One wicked way to reduce your garbage if you are going to hit up a fast food place!
~Watch for the fake french fry! I died.~
Videos
Norma’s Story – Climate Change in Old Crow, YK.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/normas_story#temp-share-panel
Norma Kassi’s true story about living off the land and the changes to her environment due to climate change.
It is important to realize that in Southern Canada and the USA, we may not feel the impacts as much as the people in the North or people in countries overseas do. The lands and the people on it are impacted the most, yet they are in no way contributing to the increase of Carbon dioxide and other Green House Gasses in the same scale.
This is a beautiful short film, with an important message:
Tread Lightly
~ <3
p.s. Sorry I can’t get the embed file to work, just click the link!
In New York there are Six Nations Against Fracking – Documentary
Please click-through and watch the video on Vimeo!
Be mindful of the actions you partake in and if those actions help to continue life, or destroy it.
2 years after this film was made, fracking is still an issue. Do you think we will ever open our eyes and begin to make vital changes? Or is the future too far away to plan for…
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Relevant posts:
Resource Extraction and it’s impact on peoples’ health
Melting Ice with Beet Juice??
Who needs that yucky, salty de-icer when you can just pour some beet juice on it!
Save animal paws, trees, plants and our water systems from the impact of road salt by clicking Beet Juice Mania to watch a video about how it’s done!
Hey, why don’t you let me know how it works?
It hasn’t snowed much in Peterborough, otherwise I would have tried it out myself…
A Tribe Called Red – The Rez Tour Recap
“[…] recap video of the Rez Tour we did in August when we went to six reserves in Ontario to present the show that we perform around the world. The shows were free and all ages, and we also got to meet the local youth during workshops. It was truly special to be able to do this and to show the youth that they are important and that people just like them can succeed. It was important for us to be able to give back to our community that continue to be the inspiration for our music and especially to its youth that is currently facing a terrible suicide epidemic. It was a truly beautiful life changing experience that we will forever be grateful for. So here is the video, shot by our friend Jon Riera […]” – Copied straight from A Tribe Called Red‘s latest Newsletter
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It is so great to see musicians working toward real change in communities. These men really stick to their roots. This kind of positive energy gives me a lot of hope for the years to come.
The Boat and the Bomb (2005) – Full Length Documentary
A documentary about the sinking of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior in 1985 on their way to protest France’s nuclear testing in the Pacific.
I am doing a presentation about this historic event in class today. I thought it may be important to know some of the history behind groups like Greenpeace and their efforts for a better, more sustainable world.
“When the world is sick and dying, the people will rise up like Warriors of the Rainbow” — Cree First Nations Prophecy.
An Interactive Dive of the Rainbow Warrior’s Resting Place – It is beautiful how coral has grown over the ship!
KAIROS Thanksgiving Message + Blanket Exercise
Mass Blanket Exercise on Parliament Hill during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission‘s Calls to Action.
I should have shared this before Thanksgiving, but it is always important to be thankful for what we have. Everyday! Not just on holidays.
I am gracious for being able to travel to Ottawa this summer so I could hear the stories of survivors at TRC. I feel like things are changing and there is hope for the future. Being a part of this video makes me feel like I’m part of this history! What an honor.
Created by KAIROS, the model of the blanket exercise is used to gain perspective on the true history of Canada; how colonization affected the people who lived here first.
As a Canadian who is living on the land where many consider genocide to have occurred, I think the blanket exercise humbled me incredibly. History books in school lied to me.
This is a very quick activity and is free to use by anyone, anywhere (offices, classrooms, community events etc.) it has even been adapted to be used with grades 1 and up.
The Cut – Shane Koyczan →Harper’s “Canada”
An incredible piece of poetry.
||Listen to his words (maybe ignore the sappy background music)
Think about what has happened to Canada in the past 9+ years, do we really want to keep this up? Do we really want to keep selling off pieces of (stolen) Canadian soil to China?
If Stephen Harper is re-elected, he will become one of the top 5 longest elected Prime Ministers in Canadian history. So when you mark your ballot on October 19, think about what kind of Canada you want to be proud of.
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Learn about Columbus Day
Something to think about this Columbus Day… and every other Columbus Day.
Do you really want to celebrate this genocide? Slavery? Assimilation/extinction of cultures?
WARNING** GRAPHIC*
– A reading from Bartolome de las Casas’ journal about the wrongdoings committed to the Taino people of the island of Hispaniola during Columbus’ reign. This is TRUE history and by celebrating Columbus day, these are the kind of things we are blindly glorifying.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/10/08/7-videos-watch-columbus-day-138518
Food Education Through Child’s Play
I thought this was a really fantastic, lighthearted and educational way to start the necessary conversation regarding GMOs, hormone-fed livestock and pesticide use in agriculture.
Before the play, these kids must have had really great discussions with their teacher about alternative food choices and how they can support local and organic farmers. They seemed really passionate about what they were doing, and proud of the message they sang. It is so important to get children (adults, too!) to be aware of where their food comes from. Who ever wrote/directed this play did a fantastic job. : ]
What we put on our bodies and spray on our land becomes us, as we are interconnected with everything on this earth.
If we do not care for the quality of life in our livestock and produce, what can we say about ourselves?
Source: New MacDonald.
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