Sustainable Model Village
The Story of Solutions is another ‘story’ of Annie Leonard and her team which explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.
This year’s annual conference for ISKCON’s (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) farming communities in Europe was held in Jandelsbrunn, Germany between September 16 and 18.
The issue here is similar to our last post: by using PET bottles and other plastic materials humanity is making a strong impact on nature by polluting its environment.
Another story from Annie Leonard 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.
Govardhan Eco Village, situated in the Sahyadri mountains near Mumbai, is a model ISKCON farming community and retreat center.
We are completely sure that many of you remember Annie Leonard’s presentation on the Story of Stuff. It might not address all the contemporary issues our society has to face, but it certainly gets to the point about some of them.
Of course it is much more than the figures show. Clicking on the link below, you may have some perception on global production, consumption, emission and pollution. Second by second… To watch the World Food Clock click here. (Showed in several pages.)
You may watch a short film on ploughing in Krishna Valley. It is a 12-minute footage on sustainable agriculture worth to see it once in live…
I thought it is worth giving a detailed answer to our reader’s timely question, which I reckon may sound interesting to many of us.
Intensive meat and dairy production is having an increasingly devastating impact on human society and the environment, according to the Meat Atlas that has been published just recently by Friends of the Earth Europe and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.