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Organic Food, Diverse Food, Abundant Food: Dr. Vandana Shiva 8 Mar 2009, 10:47 am

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Dr. Vandana Shiva, a physicist and powerful leader in the worldwide, growing movement towards organic food, describes her vision for the diverse, healthy ecosystems that once sustained, can provide ample food for humanity.

In a stunning critique, she describes her research demonstrating that organic, diverse food-ecosystems provide far more food, better quality food, better ecosystems/habitat, and more profitability for organic farmers.

Using first-hand investigations, she shows how the debt-cycle of chemical monoculture farming is impoverishing farmers while devastating the ecosystems that sustain our food supply.

Dr. Shiva describes how the farm debt burden of chemical monocultures underlies the terrible suicide problems faced by Indian farmers – and how organic farmers are profitable.

Her vision is an important counterpoint to the discredited notion that chemical monocrop agriculture was preferential.

Author Krista Keenan interviewed Dr. Shiva at the Delhi offices of Navdanya (navdanya.org), Dr. Shiva’s NGO.

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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The Power of Love is Greater than the Love of Power 5 Mar 2009, 1:07 pm

Jonathan Granoff, Esq. speaks at Common Ground Fellowship in January 2007 about the power of love. This is a wonderful speech. Kit Thomas, a leader/founder of Common Ground, introduces Jonathan.

Jonathan is the President of the Global Security Institute, a longtime leader of the peace and anti-nuclear movements, and a student of the late Bawa Muhaiyadeen.

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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Thinking Outside the Bomb 18 Feb 2009, 3:14 am

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This conference had a stellar lineup of nuclear weapons experts, and it provides the best synopsis I’ve seen online of all the major nuclear weapons issues – filmed in 2007 but still very relevant.

Leading experts on the risks of nuclear weapons, space weaponization, nuclear proliferation, Iran, North Korea and nuclear terrorism gathered to develop a path toward “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons” – a path forward also recently described by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn in the Wall Street Journal on January 4th, 2007.

Featured speakers included Dr. Hans Blix, Dr. Craig Eisendrath, Edward Aguilar, Esq., Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jonathan Granoff, Ambassador Robert Grey, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Rev. Dr. Bob Edgar, William Hartung, Dr. Laura Grego, John Isaacs, Dr. Michael McCally, Alexandra Toma, Dr. Jim Walsh, and Stephen Young, at Beyond Nuclear Weapons, a high-level conference of nuclear experts in Washington, DC, March 28th at the National Press Club.

The conference was sponsored by the Project For Nuclear Awareness. PNA is a collaborative project of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, the Global Security Institute, the Lawyers Alliance for World Security, NPRI – Nuclear Policy Research Institute, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Look for more information about PNA online at The Project For Nuclear Awareness.

Produced by: Kevin Hansen, 8/5/2007
Language: English
Run Time: 60 min. 0 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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Sun Run: No Electric Bills at a Remarkable Passive/Active Solar Home 17 Feb 2009, 12:56 am

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Marian Peleski shows how she pays only $2 or so for electricity many months in her custom-designed solar home. She shows how a great solar home works – especially how heat moves. Passive design makes a spring-like shell, with a comfortable living place inside.

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 3/20/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 28 min. 30 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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Community By Design 16 Feb 2009, 2:52 am

Lawrence New Jersey takes action to design an ecologically sustainable future for itself through a FutureSearch conference. They create a marvelous vision of a livable, productive and sustainable future, using The Natural Step principles. See: sustainablelawrence.org/

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 5/8/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 29 min. 48 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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Dr. Hans Blix, Chairman of the WMD Commission, introduced by Jonathan Granoff, Esq. 15 Feb 2009, 11:06 pm

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Dr. Hans Blix, Chairman of the WMD Commission and former Chief Inspector of the IAEA, presents the WMD Commission Report “Weapons of Terror” in Philadelphia, on June 2, 2006 at the National Constitution Center. Dr. Blix provides hope for practical and effective ways of reducing world tensions over Weapons of Mass Destruction. The WMD Commission report gives many specific ways of easing world tensions and moving towards a more peaceful world.

Jonathan Granoff, Esq., President of the Global Security Institute introduces Dr. Blix. See the WMD Commission report and further details at: WMD Commission Report and Global Security Institute

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 6/13/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 34 min. 12 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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Jumping Joyous Urban Jumble 15 Feb 2009, 2:02 pm

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Judy Wicks, owner of the White Dog Café in Philadelphia, shares the origins of her incredible business success. Judy has created a vibrant restaurant business committed to organic-only food, fair trade in all products, humanely-raised animals, living wages for her employees, and a host of other leading-edge practices.

While promoting local business, she has helped found the Sustainable Business Network (SBN), the White Dog Foundation (20% of all Café profits go here!), the Fair Foods project, and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). Judy speaks at the BALLE national conference on June 9, 2006. See SBN Philadelphia, BALLE – Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, White Dog Café and White Dog Foundation

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 6/26/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 29 min. 0 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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Wangari Maathai 15 Feb 2009, 12:05 pm

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An incredible voice for the environment, women and peace, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai speaks of the connection between peace and the environment.

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 10/17/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
Story Level 1 = Intended for all children or adults

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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State of the Union 2008 (our version – this film got 230,000 hits in 3 weeks…) 13 Feb 2009, 11:57 pm

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READ THE ENTIRE SPEECH on the special website we set up for State of the Union 2008 – stateoftheunion2008.com.

We asked ourselves, what would the President of the United States say, if all the best ideas were stated as U.S. action, U.S. direction, and U.S. policy? What would happen if the President re-directed our nation towards all that we hold dearest?

Excerpt from State of the Union 2008

“….Because the destiny of our nation is tied to the destinies of all other nations, I will speak primarily of the world situation, for that is where America must now lead.

On our planet, our greatest thinkers tell us that for the first time, it is possible to achieve that world long foreseen, a world of safety, where everyone’s needs are met, where justice prevails, where prosperity is normal, and where our planet is healthy.

Yes, it is a new world, and many things are now possible.

A World of Prosperity, Justice and Sustainability

To reach that world of prosperity, justice and sustainability,

first we must be safe
then we must provide for everyone’s basic needs
then we must provide justice and rules that work fairly
then we must create an economy that benefits everyone on a sustainable planet
then, with relief, we can remember why the Creator gave us life

But despite this incredible promise, our world situation is dire.

We are not feeding two billion of our own people, when we could feed them.
As I speak, US military forces are in more than 100 nations, and 10,000 nuclear weapons are on hair-trigger alert.
Dozens of our generals and admirals have stated that poverty, climate change, energy depletion and environmental damage are now central national security threats to the United States of America.
World oil production has already peaked, so gasoline prices are rising steadily, and we have not planned well for what to do next about our energy supplies.
Hurricane Katrina and drought in Georgia are just the beginning of many climate-driven disasters
We are running out of renewable resources faster than they are being replenished. In just 30 years, one third of all renewable resources on Earth and in the oceans have vanished.

The Vital Interest of the United States, Together with All Nations

Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot emphasize strongly enough that because of the simultaneous occurrence of these threats; it is in the vital interest of the United States of America and all nations, to work together, today, to establish the wise and effective global rules that will work for everyone to protect our shared and sacred planet.

Where we must start our work is now clear, because there is no longer doubt…”

Produced by: Kevin, Craig and bunker, 1/26/2008
Language: English
Run Time: 47 min. 0 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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Paolo Lugari: Founder of Las Gaviotas (en espanol, with simultaneous English translation) 12 Feb 2009, 12:57 pm

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Paolo Lugari, the founder of Las Gaviotas in Colombia, describes the incredible energy of the human spirit, and some examples of how it has transformed Las Gaviotas into a world-famous example of sustainable living – in a harsh environment.

Many thanks to Robert Schorlemmer, President of Friends of Gaviotas for wonderful translation, to Gioconda Perez-Snyder of Friends of Gaviotas, and to Terrie Lewine, Hollister Knowlton and all of Green Village Philadelphia for helping make this interview possible!

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 9/16/2008
Language: English
Run Time: 12 min. 30 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story

Cast: Kevin Hansen

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