ITVS Community Cinema is presenting preview screenings of the documentary DIRT! The Movie during the month of March. If you’re reading this from outside Washington, DC, you can find a screening near you at www.pbs.org/independentlens/getinvolved.
Actually, we’re talking about soil when we’re talking about sustainability and life. But “dirt” seems to give the title [...]
I spent two days shopping and collecting plastic bags. As of January 1, there will be a 5 cent charge for disposable plastic and paper bags for items purchased at grocery, drug and liquor stores in Washington, DC. I happen to reuse disposable bags, so having an adequate stock pile is necessary. [...]
This year, the Nobel Foundation awarded five prizes to women in science, literature, and economics, bringing the Foundation’s total to 41 women Nobel Laureates since its founding in 1901. Scientist Marie Curie was the first woman Nobel Laureate in 1903.
Perhaps Larry Summers should accompany President Barack Obama to the award ceremonies in [...]
No longer tied to his desk with a sock in his mouth, Van is now freed to do what he does best: inspire and energize groups around the country. Student groups and labor groups and small business groups and middle class Americans everywhere who are losing jobs and losing homes and losing hope. He’s free [...]
Over the summer I shared one of the upcoming Community Cinema docs with my friend Marsha Weiner of Ironic Delights. “Dirt” will be the March 2010 offering for Community Cinema. Marsha pointed out that the title may be misleading because the proper word is “soil” that is if you’re talking about cultivating, fertility, [...]
This week, the House passed an historic clean energy bill. Not only is this a sign that we can exhale, but maybe inhale cleaner air as well. The bill creates a national limit on greenhouse gasses and requires the “polluters” (that’s what the President calls them) to pay for it by buying credits. [...]
To talk or not to talk. That is the question. President Obama’s efforts to bring friends and foes together for a little table talk to address pressing issues is in his words a switch from the old-style Washington politics of the past.
However, it remains to be seen if table talk will [...]
Grown-ups told us to stop acting like pigs and wash your hands for a reason.
“According to state agents of the Mexican social security institute, the vector of this outbreak are the clouds of flies that come out of the hog barns, and the waste lagoons into which the Mexican-US company spews tons of [...]
Van Jones, co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland , CA.
Van Jones, co-founder of ColorofChange.org.
Van Jones, founder and president of Green for All.
Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems.
Van Jones, an Eclectique|916 Community Organizer Hall of Famer has been [...]
March 8 was International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women past and present. In some countries like China, Vietnam, Russia, and Bulgaria, it’s an international holiday.
This year’s United Nations global theme is woman and men united to end violence against women and [...]
