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Film as a Catalyst for Change
Last week, Planet in Focus wrapped their five-days of 60 films, from 15 countries, attended by 30 international and Canadian filmmakers. With numerous sold-out screenings including their opening event “An Evening with Dr. Vandana Shiva”, the attendance for this year’s event was up 15 percent from last year.
WTF: What’s Trudeau’s Future?
Defying all odds just a few months back, Trudeau’s Liberals have swept into power with a majority mandate. During the campaign, they made a series of promises – on the environment, on First Nations’ issues, on water, for instance. Can Trudeau actually live up to these promises?
Meeting Justin Trudeau
The first time I met Justin Trudeau in person was on December 6, 2009. I remember it clearly because I also got arrested. The Copenhagen climate summit was in full swing, and I had joined a group of young climate activists in the last of a series of sit-ins sweeping […]
The Optimistic Activist
“What is it about activists that they can’t even be optimistic for one day after a whole decade?” The disgust and disappointment on my 16 year olds’ face is somewhat heartbreaking as he pours cereal the morning after the Canadian election and surfs the comments on my Facebook page. I […]
Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman BA MES LLD (honoris causa) has been designing environmental campaigns for 20 years. She is a Co-founder of ForestEthics and former Co-director of Greenpeace International’s Climate Unit. She is the author of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge published by Knopf Canada and an adjunct professor of […]
Me and Meat: Vegetarianism and other diets
Me and Meat is a blog series that hopes to inspire people to rethink their diets as I share the stories, struggles and successes of becoming a vegetarian.
Leader, Envoy, Minister? Voters want expanded role for May
The most heated that MP Justin Trudeau ever got in the House of Commons was on the matter of who gets to go to the UN climate conference. When former Conservative Minister of Environment Peter Kent chided former NDP Deputy Leader Megan Leslie for not attending the conference in Durban, […]
Planet in Focus 2015
Now in it’s 16th year running, Planet in Focus is an environmental media arts organization dedicated to showcasing films that question, explore and tell stories about the world we live in. The Film Festival — based in Toronto — kicks off this Wednesday with Vandana Shiva, author, journalist, and global […]
Work With Purpose
“I hate my job.” It’s a sign of a warped world that most of us have heard friends, family or our own lips utter this sad sentence. London School of Economics research on tens of thousands of individuals in the UK measured the joy produced by 39 different daily activities. […]
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