Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future. Climate change. Population growth. Widespread pollution. Increasing consumption. Fossil fuel depletion. Loss of biodiversity. Degraded land and water…. Complex environmental problems have taken center stage in the early 21st century and will present enormous c...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Jonathan
Created:
2009-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Living on a Shrinking Planet: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Future. Climate change. Population growth. Widespread pollution. Increasing consumption. Fossil fuel depletion. Loss of biodiversity. Degraded land and water…. Complex environmental problems have taken center stage in the early 21st century and will present enormous c...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Jonathan
Created:
2009-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Green New Deal. In the wake of the financial crisis, the question of a global insurer of last resort has once again moved centre stage. If brought into effect, such an authority would not only be responsible for underwriting accidents, both meteorological and financial, but also for ensuring the credibility of investments in the earth's futu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cooper, Melinda
Created:
2009-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Green New Deal. In the wake of the financial crisis, the question of a global insurer of last resort has once again moved centre stage. If brought into effect, such an authority would not only be responsible for underwriting accidents, both meteorological and financial, but also for ensuring the credibility of investments in the earth's futu...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cooper, Melinda
Created:
2009-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Imagining the River: The Mississippi Gorge -- Roundtable Discussion. Tucked below the street level and parkways in south Minneapolis and the Highland neighborhood of St. Paul, the Mississippi River Gorge is, literally, often overlooked. Located between the Minnesota/Mississippi River confluence and the Falls of St. Anthony, this reach of the riv...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Baeumler, Christine; Lenhart, Chris; Nunnally, Pat; Vreeland, Scott
Created:
2009-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Nature of Gentrification: Urban Environmental Veneers and the Remaking of the Spokane Riverfront. This talk explores how the urban natural environment is used as a veneer to obscure the often harsh social, economic, and political ecological realities of gentrification. An examination of the city of Spokane, Washington's preparations for an e...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bryson, Jeremy
Created:
2010-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Nature of Gentrification: Urban Environmental Veneers and the Remaking of the Spokane Riverfront. This talk explores how the urban natural environment is used as a veneer to obscure the often harsh social, economic, and political ecological realities of gentrification. An examination of the city of Spokane, Washington's preparations for an e...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bryson, Jeremy
Created:
2010-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Restoration in/of the Mississippi River Gorge. The Mississippi River Gorge is that reach of the river stretching from St. Anthony Falls to the confluence with the Minnesota River. This unique geological formation, which happens to pass through the heart of the U of M Minneapolis campus, is the subject of many and varied restoration efforts. Citi...
Restoration in/of the Mississippi River Gorge. The Mississippi River Gorge is that reach of the river stretching from St. Anthony Falls to the confluence with the Minnesota River. This unique geological formation, which happens to pass through the heart of the U of M Minneapolis campus, is the subject of many and varied restoration efforts. Citi...
Windmills Not Oil Spills: Turning the Tide on America's Energy Future. Mike Tidwell is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and DC. He is also an author and filmmaker who predicted ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Tidwell, Mike
Created:
2010-09-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Windmills Not Oil Spills: Turning the Tide on America's Energy Future. Mike Tidwell is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and DC. He is also an author and filmmaker who predicted ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Tidwell, Mike
Created:
2010-09-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Looking for Planet Levers: Developing a Strategic Framework to Move the World Towards Sustainability How do we move the world toward sustainability? Jon Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment, discusses strategies for effecting global change in how we live on our planet. This event is part of the University Symposium on Site and Inc...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Jon
Created:
2014-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Looking for Planet Levers: Developing a Strategic Framework to Move the World Towards Sustainability How do we move the world toward sustainability? Jon Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment, discusses strategies for effecting global change in how we live on our planet. This event is part of the University Symposium on Site and Inc...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Foley, Jon
Created:
2014-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.