We know what makes us happy—but too often our economic decisions stand in the way. We spoke to Helena Norberg-Hodge, director of the Economics of Happiness and winner of the 2012 Goi Peace Award, to find out how to change all that.
Josh Tickell's stirring, radical and multi-award winning FUEL may be known by some as the "little energy documentary," but in truth, it's a powerful portrait of America's overwhelming addiction to, and reliance on, oil. FUEL will be in selected cinemas nationwide from July 27.
A shark research permit for a mega-chumming has been cancelled with immediate effect after a 20 year old bodyboarder, David Lilienfeld, was ripped to pieces by a shark, believed to be a Great White, yesterday at Kogel Baai, near Gordon's Bay.
As the world commemorates International Women’s Day today, women around the globe are speaking out on various issues that affect them. In light of recent natural disasters and calamities in the Philippines, women are increasingly citing climate change as one of their most pressing concerns.
This is a multi-award winning documentary film about practical “closed loop” thinking. But what does that mean? In a closed loop system there is no such thing as waste.
Tonight, an important film is being shown at The Hub in Woodstock. "How to save the world - One Man, One Cow, One Planet".
And ACTION! The second annual Eco Kids Film Initiative film festival is calling for entries.
The sensitive shells of Pteropods in the oceans are dissolving as they absorb high levels of carbon from the atmosphere and become more acidic. These tiny snail-like, delicate creatures with flapping €˜wings€™ are affectionately called €˜sea angels€™ and live in planktonic form in the oceans.
'Whatever we do to the water bodies on this planet, we€™re doing to ourselves.€ Both Earth and our human bodies consist of 70% water and 30% solids. 'On this planet the water cycle and the life cycle is one,€ said Helen Lockart of the Two Oceans Aquarium on World Water Day.
The End of the Line, the first major documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year.
THE NAKED OPTION: A LAST RESORT celebrates the power of an organized group of women! Fueled by the determination for a better future, grassroots women in Nigeria's Niger Delta use the threat of stripping naked in public, a serious cultural taboo, in their deadly struggle to hold the oil companies accountable to the communities in which they work.
International Rivers is proud to announce our new 22-minute movie on the movement to protect rivers and rights. It was made by an independent filmmaker from Mexico, and filmed mostly at the "Rivers for Life" meeting of activists that took place in Mexico in October.
Of all the planets in the known universe, only Earth has a living, breathing "skin" formed over the course of countless millennia. Our entire world is dependent on the health of our dirt, and it is safe to say that we don't even consider dirt and soil - it's probably at the very bottom (if even on) our list of things to improve our environment and incorporate green and sustainable business practices into our company's standard operating procedures.
A new documentary, Food Fore-Thought (an IZWA production), sets out to open our eyes to the broad scope of possibilities around the growing and production of the food we eat. It also enlightens the viewer about the need to stand up for one of our most basic human rights €“ the right to safe, nutritious food that heals, and harms none.
`Water is the driving force of all nature.`- Leonardo da Vinci Water - the most common substance on earth. It is with us every moment of everyday, but do we know the secrets of this amazing element. From agriculture, to factories and hydropower, we put water to work in a million different ways every day.
