Friday 23 November 2012
Ecocide - The 5th Crime Against Peace
Using her legal expertise Polly Higgins gives a fascinating TEDxExeter talk about the potential to eraditcate ecocide, "the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been or will be severely diminished". I really encourage you to watch it.
More information can be found at: http://eradicatingecocide.com/.
Thank you Siobhan for passing this on to me.
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Crisis of Civilization
A past student of mine sent this film to me. The important issues covered, such as the failing policy of economic growth, are highly relevant to my Ecological Economics lectures so I recommend watching it.
The Crisis of Civilization is a remix documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.
Tuesday 9 October 2012
Living Planet Report 2012
This is a recent report by WWF which gives a good indication of the pressure being put on our planet. Think about this in terms of the 'throughput' we discussed in class.
Wednesday 26 September 2012
The Story of Stuff
Welcome to my new Year 1 students. This 20 minute video sums up some of the key issues covered by Ecological Economics. Please do watch it and make any comments below. We will be discussing it in class.
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Choking on Growth
This is a rather sobering series about the consequences of China's rapid economic growth. I recommend spending some time going through the slide shows and videos as well as articles.
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