The Solar System is about to feel the force of the Sun’s power when its magnetic field “flips” in the next few weeks
 

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OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.

The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.

‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.

CAST
• EDGAR MITCHELL – Apollo 14 astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
• RON GARAN – ISS astronaut and founder of humanitarian organization Fragile Oasis
• NICOLE STOTT – Shuttle and ISS astronaut and member of Fragile Oasis
• JEFF HOFFMAN – Shuttle astronaut and senior lecturer at MIT
• SHANE KIMBROUGH – Shuttle/ISS astronaut and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army
• FRANK WHITE – space theorist and author of the book ‘The Overview Effect’
• DAVID LOY- philosopher and author
• DAVID BEAVER – philosopher and co-founder of The Overview Institute
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CREW
Produced by: GUY REID, STEVE KENNEDY, CHRISTOPHER FERSTAD
Director: GUY REID
Editor: STEVE KENNEDY
Director of Photography: CHRISTOPHER FERSTAD
Original Score: HUMAN SUITS
Dubbing Mixer: PATCH MORRISON
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TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Filmed with Canon 5D Mk ii.
Additional footage from NASA / ESA archives
Duration: 19 minutes
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Planetary Collective: planetarycollective.com/
Overview Microsite: overviewthemovie.com/
Human Suits (original score): humansuits.com/

For more information:
The Overview Institute: overviewinstitute.org/
Fragile Oasis: fragileoasis.org/

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How much information do we need? The ‘global financial crisis’ has been revealed to be a scam to pass huge amounts of public money to banks. The super-rich just got richer, they smuggled £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth into offshore accounts – as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together.

Meanwhile, a devastating article published June 6 in the science journal Nature cites 100 papers in summarising what’s known about environmental tipping points. In “Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere,” they put forward evidence that the entire global ecosystem could flip rapidly to a new state with devastating ramifications for billions of people.

Not only are national governments failing to take action, they still work on behalf of (and subsidise) the gargantuan fossil fuel companies who are committed to transferring as much carbon from the ground into the atmosphere as possible. They diffuse the carbon to concentrate their wealth and the public pays for the pollution. Bill McKibben writes: “Given this hard math, we need to view the fossil-fuel industry in a new light. It has become a rogue industry, reckless like no other force on Earth. It is Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization.”

McKibben goes on to argue that the only force powerful enough to stop the planet destroyers at the helms of these behemoths is widespread moral outrage transformed into a campaign of disinvestment. This worked in the 1980s campaign to stop apartheid by demanding divestment from companies doing business in South Africa. It could work again now if we take enough money away from the corporations committing ecocide. A key part of the anti-apartheid campaign was an alliance of artists making potent music.

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This is the animation done by Globaïa for the short film ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ commissionned for the Planet Under Pressure conference.

A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.

Watch the narrated version here: vimeo.com/anthropocene/shortfilm
More on the project here: anthropocene.info
Site: globaia.org
Contact us: info@globaia.org
HD stills of the original animation: igbp.net/5.1081640c135c7c04eb480001217.html

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by Lao Tzu

Do you want to improve the world?
I don’t think it can be done.

The world is sacred.
It can’t be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.

There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a time for being at rest;
a time for being vigorous,
a time for being exhausted;
a time for being safe,
a time for being in danger.

The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle.

Translated by Stephen Mitchell (1988)

Alternative translations here

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Coldcut showcase their version of White Christmas with MC George Bush on vocals and piano, with a message of (global) warming Christmas cheer.

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