Voices of the Lake March 20, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment PLURAL+2018 TAL-Television America Latina Award PLURAL+2018 FACIUNI AwardAge Category 13 to 17 | Brazil By João Adams Samora. Five hundred years ago, the civilization of Uros, seeking shelter from its enemies, fled to Lake Titicaca, near Puno, in Peru. They built lands out of Totora (a type of straw) in the middle of the water. Globalization and pollution have changed their way of life. They no longer live as their ancestors did, but only by the image of their ancestors’ culture and more.
Our Ocean Planet March 13, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment The ocean absorbs one-quarter of the carbon dioxide we produce by burning fossil fuels and stores 90 percent of the heat on our warming planet. But overfishing and pollution have brought the ocean to the breaking point. Its systems are starting to fail. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver, this short film about the interplay of climate change and the ocean makes the case that we need to help the ocean heal so that it can help us adapt to the mounting pressures of climate change. Our Ocean Planet was produced by NRDC, Bloomfish Pictures, and Rock, Paper, Scissors. It premiered at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on September 14, 2018. Take action: https://on.nrdc.org/2MufPLt Narrated by: Sigourney Weaver Produced by: Natural Resources Defense Council Fisher Stevens Zara Duffy Daniel Hinerfeld Lisa Suatoni Rock Paper Scissors
How Air Pollution Kills March 12, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment Four million people around the world who already die annually from air pollution–related diseases. Brian Palmer [@palmerbrian (TW), Brian Palmer (FB), @brianmpalmer (IG)] goes inside those numbers—and your lungs—to understand how air pollution kills.