Links to helpful websites

https://www.ourplanet.com/en/video/our-planet-our-business

The global loss of nature is costing trillions of dollars every year. This 38 minute film explores how the global business community can help to tackle the world's environmental crisis. Contact us to find out how to host a screening where you work: ourplanet@wwf.org.uk
Sir David Attenborough, WWF, etc.

https://www.ourplanet.com/en/video/our-planet-too-big-to-fail 

Our economy is fundamentally underpinned by the stability and the resilience of the natural world. But this stability is no longer guaranteed. Our Planet: Too Big To Fail is a 42 minute film that explores the risks of inaction, the impact of investing-as-usual, and the role the finance sector can play in powering a sustainable future. Contact us to find out how you can host a screening where you work: ourplanetourbusiness@wwf.org.uk

What makes San Diego so special?
Well, don't just take it from us, here are a few notes from others

(click on respective lines for a link to the article or video):

National Geographic Channel's World's Smart Cities - San Diego

New York Times Travel - 36 hours in San Diego
TLC Family Channel - San Diego City Guide
National Geographic on San Diego

Money Magazine - Best In Travel - #1 San Diego

CNBC - This city is taking on Silicon Valley as a start-up haven

​National Geographic - what to eat while touring San Diego

 Here is a sampling of a few charming 'Little Villages' that make up our cosmopolitan San Diego.
Attached below are links to various locally based websites to give you a local flavor from each little village. Where possible, I've chosen to link to non-profit or historical groups to give us a sense of culture and history in this fast changing world.
Call us if you'd like more details. Maps are screen snips from Google (thank you Google!). 

** Things to do in Quarantine Times **

Thank heavens we live in the Internet Age!

March 2020: COVID MASK-UP!

Mobilizing our local San Diegan community to wear cotton face masks and practice social distancing, to better protect each other from Covid-19, to save the N95s and hospital grade gear for our brave healthcare professionals; and supporting our local organizations like the Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) by donating towards the production of homemade tailored cotton face masks, Made in San Diego by micro entrepreneurs and small business owners. 

DIY videos to make your own homemade cotton face masks. Here are 2 different styles presented by 2 different hospitals. Get creative and personalize them:

1) The Olson mask with pocket for insert from St Luke's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnVk12sFRkY

2) The surgical style mask: https://www.deaconess.com/How-to-make-a-Face-Mask

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Discover the genius and pleasures of Live Cams. Check out these cool links, and go explore the vast online universe for more.

(copy and paste the links below onto a new browser if clicking on the link is not immediately sending you there) 

​San Diego Zoo Safari Park – elephant cam

https://www.sdzsafaripark.org/elephant-cam

San Diego Zoo – penguin cam
https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/penguin-cam

Monterey Bay Aquarium - Live Jelly Cam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gHKDHmgVlU&feature=emb_title

Edinburgh Zoo live cams
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/

Other zoos:

https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/animal-webcams/elephants/
https://www.kansascityzoo.org/ouranimals/list-of-animals/king-penguin/
https://zooatlanta.org/panda-cam/

Melbourne Zoo and Werribee Open Range Zoo
https://www.zoo.org.au/animal-house

African Animals – several cams in different locations in Africa
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera

Explore.org - amazing live cam website, eagles' nests, watering holes, etc., so much out there

https://explore.org/livecams
​https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/tau

Mountain Gorillas (video) – Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/986-human

Special Thanks to Country Living magazine for this list
https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/g31784857/live-animal-webcam-zoo/

Earthcam – amazing live cams in various cities around the world

https://www.earthcam.com/
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Planet Earth cam – our only home, Spaceship Earth is still here, if we can keep it.
https://www.earthcam.com/usa/florida/orlando/nasa/?cam=nasa

And, some nutrition for our minds...

5 must read books while sheltering in place
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-21/coronavirus-five-must-read-books-for-a-scary-new-era?srnd=premium

My top pick:

“Guns, Germs, and Steel”: Long an established classic, this multi-disciplinary epic by Jared Diamond attempts to explain why some societies develop and grow wealthy while others do not, combining geography, history, biology and many other branches of knowledge in a grand global survey. The second word in the title is of the greatest interest at present; in the book, Diamond examines how epidemics came to shape society as well as looking at their biological causes. And he makes clear how Europeans came to supplant the native populations of North America so completely: “That might not have happened without Europe’s sinister gift to other continents — the germs evolving from Eurasians’ long intimacy with domestic animals.” I recently embarked on re-reading it, and I am already discovering that the events of the last few months make it read very differently.  This is the time to read or re-read