All over the world, people are taking action to save the climate. All over the US, this Thanksgiving, people who have lived through

All over the world, people are taking action to save the climate. All over the US, this Thanksgiving, people who have lived through climate disasters are giving thanks. Published on Nov 25, 2013
Photo credits: Greenpeace, NOAA.

All over the US, this Thanksgiving 2013, people who have lived through climate disasters are giving thanks.  And if we receive them they will stay with us forever. 

Dean Karlan discusses the importance of knowing people and knowing language to change human behavior. With these findings,

Dean Karlan discusses the importance of knowing people and knowing language to change human behavior. With these findings, Dean has developed innovative mechanisms to increase savings in communities across the developing world.

Dean Karlan is a Professor of Economics at Yale University. Karlan is President of Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organization

TEDxMiddlebury Published on Aug 18, 2013

In a country as rich as America, why is there so little outcry about the ever-increasing economic divide between the very wealthy and everyone else?

In a country as rich as America, why is there so little outcry about the ever-increasing economic divide between the very wealthy and everyone else? Media scholar Marty Kaplan points to our well-fed appetite for media distraction. Later on the show, acclaimed historian Gary May puts the recent Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act into historical perspective. Published on Jul 12, 2013

David Meslin, Community Catalyst, addresses the question: local politics -- schools, zoning, council

David Meslin, Community Catalyst, addresses the question: local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. Meslin encourages we recognize apathy actually as a web of barriers that reinforce disengagement - and that we work together to dismantle the obstacles.

Joes Segal s a Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University whose work concentrates on the history

Joes Segal s a Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University whose work concentrates on the history of modern art, cultural history, cultural boundaries and identity constructions with reference to the common grounds between art and politics in Europe, the US, the Soviet Union and China since 1945. He is the Author of East German Material Culture and the Power of Memory (2011) and Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West (2012). Joes was the recipient of a Senior Research Grant and was based at the Wende Museum, as a guest curator, and UCLA, as a guest professor.

To order his latest book from Amazon, Divided Dreamworlds, click on the image or visit your local bookstore. Thank you.

Consciousness and Cultural Beliefs tagged in EarthSayers.tv.

Dr. Newman is the Director of Clinical Research in the Emergency Department at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and an Iraq war veteran. In addition to being widely published in medical journals

Dr. Newman is the Director of Clinical Research in the Emergency Department at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and an Iraq war veteran. In addition to being widely published in medical journals he has written health care articles for the New York Times and is the author of Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine. He is also the editor-in-chief for two online publications, TheNNT.com, (The Number Needed to Treat)a resource for health care evidence summaries. Presented by TEDxColumbiaEngineering

The first in a series of short videos dealing with the restoration and health of the biosphere through rediscovering humanities proper