Category: Art
There Is A Cure for Diabetes
There is A Cure for Diabetes Type-2. Do you want proof? Most of us do. How about a FILM and a BOOK that prove we can heal diabetes? You can find the goods in the powerful documentary film “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days.” If you haven’t yet seen this film there’s something really [...]
Enso: Kazuaki Tanahashi
Making the enso – the Zen circle that conveys everything, the whole world, complete, the ultimate Zen symbol of emptiness – is kind of a practice. Ensos are traditionally done in sumi ink, black on white. When I first saw one of Kaz Tanahashi’s color ensos, a breakthrough in the form, I put it on [...]
The Story of Bottled Water (VIDEO)
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. The film explores the bottled water industrys [...]
Category: Consumer Culture, Ecology, Health, Short Films, Uncategorized, Water
The Story of Stuff (VIDEO)
With over 12 million on-line views, The Story of Stuff is one of the most widely viewed environmental-themed short films of all time. Since its release in December 2007, The Story of Stuff has been shown in thousands of schools, houses of worship, community events and businesses around the world. See www.storyofstuff.org for DVDs, books, [...]
Category: Consumer Culture, Ecology, Short Films
Dirt: The Movie!
“Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt.” DIRT! The Movie–directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow–takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. [...]
Category: Agriculture, Films, Health, Soil
The Kosmos Will Be My Witness
Leaves of Grass by American poet Walt Whitman is in my experience one of the finest expressions in the kosmos, and I have been reading Whitman – and enjoying the freedom and fullness of his mysticism – since I was on the road during a sabbatical from college at the age of 20. Whitman is [...]
Category: Art, Mysticism, Poetry, Spirituality, Walt Whitman
