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Designing Healthy Communities & America's Family Farmers - HOOP Hothouses

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewGrowing and buying food locally can be difficult in places like Michigan where the ground is covered in snow 9 months out of the year. But with HOOP greenhouses, Jeremy Moghtader is able to grow his own produce in Michigan 365 days a year.
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Designing Healthy Communities & America's Family Farmers - D-Town Farms

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewOften times in large cities, such as Detroit, there is a lamentable lack of available fresh produce. One solution to this problem is to encourage people to grow their own food. The Black Community Food Security Network in Detroit,...
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Designing Healthy Communities - Dr. Jackson on the Obesity Epidemic

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewDr. Jackson discusses the impact of poor diet, especially diets heavy laden with sugar and fat. He discusses the epidemic of diabetes and obesity in children.
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Designing Healthy Communities - Dr. Jackson on the effects of Diesel

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewDr. Jackson discusses the effects of diesel particles that can pass through filters and enter the lungs. The impact is especially severe on young children.
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Designing Healthy Communities - Dr. Jackson on the cost of Diabetes

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewDr. Richard Jackson MD MPH, investigates the link between our nation’s obesity and Type 2 Diabetes epidemic with urban sprawl fueled by car dependency.
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Designing Healthy Communities - Dr. Jackson on the Built Environment

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewDr. Jackson discusses the built environment and its impact of public health. He stresses the need for green space, adequate and clean public transit, and access to nutritious and affordable fresh food.
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Designing Healthy Communities - Dr. Jackson and Zoning Laws

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewDr. Jackson discusses the need to revise zoning laws to allow for mixed use development, transit oriented development and being able to build schools closer to the community.
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Designing Healthy Communities - Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association Promo

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewDr. Benjamin talks about Dr. Jackson and the tremendous influence Dr. Jackson's work has had, and continues to have, in retrofitting America.
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Designing Healthy Communities - Boulder Biking

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewBoulder's investment in off street bike paths is a model for the rest of the country.
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America's Family Farmers & Designing Healthy Communities - Mandela Market Place, West Oakland

6th - Higher Ed
New ReviewWest Oakland's cooperative grocery store and market brings the community the option of buying and preparing fresh nutritious food. The Mandela Market is supported by the Cal Endowment and other foundations that recognize the importance...
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America's Family Farmers - The Obesity Epidemic

6th - Higher Ed
The obesity measure has been rising at an alarming rate for the past 35 years. Just how fat are Americans today? This dynamic animated map illustrates the recent time line of America's rampant obesity epidemic.
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Going To Green Unit #15 - The Los Angeles River

6th - Higher Ed
How a church community in Los Angeles came together to adopt a mile-long tract of the LA River to make it a refuge for animals and human visitors.
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Going To Green Unit #6 - Air Quality

6th - Higher Ed
Explores the social, economic, and scientific ramifications of our air quality goals and practices.
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Going To Green Unit #4 - Green Building

6th - Higher Ed
Explores scientific innovations, supportive community action and community planning, and effective political reform behind the advances in green building practices.
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Going To Green Unit #3 - Waste Management & Recycling

6th - Higher Ed
Addresses the need to re-use natural resources and upgrade our urban infrastructure to accommodate waste and conserve energy.
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Going To Green Unit #2 - Building Community

6th - Higher Ed
Explores the art of community and why community-based support is so important to ecosystem restoration.
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Going To Green Unit #11 - Sustainable Salmon Fishing with Douglas Fricke

6th - Higher Ed
The role that sustainable fishing has for a healthy national food supply. The sunrise 20 miles off the coast of Washington State sheds light on the challenges ahead for a life-long commercial fisherman.
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Where Healthcare & The Environment Intersect

6th - Higher Ed
The vital links between a healthy society and a sustainable environment.
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America's Family Farmers - America's FoodPrint

6th - Higher Ed
America's Family Farmers - America's FoodPrint
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Going To Green Unit #5 - Renewable Energy

6th - Higher Ed
Examines the future of a variety of alternative sources of fuel.
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Women Make Science: Ecuador's Hidden Treasure | Featured Documentary

9th - Higher Ed
Scientists work to protect Ecuador's endangered spider monkeys while supporting local women.
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Shrinking fish stocks raise tensions in the South China Sea | Counting the Cost

9th - Higher Ed
Fishermen claim being harassed or rammed by Chinese vessels. Plus, the firing of an Australian mining company boss.
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How to Find the Best Zombie Shelter

9th - Higher Ed
Howcast - Learn how to find the best zombie shelter in this Howcast video about how to survive a zombie attack.
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Meet the women bringing Tower-to-Table produce to Thunder Bay's northcore and beyond

9th - Higher Ed
These Tower Garden uses aeroponics, the same technology NASA uses to grow plants in space. That system can grow produce up to three times faster and produce 30% greater yields on average. That means you’ll be enjoying abundant,...