46 videos about environment

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Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how our current average lifestyle requires more than nature can generate. Mathis offers two possibilities for dealing with this imbalance:

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A Global Citizen

Museum director Mia Hanak describes what it means to be a global citizen and asks, what can we give back to the world?

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A Threat to Living Communities

Indian social activist Medha Patkar explains how the economic development model being imposed on India's farmers is neither inclusive nor sustainable.

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Alternative Sources of Energy

Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, asks why India should follow a Western paradigm of development

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Art and Social Change

Museum director Mia Hanak describes how art documents what is happening in the surrounding environment, while offering new ways of thinking and inspiring change.

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Collective Change

Museum director Mia Hanak says that real change can't happen without involvement from all levels of society and describes how art can bring individuals and agencies together in an environment that

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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.

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Complete Interview

In this complete interview, Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains fundamental differences between Aboriginal and Euro-Australian worldviews.

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Complete Interview

Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), shares his indigenous Andean perspective on the crises and potential of the current pachacuti (thousand-year cycle).

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Dealing with a Global Crisis

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin describes how children growing up in this time of global environmental crisis may, out of necessity, behave in a radically different way and make a significant difference.

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Fear and Beauty

Museum director Mia Hanak describes how using beauty rather than fear to promote change draws people into action.

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Global Justice

Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger points to an emerging global justice movement that connects social justice, economic justice and ecological justice issues.

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Greed

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta contrasts protecting and inhabiting nature with exploiting and removing from nature. According to Mr. Mehta, this is a choice between oneness and greed.

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I Am Human First

Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, explains how human particularities are directly formed from the natural environment.

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It Never Gets Back to the Mother

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, asks why creation is not included in our thought and education.

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It's Good Science

Registered nurse and health care activist Charlotte Brody explains how the science of biofeedback shows that there is no separation between the external and internal environment.

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Knowing How to Nurture Ourselves

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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Learning From Nature

Environmentalist and artist Jose Manuel Carrion shares some of the lessons he's learned from observing the natural world.

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Limitation, Complexity and Interdependence

Parliamentarian and social activist Nirmala Deshpande interprets the ecological principles of limitation, complexity and interdependence

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New Version of Our Stories

Registered nurse and health care activist Charlotte Brody describes some of the many ways to tell the same story of oneness.

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No One Eats Dollar Notes

Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, rejects the idea that indigenous peoples must assimilate to a market economy that is neither inclusi

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Not Just a Piece of Cloth

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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Our Collective Survival

Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how industrial society treats land as something that belongs to us, and asks, how can we shift back to "belonging to the land"?

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Oursness

Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains the Aboriginal understanding of land ownership as one of shared responsibility and kinship with the environment,

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Permaculture 101

Permaculture expert Penny Livingston-Stark shows how natural systems can teach us better design practices.

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Museum director Mia Hanak sees changes happening in the way we consume but says we could do a lot more to reduce, reuse and recycle.

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Seeing the Impact

Museum director Mia Hanak gives one example of how our patterns of consumption are impacting other parts of the world, illustrating the need for greater awareness about the choices we make.

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Teaching Our Young to Care

Napi Waaka, an elder and cultural ambassador of the Maori, tells us that it will take many years for the environment to be restored.

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The Commodification of Food

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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The Ecological Footprint

Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, describes how this tool lets us calculate the amount of natural resources necessary to support our collective expenditure.

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The GreenHouse Project

In the inner-city of Johannesburg, The GreenHouse Project is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities.

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The Land is There to Show You

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, reminds us that the Aboriginal way of life was full of ease.

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The Naive Child

Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, shares his childhood realization that Earth's limited resources could not support our current lifestyle indefinitely.

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The Race for Materialism

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta describes how the Western yardsticks for quality of life are impossible for a population the size of India's.

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The Universe as a Living System

Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement, describes the perception that the universe is dead as the root cause of the exploitative mindset.

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The Web of Life

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta believes that because we are interconnected, we can only protect ourselves by protecting every living thing on earth.

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The World is On Fire

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta makes an urgent plea for oneness in light of the climate change crisis.

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Thoughts from an Elder

Napi Waaka, an elder and cultural ambassador of the Maori, explains how non-Maori agricultural and fishing practices are depleting the traditional reserves that the Maori have relied upon for centuries.

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Three Areas of Oneness

Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement, explains three levels of oneness, along with the response evoked by each level.

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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.

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We Are Caretakers

Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains that the real law of survival is to take care of the land and one another-not just for ourselves but for

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We are Servants, Not Owners

Environmentalist and artist Juan Manuel Carrion describes how within one generation most of Ecuador's forests were eliminated, leaving a struggling fraction of the original ecological richness.

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We're Lookin After Her Cause She's Lookin After Us

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, reminds us that we share the same earth, water and air.

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What Can We Learn?

Roger Thomas, professor and director of Wilto Yerlo Center for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies, responds to our question of what Western cultures can learn from Aboriginal culture.

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What Happens If You Don't Have a Relationship to the Land?

Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, says the dominant culture's lack of relationship to the land must be changed

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What Is Sacred?

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains why Aboriginal understandings of the land have no credibility in wider Australian society.

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