It takes a seed to make everything
The conference was held within the 1st Earth Festival in San Gimignano ‘Biodistretto’ Area, Teatro dei Leggieri, on 31st October 2015
Making Peace with the Earth and Each other
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 2 December 2015 Humanity stands at a precipice. Merely 200 years of a fossil fuel age have driven species and biodiversity to extinction, destroyed our soils, depleted and polluted our water,...
International Workshop on Global Health
The sub-headline of the event organized by ISDE Italy and ISDE Sardinia (International Society of Doctors for the Environment), in cooperation with Navdanya International, was ‘Sardinia Terra Viva – Sardigna Terra Bia’
“Laudatu Si” – A 21st century Manifesto for Earth Democracy
by Dr Vandana Shiva – L’Huffington Post Italia, 19 June 2015 Source : http://www.huffingtonpost.it/vandana-shiva/la-laudato-si-manifesto-del-21-secolo-terra_b_7620852.html Most reports of Pope Francis’s Encyclical in the press before the formal launch yesterday reduced this path breaking document with 246 paras on the contemporary...
Pope Francis: A new ecological Paradigm is necessary
by Manlio Masucci, 17 June 2015 “Pope Francis has shown all of humanity that being truly human means giving up the arrogance of being masters and owners of nature and diverse species Most importantly he has shown that ecological...
The New Democracy is the Democracy of the Earth – Launch of ‘Terra Viva’, Our Soil, Our Commons, Our Future
Press Release, Milan, 2 May 2015 PRESENTATION OF “TERRA VIVA”, CIVIL SOCIETY’S MANIFESTO FOR A NEW SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL PACT IN THE PRESENCE OF VANDANA SHIVA, DON CIOTTI, MARTINA AND BIGGERI
Setting the Record Straight On GMOs
Michael Specter’s story in The New Yorker about Dr. Vandana Shiva’s work to protect public health from the effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) skewed the facts and fell short of the magazine’s usually high standards for fairness. Michael...
Vandana Shiva on ‘Why we march against Monsanto’ – 2014
I send greetings of solidarity for all the people gathered for the March against Monsanto. Marching against Monsanto is marching for freedom and democracy, for health and safety, for People often ask me “Why Monsanto”? My response is, we did...