Sound Of Sirens

Einmal mehr: Information und Wissensvermittlung als essentielle Resource für Wandel.

Die Internationale Sommeruniversität verfolgt das Ziel, audiovisuelle Gestaltungskompetenz zur Kommunikation von Botschaften über erneuerbare Energien, Energieeffizienz und Klimafolgen auszubilden und auszubauen.

Die Teilnehmer der Sommeruniversität entwickeln Kompetenzen zur massenmedial kompatiblen Kommunikation von Fragen nachhaltiger Entwicklung und Energie. Sie lernen auf der Grundlage einer fundierten inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung, Botschaften zu entwickeln und diese audiovisuell zu übersetzen, um dann von der Konzeption bis zur Produktion professionelle Medienprodukte zu erarbeiten: AV- und Radiospots, Hörspiele, Kurzfilme, virale Spots, Handyfilme und weitere diskursive Formate, insbesondere des Web 2.0.

Im Dezember 2008 beginnt das 5. Matrikel der Internationalen Sommeruniversität: Audiovisuelle Kommunikation. Erneuerbarer Energien, Energieeffizienz und Klimafolgen, Santiago - Berlin.
Die Bewerbung ist bis zum 25.11.2008 möglich.

Mach mit! Participate! Participa!: www.uinternacional.org

‘It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.’ - P. Joseph

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com

Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are.

‘The elements of nature and the lizards are connected in many different ways, and we are part of nature’s element mix. Thinking we are the center of everything we will be left alone.’

watch the video: Caguayo

by Jenifer Galvin - scientist, filmmaker, writer and educator. She uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work as a filmmaker.

Jennifer Galvin is a founder of reelblue, LLC (www.reelblue.net) and also a Trustee and Selection Committee Member of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation (www.thoreauscholar.org).

Check them out!

The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video initiative exploring how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.

We’re traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world. Our living library of films is available for free from our website or on DVD for events and educational use.

We are committed to documenting what is being born during this time of planetwide transformation. While we are confronted with unmistakable signs that our current way of life is no longer sustainable, inspiring and innovative people and programs are blossoming in all areas of our collective society. From a pay-it-forward café in Ahmedabad, to a youth program that brings African wisdom to Los Angeles, from the General Secretary of the Andean Nations, to the spiritual guardian of Ayers Rock, our film subjects live and work with many of the following values, attitudes, and beliefs:

* We are responsible to each other, the earth, and future generations.
* There are enough resources for us all, if we share.
* Free exchanges of information allow for greater, collective creative potential.
* Love, care and compassion have the power to transform the fabric of society.

We hope that by showing the diverse ways oneness is expressed—in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice—others will be inspired to create solutions to personal and community challenges from their own lived understanding of oneness.

www.globalonenessproject.org

‘6 billion Others’, an ongoing project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, aims to draw a portrait of contemporary humankind by asking questions about universal values and attempts to reveal universality and individuality of each person.

This is just one project of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, and he’s bringing it into a broader context with the creation of goodplanet.info (work in progress), which aims to provide all information on sustainable development and its challenges to learn and commit. Plus there is goodplanet.org, a non-profit organization, dedicated to the promotion of sustainable development.

“MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them. [...]“

I’m looking forward to see it in german cinemas. Check this adress for trailers and information and you can order a copy here.