Voices of Sustainability: This video opened the Ceres Conference 2011, held May 11-12 in Oakland California. It emphasizes the concept of "built to last."

Special thanks to the Skoll Foundation and to TakePart, who produced the film, for purposing the film for the Ceres Conference. Interviews with executives from the conference here.

EarthSayers Special Collection: Artists and Musicians is part of our "Champions" category and features individuals with great gifts who use them to address social, cultural, environmental and/or economic elements of sustainability through their art, music and communications talents. The artist, Chris Jordan's work, as one example, addresses the unconscious behaviors that add up to catastrophic consequences which no one intended. He explores the phenomenon of American consumerism.

Michael Fishbach narrates his encounter with a humpback whale entangled in a fishing net. Gershon Cohen and he have founded The Great Whale Conservancy to help and protect whales.  Join them in helping to save these magnificent beings. Become a Facebook Fan.

The first in a series of short videos dealing with the restoration and health of the biosphere through rediscovering humanities proper place in the web of life - finding our proper place in this inner-connected, inter-dependent planetary ecosystem.  Caroline Fairless is author of the book, The Space Between Church & Not-Church: A Sacramental Vision for the Healing of our Planet. Click on book cover to order your copy. She was ordained in the Episcopal Church and is co-founder of The Center for Children at Worship, a non-profit whose focus is the full inclusion of children in the life of faith communities.The series is being published on her YouTube Channel.