DiEM25 co-founder, Yanis Varoufakis, talks with Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party, at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival. Humanizing politics. Reviving democracy. The youth re-inovate politics. Rejecting a system that is grotesquely unfair. We can not afford all these levels of inequality. We've got to do something about it. Technology should benefit all of us. Good housing leads to good health. Unite together around the kind of world we could create. Jeremy Corbyn:...
The North Country Trail between New York and North Dakota. "At last we have a guide to the amazing North country Trail that is as interesting as the trail itself. Ron Strickland has written a thorough, informative, entertaining, and highly useful guidebook. I give it my highest recommendation." - JERRY DENNIS, AUTHOR OF THE 'WINDWARD SHORE' AND 'CANOEING MICHIGAN RIVERS'
Drumheller Springs Spring 08 A spring visit to a spectacular drylands-basalt nature area. Elementry school children visit nature here twice each year, in the fall and spring. See what they see.
P2 Lean Social Energy For Cohesive Societies - David Fleming Lean Energy - is a practical guide on some principles for the repairing and replacing atrophied social structures. Lean Energy is to nurture cohesive societies that can survive turbulent times to come. When people are trusted to do something they want to do, this is completely different than carrot and stick incentive schemes. People then can use their imagination, intelligence, judgment and motivation. Unleashing the imagination so...
How should parents talk to their children about the economy: how it operates, where it came from, how it benefits some while impoverishing others, how democracy can improve the Economy. Yanis Varoufakis as Finance Minister of Greece negotiated with the decision makers of the European Union for a workable solution to Greek's debt crisis. He was replaced before the decision were finalized. The debt crisis is now worse and Greece is in a deep depression.
A 47-minute documentary about San Francisco's "The Farm," which was a remarkable urban laboratory and creative space, in addition to being a farm with animals, vegetables, fruit trees, farmers, circus performers, discussions, performance, punk rock shows, and much much more...
Visionary documentary that contrasts the conditions of life in small towns and in the industrialized cities, starting with a brief portrait of pre-industrial United States, then moving into the modern chaotic, industrial and commercial city to reflect on the effects of this environment on family life and the raising of children, and finally proposing a return to a simpler life, in towns designed to nurture everyone of the town.
Recorded live, with enhanced digital photos. Walkin' Jim Stoltz, wilderness songster and long-distance hiker, sings songs from his "Forever Wild" concert
Interviews of people with all sorts of nurturing perspectives. Nature - Salmon Back Home, trail walks, songs and stories of hiking in nature. Stories for a better world. Draft horses planting organic corn.
Jason Mark, editor of Earth Island Journal and an active farmer at the Alemany Farm in San Francisco, interviewed as part of the Shaping San Francisco "Ecology Emerges" oral history project. The project documents participants in the ecology movement in the San Francisco Bay over the past 50 years.
Portrait Of American Composer - Aaron Copland + The City - 1930's America - Making Better Places To Live Offers Aaron Copland's insights and reflections on American musical history. Illustrates his achievement in writing symphonic music.
Transitions Initiative - Sandpoint Idaho How Sandpoint Idaho started it’s Transition Initiative. And ideas on how other towns and cities can start their Transition Initiative.
David Swanson's remarks at Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration at Peace Garden at Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 6, 2017. Video by Ellen Thomas.
Derek Rasmussen is a meditation teacher and activist. He lived on Baffin Island, Nunavut, for twelve years, and he still provides policy and legal research for the Inuit group Nunavut Tunngavik. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of Happiness conference, held in Portland, Oregon, in February 2015. The conference was organized by Local Futures, a non-profit organization that has been promoting a shift from global to local for nearly 40 years.
the opening talk and 3 plenary talks at the Economics of Happiness 2015 conference, held in Portland, Oregon in February, 2015. LocalFutures.org organizered this conference. Previous Economics of Happiness were held in other parts of the world. LocalFutures.org has been promoting a shift from global
Happiness 2015 conference, held in Portland, Oregon in February, 2015. LocalFutures.org organizered this conference. Previous Economics of Happiness were held in other parts of the world. LocalFutures.org has been promoting a shift from global to local for nearly 40 years.
There are four talks in this ~ 58 minute film: the opening talk and 3 plenary talks at the Economics of Happiness 2015 conference, held in Portland, Oregon in February, 2015. LocalFutures.org organizered this conference. Previous Economics of Happiness were held in other parts of the world. LocalFutures.org has been promoting a shift from global to local for nearly 40 years.
An introduction to urban beekeeping for people interested in keeping honey bees. Topics covered: Why Keep Bees? - Why Not Keep Bees? - Things to Think About - Time commitment - Honeybees - Equipment - Resources. Jack and Ellen Miller of the West Plains Beekeepers Association in Spokane, Washington created this presentation. Ellen Miller gave this talk at a local country library.
One Country For Palestinians & Israelis A bold Proposal To End The Israeli - Palestinian Impasse Part 2 - Learning From Ending Apartheid In South Africa Ali Abunimah tells of his parents life in Palestine and their exile to Jordan, his growing up as his father was a Jordanian diplomat, the on going Israeli - Palestinian impasse and BDS - the global Boycot, Divestment, Santions movement. Here this insightful perspective too seldom heard in the media.
Song writer and piano artist, Pam Larratt performs a medley of songs. ‘Martin Said - Let Freedom Ring’ opens the set. Pam sings about hearing Martin Luther King give the great I Have A Dream speech and about what letting freedom ring is about today. Then turning schools into profit centers is addressed. A Scottish lament, a racous song on transformation and a song about how people meet and start a good life together.
A story of how people were invited to earth. Plants and animals asked Grandmother to bring people to the planet as she had done with all the plants, animals, insects, mountains and rivers and much more. Not all the people were as kind as expected. The people were young and still learning. There was a way to tell how well people would turn out.
Early spring. Perfect blue sky day. Morning. Not to much winter left in the air. Time to plow the field for this years organic corn crop. Draft horses will do the work. Giant horses. Strength. Gentle once they know and trust you. Watch how it is done. And how much care is taken with each horse as they are readied for this mornings plowing.
Localizing economies has immense benefits for everyone. Shortening the links between producers and consumers increases food security, lessens our environmental impact, strengthens our communities, creates more meaningful jobs and prosperity, vitalizes diversity and connects us with nature.
Localizing economies has immense benefits for everyone. Shortening the links between producers and consumers increases food security, lessens our environmental impact, strengthens our communities, creates more meaningful jobs and prosperity, vitalizes diversity and connects us with nature.