You don’t need to eat meat to be a super hero! This great video from Planet Green’s Planet 100 series, shows top celebrities choosing vegan lifestyles.
“For Love of Water” – the song
It is World Water and Cape Town is beating to the sound of a gentle summer rain! In the spirit of this celebration of water, life and planet a group of International and South African artists (Zolani Mahola, Loyiso Bala, Stef Bos – to name a few) have gathered to create an original piece of music called ‘For Love Of Water’.
The Story of Bottled Water
The Story of Bottled Water, releasing March 22, 2010 on storyofbottledwater.org, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over seven minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to ‘take back the tap,’ not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.
350.org 10.10.10 Rocking the Dasies
Playing Hard – Treading Lightly at Rocking the Daisies, South Africa’s eco minded music Festival.
The Robinhood Tax – The Banker
Hillariously funny and brilliant at the same time. This three minute campaign video by Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy, explains the idea of the Robin Hood Tax – a tiny tax on the financial sector that could raise hundreds of billions for public services and to tackle poverty and climate change in Britain and around the world – “Not complicated. Just brilliant”.
The Story of Stuff – a Look at our Consumer Culture
A 20 minute, fast paced, fact-filled look at our consumer culture and its impact on the planet. A brilliant must watch film.
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