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The pandemic had many effects on transportation and travel. Besides emptying streets and trains and buses, it prompted the federal government to provide billions of dollars to keep transit running and gave transit planners a chance to see what was working and what could be improved. Coupled with the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, there is now an unprecedented opportunity to make major changes to improve transportation. What will those changes look like ?Join Transportation for Massachusetts, GBH News and GBH Forum Network as we partner to host a series of four on-line episodes to reflect on the state of public transit in Massachusetts and discuss what the future could look like.

The Mill Talks series features lectures and panel discussions on topics related to the Industrial Revolution, innovation across disciplines, and the mission of the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, which is to encourage and inspire future innovation in America.Funded by the Lowell Institute.

This series explores the many ways that living systems create and regulate environmental conditions on our planet. Without a living system, Earth would be a dry barren rock, like Venus or Mars.Life has created the planet as we know it, a place where all species, including humans, co-evolved. The symbiotic relationships that created this Eden are badly damaged. The Life Saves the Planet Series, presented by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, will introduce you to people (and other species) doing amazing work all over the planet to regenerate systems, repair crucial relationships, and make this a healthy place once again. Without this work being done at scale, we will not have a habitable home for very long.

Great Decisions is a series organized by WorldBoston

Lectures curated around the issues and challenges of global health, and that examine the diseases that kill more people each year than conflict alone. break - One billion people lack access to health care systems. - Around 11 million children under the age of 5 die from malnutrition and mostly preventable diseases, each year. - In 2002, almost 11 million people died of infectious diseases alone, far more than the number killed in the natural or man-made catastrophes that make headlines. - UNAIDS estimates for 2007 that there are roughly 32.8 million living with HIV, 2.5 million new infections of HIV, 2 million deaths from AIDS. - There are 8.8 million new cases of Tuberculosis (TB) and 1.75 million deaths from TB, each year. - 1.6 million people still die from pneumococcal diseases every year, making it the number one vaccine-preventable cause of death worldwide. More than half of the victims are children. - Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and at least 1 million deaths, annually. - More than half a million people, mostly children, died from measles in 2003 even though effective immunization costs just 0.30 US dollars per person, and has been available for over 40 years.

This ever-growing collection of lectures is curated around the political and public debate regarding climate change and the ideas our scientists and thought leaders have for taking action in response. Options change as we learn more and as political attitudes evolve. Here you will find an archive of ideas from mitigation to reducing emissions; adaptation to damage already caused by global warming and extreme weather events; thoughtful ideas from the Design community and opinions from climate change activists.Learn more about the Kyoto Protocol, (1997) signed by most countries and aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the latest on The Paris Agreement (2015), including which countries have ratified its principals.Related Collections from NPR and PBS: NPR Special Series: Global Warming NOVA & FRONTLINE: What’s Up with the Weather?Image credit: Map “2030 Coastal Flood Depth” courtesy of Boston Harbor Now

Talks with or about Indigenous lives, people, history, wisdom