Vandana Shiva
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Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy gathers evidence that details the dangers of corporate and individual billionaire philanthropic "developments" in agricultural technology, food, knowledge, and global health systems. Such philanthropy allows a select elite few to manipulate information and policy for their own profit, thus undermining democracies and communities globally. Over the last 30 years philanthrocapitalism has emerged as a...
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Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many plants, including...
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In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war of fundamentalisms in the age of terror. From the IT centers of Bangalore to the villages of Uttar Pradesh,...
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Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top one percent of the world's seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet - and all its people - to the social and ecological brink.
In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people...
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[2008]
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"With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva reveals what connects humanity's most urgent crises - food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere." "Condemning industrial biofuels and agriculture as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva champions the small independent farm instead. With millions hungry and the earth's future at peril. only sustainable, biologically...
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2020.
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"PLANET OF THE HUMANS" dares to say what no one will-that we are losing the battle to stop ecological meltdown by following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road-selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. In the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement's answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids: too little, too late. This urgent, must-see movie, a full-frontal assault on our...
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[2019]
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"Chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives; housing, agriculture, work places, sidewalks, subways, schools, parks, even the air we breathe. More than half a century since Rachel Carson issued Silent Spring; her call-to-arms against the poisoning of our drinking water, food, animals, air, and the natural environment ... The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup takes a fresh look at the politics underlying the mass use of pesticides and...
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[2012]
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Journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive. Includes the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists, and philosophers from around the world. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.
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[2016]
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Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the...
14) Dirt!: the movie
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Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
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