Resources for global sustainability

Resources Sustainability

A compendium

shikokuchuo
05-02-2021

Stockholm Resilience Center

Sustainability science for biosphere stewardship, Stockholm University

Video: Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Safeguarding Seeds for the Future

Established and funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

Provides safe, free and long-term storage of seed duplicates from all genebanks and nations participating in the global community’s joint effort to ensure the world’s future food supply.

The facility serves a humanitarian purpose and is part of the international system for conserving plant genetic diversity guided by the UN organisation for Food and Agriculture (FAO).

https://www.seedvault.no/

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

More than 100 leading scientists including many Nobel Prize winners issued a statement following two days of scientific deliberations at the first Nobel Prize Summit, 26-28 April 2021.

Excerpts from the statement:

Global heating and habitat loss amount to nothing less than a vast and
uncontrolled experiment on Earth’s life-support system.

Time is running out to prevent irreversible changes.

The remaining carbon budget for a 67% probability of not exceeding 1.5°C global
warming will be exhausted before 2030. 

Global sustainability offers the only viable path to human safety, equity,
health, and progress.

Humanity is waking up late to the challenges and opportunities of active
planetary stewardship. But we *are* waking up.

Full text:
https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2021/04/nobel-prize-laureates-and-other-experts-issue-urgent-call-for-action-after-our-planet-our-future-summit

Openlearn, The Open University

Greta Thunberg: A Year to change the World

Encounters with some of the world’s leading scientists and economists allow the series to examine what the latest science tells us about what can be done to avert the worst effects of climate change.

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/tv-radio-events/tv/greta-thunberg-year-change-the-world

TED

Stephen Hawking

Questioning the universe
TED February 2008


Katharine Hayhoe

The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
TEDWomen November 2018, also featured at useR!2021 the R conference July 2021

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  author = {shikokuchuo, },
  title = {shikokuchuo{net}: Resources for global sustainability},
  url = {https://shikokuchuo.net/posts/02-resources/},
  year = {2021}
}