Lancet Countdown on Public Health and Climate Change

The Security and Sustainability Forum, Island Press and the Pubic Health Institute webinar about the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. Announced at COP 22, the Lancet Countdown is being established to track the relationship between health and climate change. It will actively seek to engage with existing monitoring processes, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and World Health Organization's climate and health country profiles.

Climate Justice Changes Health: Local, Tribal, Global, and Generational

This year, 2017, is the American Public Health Association's Year of Climate Change. This is the recording of a very special kick-off webinar on Climate Justice: Local, Tribal, Global, and Generational. You'll hear from speakers who are engaged in the fight for climate justice and healthy communities, to explore how climate justice is the best strategy to address both climate change and health inequities here in the US and around the world. You won't want to miss this free session. Co-hosted by the Public Health Institute and Island Press.

Seeing the Better City with Chuck Wolfe

Listen to Charles Wolfe, practicing Seattle land use/environmental attorney and Affiliate Associate Professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. Chuck is the author of Seeing the Better City, which focuses on the sights, sounds, and experiences of place in order to craft policies, plans, and regulations to shape better urban environments.

Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning

The "greening" of cities can focus on everything except nature, emphasizing such elements as public transit, renewable energy production, and energy efficient building systems. While these are important aspects of reimagining urban living, human beings have an innate need to connect with the natural world (the biophilia hypothesis). And any vision of a sustainable urban future must place its focus squarely on nature, on the presence, conservation, and celebration of the actual green features and natural life forms.

The Atlas of Global Marine Fisheries

A webinar recording Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller - The Sea Around Us. Until now, there has been only one source of data on global fishery catches: information reported to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations by member countries. An extensive, ten-year study conducted by The Sea Around Us Project of the University of British Columbia shows that this catch data is fundamentally misleading.

How to Girdle

An accompanying video for the book, Introduction to Restoration Ecology, the aim of this video is to illustrate a common mechanical technique used to manage certain pest trees. While the text describes the principle and the technique, it's always good to show someone actually doing the girdling to illustrate how easy it is. The is tied to two chapters (10 and 11).

Basal Bark Herbicide Application

An accompanying video for the book, Introduction to Restoration Ecology, this video explains what a basal bark herbicide application is, how to make it, and why it is efficient and effective for clonal tree species. This video is relevant to the discussion in chapter 10, The Management Plan, section 10.3 Vegetation Management Tools and chapter 11, The Role and Impact of Pest Species in Restoration.

Cut Stump

An accompanying video for the book, Introduction to Restoration Ecology, this video explains what a cut stump herbicide application is, when it should be used, and how to do it. This video is relevant to the discussion in chapter 10, The Management Plan, section 10.3 Vegetation Management Tools and chapter 11, The Role and Impact of Pest Species in Restoration.

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