons more infolinksdr suzanne simard is a professor with the ubc faculty of forestry where she lectures on and researches the role of mycorrhizae and mycorrhizal networks in tree species migrations with climate change disturbance networks of mycorrhizal fungal mycelium have recently been discovered by professor suzanne simard and her graduate students to connect the roots of trees and facilitate the sharing of resources in douglas-fir forests of interior british columbia thereby bolstering their resilience against disturbance or stress and facilitating the establishment of new regenerationdr simard writes:mycorrhizal fungi form obligate symbioses with trees where the tree supplies the fungus with carbohydrate energy in return for water and nutrients the fungal mycelia gather from the soil mycorrhizal networks form when mycelia connect the roots of two or more plants of the same or different species graduate student kevin beiler has uncovered the extent and architecture of this network through the use of new molecular tools that can distinguish the dna of one fungal individual from another or of one tree039s roots from another he has found that all trees in dry interior douglas-fir pseudotsuga menziesii var glauca forests are interconnected with the largest oldest trees serving as hubs much like the hub of a spoked wheel where younger trees establish within the mycorrhizal network of the old trees through careful experimentation recent graduate francois teste determined that survival of these establishing trees was greatly enhanced when they were linked into the network of the old treesthrough the use of stable isotope tracers he and amanda schoonmaker a recent undergraduate student in forestry found that increased survival was associated with belowground transfer of carbon nitrogen and water from the old trees this research provides strong evidence that maintaining forest resilience is dependent on conserving mycorrhizal links and that removal of hub trees could unravel the network and compromise regenerative capacity of the forestsin wetter mixed-species interior douglas-fir forests graduate student brendan twieg also used molecular tools to discover that douglas-fir and paper birch betula papyrifera trees can be linked together by species-rich mycorrhizal networks we found that the mycorrhizal network serves as a belowground pathway for transfer of carbon from the nutrient-rich deciduous trees to nearby regenerating douglas-fir seedlings moreover we found that carbon transfer was enhanced when douglas-fir seedlings were shaded in mid-summer providing a subsidy that may be important in douglas-fir survival and growth thus helping maintain a mixed forest community during early succession this is not a one-way subsidy however graduate leanne philip discovered that douglas-fir supported their birch neighbours in the spring and fall by sending back some of this carbon when the birch was leafless this back-and-forth flux of resources according to need may be one process that maintains forest diversity and stabilitymycorrhizal networks may be critical in helping forest ecosystems deal with climate change maintaining the biological webs that stabilize forests may help conserve genetic resources for future tree migrations ensure that forest carbon stocks remain intact on the landscape and conserve species diversity ubc graduate student marcus bingham is finding that maintaining mycorrhizal webs may be more important for the regeneration and stability of the dry than wet interior douglas-fir forests where resources are more limited and climate change is expected to have greater impacts helping the landscape adapt to climate change will require more than keeping existing forests intact however many scientists are concerned that species will need to migrate at a profoundly more rapid rate than they have in the past and that humans can facilitate this migration by planting tree species adapted to warm climates in new areas ubc graduate student brendan twieg is starting new research to help us understand whether the presence of appropriate mycorrhizal symbionts in foreign soils may limit the success of tree migrations and if so to help us design practices that increase our success at facilitating changes in these forests

episode 1: woodwalk
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follow greg and austin around the world on their mission to 5 million stoves in this episode they travel to northern kenya to experience a quotday in the lifequot of gabbra women as they collect wood for cooking over their traditional open fires

meet the retired oil exec plugging forgotten wells to reduce emissions world wide waste - youtube
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nine million americans live near an orphan oil and gas well these wells have no owner and they were never sealed so they039re leaking out tons of methane and

full show 2612: thom discusses the latest from the occupy wall street movement
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thom talks with a reporter and participant of the occupy dc movement and asks if we can trust the people of the leaderless movement in his quotdaily takequot also discussed: mortgage fraud house democrats preventing faa workers from unionizing and a doomsday scenario about abrupt climate change

inhofe takes on global warming alarmist attempted ambush
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global warming alarmists led by mark hertsgaard attempted to ambush senator inhofe following a hearing this morning see for yourself who ended up winning the argument

quotare you here to save face or save usquot teen brittany trilford tells rio20 world leaders
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democracynoworg - on wednesday 17-year-old environmental activist brittany trilford of wellington new zealand addressed more than a hundred heads of state at the opening plenary of the rio20 un earth summit the largest united nations gathering ever quotwe are all aware that time is ticking and we are quickly running outquot trilford said quotyou have 72 hours to decide the fate of your children my children my children039s children and i start the clock nowquotto watch the complete weekday independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast search our vast archive or to find more information about democracy now and amy goodman visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-now daily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

climate control inc mascot hvac jack039s first video - portland oregon hvac company
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portland most liked hvac mascot hvac jack in his first fully animated video climate control inc and portland based air conditioning and heating sales and services company has been using hvac jack to communicate with their clients for over a year now customers respond very well to hvac jack and we will be creating more videos like this one visit http:wwwclimatecontrolinccom for more about their services and hvac jack marketing and hvac jack created by msv media productions llc

100 solutions to reverse global warming chad frischmann
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what if we took out more greenhouse gases than we put into the atmosphere this hypothetical scenario known as

the climate change debate is long over and there is nothing we can do - youtube
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the newsroom s03e03 the epa a technology to actually reverse the impact of methane and co2 etc is all that can save us now

hulu - the colbert report: tue sep 13 2011 - watch the full episode now
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video description: former us vice president and environmental advocate al gore discusses with stephen his efforts to raise climate crisis awareness

plastic recycling is an actual scam climate town - youtube
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if you were worried that the plastic industry was getting a little too trustworthy worry no longer subscribe for more vides: https:wwwyoutubecomcclim

who039s killing the hydrogen car bob lazar converted his corvette to run on hydrogen - youtube
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former area 51 employee bob lazar is interviewed by visual effects supervisor jon farhat in this video they discuss what h1 hydrogen is how it is create

the hamster wheel: lord monckton
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craig reucassel interviews comedy genius sacha baron cohen in character as his latest creation: climate skeptic lord christopher monckton

justin hall-tipping: freeing energy from the grid
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http:wwwtedcom what would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes in this moving talk entrepreneur justin hall-tipping shows the materials that could make that possible and how questioning our notion of 039normal039 can lead to extraordinary breakthroughstedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the ted conference where the world039s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes featured speakers have included al gore on climate change philippe starck on design jill bolte taylor on observing her own stroke nicholas negroponte on one laptop per child jane goodall on chimpanzees bill gates on malaria and mosquitoes pattie maes on the quotsixth sensequot wearable tech and quotlostquot producer jj abrams on the allure of mystery ted stands for technology entertainment design and tedtalks cover these topics as well as science business development and the arts closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on tedcom at http:wwwtedcomtranslate