A Game for Life

The People's Grocery

What Would It Look Like?

The GreenHouse Project

Dorah Lebelo

Dorah Lebelo is the Executive Director of the GreenHouse Project, an environmental NGO that is establishing a center to demonstrate sustainable living and development in the northwest corner of Joubert Park, Johannesburg. She has worked for several organizations, fighting for environmental justice for her people. In July 2007, Dorah began co-hosting Citizens United for Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CURES)-Southern Africa, an international network focusing on renewable energy and climate change issues.

Videos featuring Dorah Lebelo

  • The GreenHouse Project

    In the inner city of Johannesburg, people are being reminded of what they used to know - how to grow food, build shelter, and deal with their waste. This is the work of Dorah Lebelo, Executive Director of the GreenHouse Project, which applies a holistic approach to the city's challenges, integrating green building and design, efficient and renewable energy, recycling and organic farming and nutrition.

    (4 min 38 sec)

  • Ubuntu

    "I am because you are," is the deep meaning of Ubuntu, a traditional African philosophy recognizing the shared essence within humanity and life. In this film we visit Dorah Lebelo and the GreenHouse Project, Credo Mutwa, the great Zulu traditional healer and teacher, and the forem Deputy Minister of Health, Nozizwa Madlala-Routledge, to learn more about this fundamental understanding of life and its ramifications on how we treat each other, ourselves, and the earth.

    (8 min 14 sec)
"If we want to create sustainable communities, we're going to have to look at things in a holistic way."
From
The GreenHouse Project
On the web

Nolusindiso "Titie" Plaatjie

Nolusindiso "Titie" Plaatjie was born in Peddie and now lives in Port Elizabeth. She studied Human Movement Science at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and dreams of becoming an engineer. In 2001, Nolusindiso was named captain of the provincial team and is a well known soccer star at provincial level. She has been playing soccer since the age of five. She joined Grassroot Soccer specifically to assist with HIV/AIDS awareness believing that the fight against HIV/AIDS is a fight for the world. Currently working as Port Elizabeth Project Coordinator, Titie is a key facilitator in raising HIV/AIDS awareness among youth and people of her community.

Videos featuring Nolusindiso "Titie" Plaatjie

  • A Game for Life

    Nolusindiso "Titie" Plaatjie knows that soccer can help kids "stay away from things that could destroy their lives" because that's just what it did for her. "In a Game for Life", we are taken to the soccer fields in the poor neighborhood of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where provincial soccer star, "Titie," works with an innovative soccer program to educate local youth about HIV/AIDS prevention.

    (17 min 20 sec)
"If you know you can do something to help the next person, just do it, with all your heart. And don't expect to get a reward for it."
From
A Game for Life
On the web

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge was the Deputy Minister of Health of South Africa under President Thabo Mbeki until she was dismissed by him on August 8, 2007, after which she was automatically reduced to her role as a member of Parliament representing the African National Congress. From 1999 to April 2004 she was the Deputy Minister of Defence. She has also been a member of the South African Communist Party since 1984 and became Deputy Minister of Defence in 1999. Madlala-Routledge is well known for helping combat AIDS in South Africa, and is considered by many to have resisted government denial of the severity of the epidemic. She was also an opponent of the use of alternative medicine treatments of HIV in place of scientifically tested methods.

Videos featuring Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge

  • Ubuntu

    "I am because you are," is the deep meaning of Ubuntu, a traditional African philosophy recognizing the shared essence within humanity and life. In this film we visit Dorah Lebelo and the GreenHouse Project, Credo Mutwa, the great Zulu traditional healer and teacher, and the forem Deputy Minister of Health, Nozizwa Madlala-Routledge, to learn more about this fundamental understanding of life and its ramifications on how we treat each other, ourselves, and the earth.

    (8 min 14 sec)

  • What Would It Look Like?

    What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, where do we find solutions that can help us build the future that serves us all? This 25-minute Global Oneness Project film retrospective asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves, and to listen more closely to what is being asked of us at this time of unprecedented global transformation.

    (24 min 54 sec)

  • Learning From One Another

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge describes our capacity to make peace. Using Nelson Mandela as an example, she explains how we can resolve conflicts by uncovering our shared humanity.

    (3 min 40 sec)

  • Ubuntu: Part 1

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge describes the concept of Ubuntu, or a spirit of sharing. Practicing Ubuntu creates relationships and understandings between people, something that is being lost as urbanization increases.

    (5 min 53 sec)

  • Ubuntu: Part 2

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge talks about our responsibility to look after the planet and to carry forward positive values. Using gender relations as an example, she says that it is important that women who move into positions of power traditionally held by men continue the spirit of sharing as they take this new role.

    (3 min 7 sec)

  • Ubuntu: Part 3

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge applies the concept of Ubuntu, or a spirit of sharing, to international relations. She explains how the dismantling of Apartheid in South Africa was an example of nations working together for a value they share.

    (4 min 51 sec)

  • Leading by Example

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge describes the importance of taking a leadership role in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Living by example, she says, shows others that this is something we can overcome.

    (3 min 11 sec)

  • Commonly Shared Values

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge explains how our commonly shared values are the basis on which we can build a common coexistence.

    (3 min 31 sec)

  • Working for Peace

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge shows the contradiction in working for peace while preparing for war. She gives examples of how to achieve peace in a different way, by changing your own thinking, cooperating with others, and making informed choices that serve the common good.

    (6 min 54 sec)

  • Reevaluating our Relationships

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge discusses the importance of continual dialogue across nations and religions to understand our most positive shared values.

    (2 min 35 sec)

  • A More Humane World

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge suggests the need for large numbers of people to get involved in creating a more humane world.

    (1 min 10 sec)
"You can't today be violent and say you are working for peace."
From
Working for Peace
On the web

Leading by Example

Brahm Ahmadi

Brahm Ahmadi is the co-founder and executive director of People's Grocery. He has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California and is an MBA candidate at the Presidio School of Management. Brahm combines social enterprise, cooperative economics, urban agriculture, public education and youth development to build healthy and stable inner city communities. He is also Executive Director of the North Oakland Land Trust, which preserves properties in North Oakland for the exclusive purpose of community gardening.

Videos featuring Brahm Ahmadi

  • The People's Grocery

    In Oakland, California, where liquor stores have replaced markets, the People's Grocery helps residents build healthy connections to food, the land and each other. Co-founder and executive director, Brahm Ahmadi, speaks of our nation's co-modification of food resources and some of the important steps we can take to restore food justice and rebuild the fabric of our communities.

    (8 min 56 sec)

  • The Commodification of Food

    People's Grocery director Brahm Amadhi explains how industrialization has changed our relationship to food and agriculture. He describes efforts to change the current system of production to serve those who have been left out.

    (2 min 15 sec)

  • Connection to the Land

    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.

    (2 min 29 sec)

  • Food Systems

    People's Grocery director Brahm Amadhi discusses the effect agriculture has on the environment, communities, and consumers, and calls for systemic change in the way food is grown and delivered.

    (4 min 14 sec)
"Localization of the food system is a paramount strategy for improving the well being of all of the stakeholders."
From
Food Systems
On the web

The Commodification of Food

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