A compendium
Sustainability science for biosphere stewardship, Stockholm University
Video: Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
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).
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-support system.
uncontrolled experiment on Earth’s life
Time is running out to prevent irreversible changes.
for a 67% probability of not exceeding 1.5°C global
The remaining carbon budget 2030.
warming will be exhausted before
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*are* waking up. planetary stewardship. But we
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
Questioning the universe
TED February 2008
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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@misc{shikokuchuo2021resources, author = {shikokuchuo, }, title = {shikokuchuo{net}: Resources for global sustainability}, url = {https://shikokuchuo.net/posts/02-resources/}, year = {2021} }