Igniting social change
Oscar nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) gives his powerful support to the Tar Sands Action, a two week sit-in at the White House to show President Obama he has the support of the people to stand up to Big Oil. If you haven’t yet heard about this exremely destructive process of extracting fossil fuel then this video is a must see.
Green Renaissance has just launched the second in a series of three videos, which were filmed in collaboration with the Save Mapungubwe NGO Coalition to fight against the granting of a coal mining license outside of the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site.
This video focuses on a character from the opposite side of the Limpopo River- Vanessa Bristow- who lives on a farm called Sentinel in Zimbabwe, and feels deeply connected to the land and variety of life in the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area.
The GMO Film Project (Untitled) tells the story of a father’s discovery of GMO’s through the symbolic act of poor Haitian farmers burning seeds in defiance of Monsanto’s gift of 475 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti shortly after the devastating earthquake.
Grocery stores around America are filling their dumpsters with food. Not rotten, spoiled food, but billions of pounds of good, edible food. Why? Because the expiration date is nearing? Because it costs less to simply throw away excess food rather than do something helpful with it? Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they “dumpster dive” in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.’s supermarkets. In the process, they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.
Gaye van Hasselt is an organic farmer in Prince Albert in the Karoo, who feels strongly that pure, clean water is essential for our survival, and that fracking is not an option.
With a deep connection to the land she feels has enriched her life, and an appreciation for our vital natural ecosystems, Gaye feels that there needs to be another way to fuel our energy needs.
John Vidal reports for the Guardian from La Paz where Bolivians are living with the effects of climate change every day. Their president has called for an urgent 50% cut in emissions. Bolivia also set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans -the Law of Mother Earth, is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry.