James O'Dea, a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and was until recently its President, is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders, an author, and a member of the Global Systems Initiatives. He is the lead faculty for the Shift Network's Peace Ambassador Training Program.

His latest book is Cultivating Peace: Becoming a 21sst Century Peace Ambassador. Click on the book image to order from Amazon or visit your local bookstore. Thank you.

Jasmina is a Serbian author, feminist, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, and filmmaker.  In this TEDx presentation, she brings into consciousness the design of war beginning her story with the genocide in Srebrenica.  The killing of 8,000 muslims, a huge design of crime, is explored and linked to the abuse and pornography women in warfare.  Her message: Responsibility, ethics, morality: that is what design stands on.

June 9, 2012

Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire talks about the Grandmothers and the challenges they face to fulfill their mission. Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire was born in Brazil. Growing up in Brazil she saw much war and persecution. At age 17, when pregnant with her daughter, Maria Alice was put in prison and tortured. Her daughter was born after Maria Alice became a political refuge in Europe and Africa before receiving amnesty to return to Brazil where she led a spiritual community in the deepest parts of the Amazon Rainforest reservation. Learn more about the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers here.

To purchase the entire documentary of this teaching on a DVD, visit the Earth & Spirit Council's Website.

Rulan Tangen of dancingearth.org talks about her own work that brings out the themes, philisophies, and world view of our indigenous peoples. Rulan Tangen's  lifetime passion for dance includes international experience in the US, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and South America as a choreographer, performer, teacher, and lecturer. She was filmed and interviewed by Barry Heidt of Sustainabltv.org at the Bioneers 2011 Conference held in San Rafael, California. Video edited by Tom Hopkins of Sustainability Today. To learn more about the Bioneers October 19-21, 2012 annual conference in San Rafael, California, visit their site.

Ted Williams, Tuscarora elder of the Wolf Clan, shares his knowledge and discusses the significance of The Great Law of Peace, which is the oldest and long-lived treaty of peace in the world.

To purchase the entire documentary of this teaching on a DVD, visit the Earth & Spirit Council's Website.

Ms. Yeh continues with her story of using the transformative power of art to impoverished and war-torn communities around the world to foster community empowerment, improve the physical environment, promote economic development and preserve indigenous art and culture.

These are the world's largest defense budgets, broken down by total spent and percentage of world total by continent.

Raw materials, rare-earth metals, conflict minerals are discussed by John Elkington in this interview.

John Elkington is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Volans, co-founder and Non-Executive Director at SustainAbility. He blogs here.  www.johnelkington.com/journal and tweets @volandia. Read the blog at www.kajembren.com

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. It is the most successful viral video to date on YouTube with over 72M views as of February 11th. More information on Invisible Children site.

3BL Media's Lorraine Smith caught up with Tim Mohin Director Corporate Social Responsibility at AMD at the Ethical Sourcing Forum in March, 2011. He talks about the sensitive topic of conflict minerals in the Congo.  The series of interviews by 3BL Media from this forum are available here on EarthSayers.tv.