Green Media Online

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This page will lists online resources such as podcasts and online videos addressing environmental themes.

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Blogs

  • Ethicurean.com "This blog is dedicated to thinking about food. Not just thinking about how to prepare it, or how it tastes — although those things are very important to us — but to pondering where and how it was grown and by whom, the distance that it traveled to our plate, and the less obvious effects of our consuming it."
  • No Impact Man Detailing one Manhattan family's attempt to eat locally, buy almost nothing, eschew carbon-fueled transportation, and pursue an incredibly low-impact lifestyle in the city that never shuts up. See also the New York Times article on their endeavor. (free subscription required)
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Podcasts

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Justice Talking

Justice Talking is an NPR radio show featuring discussion and debate of legal and public policy issues, including environmental ones. Past shows are available for free in MP3 format. Here are some green-themed past shows:

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Other environmental podcasts

  • Living on Earth -- "Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International."
  • The Environment Report -- Weekly stories from the Great Lakes Radio Consortium. Podcast and RSS links are on the lower left part of the page. (You may have to scroll down for them.)
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OhioLINK Online Videos

These online videos are available to all OhioLINK member libraries, and thus to all Wittenberg students, faculty, and staff. You can use these in the dorms, from home, even in the classroom (we have all necessary permissions for classroom use.) If you are off campus, you will have to log in using your name and the same 14-digit barcode you use for requesting OhioLINK books.

  • Alternative Agriculture: Food for Life -- This program asserts that ecological, organic, and ethical farming is a viable alternative to industrial agriculture, and offers a tremendous benefit to the environment while helping to preserve traditional rural life. Interviews with these modern farmers focus on the process and effects of raising animals, grains, fruits, and vegetables in a natural environment. In addition, scholars criticize what they call academic and government support of large-scale agriculture, arguing that the only true sustainable method of farming is nature-based and that more consumers are demanding food produced without the use of chemicals, pesticides, hormones, or antibiotics. (46 minutes)
  • The Food Machine -- Explains the agricultural depression in the United States which is forcing small farmers to sell their land in order to survive. These farms are often being bought by large corporations which use automated farming techniques to operate more cost effectively--a concept which threatens to destroy rural society. Shows how this pattern has been transplanted to the third world, ntably the Sudan, where fewer and larger companies dominate the food industry increasing food costs and destabilizing the rural population. (25 minutes)
  • Non-Point Source Water Pollution: An Overview of Runoff -- This program investigates sources of runoff and the pollution that occurs when it washes contaminants such as pesticides, bacteria, oil, and unwanted nutrients into aquatic ecosystems. Cost-effective initiatives to divert and filter runoff are also spotlighted, including stormwater rehabilitation systems, highway runoff purification systems, construction site erosion controls, and waste retention lagoons. In addition, many experts are featured, including A. J. Englande, of Tulane University; Frances Dunham, executive director of the Santa Rosa Sound Coalition; and Carlton Dufrechou, executive director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. (30 minutes)
  • Water for the Cities -- This program takes a hard look at the mounting challenge of providing millions of people in urban areas with potable water and adequate disposal of waste water. To highlight the difficulties, segments focus on the water problems of the megalopolis, cities with populations of over ten million people, such as Lagos, Jakarta, and Mexico City. The massive logistics that enable Las Vegas to prosper in the middle of a desert are also explored. (27 minutes)
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Social Networking Websites

  • Instructables is a user-created database of do-it-yourself projects that can help reduce waste by using resources handy. There are instructions for a wind turbine!
  • Bookcrossing this is a social network of people who want to discover new books and help others, just by leaving their favorite stories for others to find.
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General Websites of Interest

  • GreenerChoices.org is run by Consumer's Union, publishers of Consumer Reports. The site offers an accessible, reliable, and practical source of information on buying “greener” products that have minimal environmental impact and meet personal needs.
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