Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, questions what is really meant by the term "global village."
(2:48)
Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes his work and perspective on oneness, drawing from Maori culture, language, history and cosmology.
(21:23)
Professor and political organizer Cesar Montufar believes that shared, global democratic values are emerging from globalization.
(1:53)
Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger points to an emerging global justice movement that connects social justice, economic justice and ecological justice issues.
(1:30)
Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke draws upon the history of the first Maori settlers to New Zealand to reframe globalization as a tremendous opportunity.
(2:44)
Professor and political organizer Cesar Montufar asks, are globalization and local cultural richness completely contradictory?
(1:20)
Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta contrasts protecting and inhabiting nature with exploiting and removing from nature. According to Mr. Mehta, this is a choice between oneness and greed.
(1:18)
Actor Cliff Curtis offers the perspective that the trinity of industrialization, imperialism and colonialism served an important function by linking humanity closely together.
(3:10)
Tibetan monk and scholar Geshe Kalsang Damdul la emphasizes the importance of preserving individual cultures in the contemporary age of globalization, as they each offer something unique to humanity.
(1:03)
Stephan Fayon, director of an international seed bank in Auroville, India, explains how preserving the diversity of seeds insures against the breakdown of large-scale industrial agriculture.
(4:19)
Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, rejects the idea that indigenous peoples must assimilate to a market economy that is neither inclusi
(1:33)
Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo believes that the greatest threat to the world is the rising middle classes of Asia who long for the same, inherently unsustainable levels of comfort as privileged Westerners.
(2:39)
In the inner-city of Johannesburg, The GreenHouse Project is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities.
(4:38)
Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger shares one of his poems.
(2:21)
Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge talks about our responsibility to look after the planet and to carry forward positive values.
(3:07)
Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo explains that, although we desperately want happiness, we are undermined by a society that rewards greed, aggression and egotism
(3:34)