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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Museum director Mia Hanak describes how using beauty rather than fear to promote change draws people into action.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Environmentalist and artist Jose Manuel Carrion shares some of the lessons he's learned from observing the natural world.
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Parliamentarian and social activist Nirmala Deshpande interprets the ecological principles of limitation, complexity and interdependence
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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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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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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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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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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 expert Penny Livingston-Stark shows how natural systems can teach us better design practices.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the inner-city of Johannesburg, The GreenHouse Project is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities.
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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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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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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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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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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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Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta makes an urgent plea for oneness in light of the climate change crisis.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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