Quick Green Video From Oxfam

A quick video all shot with “found” words in aid of Oxfam’s Climate Action.

Grains of Change on SunDance

Grains of Change (warning auto=playing video!) is a new web documentary series from the Sundance Channel about the way our food choices impact the environment, our bodies and our communities.

It “showcases community leaders who help connect people with the food they eat – from a “renegade lunch lady” in California, to a farmer who opened the Center of Discovery for disabled citizens in New York. Each Grains of Change vignette focuses on an organization that asks us to examine our food choices and way of living.

You can watch clips on the website, or on YouTube. The one below is Paul Maschka from the San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project. He’s a gardener with a cause – or several of them to be exact. As Chief Educator for San Diego Food Not Lawns, Paul is not only a fountain of knowledge where urban agriculture is concerned, but also a champion for food security, and one of the urban farmers involved in the San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project. He was one of the urban farmers involved in creating the community at San Diego City College. The farm teaches students and the community about sustainable permaculture, agriculture, nutrition and leadership.

Check out more videos here or here. .

“Resuscitate the World” with Oxfam

A one minute advert for Oxfam trying to promote a petition that is aiming to put pressure on world leaders for the Copenhagen climate change summit later this year.

A Decade Behind Bars: Return to the Farm

A Decade Behind Bars: Return to the Farm is airing on June 16th at 8 pm ET/PT on National Geographic. The original film, which can be seen in its entirety at natgeotv.com/farm, documented life inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — commonly known as The Farm — with a notable lack of sentimentality and melodrama, even as it presented the violent and morally ambiguous perspectives of six “lifer” inmates.

This documentary takes place ten years after the original Oscar Award-Wining The Farm where 6 prisoners’ lives were followed during their stay at Louisiana’s the farm. The same 4 (2 are recently deceased) are followed. However, under warden Burl Cain the facilities and environment have drastically changed: 5 churches and a bible college reside on the grounds, the grounds are an almost completely self-sustaining agricultural community (raising vegetables as well as beef sold in supermarkets), and prisoners have instituted their very own television station. Thus, here we see one of the most dangerous prisons in the world transformed into a total rehabilitation center that addresses vocation as much as physical and spiritual health.

Below you can watch a preview clip of the show:

A Decade Behind Bars: Return to the Farm is airing on June 16th at 8 pm ET/PT on National Geographic.

Mother Nature Fights Back

A quick video for you where Saturday Night Live’ Michaela Watkins plays mother nature in the fight between man and nature. Pretty amusing (sponsored by Absolut).

Ford Hosts Weekly Live Chat

I’ve attended this a couple of times and realized I haven’t mentioned it to anyone. Every Tuesday at 9am PST, 12pm EST on their Ustream channel Michael Collins gives a the behind the scenes scoop on all things Ford. “The DigiKnow events will stimulate unique and informal conversations with experts from Ford, as well as providing demonstrations of some of the innovative Ford technologies”. They have had some great insights into the Ford Fusion and also NASCAR and hybrids.

You can see an archive of the shows here on YouTube. The Ustream channel is shown below if you happen to see this at the right time, else visit “>Ford DigiKnows every Tuesday at 9am PST or 12pm EST.

Don’t Bin It, Recycle It

A recent animated video from Recycle Now has been released, highlighting the need to recycle small electronic devices. The aim of the film is to remind people not just to bin their waste electrical goods and tell them about where and how they can dispose of it responsibly http://dontbinitbringit.org (UK based).

The campaign is also being supported by the interactive ‘Regeneration Game‘ (based on the Generation Game) in which users put in their UK postcode before playing and then the game cleverly features details of their nearest recycling facilities.

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