Here's What Fracking Can Do to Your Health

Is this picture photoshopped?
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/heres-what-fracking-can-do-your-health

People of Color Are Disproportionately Hurt by Air Pollution

Surprise!

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2014/04/people-color-are-disproportionately-killed-air-pollution/8881/

Call climate change what it is: violence

From our local intellectual spirit guide and Berkeley Grad, Rebecca Solnit.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/climate-change-violence-occupy-earth

Toxic Trail

Crazy article about what happens when you "clean up" a Superfund site.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2014/mar/-sp-toxic-waste-silicon-valley-trail

Animation of Fire at Chevron's Richmond Refinery, August 6, 2012

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiILbGbk8Qk 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQMtGZug4PU

Yellow Rain

Here is a very interesting case from Radio Lab where "truth," expertise and justice come into conflict. It's set in Laos which we read about in in the Michael Goldman reading last week. Note that the portion after 20:00 is edited after much controversy to soften the tone of Robert's comments. 

http://www.radiolab.org/story/239549-yellow-rain/ 

Here is where Kao Kalia Yang who translated in the interview responded and offered her own interpretation.

http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2012/10/science-racism-radiolabs-treatment-hmong-experience

What role do you think the expert played in this story?

What role did the idea of truth play?

Closing America's Largest Landfill, Without Taking Out The Trash

by Liyna Anwar

NPR - February 22, 2014

The covering of America's largest landfill, east of downtown Los Angeles, is underway....

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/22/280750148/closing-americas-largest-landfill-without-taking-out-the-trash?sc=17&f=1001

Bill Gates Can't Build a Toilet

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/opinion/bill-gates-cant-build-a-toilet.html?_r=0

PC Nonesense?

What do you think of this discussion? Why do Jerry Seinfeld and Morgan Freeman feel they need to make these kind of statements?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/07/opinion/granderson-seinfeld-diversity/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

Race, Institutions and the Production of Science

Tyrone Hayes of U.C. Berkeley's Biology Department

An interesting story of how power can play out between companies, individuals and institutions in the production of scientific knowledge.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=1

Equality or Justice?

Source: Unknown

Wealth Inequality in America

 

Here's the Video Khalid was going to show in class. 

Lisa Jackson on Public Service

Take a listen to Lisa Jackson talking about what drew her to Environmental Engineering (she was the first African American EPA director), and what it means to communities like the one she grew up in. Make sure to listen to the VERY END to the part where they say where she's working now. What do you think about that?

http://themoth.org/posts/storytellers/lisa-jackson

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