A wide range of experts from the fields of global health, NGOs and journalism, as well as citizens and volunteers explore the collaboration and tension between journalists and public health workers at times of crisis.

When Disaster Strikes: Reporting and Responding

The second panel focused on immediate crisis response and was moderated by Jon Simon, Director of the Center for Global Health. Manolia Charlotin is the editor and business manager of the Boston Haitian Reporter, 

Hosted by Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Center for Global Health and Development, College of Communication, and School of Public Health on April 14, 2011

This short video explains the Land Ethic, which is an environmental philosophy developed by Aldo Leopold.  It explains the philosophical foundations of the Land Ethic and how it differs from Deep Ecology.  Thanks for the GCSC Commodore production team for helping produce this video.  Aldo Leopold is the author of A Sand County Almanac.  He is author of the first textbook on wildlife management. 

Forum for the Future

Using the systems thinking 'iceberg model' to explore the civil rights movement shows us how different parts of a system interact and influence one another. It becomes clear that no single event started the movement, but rather it evolved through collaboration and decades of perseverance. By working together, we can change how power and privilege it is allocated, we can design societies that are free, democratic and support everybody on the planet to flourish.

A brief (3-minute) presentation by Rick Rybeck of Just Economics to the Center for State Innovation about smart growth and dumb growth. "Value capture" is discussed as a technique for funding infrastructure and creating jobs while making housing more affordable and development more sustainable. See also ShelterForce.

Video companion to "Portland, Unhoused," an article in the Fall '18 issue of our newspaper, which takes a deep dive into the subject through the perspectives of those who live and work in it. Read the full story at necoalition.org/newspaper.

In 2017, Sy Adler, Associate Dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University, and Jim Irvine interviewed a series of key planners and advocates involved with Oregon's Statewide Planning Goal 10, which focuses on planning for and accommodating needed housing in the state. Don Mazziotti was the Community and Economic Development Director for the city of Beaverton from 2009 to 2013. He headed the Portland Development Commission from 2001 to 2005, served as Portland’s chief planner in the 1970s and acted as chief information officer for Oregon in the late 1990s.

He also worked as the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of transportation under former Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt. This oral history interview is part of "People and the Land," a collaboration between the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and Portland State University.

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As part of the InterFaith Call to Inclusion, we interviewed Michael Ellick, Sr. Minister, First Congregational United Church of Christ,

Portland, Oregon. Produced and videotaped by Ruth Ann Barrett and Barry Heidt of EarthSayers.tv, Voices of Sustainability, November, 2016 in wake of the 2016 Election. Special thanks to the First Congregational Church for their support.