The Story of Stuff

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

“From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.”

Teaser #1:

You’ll find more teaser videos, background information and even the whole movie as a free download on storyofstuff.com

(Thanks to Melanie)


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Colonialism continues in 2008

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Please be aware of that. And please be aware that socalled free trade is an invention that destroys lifes, cultures and our planet.
Also we do not have to go to the rain forest, to India or North America, the same thing is happening in Finland, where indigenous people are being marginalized and robbed of their rights, land is being taken and robbed of its resources, governments are backing corporations.
Watch this documentary: Last Yoik In Sami Forests?, check the website: www.elonmerkki.net

The shift, the change will come through us, through people who speak up, who demand their rights, who create lively cultures and lively democracies, who think and act as an interdependent world family, looking for ways from being dependend consumers to responsible producers.

We have to replace the well being of corporations again with the wellbeing of real people and real societies. We have to create and build new self-governing economies. Connect which each other, learn from each other.
Know more: Vandana Shiva on zmag.org
Connect: CivWorld Interdependence Day,
Find support: Post Carbon Institute (Assists societies in their efforts to relocalize communities and adapt to an energy constrained world.)
Transition Towns (Local responses to the challenges of climate change and peak oil. Relocalization, Network and Support)


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‘Crude Impact’

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Dieser Film ist wow! So gut, dass es ihn gibt, unbedingt anschauen!!! Please watch this movie!
Er zeigt das Ausmass, das die Entdeckung und Förderung des Ă–ls auf die Entwicklung unserer Wirtschaft und unserer Gesellschaft hat und das Ausmass der Umweltzerstörung, der Gewalt und der Menschenrechtsverletzungen, die dadurch verursacht werden. Unser aktueller Lebensstandart basiert auf Ă–l und ist von ihm abhängig…..FĂĽr viele von euch bestimmt nicht neu, trotzdem glaube ich, dass sich die wenigsten wirklich ĂĽber das Ausmass und die Auswirkungen dieser Tatsache bewusst sind.

Website of the movie: www.crudeimpact.com


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