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The story of stuff project started with one general video on how our industrial life cycle of the products we are consuming is hurting our planet and environment where we are living.

The project now produced more easily understandable videos about specific topics like bottled water, cosmetics and cap and trade.

Schöne Beiträge aus der Sendung mit der Maus

Ich möchte hier meinen derzeitigen Lieblingspodcast im poltisch, journalistischen Bereich vorstellen:

HR2-Kultur: Der Tag

In täglichen Beiträgen werden aktuelle Thematiken interessant ver- und aufbearbeitet.

Interesting project on alternative development: The Venus Project

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth's ecosystems.

Muy buena pelicula hecho de unos estudiantes alemanes en Nicaragua.
En conjunto con la gente attendiendo un taller de escenaria se desarollo la historia de un nino en leon, que quiere realizar su sueno...
La pelicula esta tratando muchas aspectos de la vida nicaraguense, enfocando la miseria de una familia pobre y en especial la vida de Carlos, el hijo major de la familia.
mas informacion: www.planetcarlos.de

se puede bajar en los landesfilmdiensten
http://www.bmz.de/de/service/infothek/bildung/filme/ausleihadressen.html

Der Film HOME ist kostenlos unter youtube.com/homeproject anzuschauen (in Englischer Sprache mit vielen Untertiteln).
Ein sehr schöner Film über die Entstehung des Lebens, die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen, die Mensch-Umweltbeziehung und die Probleme unseres Gesellschaftssystems.
Untermalt mit wirklich Beeindruckenden Bildern aus der Vogelperspektive rüttelt dieser Film auf-wunderschön und doch so häßlich.

sehr sehenswert!

By accident I found this UN report on illegal resources exploitation in the DR Congo. This unfurtunate region have to live with violence, war and displacements since decades, due to its richness of natural resources that a crucial for the world economy. 60% of the world deposits of the mineral tantalum (electronics), 30-40% of Cobalt (batteries, semicoductors), almost the same for Coltan, Diamants, Niobium, Gold are located in the eastern part of the Country. Warlords, Paramilitary Groups and offical Forces are trying to get control

This very impressive animation "the Master Plan-about the power of google", was directed and produced by Ozan Halici & Jürgen Mayer as their Bachelors's Thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany. Google is mainly criticised for its cooperation with Governments in censoring content.(Try out how it feels using google in china) Furthermore the companies data privacy policy and data collection for personalized advertisement is heavily criticised because it may enable google to give a detailed p

The image fulgurator won the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica 2008.

The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything.

The process of learning is what happens all the time during all our life and makes us to the human beings we are. Through wisdom and knowledge we make decisions and take responsibilty. The Travelling school of life is an interactive website for connecting people who want to share skills and knowledge among each other and find alternative, individual ways of learning.