A Planetary Healing Mandala is an amazing free event being organized for Calgary and we are inviting you to be involved. It a gathering of people of all ethnicities and spiritual beliefs sharing a common vision of a peaceful, joy filled and energetic planet. With this realization we can move into the consciousness of responsibility for ourselves, our actions towards each other, and our individual and collective impact on the life, water, soil and air that nurture us.
Videos
Please take a few moments to look over these wonderful films.
"From the animated short "Flight of the Hummingbird" based on the book published by Greystone Books (c) 2008 by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, animation by Chris Autcher."
Be the change you want to see the world! Mahatma Gandhi
Lost Generation
the power of ONE
Severn Suzuki UN Earth Summit 1992
Films
EMPOWER YOURSELF BY EDUCATING YOURSELF - many of the films are not easy to watch, however they will empower you to make change! IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS
Avatar - everyone must see this movie!
Winged Migration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc_qpk2d-ao
Be a witness to nature at its most stunning, as five film crews follow a rich variety of bird migrations through 40 countries and each of the seven continents. More than 450 people helped make this film, using planes, gliders, helicopters, and balloons to fly alongside, above, below, and in front of their migrating subjects. Let your eyes behold the wonders of the natural world as you fly along with these amazing birds through some of the world's most gorgeous areas.
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZSH5_6cruU
Directed by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Greg MacGillivray and narrated by Robert Redford, this IMAX 3D film takes audiences down the Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon , on an exhilarating river journey that calls attention to the world's
growing water shortage and the mega-drought now threatening the American Southwest.
Up the Yangtze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1fFuynf-Yw
(In China, the Yangtze River—and all of the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfather's youth to trace the surreal life of a "farewell cruise" that traverses the gargantuan waterway.
All Jacked Up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMrc045mKbA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2RYjbCh-wE&NR=1
How jacked up do our kids have to get before they notice what we're doing to them? This film is an angst-driven portrait of four teenagers who discover the truth about their obsessive, addictive, and emotion-fueled eating habits, all enabled by their parents, schools, and our abusive food system that profits from them with no regard to their well-being. This frank and witty look at what's really going on inside the bodies, hearts and minds of the teen generation is a wake-up call to stand up and demand change.
Fast Food Nation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc_z623Wsro
Based on the acclaimed book by Eric Schlosser, this film traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary hamburger through a chain of riveting, interlocking human stories—from perilous work in meat-packing plants to life behind the fast-food counters to the dirty secrets of fast-food corporations. What exactly are we biting into?
Good Food http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbcPgsfEBYU
A collection of 16 short films on food and sustainability. From singing peanuts to teenage tomato-growers, the shorts will make you laugh, make you think, and inspire you to take action for a healthy, sustainable, and delicious future.
Be The Change http://www.livinglightly.ca/BTC-trailer/
People are tired of being scared, lectured to, guilt-tripped, and drowned in lists of "100 things you can do to save the planet." They are not going to turn towards living sustainably in the pursuit of being "less bad." They need to feel an emotional attraction to being "more good." People can embrace a lighter way of living but have some fun doing it.
Manufactured Landscapes - even just watch the 2 min. utube!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv23xwe0BoU
The film follows the journey of photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose large-scale photographs of manufactured landscapes quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and dams create stunning art from civilization's materials and debris. Burtynsky's photographs shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.
The Age of Stupid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZjsJdokC0s http://www.ageofstupid.net/
The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future. Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
The End of the Line, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bedirwk95Oc Humans have long regarded the world's oceans as vast and inexhaustible. Now, we have learned otherwise. The End of the Line charts the devastating ecological impact of overfishing by interweaving both local and global stories of sharply declining fish populations, including the imminent extinction of the bluefin tuna, and illuminates how our modern fishing capacities far outstrip the survival abilities of any ocean species. A catastrophic future that awaits us—an ocean without fish by 2048 if we do not adjust our fishing and consumption practices.
Sharkwater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggtxA4wuXzY
Driven by a lifelong fascination with sharks, filmmaker Rob Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. Sharkwater takes you into the most shark-rich waters of the world, exposing the corruption and violence of shark exploiters and showing how sharks could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human greed.
The Yes Men Fix the World (gotta watch this) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQX09DZLYE
This is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. From New Orleans to India to New York City, armed with little more than cheap thrift-store suits, the Yes Men squeeze raucous comedy out of all the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Who knew fixing the world could be so much fun?
Fresh A MUST SEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwR44T69_
Fresh Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the the consequences of industrial agriculture: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable farming and food alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
What's On Your Plate? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBtek5hePCk
Our standard methods of producing food do not take environmental or human health costs into consideration. What are the alternatives to the current agricultural system? This documentary takes a look at the food you eat, how it's produced, and how it might be produced better in the future.
Two Angry Moms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jst9-Md-UgA&feature=related
In the face of a national child-health crisis, Two Angry Momsasks: What are our children eating in school and how is it impacting their learning, behavior, and health? The film chronicles the efforts of leaders in the fledgling "better school food" movement as they take on the system nationwide.. See what happens when fed-up moms start a grass-roots revolution!
Hempters Plant the Seeds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT3VqtZt5gI
A documentary film about the struggle to legalize industrial hemp in the US- featuring Woody Harrelson, Ralph Nader, Julia Butterfly...
Blue Gold - if you drink water you must watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikb4WG8UJRw
Award-winning featured documentary narrated by Malcolm McDowell. Global Warming is an issue of 'how' we live, the water crisis is an issue of 'if' we live.
Addicted to Plastic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daSFXZT-HYk
From foam cups to artificial organs, plastics are perhaps the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. But such progress has had a cost. Addicted To Plastic is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the "material of a thousand uses" and why there's so darn much of it. On the way, we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up.
The Human Footprint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Iw0TH2czQ The Human Footprint reveals the extraordinary impact that each of our lives has on the world around us. In a playful and thought-provoking portrait, the film demonstrates what makes up an average human life today and how everything we do has impact on the world around us.
A Sea Change: Imagine A World Without Fish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_urb-mr_-8 A Sea Change documents how the pH balance of the oceans has changed dramatically since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: a 30% increase in acidification. Experts predict that over the next century, steady increases in carbon dioxide emissions and the continued rise in the acidity of the oceans will cause most of the world's fisheries to experience a total bottom-up collapse—a state that could last for millions of years. This film broadens the discussion about the dramatic changes we are seeing in the chemistry of the oceans, and conveys the urgent threat those changes pose to our survival, while surveying the steps we can take to reduce the severity of climate change.
Who killed the Electric Car? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJAlrYjGz8
We have looming fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe, and high consumer interest in hybrid electric cars. So where is the much fabled all-electric car? This film is not only the story of the squashing of the electric car, it's the story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil; it's the story of officials who gave in to Detroit and Big Oil on adoption of the 'Zero Emission Vehicle" mandate; and finally, it's the future story of what role renewable energy and sustainable living must eventually play in our country's future.
China Blue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roy7CUk26uo
Like no other film before, China Blue is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made.
Wal-Mart – The High Cost of Low Price http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiSmlmXp-aU
Takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop.
Call of the Hummingbird A Full Frontal Eco-Manifesto http://www.callofthehummingbird.com/
In the gorgeous setting of central Brazil, a rag tag of group of 1000 permaculture experts, Rastafarians, alternative health practitioners, Hare Krishnas, and NGO executives work towards a do-it-yourself action plan to make the world a better place in 13 days. The film takes us on a journey that ranges from the practices of permaculture and consensus facilitation all the way to the meaning of the Mayan calendar, which mysteriously ends in 2012—just a few short years away. In the process we are introduced to new ideas about politics, nature, and even time itself.
