NASA scientists are actively engaged in discussions concerning global food security. Their unique expertise, often stemming from space exploration and Earth observation, provides valuable insights into this critical challenge.

These discussions likely explore how space-based technologies, such as satellite monitoring, can enhance agricultural practices, predict crop yields, and manage resources more effectively. Furthermore, research into sustainable food systems for long-duration space missions offers potential solutions applicable to terrestrial food production, addressing future food needs.

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In this behind-the-scenes look at Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin's visit to Columbia, as part of a World Leaders Forum event, students and faculty reflect on the "extraordinary experience" of

In this behind-the-scenes look at Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin's visit to Columbia, as part of a World Leaders Forum event, students and faculty reflect on the "extraordinary experience" of meeting a sustainability leader. The event was hosted by Alex Halliday, director of Columbia’s Earth Institute, and moderated by Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth Ethics at the University’s Union Theological Seminary.

For years now, Columbia has been tackling the issue of climate change. From cutting edge research to grassroots student movements, Columbia on Climate is a new series that highlights how climate and sustainability remain a central focus of the University community.

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This month, Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration reported a quarter of a million Californians experiencing homelessness requested help in 2020—numbers that skyrocketed from previous estimates

This month, Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration reported a quarter of a million Californians experiencing homelessness requested help in 2020—numbers that skyrocketed from previous estimates in some Bay Area counties. The Golden State is lauded for its job opportunities and diverse population, but it’s also the state with some of the highest housing and transportation costs in the nation. Now, Californians are demanding change, and a cross-sectional group of affordable housing and homelessness advocates created Roadmap Home 2030, a definitive plan to end homelessness and create affordable homes for all over the next 10 years. Housing California, the California Housing Partnership, and dozens of experts and advocates identified 57 policy solutions to create affordable homes, protect low-income renters, end homelessness and ensure racial equity. With their detailed plan of creative solutions, coupled with dedicated leadership, this ambitious group believes a better California is doable. The wealth gap and a shortage of affordable homes in the state prohibits Californians from building healthy and fulfilling lives. With considerable energy and influence, this coalition of housing advocates are seeking to make bold, structural change to create an equitable future where everyone has a safe place to live. Join our expert panel for a conversation about equity, change and the fight to dramatically shift the landscape on affordable housing and homelessness in the Golden State. About the Speakers Ruby Bolaria-Shifrin is director of housing affordability for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). As part of CZI’s commitment to ensuring access to safe, stable and affordable housing, she works with community leaders, advocates, researchers, policymakers and investors to help more people find housing that meets their needs. As one of San Francisco’s voices in Sacramento, Assemblymember David Chiu is an outspoken advocate for housing reform and equity. He currently chairs the California State Assembly’s Committee on Housing and Community Development. With more than 20 years of leadership and work in the field, Tomiquia Moss brings expertise in the issues of housing, public policy and community development. She is the founder and chief executive of All Home, a Bay Area-focused nonprofit. Prior to All Home, Tomiquia served as chief of staff for Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and as executive director for the HOPE SF initiative under the late San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Tunua Thrash-Ntuk, Executive Director, Los Angeles Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LA LISC) NOTES TUE, APR 27 / 3:00 PM PDT SPEAKERS Ruby Bolaria-Shifrin Director of Housing Affordability, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative David Chiu California State Assemblymember, 17th District Zella Knight Resident Leader, Residents United Network Tomiquia Moss Founder and Chief Executive, All Home Molly Solomon Reporter for Housing Affordability, KQED Public Media—Moderator -www.commonwealthclub.org/covid19support -Subscribe for more Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub -Upcoming events: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events -Become a Member: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership -Donate Now: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 -Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ -Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ -Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub

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We all need healthy forests. They help keep our climate stable, absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, and they regulate our water supply and improves its quality. They also provide a home to

We all need healthy forests. They help keep our climate stable, absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, and they regulate our water supply and improves its quality. They also provide a home to around 80 per cent of all species found on land – a rich variety of life that keeps so many natural systems running. Some 1.2 billion people live in and around forests, depending on them for fuel, food, medicines and building materials. And all of us use wood in our daily lives: in fact, global demand for timber products is expected to more than triple over the next three decades. But human impacts have already led to the loss of around 40% of the world’s forests. And today, an area the size of a football pitch is still being destroyed every three seconds. Protecting and restoring forests has never been more urgent. Find out more here: http://wwf.panda.org/our_work/forests/ About Our Planet: Our Planet is a groundbreaking, four-year collaboration between Netflix, Silverback Films and WWF. It explores the rich natural wonders, iconic species and wildlife spectacles that still remain, and reveals the key issues that urgently threaten their existence. Today, we have become the greatest threat to the health of our planet. Our joint mission is to inspire people over the world to understand our planet - and the challenges it faces. If we can truly understand why nature matters to us all, and what we can do to save it, then we can create a future where nature and people thrive. About WWF As one of the world's largest and most respected conservation organisations, WWF has ensured Our Planet is supported by the latest science and showcases the most pressing challenges and solutions facing our natural world. WWF exists to protect our natural world and to build a better future for wildlife and people. In partnering with Netflix to deliver this ambitious project, we can show millions of people around the world some of the planet’s most precious and fragile locations, and raise awareness of what we all need to do to protect our planet. Find out more. About Netflix Netflix is an internet entertainment service with 130 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without adverts or commitments. About Silverback Silverback Films specialise in the production of high quality wildlife films for both television and cinema. Formed in 2012 by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, the company brings together a world-class team of wildlife filmmakers to create the highest quality natural history films. The company is currently making a landmark series for BBC One called The Hunt, as well as feature films for Disneynature.

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Mountain Resorts, Winemaking and Climate Change | John Cumming | TEDxParkCity

John Cumming is founder and chairman of POWDR, an adventure lifestyle company with offices in Park City, Utah and Louisville, Colorado. He's interviewed by Teri Orr, founder of TEDxParkCity. Their

John Cumming is founder and chairman of POWDR, an adventure lifestyle company with offices in Park City, Utah and Louisville, Colorado. He's interviewed by Teri Orr, founder of TEDxParkCity. Their discussion hits on how climate change directly affects mountain resorts and other businesses dependent on snow; plus how climate changes affects another industry John is involved in - winemaking. John Cumming is POWDR's founder and chairman. Within POWDR's portfolio are nine mountain resorts including Copper Mountain and Eldora Mountain Resort in Colorado; Pica Mountain in Vermont; Boreal Mountain Resort and Soda Springs in the Lake Tahoe region of California; Mt. Bachelor in Oregon, Lee Canyon in Nevada, and Snowbird Resort in Utah. Also included in POWDR's portfolio are the Woodward camps and progression centers which includes Woodward PA, Woodward Copper in Colorado, Woodward Tahoe, Woodward West in Stallion Springs, California, Wood ward Riviera Maya and Woodward Park City. POWDR fuels participation in the adventure lifestyle with a collection of festivals, themed runs and branded events. John's other businesses include Crimson Wine and Copper Moose Farm (Community Supported Agriculture). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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We trek into the ancient old-growth forest where the trees reveal an ecological parable: A forest

This episode of Nature’s Genius explores the ancient forest as a community thriving on symbiosis. It features ecologists Dr. Suzanne Simard, author of "Finding the Mother Tree," and Dr. Teresa

This episode of Nature’s Genius explores the ancient forest as a community thriving on symbiosis. It features ecologists Dr. Suzanne Simard, author of "Finding the Mother Tree," and Dr. Teresa Ryan, who reveal an elaborate tapestry of kinship, cooperation, and mutual aid within these ecosystems. Dr. Simard is a leading researcher in plant communication, while Dr. Ryan investigates salmon-forest relationships.

Nature’s Genius, a Bioneers podcast series, delves into how life’s symphony offers solutions to balance human civilization with living systems. Learn more and find additional resources on the series page: bioneers.org/natures-genius/

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Oregon Hemp Convention 2015 (Panel)

The "Oregon's Broad Hemp Future" panel, held on March 28, 2015, was led by hemp author Doug Fine. Panelists included Oregon Hemp Farmer Edgar J. Winters, Biomass Refinement Expert Ed Lehrberger

The "Oregon's Broad Hemp Future" panel, held on March 28, 2015, was led by hemp author Doug Fine. Panelists included Oregon Hemp Farmer Edgar J. Winters, Biomass Refinement Expert Ed Lehrberger (PureVision Technology), Don E. Wirtshafter (The Ohio Hempery), Oregon Hemp Attorney Courtney Moran, Rick Kiyak-Nighton (Tradewinds Hemp Co.), and Dave Seber (Hemp Shield Wood Treatments).

Special thanks are extended to Jerry Norton, the Oregon Hemp Convention, and the O.A.F.R.C.

Video by Barry Heidt; production by Brian ~The Red.

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What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept p

What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.

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What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.

Set a couple of decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a foregone conclusion. Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves?

We realized that the biggest obstacle to the kind of transformative change the Green New Deal envisions is overcoming the skepticism that humanity could ever pull off something at this scale and speed. That’s the message we’ve been hearing from the “serious” center for four months straight: that it’s too big, too ambitious, that our Twitter-addled brains are incapable of it, and that we are destined to just watch walruses fall to their deaths on Netflix until it’s too late.

This film flips the script. It’s about how, in the nick of time, a critical mass of humanity in the largest economy on earth came to believe that we were actually worth saving. Because, as Ocasio-Cortez says in the film, our future has not been written yet, and “we can be whatever we have the courage to see.”

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EarthSayers Molly Crabapple; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Why bottled water is one of the most stupid invention! | Jesper K. Strange Kjeldsen | TEDxHamburg

For more information on Jesper K. Strange Kjeldsen, please visit our website www.tedxhamburg.de Jesper K. Strange Kjeldsen is co-founder of the Danish water company “Postevand” – The Danish

For more information on Jesper K. Strange Kjeldsen, please visit our website www.tedxhamburg.de Jesper K. Strange Kjeldsen is co-founder of the Danish water company “Postevand” – The Danish word for tapwater. People say that sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees. It’s the same with water. In fact, some of the best and cleanest water is right within arm’s reach – from the tap. But what do you drink when you’re far from a tap? Postevand (Danish for tapwater) is some of the worlds best ground water, packaged in eco-friendly FSC cartons and always shipped over the shortest distance possible. Notably, Postevand asks people not to buy their product on the carton. For this, and his work against the overcrowded and blurry market of bottled water, Jesper has been awarded as Idealist of the Year 2015 in Denmark. Website: www.postevand.com This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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