International Workshop on Global Health
The sub-headline of the event organized by ISDE Italy and ISDE Sardinia (International Society of Doctors for the Environment), in cooperation with Navdanya International, was ‘Sardinia Terra Viva – Sardigna Terra Bia’
“Laudatu Si” – A 21st century Manifesto for Earth Democracy
by Dr Vandana Shiva – L’Huffington Post Italia, 19 June 2015 Source : http://www.huffingtonpost.it/vandana-shiva/la-laudato-si-manifesto-del-21-secolo-terra_b_7620852.html Most reports of Pope Francis’s Encyclical in the press before the formal launch yesterday reduced this path breaking document with 246 paras on the contemporary...
Pope Francis: A new ecological Paradigm is necessary
by Manlio Masucci, 17 June 2015 “Pope Francis has shown all of humanity that being truly human means giving up the arrogance of being masters and owners of nature and diverse species Most importantly he has shown that ecological...
The New Democracy is the Democracy of the Earth – Launch of ‘Terra Viva’, Our Soil, Our Commons, Our Future
Press Release, Milan, 2 May 2015 PRESENTATION OF “TERRA VIVA”, CIVIL SOCIETY’S MANIFESTO FOR A NEW SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL PACT IN THE PRESENCE OF VANDANA SHIVA, DON CIOTTI, MARTINA AND BIGGERI
Message for Mother Earth Day 2015
Making Peace with the Earth: Message for Mother Earth Day We are at war with the Earth through Industrial Agriculture. Industrial Agriculture accounts for the largest share of destruction of biodiversity, soil, water, and climate stability, through the use...
We Are All Seeds – A New Year Message from Dr. Vandana Shiva for 2015
“As 2015 has been declared the Year of Soils, let us recognize that in the seed and the soil we can find answers to every one of the crisis we are facing.” Vandana Shiva Subtitles available – click...
Setting the Record Straight On GMOs
Michael Specter’s story in The New Yorker about Dr. Vandana Shiva’s work to protect public health from the effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) skewed the facts and fell short of the magazine’s usually high standards for fairness. Michael...
Seed Freedom Presents: We Don’t Want No Pirate Banana – Formidable Vegetable Sound System
Click on ‘Captions’ box to activate multi-lingual lyrics/subtitles “First the GMO industry said they would reduce chemical use through Bt-Ht GMOs that were supposed to control pests and weeds. Chemical use increased, and GMO Bt cotton is plagued by...
Vandana Shiva on ‘Why we march against Monsanto’ – 2014
I send greetings of solidarity for all the people gathered for the March against Monsanto. Marching against Monsanto is marching for freedom and democracy, for health and safety, for People often ask me “Why Monsanto”? My response is, we did...