Videos for Change
What’s going to what work best for ALL of us in personal terms and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace? To make good choices, we need to see ourselves for who we are and reality for what it is, not what we want them to be. Living a meaningful life and preserving the earth for future generations is our greatest creative challenge. To meet that challenge, we need clarity, power, balance and objectivity.
Sugata Mitra on TED: Child Driven Education
“Education-as-usual assumes that kids are empty vessels who need to be sat down in a room and filled with curricular content. Dr. Mitra’s experiments prove that wrong.” – Linux Journal
Ken Robinson on TED. 2006 talk: Schools kill creativity.
As Posted at Civil Eats by Paula Crossfield
Last month, an 11-year-old had much to say about the perils of the American food system. Speaking at a TED conference for young people called TEDx in Asheville, North Carolina, Birke Baehr discussed food irradiation, GMOs, CAFOs, farm run-off, the problem with marketing food to kids and more, all in five minutes. On the subject of paying more for better quality food, Baehr said, “With all the things I’m learning about the food system, it seems to me that we can either pay the farmer or pay the hospital.”
He also talked about his future aspirations. “Awhile back I wanted to be an NFL football player. Now, I’ve decided I’d rather be an organic farmer instead,” he said to the cheering audience. “That way I can have a greater impact on the world.”
The Story of Stuff:
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.
If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.
If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?
How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth
The more we love ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.
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I like The Story of Stuff for the work and intent that went into it. If we want to survive as individuals and as a species, we need to start doing what’s going to work best for ALL of us now. Otherwise, when the going gets tough, as it does from time to time, we’ll pull out knives, guns, baseball bats, bombs and poisons to kill each other. What a way to end the dream!
Pete
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