Ecological
Movies
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Earthlings Narrated by: Joaquin Phoenix Directed by: Shaun Monson Music by: Moby BUY NOW About the Movie
Joaquin Phoenix narrates this thought-provoking documentary, exposing mankind’s unnecessary and cruel dependence on animals as food, clothing, entertainment, and experimentation. “Earthlings” is the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation between humankind, nature, and animals and human economic interests. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, “Earthlings” chronicles the day-to-day practices of some of the largest animal-dependent industries in the world. A must-have for any animal rights library and to share with friends and family.
Monson has gathered 95 minutes of footage that indicts all of us for permitting the abominable treatment of animals that “live” among us. With many scenes captured by hidden cameras, the film chronicles the cruelty perpetrated by society in its quest for food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research. This project was a five-year journey for Monson who began the process when he made a series of public service announcements on spaying and neutering pets. As part of this effort he filmed at animal shelters in the Los Angeles/Long Beach communities. He soon turned to other aspects of animal issues, filming and gathering footage from other sources before he began his editing. |
Web Links
The Center for Ecoliteracy
View this site at: www.ecoliteracy.org
The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living. The centre was founded in 1995 by Fritjof Capra, Peter Buckley, and Zenobia Barlow. The Center for Ecoliteracy is a public foundation that supports a grantmaking program for educational organizations and school communities, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area; convenes networks of its grantees; sponsors projects consistent with its mission; administers donor-advised funds; and manages a publishing imprint, Learning in the Real World®."
Centre for Science and Environment
View this site at: www.cseindia.org
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is an independent, public interest organization, which aims to increase public awareness on science, technology, environment and development. The Centre was started in 1980. Searching for solutions that people and communities can implement themselves. Challenging India to confront its problems. Inspiring it to take action. Pushing the government to create frameworks for people and communities to act on their own."
Down to earth
View this site at: www.downtoearth.org.in/
India’s foremost environmental magazine.
EarthSave International
View this site at: www.earthsave.org
EarthSave educates people about the powerful effects our food choices have on the environment, our health and all life on Earth, and encourages a shift toward a healthy, plant-based diet. "
Ecoforest
View this site at: www.ecoforest.org
Ecoforest is a dedicated person and planet healing space. Alongside education and the provision of information on naturally healthy and sustainable lifestyles, Ecoforest intends to create eco-education projects and communities around the world where a simple, naturally healthy and sustainable lifestyle is normal. These Ecoforest 'paradise gardens' will be places where residents and volunteers sustain themselves in ways which also sustain and enhance the environment for generations to come and where people can visit and learn to do the same. Natural country setting without smoking, drugs, alcohol, violence, pets, dogs etc. All food is Vegan. "
Energy and resources Institute
View this site at: www.teriin.org
TERI was formally established in 1974 with the purpose of dealing with the immense and problems that mankind would face in the years ahead on account of the gradual depletion of the earth’s finite energy resources and the polluting methods of their use. TERI has grown to establish a presence not only in different corners and regions of India but also in North America and Europe and on the Asian continent in Japan, Malaysia and the Gulf."
Infochange Environment
View this site at: www.infochangeindia.org/
Comprehensive resource with daily updates, news & views on the development sector in India with focus on children, health, women, pollution, …"
Food First (Institute for Food and Development Policy)
View this site at: www.foodfirst.org
The purpose of the Institute for Food and Development Policy - Food First - is to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger.
Mothers for Natural Law
View this site at: www.safe-food.org
Founded in 1996, this organization deals with genetic engineering. Has information on genetically engineered crops and organizes a campaign to label GE foods."
Nearings Forest Farm, The Good Life Center
View this site at: www.goodlife.org/
Advancing Helen and Scott Nearing’s commitment to social justice and simple living, and preserving their last hand built home."
Movement for Compassionate Living
View this site at: www.mclveganway.org.uk
MCL's aims to (i) spread the vegan message and promote simple living and self-reliance as a remedy against the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth, (ii) to promote the use of trees and vegan-organic farming to meet the needs of society for food and natural resources, and (iii) to promote a land-based society where as much of our food and resources as possible are produced locally."
World Watch Institute
View this site at: www.worldwatch.org/
Independent research for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society.
The Worldwatch Institute offers a unique blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends. Their work revolves around the transition to an environmentally sustainable and socially just society—and how to achieve it."
Many of the environmental organizations in India are listed under environment in the Karmayog website at
View this site at: www.karmayog.org/nonprofits/npodisplay.asp?r=216
Karmayog is an excellent website linking together NGO’s and people who are interested in the work of NGO’s. The website lists NGO’s primarily in Mumbai but also all over India/
Books
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Earth Ethics: Introductory Readings on Animal Rights, and Environmental Ethics (2nd Edition) by James P. Sterba / Paperback / 390 pages ISBN: 013014827X Price: $65.20 About the Book
This anthology contains numerous up-to-date, well-related readings on animal rights/animal liberation and environmental ethics—in addition to current topics such as ecological feminism, and practical applications. Approaching its subjects through a set of opposing readings shows the strength and weaknesses of various alternative positions. Readings cover the topics of Judeo-Christian Perspectives, Respect for Nature, The Land Ethic/Deep Ecology, Reconciliation and Defense, Social Ecology and Environmental Racism, and NonWestern Religious and Cultural Perspectives. For individuals concerned about the environment and the non-humans who inhabit it. |
| Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket by Brian Halweil / Paperback / 236 pages ISBN: 0393326640 Price: $11.16 About the Book
Eating locally is a growing movement that is good for your health—but even better for the planet.Everyone everywhere depends increasingly on long-distance food. Since 1961 the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold. In the United States, food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500 miles from farm to plate—as much as 25 percent farther than in 1980. For some, the long-distance food system offers unparalleled choice. But it often runs roughshod over local cuisines, varieties, and agriculture, while consuming staggering amounts of fuel, generating greenhouse gases, eroding the pleasures of face-to-face interactions, and compromising food security. Fortunately, the long-distance food habit is beginning to weaken under the influence of a young, but surging, local-foods movement. From peanut-butter makers in Zimbabwe to pork producers in Germany and rooftop gardeners in Vancouver, entrepreneurial farmers, start-up food businesses, restaurants, supermarkets, and concerned consumers are propelling a revolution that can help restore rural areas, enrich poor nations, and return fresh, delicious, and wholesome food to cities.
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| The End of Nature by Bill Mckibben / Paperback / 224 pages ISBN: 0812976088 Price: $10.17 About the Book
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben’s argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature is more relevant than ever. McKibben writes of our earth’s environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. His new introduction addresses some of the latest environmental issues that have risen during the 1990s. The book also includes an invaluable new appendix of facts and figures that surveys the progress of the environmental movement.More than simply a handbook for survival or a doomsday catalog of scientific prediction, this classic, soulful lament on Nature is required reading for nature enthusiasts, activists, and concerned citizens alike.
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| Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry. by Danielle Nierenberg / Paperback / pages ISBN: 1878071777 Price: About the Book
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Silent Spring (Edition 001) by Rachel Carson / Paperback / 400 pages ISBN: 0618249060 Price: $9.72 About the Book
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. “Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters” (Peter Matthiessen, for Time”s 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson”s watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson”s courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
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An Unnatural Order: Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason / Paperback / 324 pages ISBN: 1590560817 Price: $17.95 About the Book
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason’s An Unnatural Order has become a classic. Now in a new Lantern edition, the book explores, from an anthropological, sociocultural, and holistic perspective, how and why we have cut ourselves off from other animals and the natural world, and the toll this has taken on our consciousness, our ability to steward nature wisely, and the will to control our own tendencies.
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