Trailer for film about David Suzuki, iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist. He delivers a ‘last lecture’ -- what he describes as “a distillation of my life and thoughts, my legacy, what I want to say before I die”. Filmed before a live audience, in front of a memory box of moving, distilled images, he articulates a core, urgent message: we have exhausted the limits of the biosphere and it is imperative that we re-think our relationship with the natural world. Suzuki looks unflinchingly at the strains on our interconnected web of life – and out of our dire present circumstances, he offers up a blueprint for sustainability and survival. The film interweaves the lecture with scenes from the places and events in Suzuki’s life. As such, the film is a biography of ideas – forged by the major social, scientific, cultural and political events of the past 70 years.

April 4-6, 2012, the Indigenous Environmental Network hosted a profound 3 day Rights of Mother Earth Conference at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. This is one selection of a presentation from the conference. More conference coverage is available on the IENearth YouTube Channel.

This video addresses closing remarks of conference:
Domination of and the destruction of the values of the land can be seen when our Indigenous Knowledge is ignored or not shared by all. If people are given a choice based on the reality of what happens to our world when we disregard for the systems that sustain us and what would be if we return to the ancient knowledge that sustained the people of this hemisphere for thousands of years.

Video inspired on this manifesto:  proclaimed in 2010 at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (Cochabamba, Bolivia) featuring the reading of the Preamble and Articles and and 2. Uploaded on May 1, 2011

Brief nterview of Maude Barlow by Amy Goodman on the progress of the Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth within the United Nations, and the resolution addressing harmony with nature, EarthDay 2011.  She also references the book, The Rights of Nature: The Case for the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Nature.

Mari Margil, Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), talks about the founding of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in the Fall of 2010.  The mission of CELDF is "Building sustainable communities by assisting people to assert their right to local self-government and the rights of nature." She was interviewed by Barry Heidt of SustainableTV at the Bioneers 2010 Conference in San Rafael, California. Edited and curated by Ruth Ann Barrett, January 2013.

Good environmental policy is good economic policy. Mr. Kennedy was interviewed at the Commit Forum.  Part II here.

With glaciers melting away, climate change already has become a fact of life for the poorest. Scientist use satellite technology to find ways to deal with dramatic water shortages in the Andean region. A slow and silent disaster that has started to affect millions.

Published on Dec 19, 2012

Pioneers Lester Brown, Maurice Strong, Rajendra Pachauri, David Suzuki, Bill Ford, Sha Zukang, and Jonathan Porritt say that we are in a race against time. We are living in a small window when we can still affect positive change, have the technology to deliver that change, and could see the benefits of action towards sustainability for the planet. Inaction poses the greatest security threat.