From : 2 October (Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth anniversary)
Until : 16 October (World Food Day)
A global call for action to stand up for our diverse & free food heritage.
Click here to watch a video message from Vandana Shiva, and take action!
“Our seeds and food are vital to life. We cannot afford to allow the destruction of the planet and our health to continue. We cannot allow seed slavery and food dictatorship to continue. We must take back our seeds, our food, our freedom.”
- Vandana Shiva
The newest video from The Story of Stuff Project, “The Story of Solutions, explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.” Here at Media for Peacebuilding, we are all about transformative solutions for a better world!
Watch this documentary on greening deserts by documentary filmmaker and ecologist, John D. Liu.
Visit Liu’s interactive storytelling website here: www.whatifwechange.org
Watch this informative video about urban farmer, Novella Carpenter.
* warning: some images of animals killed for food.
Watch this video interview with Will Allen, an urban farmer who has managed to produce ONE MILLION POUNDS of organic food in just 3 acres.
At a time when the mainstream media is having trouble wrapping their heads around the Occupy Movement, here is one of the best videos I have seen about the spirit behind Occupy Everywhere.
The newest video from the Story of Stuff Project, “The Story of Broke calls for a shift in government spending toward investments in clean, green solutions—renewable energy, safer chemicals and materials, zero waste and more—that can deliver jobs AND a healthier environment. It’s time to rebuild the American Dream; but this time, let’s build it better.”
Click here to watch Peak Moment’s Janaia Donaldson’s interview with Chris Martenson. “The next twenty years will be totally unlike the last twenty… Well face the greatest economic and physical challenges ever seen by our country, if not humanity. So opens Chris Martenson’s much-viewed online Crash Course illuminating the relationship between economy, energy and the environment.”
Chris Martenson’s Crash Course available here
“This 5-minute video from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation debunks the myth that nuclear weapons keep us safe and prevent nuclear attacks by others.”
- www.wagingpeace.org
Click here to read Kimberlye Kowalczyk’s (Managing Editor) photo essay from ten days in the tsunami affected areas in Tohoku (Northeastern Japan) in April, 2011.
