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SourceCode: Sustainable Environmental Programs
Explore various sustainable environmental programs across the country and how people are succeeding and fighting to keep these programs going.
Email this pageGRITtv: SourceCode: Capitalism vs Environment
Today SourceCode asks, is another economy, an environmentally sustainable economy, possible? Hear from Hunter Lovins on natural capitalism;.an economy that attempts to take everything of value into account; including human resources and living systems. Then, what would you do if a toxic factory set up shop in your backyard? One group of local activists is taking on the multinational company CEMEX. Artist Roxy Paine and critic John Yao present an installation piece addressing industry's devastating impact on land And first, SourceCode brings you an exclusive report from the recent World Social Forum in Venezuela where indigenous people are fighting international coal companies, and where Chavez is promising to shift the oil wealth to the people
SourceCode: First Nation Rights
Most Americans know the story of the Trail of Tears; settlers in the New World felt they had more right to the land than the people who were in fact here first. It seems that this attitude has not quite vanished when it comes to Native American land and resources. SourceCode visits the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah where nuclear waste dumping has caused one Goshute member to stand up for preservation of their land. Meet a hero for the cause of Indian land rights, Eloise Cobell. She's suing the federal government for billions of dollars on behalf of individual Indians across the country. We'll take you to Northern Ontario were the Grassy Narrows First Nation is waging an international battle to get logging giants Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi off their lands. And come with music group Blackfire on their tour around the world.
SourceCode: State of the Oceans
SourceCode collaborates with Mother Jones Magazine for a special episode on the State of the Oceans. Join Mike Robbins for a look at how the fishing industry, which regulates itself, is destroying the fisheries and endangering our food supply. Dr. Pauly on the need to protect the ocean, with a park system. And Paul Watson flies the Jolly Roger as he rams Japanese whalers and takes on seal hunters in an effort to save the ocean's wildlife. Plus, a gripping video from Britain's Environmental Justice Foundation, from a coastal village in Africa terrorized by illegal fishing corporations.
SourceCode: Enemies of the Environment
Greed over ground, every time. This show profiles three men who feel land has value as property, that is, as wealth, and nothing more. If they have their way with the earth, there will be nothing more.
SourceCode: Greed/Water
Big business is turning off the tap....the global corporate/government effort to privatize water is causing suffering and violence around the world. Join Vandana Shiva, Tony Clarke, Maude Barlow, and activist group Public Citizen as they report from India, Bolivia, Canada....and neighborhoods like yours.
Keynote: Ralph Nader: The Road to Corporate Fascism
Ralph Nader says the central political issue of our time is giant corporate power and its take over of our government, plus the spread of commercial values into every nook and cranny of our culture including the commercialization of childhood, the universities and almost everything these large corporations touch. Speaking at the Washington, DC Green Festival, he also details what we can and must do about it.
Keynote: Fred Kirschenmann: Transforming Agriculture
What does the future hold for organic agriculture? Fred Kirschenmann, a respected leader of the sustainable agriculture movement discusses the history of organic farming. Can organic agriculture survive in our industrial food system, or do we need to make sweeping changes to our whole approach to food production and consumption?
Keynote: Percy Schmeiser: Corporate Power vs. The Small Farmer
Percy Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer and seed breeder who has become world-famous by standing up to the Monsanto corporation, which charged him with illegally using its patented GMO canola seeds when his fields were actually contaminated by winds blowing from nearby GMO crops. He’ll discuss his experiences and the dangers of losing biodiversity of our crops and the domination of our food supply by industrial agriculture.
Keynote: Terry Tempest Williams: The Open Space of Democracy
One of the nation's most celebrated writers, naturalist and author of "Refuge; Leap; Red - Passion," "Patience in the Desert and "The Open Space of Democracy," Terry Tempest Williams has long been a passionate and effective activist on behalf of the environment and justice, especially the defense of Southern Utah's stunning red rock deserts, and the resistance to nuclear folly. She once again graces Bioneers with her shining integrity, wry humor, astonishing emotional depth and piercing lucidity as she looks at the state of our democracy and its centrality in restoring our Earth.
