Fossil Fuel Endgame : Frontline Activists Facing Future 2024-01-25 | Humanity is at a pivotal juncture because of it reliance on fossil fuels amid escalating climate emergencies. In light of UN Secretary-General António Guterres's dire warnings and the backdrop of geopolitical conflicts, this program, recorded at COP28, critically examines the challenges and controversies in the global transition to clean energy. The focus is on the frontline activists fighting fossil fuel projects, the needs of island nations and international leadership towards clean energy.Hosted by Raya SalterMusic: At The Bazaar Underscore by David FesliyanEdited by Michael BarbaFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Food Security through the Restoration of Ecosystems Facing Future 2024-01-12 | Securing the global food system is critical to human survival. Agriculture has an enormous impact on all ecological functions of our planet. Through #CommonlandFoundation and #EcoRestoration Camps, John D. Liu and Willem Ferwerda spearhead movements to restore hydrological cycles, degraded soils and ecosystems at scale, creating new communities in the process.Vegan activist, #Isaias Hernandez, advocates for more support and attention to young climate activists whose future rests on the resilience of nature and on transformative human action to bring about the restoration of nature.Hosted and edited by Raya Salter As mentioned in the program:ecosystemrestorationcommunities.orgcommonland.comFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Economy Meets Ecology Facing Future 2023-12-28 | In an era where the impacts of #ClimateChange are becoming increasingly pronounced, this session focuses on how economic models can be reimagined and realigned to support ecological health and sustainability. #RayaSalter Esq., Dr, Deb Ley and Dr. Cindy Isenhour explore the integration of #EcologicalEconomies, in which the value of ecosystem services is placed above profit. Edited by Glenn GoodwinThumbnail by Eric DehaisMusic: At The Bazaar Underscore by David FesliyanFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Gaslighting In Dubai... Another Climate COP out? Facing Future 2023-12-12 | What if climate scientists like #PeterWadhams and #PaulBeckwith were asked to address the COP and taken seriously? It would be a far cry from the deals pasted together at #COP28, which make the oil and gas industries look good, as they agree to fix their leaky pipes, and the meat industry to lessen the methane from cow burps. But measures like these are bandaids that do little to heal the gaping wounds of climate breakdown. Wealthy countries, who have created the problem, propose to contribute insufficient funds to help the rest of the world cope with the damage they have done. Millions are offered where trillions are needed. 100,000 people attended COP28, some flying in private jets, thousands of them representing fossil fuel interests, and some coming to make lucrative deals with other petrostates. Can the COP process be changed so that it really does something? Not in 28 years!Some of our team attended virtually. Here is our commentary on this year’s COP out. Host: Dale WalkonenEdited by Mike CoeThumbnail by Eric DehaisMusic: At The Bazaar Underscore by David FesliyanFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
War and Peace, The Climate Toll Facing Future 2023-12-09 | At #COP28 in Dubai, Raya Salter and Carlos Garcia host a panel of experts to examine the impact of #MilitaryOperations on the climate. At a time when humanity needs to focus on the restoration of land and water, wars around the planet are destroying cities, lives and ecosystems. Peace is essential for keeping the climate system from catastrophic failure.Tamara Lorincz tells us the amount of money that flows to military operations, and its resource extraction, is over two trillion dollars annually. While Dr. Amara Eniya explains how debt, compunded by droughts and floods that are the direct result of the #ClimateCrisis, is crippling many nations who struggle to provide for the basic needs of their people.John D. Liu is the voice of Commonland, the restoration efforts that are being accomplished around the world, bringing back land and hydrological cycles.Edited by Mike CoeThumbnail by Eric DehaisMusic: At The Bazaar Underscore by David FesliyanProducer: Dale WalkonenFor information about John D.Liu and the Commonland Foundationcommonland.comFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Climate Finance or Failure Facing Future 2023-12-06 | #ClimateFinance is integral to combating climate change. Financial strategies can be leveraged and innovated to either support environmental sustainability, or to empower false solutions. Speaking at #COP28 in Dubai, Raya Salter, Tom Goldtooth, and Dan Galpern take a hard look at where the money is flowing, whether it will really benefit the planet or not, and the legal action that can be taken when it is not working. The #ClimateCrisis demands immediate real action, not band aids that keep the fossil fuel industry afloat. For more about Tom Goldtooth's workienearth.orgFor more about Dan Galpern's workcprclimate.orgFor more about Raya Salter's workrayasalter.comHosted by Carlos GarciaEdited by Mike Coe Thumbnail by Eric DehaisMusic: At The Bazaar Underscore by David FesliyanProducer: Dale WalkonenFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Military Operations – Accelerating Climate Breakdown Facing Future 2023-11-30 | The critical work of our time is the restoration of nature. Billions are required to transition to a safer planet. Instead, Over 2 trillion dollars are spent yearly to equip military operations, and provide armaments for wars around the world. As thousands flee or are killed in the bombings, cities and critical ecosystems are being destroyed, pouring millions of tons of greenhouse gasses into the air, polluting land and water, and increasing vulnerability to catastrophic floods, droughts, and diseases as the #ClimateCrisis worsens.Military alliances are not the answer. The real battle is the struggle to save life on our planet. To do that, we must first stop destroying it.Today's guests areKati Juva Co-President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and a coordinator for the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons in Finland andTamara Lorincz, former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network, co-founder of the East Coast Environmental Law Association, and member of the Canadian Voice of #WomenforPeace, and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.Hosted by Dale WalkonenEdited by Mike Coeor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Eat Less Meat with Meatless Meat Facing Future 2023-11-17 | Paul Shapiro, CEO of The Better Meat Co. and Author of Clean Meat, How Growing Meat WIthout Animals will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, explains how new processes can replace the environmental disaster that is animal agriculture. If people eat less or no meat and fish, much of nature can be restored and the wild animals that have been replaced by the 90 billion “livestock” slaughtered for meat each year, can return. Ecosystems can again flourish. Everyone can do this!For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.Hosted by Dale WalkonenEdited by Glenn Goodwin
We Must Restore Nature Facing Future 2023-11-02 | #PhoebeBarnard, founding director of the Stable Planet Alliance and co- producer of the upcoming documentary, #TheClimateRestorers, explains why we can’t simply shift, even if the world agreed to do it, from fossil fuels to electricity. We must restore nature in order to remove billions of tons of carbon and bring down global temperatures to safer levels, while also addressing the twin issues of #population and the over consumption of our planet’s finite resources. For more about the Climate Restorers documentary:backtoourfuture.netFor more about Phoebe's work:stableplanetalliance.org/restorationFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.Hosted by Dale WalkonenEdited by Glenn Goodwin
Staying Sane in a World out of Balance Facing Future 2023-10-20 | While civilization has brought comforts undreamed of in human history to a wealthy minority, it has wreaked havoc on life itself, polluting, extracting, and heating the atmosphere and the oceans to the point of mass extinction. Greed, ill will and the delusion of separation reign. How can we recover our interconnectedness with each other and with nature, and realize our collective capacity to join in the necessary work of our time? Is individual spiritual practice, now mostly separated from the natural world, still valid?Dale talks with #DavidLoy, Zen teacher, and author of a multitude of essays and books including EcoDharma, #Buddhist Teachings for the #EcologicalCrisis, and founding member of the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center Edited by Mike CoeFor more about the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center at: rmerc.org/retreatsFor more about David Robert Loydavidloy.org For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
The Simultaneous Policy Pledge Facing Future 2023-10-07 | Governments, locked in global competition, are disabled by the paradigm of economic growth, as they vie to entice corporations and industries with low taxes and subsidies. How can this fear of taking the right action, and being at a disadvantage, be overcome? John Bunzl offers The SIMPOL pledge to be signed by citizens who agree to vote for those politicians who have themselves signed the pledge to act simultaneously when enough nations are on board. Executives of corporations can also sign on, and commit to lowering their emissions. Together with NIck Duffell, he co authored The SIMPOL Solution, which explores the psychology, as well as the political and economic traps, that have prevented us from dealing with the #ClimateCrisis. To find out more and to take the pledge (citizens and politicians)simpol.orgBusinesses: theclimatepledge.com/us/en/join The book, #TheSimpolSolution is available at:barnesandnoble.com/w/the-simpol-solution-john-bunzl/1126997626and on AmazonHost, Dale WalkonenEdited by Mike CoeFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Taking Fossil Fuels Out of the Equation Facing Future 2023-09-21 | Is a paradigm shift in energy possible in time to mitigate the worst effects of climate breakdown? In this program, we look at the role of green hydrogen, whose electrolysis relies on solar and wind, as a replacement for black, gray and blue hydrogen which depend on coal or methane in such applications as airplanes, or heavy trucks. Patrick Hogan, NASA Earth scientist emeritus and John Gentile, Managing Director of Cascadia Energy Technologies discuss the possibilities with host, Dale Walkonen.Edited by Mike CoeFor more information on modular green hydrogen, seecascadiaenergytech.comFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
The Widening Gyre : Hurricanes Facing Future 2023-09-07 | #Hurricanes are a yearly occurrence, but as the oceans heat, they bring more powerful winds and waves, as well as more intense rain. According to NASA, a hurricane can expend as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs. As #OceanCurrents are altered by climate change, the path of these storms is less predictable, and they can come one on top of another as we have seen in the last decade.#PaulBeckwith explains what we can expect as the climate crisis worsens.Host, Dale WalkonenVideo editor, Chris HipserFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Regenerative Agriculture - Wildlife vs. Livestock Facing Future 2023-08-24 | Three quarters of all farmland is devoted to #AnimalAgriculture. The destruction of #Habitat largely to graze and feed livestock has eliminated over 70% of the planet’s wildlife. Globally, 80 billion animals are killed each year for only 12% of the human diet. To keep the meat and dairy industries afloat, this slaughter is subsidized. At the same time, the topsoil is seriously degraded due to industrial farming of all kinds.#RegenerativeFarming offers a better way to grow food, but it requires farm animals. Instead, shouldn't we seize the opportunity to allow wildlife to return and flourish?Sailesh Rao, Founder and Executive Director of climatehealers.org Larry Kopald, Founder and President, thecarbonunderground.orgdiscuss this question with host, Dale Walkonen.Editor: Michael BarbaFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Earth Ablaze Facing Future 2023-08-11 | The evidence is all around us. Our industrialized civilization is taking us into an unlivable future. Every continent is affected by the fever we have inflicted on our planet. The gravity of the climate emergency is clear. Even as the crisis hits the United States and Europe - #MauiFires, Midwest hailstorms, hot tub ocean temperatures in Florida, Italian cities on red alert, Spain in drought, extended #HeatWaves- mirroring what's been happening in the global south, political action is still not happening. What will it take for world leaders to stop subsidizing extinction? And what do the next decades portend? In this program,Peter Carter, the director of the #ClimateEmergency Institute, and co-author of Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for SurvivalandPaul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist and Professor of Climatology, Meteorology, and Oceanography at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University look at this question and explain why getting off fossil fuels is essential to our survival.Hosted by Dale Walkonen Edited by Mike Coe For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Glaciers: Slip Sliding Away Facing Future 2023-07-27 | #Glaciers cool the planet and provide freshwater from yearly snowpack for billions of people and ecosystems. But in the Himalayas and the Alps, ice loss is accelerating as glaciers shrink. Rapid melting has led to #avalanches and flash floods, which exacerbated the heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan in 2022. At the same time, both poles are losing ice mass at an unanticipated rate. Professors Detlef Stammer, Director of the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg and Peter Wadhams, Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University share their findings about our disappearing glaciers, and some of the measures that are being taken to try to save them.Hosted by Dale WalkonenEdited by Mike Coe#ClimateChangeFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Our Inescapable Predicament Facing Future 2023-07-13 | We are grateful for Michael Dowd's many contributions to humanity, and for this conversation. He was a force of nature, and his passing on October 7, 2023 was a great loss. Industrial civilization has overshot the capacity of our planet to sustain it, putting us in an inescapable predicament. #RupertRead, #MichaelDowd and Dale Walkonen seek to answer the questions of how we can face reality and still live full, useful lives, taking compassionate and effective action, without doing more damage to our planet. For more conversations with Michael Dowd:postdoom.com/conversationsCanadian Club of Rome, May 2023 Presentationmail.google.com/mail/u/0/?pli=1#search/michael.dowd%40thankgodforevolution.com?projector=1To download Rupert Read's latest book (pay as you wish):249897.e-junkie.com/product/1756224/Do-you-want-to-know-the-truth3F-The-surprising-rewards-of-climate-honestyrupertread.net/booksclimatemajorityproject.comEditor: Michael Barba#ClimateChangeFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
BREAKING TOGETHER Facing Future 2023-07-05 | Professor #JemBendell launched his book #BreakingTogether on June 18th, 2023, in Glastonbury Town Hall. '"Breaking Together' is available in paperback, hardback, eBook and audiobook via www.jembendell.com. In response to some false claims, Professor Bendell wishes to state that he never received funding from, nor heard from Jeffrey Epstein after he declined to visit any of his properties. For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Recovering The River, A Tribal Victory Facing Future 2023-06-30 | Today's guest, Vanessa Castle, Fish and Wildlife Technician, and member of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, is featured in the Beautiful Undammed episode from the new series, Wild Hope, which will be released on YouTube on August 28th. The entire Wild Hope series will begin streaming on YouTube starting July 31 at www.wildhope.tv. Vanessa tells the story of how the local people are working with the now freed river to restore the land and the #Salmon, who carry critical marine nutrients into the #Ecosystem so that it can flourish once again.Check WildHope.tv for more information. Sign up for inspiration in your inbox at www.wildhope.tv Wild Hope is available now on PBS Nature. For more information on this series, bit.ly/WildHopeLaunchToolkitfootage courtesy of WildHope.tv Hosts: Dale Walkonen and Sheila Laffey Editor: Chris ToussaintFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Hazardous Smoke Hits North America Facing Future 2023-06-16 | As Canadian forests burn out of control, clouds of hazardous smoke shift with the wind, affecting first Northeastern and then Midwestern parts of the United States. The #AirQuality varies, but the tiny particles that it contains pose serious health risks to the lungs, heart and even the brain.Climate Change is making the weather unpredictable. Canadian trees, hit by an ice storm in April, lost branches which then provided ready tinder for fire. Drought made it worse. At least 17 million tons of CO2 have been released by the #Wildfires so far.Paul Beckwith and Patrick Hogan explain why the air quality created by smoke is a serious problem, that is likely to affect more forests as the atmosphere continues to heat. As the smoke hit Washington DC, legislators had a taste of the effects of the climate crisis, something akin to what happened in the 1930s #Dustbowl. As grit came into their chamber, the legislature took action then. But will this event move the dial at all?Hosted by Dale WalkonenEdited by Michael BarbaFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Drought and Flood, A Dangerous Combination Facing Future 2023-06-08 | Italy, sandwiched between the rapidly warming Adriatic and Mediterranean seas, is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Last year, severe drought drained many of Italy’s rivers, and dried up 45% of its farmland. This year, it’s #flooding. Parts of northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region received half their average annual rainfall in 36 hours. Rivers burst their banks, submerging thousands of acres of farmland. #PeterWadhams, Professor Emeritus, Cambridge University, lives in Turin and is witnessing the effects of these crises firsthand. This summer, it may be too dry or too wet, but heat will be the major concern as the #Climate Crisis continues to unfold.Hosted by Dale WalkonenEdited by Mike CoeFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
The Power of Forest Bathing Facing Future 2023-05-26 | Anxiety. Grief. Catastrophic events heard in the news or felt in person. Coping is a major problem. We can’t act clearly unless we maintain our equilibrium. Where do we turn? Forests, whether in city parks or in the remaining wild places, provide extraordinary benefits. Aside from their incredible power to sequester carbon, they also help heal people both emotionally and physically.Sylvie Rokab and Sheila Laffey, Ph.D., certified Nature therapy guides, describe how the practice of #ForestBathing boosts our immune system. Trees emit volatile organic compounds, #Phytoncides, to protect themselves from insects and germs. When we inhale these VOCs, they induce human natural killer (NK) cell activity to ward off cancer and other diseases. Aside from the retreats available, even a short walk in the woods or a quiet moment of #Mediation in Nature has effects that last for weeks. Hosted by Dale Walkonen.Watch Sylvie’s exquisite film, which Sheila associate produced, here:vimeo.com/ondemand/lovethynatureEsalen workshop "Revitalize your Purpose with Forest Bathing” on Jul 21-23: esalen.org/workshops/revitalize-your-purpose-with-forest-bathing-072123RMERC “Inner/Outer Nature: Love and Awareness Nature Retreat” Jul 24-30: https://rockymountainecodharmaretreatcenter.secure.retreat.guru/program/inner-outer-nature-retreat/?lang=enFolks can also visit www.lovethynature.com and sign up to our newsletter for upcoming online events. more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
New Hope for the Amazon? Facing Future 2023-05-11 | While the Amazon rainforest is still being attacked by logging, mining, and cattle raising, Atossa Soltani, who has been in the front lines of the fight to save the Amazon, has hope that, with the return of Lula to the Brazilian presidency, deforestation will be sharply curtailed and hydrological cycles which she describes in detail, can be restored. Lula's inclusion of indigenous leaders in his government is a powerful step toward much needed equity and protection of human rights.Buoyed by the EU’s decision to ban the import of all goods, including timber and animal products, that come from rainforest destruction, the countries of the Amazon region are uniting to reverse years of devastation that have threatened this critical habitat and carbon sink. Atossa shares the short animated film, Amazonia 2041: A Vision for the Future. Atossa Soltani is the Global Strategy Director for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative and founder of Amazon Watch.Hosted by Sheila Laffey, Ph.D.For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Transformative Adaptation Facing Future 2023-04-27 | It's too late to avoid #ClimateChange, but it's not too late to take action to limit the worst case scenarios. Many of us are overwhelmed by grief and anxiety about the state of our planet and our chances of survival. Our colleague, #RupertRead, makes the case for realism and #TransformativeAdaptation. It's too late to be passive. It's time to unite in protest and in creating communities of activists.For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Can the Grid Handle the Transition to Electric Energy? Facing Future 2023-04-14 | The energy transition from fossil fuels to electricity, based on wind and solar, is a daunting proposition. It will require new transmission lines and battery storage, and it must happen as storms and heat waves become more intense and frequent. Sascha von Meier, a physicist who specializes in the #ElectricGrid, thinks it can be done. At the same time, communities need to prepare to protect people as #climate change accelerates.For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/libraryHosted by Dale Walkonen, edited by Glenn Goodwin
Building Healthy Housing for the Planet Facing Future 2023-03-25 | Buildings have a huge carbon footprint, both from the materials and energy used in construction and from emissions once the building is inhabited. Here, we present new methods of building that actually sequester carbon, use fewer damaging materials in construction and require less energy to heat and cool.#ChrisMagwood, architect and author of Building Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture, #LloydAlter, architect, developer, and author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle: Why Individual Climate Action Matters More Than Ever, and our own Mike Coe, who designed and built two energy efficient houses, and now lives in one of them on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, take us through exciting developments in #Architecture.For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Sea Ice in Crisis with Peter Wadhams and Patrick Hogan Facing Future 2023-03-09 | Sea ice is melting at both poles simultaneously. New technology reveals that the underside of the ice shelves in #Antarctica is rugged, allowing warm water to melt them more rapidly. Peter Wadhams and Patrick Hogan explain that, due to the loss of huge volumes of ice, the mass of the Earth is shifting, causing tectonic activity to increase, and ocean currents to be affected. It has huge implications for #SeaLevel rise. We can't think in linear terms when it comes to exponential changes in the climate system. We have to recognize the danger to coastal communities, and not keep rebuilding on the oceanfront after storms, which are only becoming more powerful. #Earthquakes may also be more likely.For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Why Equality is Essential for Survival Facing Future 2023-02-23 | Inequality creates discontent in all societies. #RichardWilkinson explains how it leads to the illusion that the purpose of life is to get rich, and to attain status, breeding a lack of trust and concern for the community as a whole. Instead, people have become obsessed with producing and consuming. How can we change that? One way is to build more equal societies while repairing ecosystems. #JohnDLiu and Marteen Klop invite us to explore new communities based on equality and common purpose. Like seeds of a new culture, Global #EcoRestoration projects are germinating a collective intelligence that can take us to the next level of consciousness, a connectedness to Nature and each other, which is essential for any possibility of survival.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societiesglobalearthrepairfoundation.orgecosystemrestorationcamps.orgsekem.com/en/societal-lifeFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Al Gores Warning at The World Economic Forum Facing Future 2023-02-09 | #AlGore delivers a powerful verbal punch to the leaders assembled in Davos in January 2023 for failing to act on the #ClimateEmergency. Current economic systems, based on unfettered use of fossil fuels are taking us to the IPCC's worst scenarios. Far from reducing emissions, we are collectively putting 16 million tons of greenhouse gases into the troposphere every day, and the number is climbing. We applaud Al and appreciate his passion. It is sorely needed. At the same time, we hope that he comes to understand that we must limit animal agriculture as well as fossil fuels. IPCC Report:https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-3/For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library#WorldEconomicForum
Is Human Survival Possible? Facing Future 2023-01-26 | In this excerpt from "The Interview of the Century", the full version of which can be found at VitaSapien.org, Michael Dowd and #PeterFiekowsky discuss the burning question of whether or not it will be possible to prevent the #ClimateCrisis from becoming catastrophic. Hosted by Guy LaneFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the #FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Can We Mitigate a Methane Burst? Facing Future 2023-01-20 | Beneath the #Arctic, a vast amount of #MethaneHydrate has been safely locked away. But the ice is thawing fast, and methane, 84 times more potent than CO2, is seeping out. If it reaches a tipping point, the release of a huge amount of that gas will cause a spike in the already dangerous heating of the atmosphere. Can we prepare for such a catastrophic event? Peter Fiekowsky thinks so. He and Peter Wadhams discuss an exciting method of enhancing the natural oxidation of methane with Iron Chloride, which is explained fully in Fiekowsky's book, #ClimateRestoration, The Only Future that will Sustain the Human Race.Funding this life insurance for the planet is critically needed if we are to avert disaster.For more about the Climate Restoration Safety and Governance Board:crsgb.orgTo order Climate Restoration, The Only Future that will sustain the Human Race:peterfiekowsky.comFor Peter Wadham's Ted Talk and Book:ted.com/talks/peter_wadhams_a_farewell_to_iceamazon.com/Farewell-Ice-Report-Arctic/dp/0190691158For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Healing the Earth, The Real Work of Our Time Facing Future 2023-01-05 | Eco Restoration is critical for the survival of life on our planet. At the forefront is John D. Liu whose #CommonlandFoundation has fostered 55 large scale projects around the world. Siham Said, of the Habiba Community in South Sinai, Maximilian Abouleish-Boes, Sustainable Development Lead at the SEKEM community and Naglaa Ahmed, Manager of the Egyptian #Biodynamic Association describe their successes in reviving hydrological cycles and ecological function to what was once dried up land. Two thousand Egyptian farmers are doing the very real work of salvaging Nature, storing carbon, and developing a sustainable, organic agriculture. Using carbon credits, these projects continue a short distance, but a far cry, from the air conditioned and now empty halls of COP27. If you are inspired to learn more, or to join the movement:globalearthrepairfoundation.org/habiba-community-and-ecosystem-restoration-camp-sinai-egyptcommonland.com ecosystemrestorationcamps.orghttps://knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiuFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Beyond Maladaptation Facing Future 2022-12-22 | Around the world, many projects are being promoted with claims that they are helping #Adaptation to climate change. But many of them raise concerns over equality and human rights, while nearly all have significant carbon and ecological footprints. A more honest approach requires that we break with past assumptions. Initiatives, based on the systems that allowed global heating to reach a crisis, will not help us respond well to that crisis, as it worsens over time. Policy and funding must catch up with previously expressed commitments, and beyond that, initiatives need to consider the bad-to-worse scenarios and address the psychological aspects of adaptation.We need to support the people who are actually working to restore the natural balance of our planet, like our guest, Dr. Stella Nyambura Mbau, who describes her work with #RegenerativeAgroforestry in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Lisa Schipper, Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Report on Climate Resilient Development Pathways, focuses on the causes of vulnerability to climate change in developing countries, and the barriers and enablers that are at work as people struggle to adapt to changing conditions in their countries. She coined the term #Maladaptation to describe the failure to adequately respond to the climate crisis.Hosted by Jem Bendell and Raya SalterEdited by Michael BarbaFor more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Whats Happening at COP15? Facing Future 2022-12-15 | John D. Liu and Paul Beckwith give an update from The #Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, as #COP15 closes in on the final agreement. Raya Salter and Dale Walkonen join them for a look at the #30by30 proposal, which aims to set aside 30% of the world's lands and oceans for Nature by 2030. But what does that mean? Which lands, who will be in charge, will indigenous people determine the actions that are taken, will funds be made available to them? These are among the questions that now hang in the balance. We can only address the Climate Crisis if we restore the natural systems that make life possible on our planet. The agreement is being hammered out now and should be ready by the end of the day on Friday December 19th.For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
Petrochemicals - A Triple Threat Facing Future 2022-12-08 | The world is awash with oil and gas in the form of plastic. ExxonMobil, Shell, and Saudi Aramco are ramping up output to hedge against the possibility that a serious global response to climate change might reduce demand for their fuels. At the same time, pollution from #petrochemical production is killing frontline communities and plastics fill landfills and oceans.People are taking action. Several nations are working on plastic and petrochemical treaties. Activists and policymakers are fighting against its production. #Rev.LennoxYearwood powerfully takes the industry to task, and along with Christine Keith and Niven Reddy tells us what can be done to stop the hybrid threat of plastics and petrochemicals.#AYYoung was chosen as a UN Young leader for SDGs, developing “Project 17”, a music album based on United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. He is also a board member ofregeneration.orgregeneration.org/about/ay-youngHosted by Raya SalterEdited by Glenn GoodwinMusic by AY Young, We Can Change the World, and David Fesliyan, At the BazaarFor more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
GLOBAL ENERGY JUSTICE Facing Future 2022-11-23 | Hosted by Raya Salter, members of The Black Hive, including founder, Valencia Gunder, Wes Gobar, and Dr. Dominic Bednar, as well as singer songwriter AY Young shine a light on the need for global energy justice. Energy is power. How can that power, which has grown out of colonialism and slavery, be shifted to benefit everyone?COP 27, filled with big oil, coal and gas interests, failed to reach a deal to transition equitably and rapidly from fossil fuels, while people throughout the world lack affordable, clean energy and suffer environmental and climate injustice. The Black Hive is working to address the needs of people who have been marginalized and to find a pathway, by advocating programs like community solar, to equitable energy distribution.Edited by Glenn GoodwinMusic by AY YoungFor more information, and to join the Black Hive, visittheblackhive.orgFor more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
CLIMATE JUSTICE, COP27 Facing Future 2022-11-15 | #XiyeBastida, the 20-year-old Mexican activist and Dr. Stella Nyambura Mbau, whose work in Sub Saharan Africa fosters climate resilience, give firsthand testimony of the 'Loss and Damage' that has finally been included in the COP agenda. With hosts Raya Salter and Jem Bendell, they focus attention on the need for #ClimateJustice. While delegates give speeches, and industries parade their wares at the side shows of #COP27, people in countries around the world who have contributed the least to the climate crisis, continue to suffer. This year, the drought in East Africa severed food supply for 22 million people, while record monsoons in Pakistan took 1,500 lives and uprooted 33 million people. Mudslides inundated villages in Central America, killing dozens and displacing 560,000 people.Expectations are not high, but the US is signaling a willingness to discuss the issue more seriously.As movements worldwide focus on climate justice, there is an increasing need for climate activism to focus on solidarity among and with those most affected in the global South.Editor, Glenn GoodwinMusic, At the Bazaar by David FesliyanFor more on Dr. Nyambura Mbau:resilience.org/resilience-author/stella-nyambura-mbau-phdFor more on Xiye Bastida:xiyebeara.comFor more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Climate Honesty - Ending Climate Brightsiding Facing Future 2022-11-13 | Current data on emissions, atmospheric concentrations, global temperatures, and widening impacts are frightening. Even so, some of the most worrying science has been downplayed, while the emissions curve continues to rise. Clearly, such brightsiding, not only limits the climate agenda, but is neither scientific nor ethical. Dr. Jem Bendell exposes the danger of imagining that we can ignore facts, playing games with nature, because nature always wins. Dr. Ye Tao explains why efforts towards net zero, while essential, have the effect of reducing the global dimming that is the result of polluting particles, which is actually cooling the planet significantly: a terrifying dilemma that has been largely ignored. Yet many influential organizations criticize people for being ‘too negative’ about the current and future impacts of #GlobalHeating.Dr. Tao's #MEER framework turns plastic and aluminum waste as well as glass and bamboo into mirrors that can create significantly cooler temperatures, potentially saving millions from extreme heat events.More honesty with the public can begin with professionals recognizing and ending their own cognitive dissonance. Therefore, this session ends with the declaration of a new Scholars’ Oath to the Future. This has already been endorsed by over 100 scholars from over 20 countries. Others are welcome to add their names. http://iflas.blogspot.com/2022/11/scholars-oath-to-future.html?m=1For more on Jem Bendell's work:deepadaptation.infobraveneweurope.com/jem-bendell-the-biggest-mistakes-in-climate-communications-part-2-climate-brightsidingFor more information on the Meer Framework:meer.orgMusic : At the Bazaar by David Fesliyan#cop27 For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
A Conversation With God - The Creator Aint Happy Facing Future 2022-11-03 | Three trillion trees are missing, and the Creator is not happy to learn what’s happened to the forests and the oceans. Three quarters of the wild animals are gone. What’s the cause of all this devastation is it coal? oil? Or is the major driver of habitat destruction in fact an agri-culture based on providing the milk and meat of a few species - that use over 43 percent of the land, and an aqua- culture that kills trillions of fish and other ocean species for a measly 15% of it's diet?Glen Merzer, author of Food is Climate, presents the case to the ultimate authority. Posing as a hapless UN official, he reveals the frailities of human nature and its curious culture of destruction.Is it possible that humans will realize that a diet based in the vegetable kingdom will keep them healthier and bring back #Biodiversity, restoring the oceans and the land? #ClimateChange must be mitigated by the same human species that caused it, and curtailing #AnimalAgriculture is at the center of the solution. Directed by Dale Walkonen, this is One Act not to missed...For more information on the state of our planet, visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library
PLASTIC IS FOSSIL FUEL Facing Future 2022-10-20 | PLASTIC is a material so ubiquitous that we might call our age the Plasticine. This unfortunately durable form of fossil fuel breaks down into #microparticles that infiltrate and poison our water, our soils, and our bodies. Wildlife mistake plastic for food, babies chew on toys laden with chemicals. Some of it gets burned, polluting the air. Only 9% percent of it gets recycled. Plastic overwhelmingly impacts low income communities around the world. The less we make, the less we use, the better for everyone, especially for fence line communities who suffer from the toxic effects of its production and disposal. Dianna Cohen, co-founder and CEO of #PlasticPollutionCoalition, shows us how to get plastic out of our lives. From packaging to toothpaste, there are alternatives. We can make a dent in the problem by refusing single use plastic. We can carry our own bags, cups and containers. We can wash and reuse glass containers and buy plastic-free produce from farmers’ and other markets. We can buy from companies who use #BiodegradablePackaging.Most importantly, we can support local legislation and the federal Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act. breakfreefromplastic.org/pollution-actplasticpollutioncoalition.orgOther sites to help you break free from plastic:liveseasoned.com/34-alternatives-disposable-plastic-productstheceomagazine.com/business/innovation-technology/plastic-alternativesenvironmentalpaper.org/solving-packaging/what-really-worksHosted by Dale WalkonenFor more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
The Carbon Underground, Making a Deal with Nature Facing Future 2022-10-06 | At its root, the #ClimateCrisis demands that we nurture healthy soil filled with living organisms. #Biodiversity is essential. The monocultures and chemical inputs of industrial agriculture, the majority of which is grown to feed cattle, has created a climate disaster. Larry Kopald founded The Carbon Underground to foster #RegenerativeFarming methods, designed to restore the soil and to pull CO2 out of the air and back into the earth, because no technology can match the capacity of the planet itself to sequester the billions of tons of carbon we’ve put in the air. thecarbonunderground.org.For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Fueling the Climate Crisis -Congressional Testimony - Raya Salter Facing Future 2022-09-23 | In a contentious Congressional hearing on big oil, #RayaSalter, climate attorney and host of Facing Future, was attacked by Republican climate deniers. She held her ground. Joined by Drs. Cha and Weber, she laid out the inequality and injustice that lie at the heart of the climate crisis. Petrochemical companies have made billions in profits while denying the realities of #ClimateChange. #Greenwashing their campaign of denial, they make inadequate pledges to reduce emissions by 2100 which, as Rep. Raskin points out, would take the world to 4 degrees C, well beyond the 1.5 goal, bringing conditions inconsistent with humanity’s survival.WIth so much at stake, MAGA Republicans, in coordination with big oil and gas companies, continue to block serious action. Let’s vote them out in the next election!
Regulating the Fashion Industry - An Ecological Necessity Facing Future 2022-08-27 | Producing more carbon emissions than all the international flights and maritime shipping combined, while consuming and polluting huge amounts of water - fashion is ecologically unsustainable. Insiders Hilary Jochmans, Barbara Kolsun and others want the Biden administration to create the post of #FashionCzar to oversee the industry and put a stop to greenwashing and unfair labor practices. #FastFashion changes every few days. Keeping up with it, shoppers are contributing enormous amounts of waste globally. Buying new clothes used to be a treat, now it’s a disaster. Dale Walkonen suggests that we keep what we have and buy from thrift stores to stem the tide of clothing waste and the polluting processes of making clothes. #ClimateChange requires us to change our habits!For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Regeneration – Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation Facing Future 2022-08-11 | The biosphere is critically degenerating as climate systems collapse. #PaulHawken argues that the only effective and timely way to address the crisis is to focus on the regeneration of Nature, and the rediscovery of humanity's interconnectedness. Weaving justice, #climate, #biodiversity, equity and human dignity into a tapestry of action, policy and transformation, Paul discusses his book, “Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation", with host Raya Salter.In this conversation, Paul shares his early experiences as a young activist in the civil rights movement. He believes that only an inclusive movement that can engage the majority of humanity can save the world from the existential threat we now face.For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
MANDELA MONTH - Take Action, Inspire Change! Facing Future 2022-07-26 | The #NelsonMandela Foundation has issued a plea for humanity to rise up. While addressing the crisis in South Africa, it also applies to the dire #ClimateCrisis we all find ourselves in."In this moment of great challenge, it is imperative for everyone who calls (this planet) home to be part of finding solutions and making a future that is liveable for all. The temptation is to become paralyzed or to look away or just to give up. But we cannot succumb to the dark forces. We must all step up."In honor of Mandela's birthday this month, we join in amplifying this call to action. mandeladay.comFor more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Europe Ablaze Facing Future 2022-07-22 | Both the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream are slowing down, bringing Saharan air into Europe. Unprecedented heat waves engulf the UK, Europe and the US. #PeterWadhams, renowned polar scientist, tells us that both poles are warming at the same time, and that the #BlueOceanEvent, an ice-free Arctic, may occur as early as this summer.Meanwhile, internet bots are ramping up their efforts to deny the reality of #ClimateChange, while much of the media trivialize deadly heat waves with beach images. Heat and lack of water are hitting the precise latitudes where we grow crops. That, combined with the war in Ukraine, and the overuse of water and land for animal agriculture mean #FoodShortages are a real and present danger. In view of all this happening in the global north, will COP27 finally take action?Dr. Wadhams is joined by other members of the Facing Future team, Climate scientist, Bruce Phillips, and hosts, Raya Salter and Dale Walkonen. For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
LOVE THE EARTH Facing Future 2022-07-15 | In Memoriam Stuart Scott December 7, 1948 - July 15, 2021#StuartScott, the founder of Facing Future, made this recording while undergoing treatment at the Mayo Clinic. He died a few months later. His beautiful and determined spirit inspired us all. We continue his work.Edited and illustrated by Glenn Goodwin.
Eco Restoration is Happening! Facing Future 2022-07-07 | People in John D. Liu’s #EcoRestoration Camps are bringing back #biodiversity by restoring whole ecosystems on land that had been degraded by agriculture, overgrazing, mining and industry. A former filmmaker, John dreamed of camping on the land and bringing it back to life. It turned out that many people shared this dream and were willing to make it a reality. There are now over a hundred such camps, and the movement is expanding around the world. Nature's amazing resilence is evident once #HydrologicalCycles return. The sequestration of carbon in healthy soils and plants could significantly stave off #ClimateChange, and give us time to recognize that the purpose of life is not to consume, but to care for each other and our incredible planet.Hosted by Dale Walkonen and Dr. Sheila Laffey.You can find out more at ecosystemrestorationcamps.orgFor more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library at https://facingfuture.earth/library.
Rights of Nature Facing Future 2022-06-24 | Laws that recognize the Rights of Nature may have the power to stop the #TarSands Line 3 #Pipeline, which would carry the dirtiest oil on the planet. The White Earth Band of Ojibwe has brought a case on behalf of Manoomin, or wild rice, against the State of Minnesota to stop the construction of the notorious oil pipeline project from Canada which, despite indigenous protest, persists. Raya Salter is joined by Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, and Frank Bibeau, tribal attorney for the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, who also works with the 1855 Treaty Authority and Honor the Earth. The rights of salmon and other natural rights are also discussed, including how grassroots efforts can protect the Rights of Nature and help mitigate #ClimateChange.For more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library athttps://facingfuture.earth/library.
Couch To Carbon Zero, Overcoming EcoAnxiety Facing Future 2022-06-09 | Empowering people to take action against #ClimateChange, Sonia Lakshman and Aimee Higgins tackle thorny issues from overfishing to #EWaste. Their ingenious 5 minute videos lay out steps everyone can take. Couch to Carbon Zero, based in the UK, pulls no punches, calling out #Greenwashing and fake labeling, finding the companies that do a better job of recycling, banking, growing food, etc. What to do with the 50 million tons of used gadgets? Why is fish farming not a solution? How is fashion environmentally unfashionable? Why transition to a #PlantBasedDiet? Find out in the Ten Day Sprint for Busy People atcouchtocarbonzero.orgFor more information on the state of our planet visit the FacingFuture Library athttps://facingfuture.earth/library.
