Conférence de Paul Ariès sur le thème de la décroissance

Conférence de Paul Ariès sur le thème de la décroissance  Enviado por dijon-ecolo

La biodiversidad de nuestro planeta se extingue.

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La biodiversidad de nuestro planeta se extingue.
Programa de televisión.
Fecha de emisión: 21-01-2011
Duración: 24' 23''
Eclipsados por otros graves problemas como el cambio climático o la crisis financiera y económica, la celebración en 2010 del Año Internacional de la Biodiversidad, a propuesta de Naciones Unidas, y la celebración de la Conferencia de las Partes del Convenio de Diversidad Biológica, celebrada en Nagoya (Japón), han pasado desapercibidas para la opinión pública.
Pero no es un problema secundario, como alertan los científicos. La biodiversidad se extingue a una velocidad hasta ahora desconocida: 1000 veces superior a lo que sería su ritmo natural. La casi totalidad de los ecosistemas de la Tierra se han transformado radicalmente por la acción del hombre, y seguirán transformándose.
Una situación que nos acerca a un punto sin regreso.
En este año 2010 se debería haber logrado una reducción significativa del ritmo de pérdida de la diversidad biológica a nivel mundial, regional o nacional, como se acordó en la Cumbre Mundial de Desarrollo Sostenible de Johannesburgo. Una meta que no se ha conseguido. Pero, en la Cumbre de Nagoya, se han visto algunos avances y se han logrado cerrar algunos importantes acuerdos para la protección de la biodiversidad.
Las respuestas no están sólo en instituciones y gobiernos, es un problema de todos, y para ello en 2010 se han realizado campañas de sensibilización a nivel mundial y nacional y se han incrementado las investigaciones que evalúan la magnitud del problema. Porque la biodiversidad es nuestra vida, como destaca el mensaje de Naciones Unidas en el Año Internacional de la Biodiversidad 2010 que acaba de concluir.
Participan:
Julia Vera Prieto, directora de Formación y Comunicación (Fundación Biodiversidad);
Francisco Ortega Coloma, profesor de Diversidad Animal y Vegetal (UNED);
Carlos Montes del Olmo, catedrático de Ecología (UAM);
Miguel Lizana Avia, profesor de Zoología (Universidad de Salamanca);
Juan Carlos del Olmo, secretario general de WWF- España;
Miguel Ángel Valladares, director de Comunicación de WWF- España.
Producción y realización: CEMAV

The Story of Stuff

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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. http://storyofstuff.org

Must Listen: Cindy Sheehan interviews Helena Norberg-Hodge

http://cindysheehanssoapbox.com/

Sunday (January 30th) - Click here to listen or download.

Cindy welcomes Helena Norberg-Hodge (Economics of Happiness), an analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide and a pioneer of the localization movement. The destructive impact of globalization on our children is no less destructive than its historical impact on the Ladakh, an isolated Himalayan culture described in countercurrents.org here. Over the past three decades, Ms. Norberg-Hodge has studied this process in numerous cultures around the world and discovered that we are all victims of these same psychological pressures. In virtually every industrialized country, including the US, UK, Australia, France and Japan, there is now what can only be described as an epidemic of depression. In the US, a growing proportion of young girls are so deeply insecure about their appearance they fall victim to anorexia and bulimia, or undergo expensive cosmetic surgery. Why is this happening? Too often these signs of breakdown are seen as 'normal:' we assume that depression is a universal affliction, that children are by nature insecure about their appearance, that greed, acquisitiveness, and competition are innate to the human condition. What we fail to consider are the billions of dollars spent by marketers targeting children as young as two, with a goal of instilling the belief that material possessions will ensure them the love and appreciation they crave. But the reality is that consumption leads to greater competition and envy, leaving children more isolated, insecure, and unhappy, thereby fuelling still more frantic consumption in a vicious cycle. In this way, the global consumer culture taps into the fundamental human need for love and twists it into insatiable greed.

Lucy Neal - Transition Town Tooting

Lucy Neal talks about the role of the arts at a time of systemic change in our societies and about transition towns in particular as a global experiment in re-modelling our communities for a low-carbon future. She uses Transition Town Tooting (http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/) as an example of positive collective response in South West London to peak oil consumption and climate change.

David Bollier, "This Land is Our Land," Interviewed by David Pakman

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David Bollier, author, activist, and expert on the "commons" is interviewed. Bollier lends his expertise to the Media Education Foundation documentary "This Land is Our Land."
http://www.davidpakman.com

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons
A Film by the Media Education Foundation
Featuring David Bollier

For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land, acclaimed author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons, bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show how commercial interests are undermining our collective interests. Placing the commons squarely within the American tradition of community engagement and the free exchange of ideas and information, Bollier shows how a bold new international movement steeped in democratic principles is trying to reclaim our common wealth by modeling practical alternatives to the restrictive monopoly powers of corporate elites.

David Bollier
David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who has spent the past ten years exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. He has pursued this work in collaboration with a variety of international and domestic partners. He speaks widely about the commons, and recently co-founded a new international organization, Commons Strategies, dedicated to developing and promoting commons-based public policies and initiatives. In 2010, Bollier taught a course on the topic as the Croxton Lecturer at Amherst College.

Bollier's latest book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (2009), describes the rise of free software, free culture, and the commons-based movements seeking to advance open business models, open science and open educational resources. His first book on the commons, Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (2002), is now widely used in colleges around the world. It surveys the many market enclosures of people's shared resources, from public lands and the airwaves to public spaces, plant and animal genes, and knowledge. Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture (2005) documents the vast expansion of copyright and trademark law over the past generation.

Bollier has worked with American television writer/producer Norman Lear since 1984, and is Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is also Co-founder and board member of Public Knowledge, a Washington policy advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the information commons. Bollier lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.