PBS
Mapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
Deep within the Amazon rainforest lurks a mysterious creature called the Mapinguari. Notoriously elusive, this cave-dwelling giant leaves a trail of broken trees and trampled ferns in its wake. Massive, hairy, and pungent, this beast...
Curated Video
Revolutionizing Waste Disposal at Sea: Innovative Technologies for Naval Ships
This video highlights the innovative waste disposal technologies being developed by Kinetic in partnership with the British Defence Logistics Organization for naval ships at sea. These technologies aim to efficiently and safely manage...
Curated Video
What are an Organization's Environmental Responsibilities under CSR?
The Triple Bottom Line that I discussed in an earlier video suggests businesses focus on Profits, People, and Planet. So, what is the Corporate Social Responsibility towards our environment?
The Business Professor
PEST (EL) Analysis
What is a PESTEL Analysis? A PESTEL analysis is a framework or tool used by marketers to analyze and monitor the macro-environmental (external marketing environment) factors that have an impact on an organization, company, or industry.
Curated Video
Water Pods
The video titled “Water Pods” is an infomercial that illustrates the need for an alternative to plastic bottles and discusses a possible solution.
Curated Video
Setting a Better Example
Historian and Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) urges Westerners to set a better example to help China grapple with its difficult environmental issues.
Curated Video
Leading By Example
UCSD Prof. of Chinese Studies Karl Gerth describes how the West should set a better example in a number of key public policy areas in its dealings with China, and how a close examination of China can help us improve as well.
Curated Video
Immigrants and Migration
Immigrants and Migration analyzes how political, environmental, social, and economic factors cause people to move from place to place by defining the terms migration and immigrants.
Curated Video
Environmental Changes and Animals
Environmental Changes and Animals compares the differences of animals that die or relocate to animals that survive and reproduce when their environment changes.
Curated Video
Autism and Vaccines
UCL developmental psychologist Uta Frith describes how the hypothesis that childhood vaccines are linked to autism, while initially plausible, was subjected to rigorous scientific testing and found to be false.
Curated Video
Characterizing Autism
UCL development psychologist Uta Frith relates her view on what the essence of autism is, describing how the critical feature of autism is a lack of an innate ability to “mentalize” or attribute an inner life to others.
Nature League
Do humans have a mating "season", and what might affect it?
In this episode of Nature League, Adrian asks Brit about whether human mating seasons are a thing, and why we’re different from other species in this arena.
Nature League
Does a balance of nature actually exist?
In part 2 of this Nature League miniseries on philosophy and climate change, Brit and Gray discuss the conceptual issues with the "balance of nature" concept, and climate change as a disruptive force therein.
Nature League
Biodiversity, values, and the challenge of climate change
In part 3 of this Nature League miniseries on philosophy and climate change, Brit and Gray discuss the conceptual frameworks of biodiversity and the philosophical considerations of competing values in the face of climate change....
Sustainable Business Consulting
Integrated Reporting
Provides a definition for integrated reporting and describes the agencies who are working to develop integrated reporting
Sustainable Business Consulting
Evaluation and Compensation in External Reporting
Discusses the main reporting standards that are requiring companies to disclose their governance practices
Curated Video
Detecting and Identifying Plant Diseases
This is a lecture video on detecting plant diseases. The presenter explains four different methods for identifying plant disease: observing visible symptoms, eliminating environmental causes, distribution analysis, and diagnostic...
Sustainable Business Consulting
The Importance of Setting Sustainability KPIs
Discusses the importance of setting sustainability key performance indicators for investors and reporting agencies that are evaluating companies on their sustainability metrics and provides examples of KPIs
Sustainable Business Consulting
Integrated Reporting
Provides a definition of integrated reporting and how reporting standards are incorporating sustainability into their requirements
Healthcare Triage
Health Harms from Pollution Can Choke the Economy
The Trump Administration's EPA has shown a propensity to ease regulations on polluting industries, in hopes of increasing economic output. Pollution has a lot of very well studied impacts on health, and those health problems can decrease...
Curated Video
Environmental Functions and Models in Economics
This video discusses the environmental functions and models used in economics to evaluate the effects of economic activity and growth on the environment. The three main functions of the environment are explained as a provider of...
Sustainable Business Consulting
What is a Green Team
Describes the functions and benefits of having a green team within your organization
Zach Star
Are Engineering Jobs 'Hands On'?
In this video I discuss whether jobs in engineering are hands on, more computer work, or in the field. Some people might have the wrong image of an engineering job which may cause confusion down the road. The good news is that engineers...
FuseSchool
How To Reduce Carbon Dioxide In The Air
Through photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide from the air and split it and use it (and water) to make carbohydrates. So surely plants can help us reduce carbon dioxide in the air? Possibly... But equally, the carbon in plants is...