Posts tagged ecofilms
Disconnect to Connect
08 months ago
Few months ago, a video was circulating on Facebook titled Disconnect to Connect . The video carried a beautiful message that while instant messaging has reduced the distances and helps one stay connected 24/7 we often disregard the one sitting right ‘next to us’ seeking for our attention.
Has that ever happened to you? Have you considered it might be hurtful if not annoying for others? I for one certainly have been in this situation. I have been invited to evening teas and Sunday brunches only to find my friends over-occupied with their social paraphernalia. Everyone for some moment seemed invisible to the other. Even after the meal arrived, people held their forks in one hand, strongly gripping their cell phone in the other. A small talk here about how appealing the food appears or a comment that meat isn’t tender enough and a text there. Seeking attention by sharing with the world, “Yaaaaaaaay!!! More >
You the People have the Power
08 months ago
Today more than ever this message goes out to the hearts of every one in Pakistan and citizens of the world over. In light of the escalating violence, the great unraveling of civil liberties and suffocating inequalities, let us take pause for a moment. This speech will stir something within you.
This epic speech was filmed in 1940 by Charlie Chapin as a satire against Nazi Germany. The film caused a huge stir, and some say that the public outcry from this video helped push the US to join the war against Nazi Germany.
I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business – I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live
ecoFilms: For The Love of Water (FLOW)
0Summary: “Flow” builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question “CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?”
Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.The film questions the very nature of water and our relation to it. It shows how local action can challenge giant corporations, and how the privatization of water has jeopardized the way of life for More >
ecoFilms: 11th Hour
01 year ago
Summary: “The 11th Hour” is a feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and their impact on the planet. It documents the cumulative impact of these actions upon the planet’s life systems and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity. With the help of over fifty of the world’s most prominent thinkers and activists, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai,“The 11th Hour” documents the grave problems facing the planet’s life systems including, Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, depletion of the oceans’ habitats and their causes rooted in human activity. The film also provides more than a few suggestions and solutions for redeeming our wasteful ways and repairing our damaged planet.
Interesting Fact: This film is Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Quote: “When we all talk about “saving the environment” in a way it’s misstated
ecoFilms: DIRT the Movie
01 year ago
Summary: It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and under appreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. It talks about how our human connection to and respect for soil has been disrupted. The Movie brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It offers a vision of a sustainable relationship between Humans and Dirt through profiles of the global visionaries who are determined to repair the damage we’ve done before it’s too late.
Interesting Fact: It was inspired by the book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan.
Quote: “Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt.”
Running time: 86 mins
Date of Release: 2009
Theme: soil, wonders of soil, degradation of soil, the effects
