Vandana Shiva & Why We Need More Trees (exclusive video footage)
by Petz Scholtus, Barcelona, Spain 
on 06.24.07
We had the pleasure to meet a true treehugger in Barcelona this weekend: Vandana Shiva. She's also a physicist, philosopher, eco-feminist and writer from India, who participates, together with Al Gore, in building a "green barrier" of 100 Million trees in Spain to fight global warming.
Check out our video from the press conference the day before the 1st International Meeting of Friends of the Trees and let yourself get inspired by solutions to climate change and the idea to “live less in our heads”. Find out how trees are the new economy and not carbon pollution. Discover why we need more trees to deal with the climate chaos and how “all men should be more womanly”. If you want more of this fascinating woman, look at the Foundation +árboles' video interview here. ::press conference video: Vandana Shiva ::Foundation Más Arboles
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Vandana Shiva is a very inspiring speaker indeed. Thanks for sharing this.
As an aside, she mentions the "Chipko Movement" early on in the video. For readers who aren't familiar with it, Chipko Andolan as it is called in India was a rural grassroots non-violent movement of the 70s in which ordinary villagers drove out mining companies from their mountains as they saw the ecosystem getting affected by the mining.
They did that by hugging trees to prevent them from felling and by lying down on the roads to prevent trucks from of the company to access the area. After several weeks of unsuccessful attempts, the company decided to leave that area. Those villagers were the original treehuggers.
Manu
Green-India
Manu, thanks for sharing! Great to hear about the 'original tree-huggers', and particularly to learn that it isn't us in western cities (being holier than thou), but rural communities in India, who have always understood our critical relationship with our environment. :)
I thought reaaders might be interested in my recently completed report on "Forests, Carbon & Global Warming."
The report explains how climate change is likely to affect forests as well as how forest conservation and restoration may help mitigate climate change. The report also helps debunk some of the flawed arguments used by logging advocates.
http://tinyurl.com/2by9kt
Size 2 MB - File type MS Word
I wish we all were as vigillant as our rural folks.Why don't our tourism ministry popularise the concept of TREE-HOUSES. i m sure it will help making us all fall in love with Our trees.Lets take a plege to contribute in our own small ways.