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."
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Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how our current average lifestyle requires more than nature can generate. Mathis offers two possibilities for dealing with this imbalance:
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Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, asks why India should follow a Western paradigm of development
(4:49)
Laboratory scientist Dean Radin discusses the possibility of a global mind and questions whether that global mind could wake up?
(3:03)
Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes the philosophical and ethical contribution of indigenous cultures to global oneness.
(0:55)
Groundbreaking scholar of pre-Socratic philosophy Peter Kingsley emphasizes the sacred role of Western civilization in global oneness, drawing from his personal experiences
(18:53)
Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes his work and perspective on oneness, drawing from Maori culture, language, history and cosmology.
(21:23)
In this complete interview Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, talks about indigenous perspectives on the current ecological and cultural crises,
(27:42)
Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), shares his indigenous Andean perspective on the crises and potential of the current pachacuti (thousand-year cycle).
(24:17)
Laboratory scientist Dean Radin describes how children growing up in this time of global environmental crisis may, out of necessity, behave in a radically different way and make a significant difference.
(2:33)
A retrospective of our journey this past year offering a picture of what is being born during this time of global transformation.
(4:42)
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)
Zen teacher and social activist angel Kyodo williams reminds us that societies can change on a massive scale. At one time, slavery was considered an economic necessity,
(1:02)
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)
Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, tells us that oneness starts from the individual.
(4:11)
L.A.-based community activist Orland Bishop explains how the American economic system that assigns value to competition and scarcity of resources undermines oneness, which is inherently relational and abundant.
(5:15)
Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, describes how oneness operates at a ceremonial level in indigenous cultures.
(5:29)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how industrial society treats land as something that belongs to us, and asks, how can we shift back to "belonging to the land"?
(3:49)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, describes how this tool lets us calculate the amount of natural resources necessary to support our collective expenditure.
(4:59)
Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee believes the greatest mistake made by the various proponents of global oneness is to think that human beings can do it by themselves.
(2:06)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, shares his childhood realization that Earth's limited resources could not support our current lifestyle indefinitely.
(2:03)
Groundbreaking scholar of pre-Socratic philosophy Peter Kingsley describes how traditions and institutions of learning very rarely want to discover something truly new.
(2:31)
Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement, describes the perception that the universe is dead as the root cause of the exploitative mindset.
(3:18)
Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta believes that because we are interconnected, we can only protect ourselves by protecting every living thing on earth.
(1:37)
Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement, explains three levels of oneness, along with the response evoked by each level.
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