Every Morning
A documentary collage about one man’s memories of the English countryside. --- After a long time working on this film, I'm sharing it online today to celebrate my grandfather Geoff's 86th birthday and International Day of Forests. If you...
International Day of Forests – 21 March 2013
Forests provide employment for up to 1 billion people and contribute over US$ 450 billion to the global economy. Yet in some regions, deforestation continues at an alarming rate. Produced by UNEP to mark the International Day of Forests,...
Talking About Discrimination, Race and Civil Rights
Against a backdrop of significant civil rights gains, a black American president and major demographic shifts, how do we think about civil rights and racial justice in the 21st century? Young people speak out about what discrimination,...
UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
Are these the seven most sustainable cities? – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/gallery/2016/mar/20/hamburg-coffee-pod-ban-bogota-buses-sustainable-cities-in-picturesLandmarks around the world went dark for Earth Hour this weekend but many cities are making longer term moves towards sustainability. From Hamburg’s coffee pod ban to São Paulo’s ad-free streets – seven cities taking radical steps Visit The Guardian...
Read more“Happiness may have different meanings for different people. But we can all agree that it means working to end conflict, poverty and other unfortunate conditions in which so many of our fellow human beings live.”
– Ban Ki-moon
Happiness may have different meanings
"Happiness may have different meanings for different people. But we can all agree that it means working to end conflict, poverty and other unfortunate conditions in which so many of our fellow human beings live." - Ban Ki-moon
International Day of Happiness – Make it Happy
On March 20th, the Make it Happy team surprised and delighted people around the world with events across 10 selected cities, from pop-up concerts to extreme pogo stick demos, to a happiness challenges of do good acts! Special thanks to:...
Read more“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is not how much we have
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." - Charles Spurgeon
As people of faith and belief we feel a personal and collective sense of love and responsibility for the wellbeing of our 7 billion global neighbours and for nature itself. This the heart of OurVoices Make no mistake. Climate change is not just an environmental...
Read more“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
– Dalai Lama
Where ignorance is our master
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” - Dalai Lama
New York Public Library Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse
https://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domainDid you know that more than 180,000 of the items in our Digital Collections are in the public domain? That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the...
The list of slave-labor imports you use might surprise you
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nation-world/world/article63808092.html#storylink=cpyNew provisions of a law signed by President Barack Obama allow feds to enforce a ban on importing goods made by children or slave laborers Lawmakers say the law closes “an unconscionable and archaic loophole” that forced America to accept such products Do you know...
How can Lidl sell jeans for £5.99?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/13/lidl-jeans-bangladesh-worker-pay-23p-an-hourAs Lidl trumpets its latest clothing bargain, we estimate just how the high street cost is made up – and who is paying a heavy price. Visit The Guardian website: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/13/lidl-jeans-bangladesh-worker-pay-23p-an-hour
Learning from smallpox: How to eradicate a disease
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/learning-from-smallpox-how-to-eradicate-a-disease-julie-garon-and-walter-a-orensteinFor most of human history, we have sought to treat and cure diseases. But only in recent decades did it become possible to ensure that a particular disease never threatens humanity again. Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein detail how the story of smallpox – the first...
Edutopia–Education Everywhere, Finand
Class Dismissed Teaser Trailer
This is a teaser trailer for the upcoming documentary Class Dismissed : A Film About Learning Outside of the Classroom. Class Dismissed will focus on the topic of education, specifically, alternative ways of learning outside of the...
Growing Schools aims to give all children the opportunity to connect with the living environment, whether it is an inner city window box or a vast country estate, a school veg plot or a natural woodland. Interacting with living plants and animals provides a very rich,...
Learning Outside the Classroom: Manifesto
http://www.thegrowingschoolsgarden.org.uk/downloads/lotc-manifesto.pdfWe believe that every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances. Read more: Learning Outside the Classroom: Manifesto
Embracing the World: How It Began
As a little girl, Amma witnessed firsthand the stark inequality in the world and wondered about the meaning of suffering. Her search culminated in a decision to dedicate her life to giving love to as many people as she could. When she was...
Spiritual leader, humanitarian and visionary Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (known to millions simply as ‘Amma’), is a servant of the world community. Through her inspiring life of love, inner strength and self-sacrifice, Mata Amritanandamayi has inspired people all...
InDeed Campaign for Nature
Embracing the World's InDeed Campaign for Nature is all about action. It's about putting Amma's practical suggestions -- about the way w e might use the earth's remaining resources, and the way we interact with the natural world -- into...
Fairtrade Climate Heroes in Kenya
Faitrade producer Zeddy Rotich of Fairtrade Kabngetuny Women in Coffee in Kericho County, Kenya speaks about how she’s doing her bit to combat climate change by using a biogas cook stove instead of traditional wood-fired cooking. The...
International Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
THE BEIJING DECLARATION AND PLATFORM FOR ACTION TURNS 20
http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2015/sg%20report_synthesis-en_web.pdfProgress, challenges and lessons learnt for the realization of gender equality, the empowerment of women, and the human rights of women and girls in the post-2015 context are presented in this summary, prepared by UN Women, of the Report of the Secretary-General on...
MNA SASA- Women Now!
Banúlacht is an Irish feminist organisation and part of a global women’s movement and, as such, is committed to political action. One of the major achievements of 2010 was the development of the Mná Sasa Manifesto, a unique document created...
Women of the World
It's International Women's Day and to celebrate we've recorded a version of the Ivor Cutler song Women Of The World. Originally released by Ivor Cutler and Linda Hirst on Rough Trade in the early eighties, the song is a feminist plea for...
Primary school in Somerset ‘twinned’ with refugee camp in Iraq
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-35739337A primary school in Somerset is to be "twinned" with a refugee camp in Iraq. Priddy and St Lawrence's Primary School will send letters and pictures to Yazidi Refugee Camp School and link via the video chat app Facetime. The aim is for pupils to learn what it is liked...
For millennia, people and cultures have relied on nature’s rich diversity of wild plants and animals for food, clothing, medicine and spiritual sustenance. Wildlife remains integral to our future through its essential role in science, technology and recreation, as...
First Women
Richard Lawrence meets Somerset-based photographer Anita Corbin to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th 2013. Anita's compiling a unique photographic archive of women who achieved 'firsts' in their field.
Read more“All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization”
– Gerald Durrell
All over the world the wildlife
"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization" - Gerald Durrell
