Symma Finn: Good afternoon and welcome to the Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Webinar, entitled Environmental Health Disparities. My name is Symma Finn, and I’m a Program Administrator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Extramural Research and Training. I will be the Moderator for today’s session, but I wanted to acknowledge…
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(AV17418) Is Global Warming Affecting Hurricanes
well good evening I’m Tom Lonnegan current president of Sigma Z and what a fantastic day for Earth Day maybe somebody somewhere is telling us something that we should be paying attention to it’s my pleasure this evening to introduce the person who’s going to introduce our speaker I’m going to introduce bill Simpkins who…
Low Pollution Causing Low Wheat Yield
Sulfur deficiency has become a big problem for wheat production in the Southern Great Plains. Over time there has been much less sulfur deposition in the rainfall. We have less pollution going out in the air and therefore we have less sulfur coming back to the crop. First it does cause yield losses but not…
First Plastic Back To Land | Mission One Completed | SYSTEM 001/B
Capturing plastic really did something. Seeing the system out there seeing the plastic being caught. Seeing something that works that performs like expected, builds confidence in what we’re doing And that we’re on the right track at this moment. You see it? yeah! It’s all tiny particles also! We choked the majority of the plastic….
Boyan Slat’s speech | Bringing back Plastic | SYSTEM 001
So yeah, I don’t know how you guys feel, but this, for me is one of the most exciting moments in my life. We’re about to launch the world’s first ocean cleanup system to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so to really underline why it’s so important for what’s going to happen in the next…
“CO2 colonialism”: Indigenous leaders protest corporate presence at COP25
We’re broadcasting here inside the U.N. climate summit in Madrid, Spain. Hundreds of protesters are right behind me, just next to our set, calling for climate justice. You can hear the chants. You can hear what they are saying. They are chanting. They’ve got banners. Tom, can you describe for us what you’re seeing right…
Infrastructure and Environment Committee – December 5, 2019
Good morning, everybody. We have quorum. Welcome to the meeting 10 of the Infrastructure and Environment Committee. The Deputy Mayor is listening. Welcome to members of the committee and of course visiting Councillors are always welcome. For those in the room, the back of the room provides real-time updates on the agenda and what’s coming…
Climate change: Why we need 70% of U.S. politicians to unite | Daniel Esty
So when I served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the late 1980s and early 1990s climate change first came onto the public agenda in a big way, and there was at the time a UN process launched to think about this issue. There was, in fact, the inner governmental panel on climate change…
Climate Change’s Best Hope
I think one of the biggest questions we all have when it comes to climate changes is: Is there hope? People often ask me, “Well, what can I do I’m just one person how could I make a difference?” but if there is one thing that I wish everybody would do, its talk about it….
Chemicals in the Environment – Dehumanising Humanity (2017)
They are everywhere in our environment in the air we breathe the water we drink the food we eat they are in everyday products we use for personal care and cleaning they are in our furniture our children’s toys and the products we use in gardening and agriculture and almost all of us have them…