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9-12

Explore Lesson Plans, Activities, and multimedia resources for grades 9-12.

Resources, based on the Harvard Medical School Course Human Health and Global Environmental Change, include topics such as biodiversity, climate change and energy, emerging infectious disease, extreme weather events, and sustainable food systems.

 
How Our Health Depends on Biodiversity

A summary of our award-winning book, Sustaining Life.

 
Highstead Foundation Presents Sustaining Life

Dr. Eric Chivian on just how important preserving the planet truly is.

 
Sustaining Life: How Our Health Depends on Biodiversity

The most comprehensive book available on health and biodiversity.

 
How does saving the Yasuni National Forest impact human health?

Dr. Eric Chivian explains how the Yasuni Forest is a great resource for medicines.

 
Killing the Cures

For millennia, medical practitioners have harnessed substances from nature.

 
Biodiversity loss: threats to our health (Australian Geographic)

The environment holds hidden secrets to human well-being, provided we preserve biodiversity.

 
Healthy Eating Plate

The Healthy Eating Plate offers research based reccomendations for following a healthy diet.

 
An Orchard and A Passion: A Visit with Eric Chivian '68

Dr.Eric Chivian on his passion for healthy, sustainable food.

 
From Farm to Fork: Why What You Eat Matters

Dr. PK Newby talks about sustainable food and health.

 
Fish Out Of Water: Five Ocean Species We Are Eating to Death (Good Lifestyle)

Marine species succumb to unsustainable fishing.

 
Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture— Part 1

First part of Fred Kirchenmann's talk on sustainable farming.

 
Fred Kirschenmann: The Future of Agriculture— Part 2

Second part of Fred Kirchenmann's talk on sustainable farming.

 
Mining Coal, Mounting Costs: The life cycle consequences of coal

Coals impacts cost US public over one-half a trillion dollars annually.

 
Full Cost Accounting for the Life Cycle of Coal

Life cycle impacts of coal cost the US public a third to over one half a trillion dollars annually.

 
The True Cost of Coal

Press conference with Dr. Paul Epstein on the financial strain caused by different phases of the coal cycle.

 
From Snowstorms to Heat Waves

Paul Epstein talks about the connection between global warming and climate change.

 
Is it Too Late to Avoid Serious Impacts of Climate Change

James McCarthy talks about the current global trends in carbon emission.

 
Ozone Disruption and Your Health

A short report on the health implications of rising temperatures and ozone pollution.

 
National Geographic Seafood Decision Guide

See how your seafood choices affect your health and ocean health.

 
Can my food choices help restore sustainable seafood systems?

Barton Seaver, Chef and National Geographic Fellow, explains how eating seafood is important and how our choices matter in maintaining and restoring sustainable seafood systems.

 
Mission Blue

A global coalition aimed at increasing ocean protection and restoring ocean health.

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