July 2009
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About this talk. We’re at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today’s interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic — and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy. Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown played a key role in shaping the G20 nations’ response to the...
June 2009
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Artsworld features South African writer and performance poet Lesego Rampolokeng, who is known for being outspoken on sensitive political issues. With the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa and election violence elsewhere on the continent, Lesego has no shortage of ammunition for his sharp tongue. Plus a top London art gallery, famous for its collection of Old Masters, believes art can help...
Join author Shelley Seale at Stop Child Slavery, where host Jeff Turner will be conducting a webcam video interview with Shelley. Watch it at: http://stopchildslavery.com/ Child slavery is a problem larger than most are willing to admit. We need more voices crying out for it’s end. We need more people awakened to the horrors inflicted on our innocents. We need to make a stand and call out for...
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The Road to Doomsday Part 1 The Road to Doomsday Part 2 The Road to Doomsday Part 3 This 20-minute documentary by Tapas Majumdar, Indrajit Das and Souparna Lahiri, shot in 2006 and 2007, narrates the story of the changing landscape of West Bengal and Sikkim in the Himalayas in Northern India. The region is home to the fierce Teesta River, tropical evergreen forests, cultivated lands in the...
International Rivers’ Lori Pottinger talks about how the Mphanda Nkuwa Dam, proposed for the Zambezi River, will not meet the development needs of Mozambiquans and will have large social, environmental and economic impacts…. Filmed and edited by Liane Greeff. MORE INFORMATION: Visit our Mphanda Nkuwa campaign page .
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May 2009
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Over 30 families living with HIV/AIDS in the “green shed” at the Borei Keila social land concession are facing the prospect of eviction. The families living in the temporary “green shed” have been waiting for new apartments to be allocated to them for the past 2 years, but they are now faced with the prospect of being evicted to the Toul Sambo relocation site 20km outside...
“In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of...
Twenty-one years ago, Solomon, a father of six from the Upper East Region of Ghana, lost his sight to river blindness, a preventable and treatable disease. Unable to work, he was reduced to begging on the streets of Bolgatanga while his wife, Adiza, sold charcoal. Still, their combined income didn’t cover their expenses — and there was no money to pay their children’s school fees. Solomon...
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March 2009
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This year, the world’s first global election is taking place, an election between earth and global warming. It’s not about what country you are from, but what planet you are from. Your light switch is your vote. We need one billion votes for earth, because our planet is worth saving. Vote Earth by simply switching off your lights for one hour and join the world for Earth Hour....
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The Ethiopian government and its humanitarian partners in the country say nearly 5 million people require emergency food-aid this year, outside the governments own safety net programme. An additional 1.2 million mothers and children under five there will require supplementary feeding. The International Federations Addis Ababa-based operations team is now working with the Ethiopian Red Cross...
This is the story of Mohammed, a 12 years old child from Alatatra area north of the Gaza, he and his family flee from his home 9 days ago, when Israeli army started the ground operation in the Gaza. Now he lives in UNRWA school in Gaza city in a miserable situation where there is no electricity, lake of water, and fear everywhere. A freelance filmmaker in Gaza shot this material for Save the...
A new UK expedition exploring climate change in the Antarctic gets underway tomorrow; explorer Robert Swan is leading 10 volunteers to see for themselves the impact of global warming on the South Pole.
DASANI(R) purified water and Alexandra Cousteau are embarking on a round-the-world expedition to bring much needed attention to our planet’s most vital water issues. Expedition: Blue Planet is a groundbreaking effort to engage people around the world in discussions about critical water concerns and how we can help to preserve this indispensable natural resource. Alexandra Cousteau,...
This video shows the International Federation Global Water and Sanitation Initiative (GWSI) in action at the Zambia Red Cross Society “Rural Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Project” In our world today: • more than one billion people do not have access to clean water; • over two billion people do not have adequate sanitation facilities; • some four million people die each...
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About this talk. Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It’s “ubuntu,” he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. About Chris Abani. Imprisoned three times by the Nigerian government, Chris Abani turned his experience into poems...
February 2009
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Award winning architects design the eco-friendly city of the future.
This a is a very rare video, olive ridleys come ashore to lay their eggs normally at night. Learn more at http://www.projects-abroad.org/
One of my favorite shows on the tele. Mark and Olly wanted to join the Machigenca to get the “Pongo” heaven but Jose the tribe leader because what has happened to his five old son. To convince him they set out a day trek to find a “Shaman” to experience a ritual if they are worthy for the visit to Pongo. Visit “The Travel Channel” for TV Schedule
http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting 24.01.2008 A Unified Earth Theory: Combining Solutions to Extreme Poverty and the Climate Crisis Traditionally viewed as separate issues, the discussion will explore the interrelations between the climate crisis and extreme poverty and solutions common to both. How should international efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and to solve the climate crisis be...
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January 2009
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Planet Earth is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Alastair Fothergill. It was first broadcast in the UK from 5 March 2006. The American version is narrated by Sigourney Weaver. The series was co-produced with Discovery Channel and the NHK in association with the CBC, and was described by its makers as “the...
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The Eco Preservation Society, in conjunction with Eco Interactive is producing a documentary on the endangered Mono Titi in rain forest of Manuel Antonio Park on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Mono Titi is a highly endangered species of squirrel monkey that is only found in this habitat. Mono Titi is among the smallest of all primates. Manuel Antonio is a hot bed of Eco Tourism, over a million...
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