Environment protection / issues, humanitarian aid

This post is translated from the French article Campagne Greenpeace : « et dans 10 ans ? »

How do you imagine planet Earth will look in 10 years time ? What kind of a world will we live in if the G20 heads of state do not take steps right now ?

As usual, Greenpeace came up with a striking campaign, in which they did not portray a fire-and-brimstone world, shattered to pieces. Instead, Greenpeace chose to undermine the leaders’ egos, showing them in decay: (continue reading…)

Music against Poverty Contest is an initiative launched in July by the EC Directorate-General EuropeAid to raise awareness among young Europeans about the issue of development cooperation and the important role played by the EU in this field. Global leaders, together with the EU, already committed themselves to fight poverty through eight specific targets by 2015. Fighting poverty in the world is a major global challenge – we can only succeed by acting together.

We, citizens, should mobilize ourselves to encourage and (continue reading…)

You have probably been touched by the recent and amazing movie of James Cameron: Avatar. This cinema masterpiece, showing an idealistic planet where creatures live in peace and harmony, can also be regarded as a (continue reading…)

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Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a poignant documentary showing how Vipassana, an ancestral hindu meditation technic rediscovered by Gotama Budhha 2,500 years ago, has been used in Indian jails as a way to improve the prison atmosphere, prepare inmates for their reintegration to the outter social environment and help to reduce recidivism rate. Beyond the rehabilitation aspect, it has completly changed the life of many criminals and deliquents and it demonstrates that a soft guided introspective is more effecient than harsh inhuman methods.

The documentary is based upon the experiment led in 1993 by Kiran Bedi, a new Inspector General of Indian prisons, who was trying to reform the Indian penal system. She requested that a vipassana course be conducted in the largest prison in India, Tihar Jail outside of (continue reading…)

Animal cruelty, hormones injection, antibiotic resistant bacteria, massive air and water pollution, small farming communities' destruction… Do you know in which conditions is produced the meat in your plate ? The Meatrix, from Free Range Studios, is here to teach you the truth, to (continue reading…)

Climate change could have terrible side effects… and leave another 25 million children malnourished by 2050, unless heafty investments in adaptive measures are made, says a major new report.

Three-year-old Antonio, who has the weight of a 6-month-old baby, is being attended at a health center for malnourished children (Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald)

An annual US$7 billion investment in agricultural productivity will be necessary to help farmers adapt and reduce (continue reading…)