Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, questions what is really meant by the term "global village."
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Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta comments on how modern culture makes people think they need to acquire things in order to feel complete and recalls the ancient idea that in giving you are fulfilled.
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Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta explains how, when you see yourself connected to all life, you can't help but express your joy.
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Youth worker Nelsa Libertad Curbelo Cora describes the inspiration behind Barrio de Paz (Peace Town), a non-violent youth movement in Guayaquil, Ecuador, that brings together street gangs
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Youth worker Nelsa Libertad Curbelo Cora describes the inspiration
behind Barrio de Paz (Peace Town), a non-violent youth movement in
Guyaquil, Ecuador.
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People's Grocery director Brahm Amadhi points out reasons why many people in urban areas have lost their connection to the land, and offers some suggestions for restoring that relationship.
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Buddhist teacher, former inmate and founder of several prison service organizations Fleet Maul talks about life behind bars.
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People's Grocery director Brahm Amadhi discusses the effect agriculture is having on the environment, farm communities, and consumers, and the need for systemic change in the way food is grown and
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Stephan Fayon, director of an international seed bank in Auroville, India, explains how preserving the diversity of seeds insures against the breakdown of large-scale industrial agriculture.
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Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge describes the importance of taking a leadership role in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Youth worker Orland Bishop explains how young people learn about power from adults. In the absence of elders who have cultivated wisdom in their lives and know how to transmit it to younger generations,
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Anshu Gupta is the founder of Goonj, a volunteer-run recycling center in New Delhi. In this short video, Anshu shows how Goonj recycles unused garments to provide clothes, schoolbags, sanitary napkins
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Permaculture expert Penny Livingston-Stark shows how natural systems can teach us better design practices.
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Seva, or service, is the selfless giving of oneself for the betterment of others and the world around.
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Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta describes a project encouraging random acts of kindness that demonstrates the power of small things to transform society.
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Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta gives an example of an act of kindness that illustrates how generosity connects us to other people.
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People's Grocery director Brahm Amadhi explains how industrialization has changed our relationship to food and agriculture, and describes efforts to change the current system of production to serv
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In the inner-city of Johannesburg, The GreenHouse Project is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities.
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Emmanuel Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, says the most important thing he's learned from his patients is that life cannot go on without trust.
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In West Oakland, California, where liquor stores have replaced markets, People’s Grocery is creating a healthy alternative, offering access to organic produce.
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Anshu Gupta, executive director of a volunteer-run recycling program in New Delhi, explains that the key to acting on a large scale is accommodating everybody's strengths.
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Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta describes one example of kindness that illustrates how small acts coming from one's goodness of spirit are what make up a revolution.
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Sister Carmen Barsody describes the realization of interconnectedness experienced by participants in her "street retreats," where people of all walks of life spend a day living on the street
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