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Sea of Joy Zen

2008-07-09T08:19:30Z

Slideshow of fotos from Berkeley Zen Center's Mountains and Rivers Sesshin in Pt. Reyes National Seashore. Features beachside Alamere Falls, beachcombing, and sunset zazen. Music: 'Sea of Joy'

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The World's Largest Tuna Fishing Vessel

2008-07-20T14:34:00Z

Learn More:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/albatuna-tres-062708

Kiribati — We chased it for 5 days, but as dawn broke over the Pacific this morning we finally confronted the biggest tuna fishing vessel in the world. The Spanish-owned and flagged tuna purse seiner "Albatun Tres" is known as a 'super, super seiner' and can net 3,000 tonnes of tuna in a single fishing trip. This is almost double the entire annual catch of some Pacific island countries.

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Sponge Bob (Edited)

2008-07-20T12:50:47Z

I got the idea from other videos like this, this is my version, enjoy :)

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Climate Change and the Global Economy

2008-06-12T12:43:01Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Kemal Derviş, Head of the United Nations Development Programme, discusses impacts of climate change on long-term economic planning.

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Prosperity and Inequality: Debates in India and China Keynote Address by Kemal Dervis

India and China are emerging as major players in the global political economy of this century, having enjoyed record growth rates for the past five years. Yet each faces major social and economic challenges. Both countries are dealing with growing social unrest, widespread poverty, and rising energy needs in a world market shaped by dwindling oil supplies.

China's growth is creating massive disparities between its urban and rural sectors, resulting in protests against state authority and restless migrant populations. Citizens face a steady degradation of public health due to runaway industrial growth, while capitalists chafe against the state's tight control of the market. In India, the epidemic of suicides among farmers and episodes of violence against minorities have cast doubts on the benefits of wholesale economic liberalization, unfettered foreign investment, and growth, which are also being challenged by the rise of judicial activism and of an active, vocal civil society.

The India China Institute at The New School, now in its third year of sponsoring fellowships, public debates, and research collaborations between experts in India, China, and the United States, is hosting "Prosperity and Inequality: Debates in India and China," a major conference exploring these issues. Participants in the conference, including our own fellows from all three countries as well as experts on urbanization, globalization, and growth in India and China, will discuss Chinese and Indian urbanization and wealth formation, the social and political risks associated with skyrocketing growth in two massive agrarian societies, alternative designs for development in each society, and the quest in both societies for a "third way" of development that combines the virtues of socialism and capitalism without sacrificing democracy and grassroots inclusion - The New School

Kemal Derviş started as the new head of the United Nations Development Program, the UN's global development network, on August 15, 2005. Currently he also serves as the Chair of the United Nations Development Group (UNDP), a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programs, and departments working on development issues.

Prior to his appointment with UNDP, Mr. Derviş was a member of the Turkish Parliament, representing Istanbul from November 2002 to June 2005. From March 2001 to August 2002, he was the Minister for Economic Affairs and the Treasury of the Republic of Turkey. In August of 2002, he resigned from his Ministerial post and was elected to Parliament.

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Weezer "Across the Sea" (Pinkerton) Cover

2008-07-20T14:35:32Z

Lotka-Volterra performance at Kalamazoo College's Airband (Feb 17, 2006).

Vocals & Lead Guitar: Nathaniel Krefman
Rhythm Guitar: Ryan Thyfault
Bass Guitar: Ben Connor Barrie
Drums: Dan McDougall

Song: Across the Sea
Original Artist: Weezer
Album: Pinkerton

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Pirates of the Pacific busted by Greenpeace

2008-07-20T14:34:01Z

Learn more:
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/

An update from the Espereanza in the International waters of the Pacific. May 2008

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Harpooned: Greenpeace exposes scandal

2008-07-20T14:34:01Z

Learn More:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whale-meat-scandal-150408

Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods - it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major conspiracy of corruption at the heart of Japan's government-backed, sham scientific whaling operation.

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Greenpeace frees ocean life from Pacific longliner

2008-07-20T14:34:01Z

Learn more:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/free-ocean-life050508

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza freed tuna, sharks, marlin and an endangered sea turtle from a Taiwanese longliner on Saturday. The vessel was fishing in the Pacific Commons, the international waters we want to see protected as a marine reserve.

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"Wall of Death" fishing net exposed

2008-07-20T14:34:01Z

Greenpeace exposes illegal net in Southern Italy

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Greenpeace discovers new species in threatened Bering Sea

2008-07-20T14:34:02Z

Lear more:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/new-sponge-Aaptos-kanuux280408

Greenpeace discovered a new species of sponge in the submarine canyons of the Bering Sea. See the new species for yourself! Dive into our "Aaptos Kanuux - Heart of the Bering Sea" video of the new sponge and other species living in the depths of the Bering Sea.

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Brussels Seafood Expo - Business Closed!

2008-07-20T14:34:02Z

Learn More:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/brussels-seafood-expo-230408

80 activists from 15 countries covered the stands with fishing nets, chained themselves to the stands and put up banners in 13 languages saying; 'Time and Tuna are running out'. They also stenciled the very simple "business closed" across many stands.

Not only is there no trading at all going on at the Ricardo Fuentes stand, where 30 people locked on, but trading across the fair was stopped as people flocked to the stand to see what was going on. Outside we relayed the same message to people coming into the conference.

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Orcas on the hunt

2008-06-15T09:29:53Z

Apr 15 - It's a scene found nowhere else on earth...an enormous orca riding a wave close to shore for a sneak attack. The dangerous hunting technique could leave them beached out of water too long to survive.Katharine Jackson reports.

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Craig Venter - The Incredible Biodiversity of the Oceans

2008-06-13T15:30:16Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Celebrity geneticist Craig Venter discusses the enormous diversity of microbial life existing in our global oceans.

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Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention featuring biologist J. Craig Venter.

Biologist, author and businessman Craig Venter discusses his work mapping and synthesizing genomes. Venter recalls his work mapping the human genome and expands on his current work which includes categorizing new genes and species of microbes from ocean water. Venter also explains how microbial research can be used for metabolic engineering and alternative energy sources.

J. Craig Venter, PH.D. is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research and is one of the country’s most frequently cited scientists. He is Founder and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute and J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, not-for-profit research and support organizations dedicated to human genomic research, exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics, and alternative energy solutions through microbial sources. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).

Dr. Venter began his formal education after serving as a Navy Corpsman in Danang, Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. After earning a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology, both from the University of California at San Diego and both in three years, he was appointed professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1984, he moved to the National Institutes of Health, where he developed expressed-sequence tags (ESTs), a revolutionary strategy for gene discovery. In 1992, he founded TIGR, where he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using an original whole-genome shotgun technique. Since then, TIGR has sequenced more than 50 genomes using Dr. Venter's techniques.

Dr. Venter is the author of more than 200 articles and the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards, including the Financial Times Man of the Year Award, TIME Magazine Man of the Year (runner up), 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award, and the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. Dr. Venter is a member of numerous prestigious scientific organizations including, including the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Society for Microbiology. He was also one of the first 38 people to be selected by Desmond Tutu as part of the "Hands That Shape Humanity" world exhibition.

Dr. Venter's autobiography A Life Decoded was published in October of 2007.

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Musicians@Google: Nicole Atkins

2008-06-08T03:31:22Z

The Musicians@Google program was thrilled to welcome critically acclaimed songwriter and performer Nicole Atkins and members of her band the Sea to perform songs from her new album, "Neptune City" and to discuss her influences, life experience and the creative process.

The interview portions of this event were hosted by ABC executive producer David Saltz.

This event took place on January 22, 2008 at the Google NYC campus

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RARE MASSIVE 6-GILL SHARK SIGHTING AT 3300 FT DEPTH!!

2008-06-12T09:31:58Z

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Looking back

2008-07-20T14:34:04Z

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/japan-resumes-31012008

As the Esperanza returns to port, we take a look back at Greenpeace's anti-whaling expedition in the Southern Ocean.

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Global Pulse: A Whale of a Tale Japan vs. Environmentalists

2008-06-12T21:29:59Z

See More at linktv.org
This year's Japanese whaling fleet plans to kill hundreds of whales in the name of "research." But, not if environmental groups like Greenpeace and The Sea Shepherd have anything to say about it. So far they have tried several tactics to thwart the harvest they believe is for commercial whaling, a practice that was outlawed in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission. Watch as we show you world wide opinions on this battle in the Antarctica.

Sources: TV5, France; BBC, U.K; NHK News, Japan; Al Jazeera English, Doha

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Confronting the Oriental Bluebird

2008-07-20T14:34:04Z

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whaling-fleet-illegal-refueling210108

Boat driver Jetske and the rest of the Esperanza crew try to prevent the Oriental Bluebird from refuelling the Nisshin Maru.

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Fake Research

2008-07-20T14:34:04Z

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/fake-science-exposed180108

The Esperanza crew deliver a clear message to the whaling fleet calling its so-called scientific whaling programme 偽 "fake".

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Research?

2008-07-20T14:34:04Z

Learn More:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/fake-science-exposed180108

On board an inflatable running parallel to the giant factory ship, Greenpeace Japan whales campaigner Sakyo Noda held the Japanese kanji symbol "偽" ("nise"), meaning "fake", next to the word "RESEARCH" which has been painted by the Japanese Fisheries Agency on the Nishim Maru's hull.
Reflecting a growing disquiet in Japanese society, "偽" was voted the best kanji symbol of the year for 2008. Its choice reflects recent food mislabeling scandals, problems over political funds and faulty pension records.
Greenpeace Japan is now using it to show that the use of taxpayers money to fund "scientific" whaling is yet another government scandal.

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PLEASE JOIN AND DONATE JUST $10 SO GREENPEACE CAN WIN TODAY'S CHALLENGE:
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Greenpeace confronts whaling fleet

2008-07-20T14:34:04Z

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/great-whale-trail

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Flower & Sea

2008-07-20T14:32:41Z

I made this piece with my love Jen. I shot her and edited together this for my Editing Techniques class. The meaning and point is open to interpretation.

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Antarctic humpback songs

2008-07-20T14:34:04Z

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/great-whale-trail

The Esperanza crew captures unique audio recordings of humpbacks in Antarctic waters.

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Sing us a song Mister Splashy Pants!

2008-07-20T14:34:04Z

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/whales/2008/01/hydrophone_test.html#more

We were offline all day yesterday; otherwise you would have been able to spot some the pretty spectacular icebergs on the webcam! Yesterday we tried out the hydrophone which can record whales under water. Together with Jetske, Gavin and Neil I have worked on finding the ideal way to place and deploy it from the boats. I worked with hydrophones in Brazil previously, but with another and simpler kind. There are few recordings of whales from the Southern Ocean, and I am very keen on recording whales here. This hydrophone can record from longer distances, but we also work under radically different circumstances than in Brazil. We have put heavier weights on the hydrophone, and it would be possible to record even if the boat would travel at a speed of 15 knots.
Here is a video that explains how the hydrophone works. As you can see by the t-shirts it was made before we reached these cold waters!

Maybe you have some whale fluke pictures lying around? There is a group on Flickr that collects pictures of whale flukes from the Atlantic or the Pacific:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/humpbackflukes/

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Report from the Southern Ocean

2008-07-20T14:34:04Z

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/great-whale-trail

Report from the Esperanza now looking for the whaling fleet in the ice fields of the Southern Ocean.

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