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Video: Mexico's Poisoned Rivers

Contributed by J. R. Ransom

Mexico's Poisoned Rivers

Video (3min 22sec): Mexico's Poisoned Rivers - The Mexican government is keen to attract investors from abroad and promote itself as "business-friendly". But Franc Contreras, reporting for Al Jazeera from Mexico, found that many local people feel the authorities are not doing enough to protect them and the environment from the side-effects of industry.

"Mexico likes to consider itself a good place to do business. It's got a large work force and borders the United States which is the world's biggest economy. But as the Mexican government focuses on attracting investors some people feel that little is being done to protect them or the environment from the side effects of industry."

"This part of Mexico was once famous for the quality of its water but not any more. It's now an important center for the production of fashionable bluejeans. The most famous brands are made in factories here..."

Mike Reynolds About Earthships Video

Contributed by J. R. Ransom
Mike Reynolds Earthships: Future-proof buildings - sustainable, self-sufficient homes -- and the 50 or so that are scattered outside the New Mexico town of Taos, constitute the Earthship Greater World community. As Michael Reynolds says: "If water is falling from the sky, and it is on the majority of the planet, it's crazy not to catch it." "Back in the Seventies, the TV or magazines were talking about cans being thrown all over the streets and highways. I responded to that by building a house out of cans. That thinking just kept on being applied. An earthship is a stand alone home. It makes its own energy, harvests its own water, contains and treats its own sewage. And they are built from recycled materials..."
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Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour Trailer Video

Contributed by J. R. Ransom
Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour Trailer Video (2min 11sec). "11th Hour," the exciting new global climate change documentary produced by and hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio. Opened at theaters on August 17th, 07. "The evidence is now clear. Industrial civilization has caused irreparable damage. Our corporate and political leaders have consistently ignored the overwhelming scientific evidence." "Not only is it the 11th Hours, but it's eleven fifty-nine." "What we saw with Katrina is just a prologue. The worst is yet to come." "The UN estimates that by the middle of the century there may be 150 million environmental refugees." "There are too many of us using too many resources too fast."
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South Asian Floods Economic Toll Video

Contributed by J. R. Ransom
South Asian Floods South Asian Floods Take Economic Toll Video - in this video (2min 17sec) Afsan Chowdhury says climate change comes on top of already rising sea levels and environmental degradation. Thursday August 9th, 2007. Afsan Chowdhury has spent years dealing with crisis and disaster management in South Asia. In a phone interview from Dhaka, he says the latest monsoon flooding will have a long-term socio-economic impact on the most poor. "We must remember that this area that is south Asia, is an environmentally degraded area and that climate change actually comes on top of many other critical issues. I remember three months back we were looking at river erosion, which generates the highest number of refugees all over south Asia..."
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Flying & Environment: EU Leads Way

Contributed by J. R. Ransom
EU Airport Flying and the environment -- the EU leads the way Video (10min 2sec). Flying is something we take for granted but all those business trips and holidays are contributing to global warming. This film looks at the new laws being put forward by the EU to cut the amount of CO2 produced by air travel and hears what scientists and those involved in the flying business have to say. "The simplist thing to do and the most intelligent thing to do is to bring aviation into the existing emissions trading system. That puts aviation, quite rightly, on the same footing as other carbon emitting industries. The reasons why we like it is that it's an international solution to an international problem..." "For travelers the measure in likely to have only a modest impact on ticket prices." On the typical European flight we think that the impact on the price of the flight will be very limited - something between two and ten Euros ($2.73 to $13.66). Not more..."
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