Fair Trade producers and the people buying their products are the real drivers of the growth of Fair Trade. Backed by promoters, advocates and hundreds of thousands of volunteers all over the globe, Fair Trade has become the leading movement promoting social justice today. World…
Marianne Williamson is running as an Independent Candidate for the US House of Representatives, California District 33. Vote June 3rd. “I was attempting to capture the passion, mission, activism, deep humanity and tenderness of Marianne, the new political sensibility she represents and the consciousness that…
What if most of us aren’t “gay” or “straight,” but somewhere in between? Artist and activist iO Tillett Wright makes a passionate case for accepting the complexity of individuality without making anybody feel like a second-class citizen. If her words don’t persuade you, the images…
“The industry kept saying: ‘We have the power, you have none. We are coming. Get out of the way or leave,’” says Joanne Cipolla-Dennis recalling what happened when the oil and gas industry came to her town of Dryden, NY. But Joanne and her neighbors…
Vermont will be the first state in the nation to require food manufacturers to label products containing genetically modified ingredients. It will also likely be the first state to defend the GMO labeling law in court, state officials say. “Vermonters have spoken loud and clear:…
New Caledonia has created a 320 million-acre marine park in the South Pacific, a protected area that’s about three times the size of Germany and, according to Conservation International, is now the largest protected area “on land or sea.” Jean-Christophe Lefeuvre, Conservation International’s program director…
We have the power to support and empower future generations of children with a balanced gender alchemy. This film raises a serious topic that has boys and men all over the world internally desperate. It’s time to change that… Compared to girls, research shows that…
Leverage has inked a deal with Gypsy Tea entrepreneur Zhena Muzyka to produce a series loosely based on Muzyka’s life and her soon-to-be-released motivational memoir “Life by the Cup: Ingredients for a Purpose-Filled Life of Bottomless Happiness and Limitless Success.” In this motivational memoir, socially…
For extreme sports enthusiasts, the act of stepping out on that precarious line of disaster and inner peace, is a constant practice. Highlining is the practice of walking accross a dynamic (stretchy) length of 1″ wide climbing webbing. Simple, yet oh so effective at bringing…
