In Session 2, David Courchene III hosted a number of the Red Shadow Singers and Knowledge Keepers to translate some of the songs sung in ceremony. Joining him this session was Knowledge Keepers Mary

In Session 2, David Courchene III hosted a number of the Red Shadow Singers and Knowledge Keepers to translate some of the songs sung in ceremony. Joining him this session was Knowledge Keepers Mary and Robert Maytwayashing, and singer, Cody Courchene. Mary Maytwayashing shared the Ojibwe translation, meaning and significance of the Nibi Water Song she received in a dream. Cody Courchene shared the Turtle Song, Black Bear Song, and Calling In Song, which were translated by Robert Maytwayashing. You can watch Red Shadow Singers Traditional Drum Songs: Learn the Meaning Behind the Songs (Session 1) at https://youtu.be/2NiSSuREtmI. Produced by David Courchene III and Pic River Development Corp (PRDC) Session was held on February 7, 2021 via Zoom

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How do you manage to live in the second biggest plastic contributor country? “Be an example. Start from yourself and together we do good things to our environment” is one of Nadya’s principles

How do you manage to live in the second biggest plastic contributor country? “Be an example. Start from yourself and together we do good things to our environment” is one of Nadya’s principles to live by. She personally learned this wisdom two years ago, through her internship at an environmental NGO, where she joined the zero-waste-to-ocean project and found out, to her own dismay, that she had also been a waste contributor. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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After fleeing war-torn South Sudan as a child, Mary Maker found security and hope in the school at Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp. Now a teacher of young refugees herself, she sees education as an

After fleeing war-torn South Sudan as a child, Mary Maker found security and hope in the school at Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp. Now a teacher of young refugees herself, she sees education as an essential tool for rebuilding lives -- and empowering a generation of girls who are too often denied entrance into the classroom. "For the child of war, an education can turn their tears of loss into a passion for peace," Maker says. Check out more TED Talks: http://www.ted.com The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Follow TED on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/TED

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Every September wood frogs in Alaska crawl into leaf litter and freeze into a frogsicle to prepare for the long winter. Two-thirds of their body water turns to ice and their hearts stop beating. Six

Every September wood frogs in Alaska crawl into leaf litter and freeze into a frogsicle to prepare for the long winter. Two-thirds of their body water turns to ice and their hearts stop beating. Six months later, they thaw out and hop off. Read more: https://biodiv.us/2vNg0PN

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Mary Anderson has twenty five years in municipal government and Public Works and is currently the Director of

Mary Anderson has twenty five years in municipal government and Public Works and is currently the Director of Public Works for City of Highland Park, IL (Chicago suburbs) and is one of the original appointees to the APWA Center for Sustainability. In this panel presentation at the APWA Sustainability in Public Works held in Portland, Oregon in June, 2011 Ms. Anderson emphasizes the APWA Framework for Sustainability and the APWA initiative, the Center for Sustainability.

The session was videtaped by Ruth Ann Barrett, EarthSayers.tv, the voices of sustainability.

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Prince Charles addresses climate change and those who deny the role humans play in creating it. This same simple theme was recently (2014) expressed by MARY ROBINSON, Former president of Ireland, former United Nations High Commissioner for human rights

 

"I'm a grandmother with five grandchildren. What will they say about what we did or didn't do?" New York Times, Forecast of Hopes and Fears, September 22, 2014.

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We need sustainable space tech. One solution - bees? Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world's top minds at Big Think Edge:

We need sustainable space tech. One solution - bees? Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world's top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The objects humans send to space teach us a lot about the universe, but they are also cluttering it up. While some objects are close enough to be retrieved, others become dangerous, fast-moving bullets that can cause serious damage. In addition to cleaning up what's already there, MIT Assistant Professor Danielle Wood says that we need to think more sustainably about the technology used in future missions. "We have to ask the question, will we respect the rights of people and the environment as we go forward in space," Wood says. One possible solution is a wax-based fuel source (made of beeswax and candle wax) for satellites that would be less toxic and more affordable than currently used inorganic compounds, and that would help bring the objects closer to Earth for deorbiting and destruction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DANIELLE WOOD: Professor Danielle Wood serves as an Assistant Professor in the Program in Media Arts & Sciences and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Within the Media Lab, Prof. Wood leads the Space Enabled Research Group which seeks to advance justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space. Prof. Wood is a scholar of societal development with a background that includes satellite design, earth science applications, systems engineering, and technology policy. In her research, Prof. Wood applies these skills to design innovative systems that harness space technology to address development challenges around the world. Prior to serving as faculty at MIT, Professor Wood held positions at NASA Headquarters, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Aerospace Corporation, Johns Hopkins University, and the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs. Prof. Wood studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned a PhD in engineering systems, SM in aeronautics and astronautics, SM in technology policy, and SB in aerospace engineering. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: DANIELLE WOOD: If you think about the view we have of the Earth from satellites, we're able to observe the oceans, the atmosphere, changes in the land. We have amazing views of the global changes. Traditionally, the goal has been to build satellites to last as long as possible, and to make sure they have all the technology to operate in the dangerous environment of space. Everything in space is going very fast. Astronauts who travel on the Space Station, they're traveling about 17,500 miles per hour. Because everything in space is traveling so fast, even when small objects hit each other, it means that they're likely to have a very dangerous collision. Very small objects have hit parts of the Space Station. And even a very small fleck of paint, or a lens cap that was dropped off a satellite can cause major damage, because everything's moving so quickly. Now the challenge is, in just about 50 or 60 years, we've produced industrial waste in space. Just a few countries have played a key role in both putting up these major satellites, but also testing to see if they can destroy their own satellite in orbit. This created space debris. Sustainability is about whether or not we create and manage waste. One of the ideas we have to consider is what do we do with the satellite when it finishes its life, its mission? The reality is, we have sustainability challenges on Earth and in space today, we need to look at them as a set of common related problems. We have to ask the question, will we respect the rights of people and the environment as we go forward in space? When we launch satellites and rockets to space, we're often carrying really expensive goods and systems, basically robots, that operate in space for maybe a decade or so. And the goal has been, because launch has been so expensive, to try to not launch a new thing until the old one is just replaced. Now, the challenge we have is to say what do you do with the old one? Sometimes the satellites are low enough to the Earth that they can actually be brought back down safely, and they actually enter the atmosphere. They're going so fast, they burn up, and generally that's a safer way to destroy them. But some satellites are operating pretty far away from the Earth. There's an area called the geostationary belt. It's about 36,000 kilometers away from the surface of the Earth. We have a whole ring of old trash satellites that are operating just a little beyond this very useful... To read the full transcript, please visit https://bigthink.com/videos/sustainable-space-tech

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Mary Vincent shares use cases on how Space Technologies benefit life on Earth including protecting people and trees from fires and deforestation during our changing climate. Mary is an

Mary Vincent shares use cases on how Space Technologies benefit life on Earth including protecting people and trees from fires and deforestation during our changing climate. Mary is an entrepreneurial leader at the forefront of innovation building high performance teams, to make a significant difference in the world in Technology, Innovation, Investment and Sustainability. Currently Mary is a Manager of data scientists and software engineers leading a Space Data Analytics and AI Portfolio at Lockheed Martin Space. She is also a Tech and Climate Tech Scout. She enjoys mentoring, developing and coaching her team to personally and professionally excel. Her Teams have won an annual Space Award and Systems Thinking Award and she is the Bay Area Lead for the Space Sustainability Employee Network. Mary previously advised companies and spoke globally at a variety of tech and clean tech conferences including being the Stakeholder Judge at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. http://www.twitter.com/maryvincent Mary is an entrepreneurial leader at the forefront of innovation building high performance teams, to make a significant difference in the world in Technology, Innovation, Investment and Sustainability. Currently Mary is a Manager of data scientists and software engineers leading a Space Data Analytics and AI Portfolio at Lockheed Martin Space. She is also a Tech and Climate Tech Scout. She enjoys mentoring, developing and coaching her team to personally and professionally excel. Her Teams have won an annual Space Award and Systems Thinking Award and she is the Bay Area Lead for the Space Sustainability Employee Network. Mary previously advised companies and spoke globally at a variety of tech and clean tech conferences including being the Stakeholder Judge at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Throughout a 45-year career as an environmental regulator, Mary Nichols has been called everything from “Trump's nemesis” to “the most influential environmental regulator of all time.” A

Throughout a 45-year career as an environmental regulator, Mary Nichols has been called everything from “Trump's nemesis” to “the most influential environmental regulator of all time.” A powerful climate champion for advancing climate action and limiting emissions, Nichols has taken on automakers and collaborated with them. Environmentalists have cheered her moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, occasionally criticizing her for letting polluters off easy and not doing enough for disadvantaged communities of color. Where does California’s climate leadership go from here, and what’s ahead for a new national climate agenda in 2021? Join us for a conversation on the storied career of Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, and a look at California’s ambitious and controversial climate leadership from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Governor Gavin Newsom. NOTES This program is generously underwritten by the ClimateWorks Foundation. SPEAKERS Mary Nichols Chair, California Air Resources Board Greg Dalton Founder and Host, Climate One -www.commonwealthclub.org/covid19support -Subscribe for more Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/commonwealthclub -Upcoming events: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events -Become a Member: https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership -Donate Now: https://support.commonwealthclub.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=298 -Watch & Listen https://www.commonwealthclub.org/watch-listen -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonwealthclub/ -Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cwclub/ -Twitter https://twitter.com/cwclub

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