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Crowdfunding Gold under the Reading Rainbow
By Scott Michael Slone
Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high…
Many of our readers might be familiar with Reading Rainbow, an educational children’s show that aired on PBS during the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. It was a show dedicated to promoting reading in a child’s life and promoting critical thinking about what they were reading, much like the show Bill Nye The Science Guy promoted scientific thought and analysis. Continue reading “Crowdfunding Gold under the Reading Rainbow”
The Multiplication of Threats: Climate Change & the Risks to National Security
Climate security has brought environmentalists and militaries across the world into a unique accord: both are concerned by the effects that climate change does and will have on existing situations of insecurity. The U.S. Department of Defense declared the threat of climate change impacts a very serious national security vulnerability that, among other things, could enable further terrorist activity. They deem climate change a “threat multiplier.”
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Climate Change and National Security
By Paul Caine Producer, WTTW’s Chicago Tonight
Originally published at: https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2014/04/29/climate-change-and-national-security
What does climate change and national security have to do with each other? Everything according to international science and military experts. They say changing weather patterns effect food and freshwater availability resulting in a competition for resources and possible political instability. We take a closer look at the issue on Scientific Chicago with retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney, CEO of the American Security Project, Elisabeth Moyer, co-director of the University of Chicago’s Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy, and Andrew Holland, senior fellow for Energy and Climate from the American Security Project.
“Is This Safe To Eat?” with Zoe Hunter
By Zoe Hunter
In case the cold weather kept you away from C2STs latest event entitled “Is This Safe to Eat?,” here is a quick recap.
