Talk by Leif Wenar author of "Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World" recorded January 27, 2016 at Town Hall Seattle. "Might makes right" is a rule that needs to be retired. Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Philosophy Law at King College London. After earning his Bachelor'a degree from Stanford, he went to Harvard to study with John Rawls, and wrote his doctoral thesis on property rights with Robert Nozick and T.M. Scanlon. He has worked in the UK since 1997. Visit CleanTrade.org.

It is on the verge of another attempt to extract some of the estimated 400bn barrels equivalent of oil and gas at the top of the world. But drilling in the Arctic is expensive and dangerous. And oil prices have fallen dramatically. Will this and government action thwart Shell's ambitions? Published on Jul 16, 2015 BY THE GUARDIAN.

See also This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein here.

Published on Jun 7, 2015 by IEN Earth

Produced by MN350: Xiaolu Wang, Nels Shafer, Will Hanson with Editor: Xiaolu Wang, Additional Editing: Nels Shafer, Will Hanson, Cinematography + Sound: Nels Shafer, Will Hanson, Xiaolu Wang, Eric Immler, Martin Gordon

Music Podington Bear and "Submerging Green"

Hoka Hey Drum Group

Featuring:
Tom Goldtooth
Winona LaDuke
Rep. Keith Ellison
Chris Wahmhoff
Akilah Sanders-Reed

The New York Times documentary, A Danger on the Rails, addresses the issue in terms of Albany, New York and is in the EarthSayers.tv collection, High Risk Energy Alternatives here. Published on April 22, 2015. 

This short documentary warns about the dangers posed by trains that transport explosive oil across North America. It features Paul Gallay of Riverkeepers and Published on Apr 22, 2015

Produced by: Jon Bowermaster  Read the story here.

Published on April 8, 2015

In 2011 Amazon Watch receiveda mysterious package from a Chevron whistleblower. Chevron which bought Texaco in 2001, has just been found guility of one of othe worst environmental disasters in Ecuador's Rainforest.

These are video tapes of Chevron consultants trying to find uncontaminated soil and water with not much success. 

Ver en español aquí: https://youtu.be/8VKX2yD2slM

Fracking for oil and natural gas is transforming the way America powers its economy. The flood of low-priced natural gas has undercut new nuclear plants and nudged utilities to pull the plug on old ones. Cheap gas also has stolen market share from coal and also hit renewable sources of power such as wind and solar. Now the fracking bonanza is spreading to China and beyond. With the US poised to become the world's largest petroleum producer in a few years the world's new energy equation could undermine OPEC and profoundly alter the geopolitical balance of power. Russell Gold's new book "The Boom" illustrates Texas oilmen and Oklahoma wildcatters who developed and perfected hydraulic fracturing technology that ushered in a new era of American industry. In this video, Gold gives a brief history of the origins of fracking, and how the industry got to where it is today. Speaker: Russell Gold, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Author, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World This program was recorded before a live audience on April 1, 2014.

To order his book from Amazon, click on the image, or visit your local bookstore.

Published on Apr 9, 2015

Jonathon Porritt, is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development.  He is Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, the UK's leading sustainable development charity.

He is Co-Director of The Prince of Wales's Business and Sustainability Programme, was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90) and co-chair of the Green Party (1980-83). In 2009 he stood down as Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission after nine years providing high-level advice to Government Ministers.

Arctic Emergency: Scientists Speak On Melting Ice and Global Impacts. This film by Max Wilbert brings you the voices of climate scientists - in their own words.

Rising temperatures in the Arctic are contributing the melting sea ice, thawing permafrost, and destabilization of a system that has been called "Earth's Air Conditioner".

Global warming is here and is impacting weather patterns, natural systems, and human life around the world - and the Arctic is central to these impacts. Published on Aug 1, 2014
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Scientists featured in the film include: Jennifer Francis, PhD. Atmospheric Sciences
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University; Ron Prinn, PhD. Chemistry
TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Natalia Shakhova, PhD. Marine Geology International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska-Fairbanks; Kevin Schaefer, PhD. Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center; Stephen J. Vavrus, PhD. Atmospheric Sciences Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Nikita Zimov, Northeast Science Station, Russian Academy of Sciences.; Jorien Vonk, PhD. Applied Environmental Sciences Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University; Jeff Masters, PhD. Meteorology .Director, Weather Underground