Protecting New Mexico’s centuries-old water democracy
Water is life and it's meant to be shared.
#newmexico #water #democracy #waterislife #indigenous #acequias #irrigation #ditches #commons #agriculture #life
#waterislife
The Rights of Rivers
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/12/02/rivers-right-to-flow
Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity.
#nature #environment #watersheds #waterways #rivers #water #rights-of-nature #rights-for-nature #personhood #waterislife #conservation #preservation #protection #yesmagazine
Navy Agrees To Comply With Hawaii’s Order To Drain Red Hill Fuel Facility
‘Under the #order, the #Navy is required to #drain its #fuel and may only refuel in the #future if it can meet #state #safety #standards. If it cannot do so, the Navy will have to #move its estimated #180-million-gallons of fuel #elsewhere.’
‘The only acceptable course of action after #defueling the #RedHill #tanks is what #Oahu #Water #Protectors have always insisted is the only #safe option: #ShutDownRedHill. #PERMANENTLY!’
#redhill #toxic #jet-fuel #tank-farm #facility #contamination #crisis #emergency #pacific #island #oahu #hawaii #military #pollution #health #safety #investigation #poison #environment #ecology #aquatic #life #waterislife
River
A profound cinematic and musical reflection on how rivers have shaped both the planet’s elaborate landscapes and all human existence.
Throughout history, rivers have shaped our landscapes and our journeys; flowed through our cultures and dreams. River takes its audience on a journey through space and time; spanning six continents, and drawing on extraordinary contemporary cinematography, including satellite filming, the film shows rivers on scales and from perspectives never seen before. Its union of image, music and sparse, poetic script create a film that is both dream-like and powerful, honouring the wildness of rivers but also recognising their vulnerability.
River is the sequel to the 2017 hit documentary Mountain, reuniting the creative team of director Jennifer Peedom, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, narrator Willem Dafoe and writer Robert Macfarlane.
#RiverFilm #RiverDocumentary #documentary #film #river #wildness #rivers #water #watershed #waterways #waterislife #AustralianChamberOrchestra #DocumentaryAustraliaFoundation #WillemDafoe #RobertMacfarlane #SimonNjoo #Jo-anneMcGowan #JenniferPeedom #Dogwoof #MadmanFilms #StrangerThanFictionFilms #docu-films
Governments have largely ignored the voices of Indigenous peoples
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-largely-voices-indigenous-peoples.html
#nature #environment #stewardship #water #waterislife #indigenous #peoples #SueJackson #LesleyHead #physorg
Rights for Rivers: Fighting for the Legal Rights of Nature
https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/07/06/rights-of-nature-conservation
#nature #environment #rivers #legalrights #rights-of-nature #rights-for-nature #watershed #waterways #watersheds #waterislife #yesmagazine
Water is Love
The climate crisis is changing everything, and humanity finds itself at a crossroads.
Unprecedented wildfires, floods and droughts rage across the planet; millions rise for radical climate action; and still, governments continue to prioritize short-term profits over everyone’s future.
Will our species continue our current trajectory towards extinction or will we enter into a synergistic cooperation with Earth?
This documentary will invite us to make sense of the climate crisis as a moment of possibility for regeneration and systemic change. We go on a journey to discover how a renewed relationship to water and each other can enable us to regenerate damaged ecosystems and and heal trauma, in the face of a radically changing world. We explore how healing love and restoring the broken relations between one another and healing our broken relation with the Earth are mutually interdependent.
Featuring stories of Indigenous elders and community leaders, regenerative design experts and activists.
#waterislove #documentary #film #series #narture #environment #ecosystem #climate #crisis #regeneration #systemic #change #waterislife #interdependence #Sankalpa #FenwickFoundation #Tamera #TameraMedia #docu-films
Water Flows Together
For time immemorial, the Diné (Navajo) have considered the San Juan River sacred. Centuries-old stories and teachings connect the people with the river as it continues to serve as a physical and spiritual resource for the peoples who rely on it. Yet at the same time, economic and social barriers have kept the number of Native people recreating on the San Juan to a minimum, and trends of globalization and urbanization continue to widen the gap between many Navajo and the natural world.
Created by SpruceTone Films, Water Flows Together is told from Colleen Cooley’s perspective, exploring the ways in which her upbringing and her native identity have shaped the way she interacts with the world. The film is a meditation on the challenges Colleen and her community have faced, the unique relationship she has with the San Juan River, and the unique opportunities her role as a river guide affords as she seeks to create positive change.
#WaterFlowsTogether #waterislife #water #reconnection #ColleenCooley #nature #environment #stewardship #AmericanRivers
When the River Runs Dry
In January 2019, a viral video showed grown men near Menindee weeping as they held dead Murray Cod, decades old, which had perished in yet another environmental disaster. Australians were horrified, and politicians blamed drought, while ecologists and water management specialists claimed it was due to the over-allocation and over-extraction of water.
Two weeks later, it was forgotten.
News that the Darling River, or Barka, as it is known to its people, was in a state of ecological collapse had disappeared from the media and, although people were shouting about what was happening, no one was listening. Who was to blame? And what could be done?
Director’s Statement:
When the River Runs Dry was born on an impulse. In January 2019, images and videos began to filter through social media of a massive fish-kill on the Darling/Baarka River near Menindee in NSW. The devastating sight of enormous Murray Cod, dead in a man’s arms, led first to distress, and then anger.
Sensing that this was a pivotal moment in Australia’s environmental history, we, (Peter Yates and Rory McLeod) moved quickly, and were on the road to Menindee within a few hours, to document the event and its impact on the people of the river.
We arrived too late in Menindee – all the fish had sunk to the bottom, leaving only foul green water and a horrible stench. Then began a harrowing period, interviewing people, camping by and filming the remains of the Darling, simply capturing the moment. Problems on the Darling had been on the periphery of many people’s awareness for years, but now here was ‘the bill’, the cost of over-extraction of water and institutional indifference manifest in a dying river.
We did not approach the research and filming of When the River Runs Dry from a partisan position, unless that partisan position was the side of the River. It simply could not be right that where the Darling was not dry it was a lurid green, and that millions of fish were dying.
With his background in anthropology, it was the most natural thing for Peter to interview the people of the river – the #Barkindji, and to hear their stories of disenfranchisement: anguished wounds that stretched back over generations, but which now bled afresh with the realisation that the #Baarka, their Mother, was close to ecological death.
To the voices of indigenous people, we added balance and explanation in the form of interviews with eminent scientists, other community members who were affected, and environmental lawyers.
Interviews were to be shot using predominantly natural light in locations relevant to the subject matter which was generally along the river. This was a story of loss, but it was important to show that there was still plenty to save along the Darling/Baarka.
To show some of the things still there we focused on bird life, particularly around the river floodplains and the dwindling #Menindee lakes. The on-going drought in western NSW provided ample opportunity (shifting sands, starving kangaroos) to build a sense of the catastrophe that was engulfing ordinary people and the land. That this catastrophe was is large part man-made is conveyed through footage of the dry riverbed, off-take pipes, massive earth-wall dams and laser-levelled irrigation farms: mute testament to a river system drained of its resilience.
#WhenTheRiverRunsDry #documentary #film #Darling #river #water #extraction #scarcity #resources #watershed #indigenous #people #community #waterislife #Australia #PeterYates #RoryMcLeod #docu-films
▫ÀQUA DE BEBER▫
🤎Mini 📷18.07.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland #WaterIsLife 🦔
▫Sippin´▫
📷17.07.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #orava #squirrel #SciurusVulgaris #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland #WaterIsLife 🐿🤎
🐝💛Bumblebee Bar💛🐝
During this summer´s prolonged drought and extremely high temperatures all nature has been struggling to survive.
At one point I started noticing bumblebees flying around quite disoriented and even ending up drowning in the water bowls I´ve got in several places for wild animals.
So, in an effort to help these Mother Nature´s essential workers , I started providing them with honey water in the hot days and evenings towards the end of June. These guys took the offer screa... sorry, buzzing , and even though the weather has finally cooled off a bit, keep arriving daily in the late afternoons. At best I have counted 30+ bumblebees at one time having a drink !
And this is kinda cool: WE NOW HAVE OUR OWN AIR FORCE ❕😁
📷 15.07.2021 #TeamSintti #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #kimalainen #bumblebee #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland #EssentialWorkers #WaterIsLife🐝💛
"Dude, I really need a drink"
You go right ahead, buddy, it´s on the house !
PLEASE DON´T FORGET OUR LITTLE ANIMAL FRIENDS DURING THESE EXCEPTIONAL HEATWAVES...
FOR HEDGEHOGS, BIRDS, SQUIRRELS AND OTHERS, EASY ACCESS TO FRESH WATER COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE & DEATH ❕
🤎Sipe 📷 18.06.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #animalwelfare #kesä #summer #luonto #nature #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland #WaterIsLife 🦔
Water wells are at risk of going dry in the US and worldwide
https://theconversation.com/water-wells-are-at-risk-of-going-dry-in-the-us-and-worldwide-160147
https://www.dhakatribune.com/climate-change/2021/05/04/water-is-life
"Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink"
#water #wells #us #worldwide #bangladesh #paniijibon #environment #climatechange #drinking #shortage #groundwater #aquifers #crisis #helvetas #agriculture #irrigation #conservation #quality #security #videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ak283B__Ns
Moving Upstream – Ganga
This documentary, filmed on a walk along River Ganga, is part of Veditum India Foundation’s Moving Upstream project. The walk took place between June 2016 and April 2017, starting from Ganga Sagar in West Bengal and finishing at Gangotri in Uttarakhand.
Initiated with an intention to document the river and life of the riparian community of River Ganga, the project attempts to amplify the voices and concerns of the river people, woven together through the medium of the walk.
The documentary film will now take centerstage in Veditum’s continued advocacy and educational efforts on issues related to rivers of India.
This project would not have been possible without the generous support of hundreds of friends, strangers & partners who supported our crowdfunding campaigns and shared their knowledge, resources and connections. But most of all, it is the people of the river who really made this film possible with their stories and who provided food, shelter and warmth without hesitation.
#MovingUpstream #documentary #film #nature #environment #river #Ganga #India #water #waterislife #people #way-of-life #ShridharSudhir #VeditumIndiaFoundation #docu-films
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/sustenance
Sustenance
Sustenance is a feature-length documentary about food’s journey around the world, exploring controversies revolving around food and its interconnectedness with justice, climate change, and sustainability.
Breaking bread during a reunion, a group of friends become curious about the sustainability of their eating regiments. They instigate a challenge and send the filmmaker on a quest to investigate the credibility and ethicality of their eating ideologies. The friends come from different backgrounds and live in Toronto, Canada; a multicultural megalopolis. What follows takes the filmmaker on a global odyssey, far beyond the borders of Canada. As she digs deeper she realizes the inconvenient truths not only about the environmental catastrophes caused by our dependence on mainstream food production methods, but also by the cataclysmic social justice impact of our eating habits in the global south.
During her quest for Sustenance the filmmaker comes vis-à-vis the inevitability of our reliance on animal-source foods if we want to tackle the sustainability problem and live harmoniously with the other sojourners of our planet. She meets some of the most renowned contemporary food activists that elucidate this critical concept and provide their solutions; figures such as Lierre Keith, Allan Savory, Joel Salatin, Nora Gedgaudas, and Derrick Jensen.
The documentary unfolds many popular myths on topics such as plant-based diets, healthy and nutritional foods, ethical eating, food politics, industrial agriculture, and how to attain a sustainable lifestyle. Sustenance focuses on an outspoken socio-political approach to discovering where our food really comes from and how it genuinely affects the health of other people, other species, and ultimately our planet. While the documentary’s content focuses on an informative yet shocking look at the history of food politics, the meditative cinematic journey around the world allows spectators to reconnect with nature and Earth’s sustenance.
#Sustenance #documentary #film #nature #food #food-growing #food-growers #organic #organics #sustainableliving #sustainablelife #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #holistic-management #permaculture #sustainability #resilience #regeneration #waterislife #naturelover #interconnectedness #LierreKeith #JoelSalatin #NoraGedgaudas #AllanSavory #DerrickJensen #YasiGerami #SustenanceDocumentary #BluearthFilms #CounterMedia #docu-films