As world leaders bicker and stumble to find common ground to stop global warming and environmental destruction, young people worldwide are taking up the fight for their own survival. "Beyond Green" is about their fight. In collaboration with Adobe Youth Voices, Listen Up! is working with youth filmmakers in nine countries to tell personal stories about youth addressing local environmental crises and what they’re doing about it.
In Africa's largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, youth band together to offer alternatives for people without running water and adequate sanitation. On the other side of the Atlantic, youth-led "Toxic Soil Busters" make it their business to get lead out of the ground and their community. And below the equator, indigenous youth from rural Colombia, pressed as young children into harvesting coca leaves, now work with the "Indigenous Guard," a group that seeks non-violent means to defend indigenous rights and teach local culture. These, as well as stories by youth in Armenia, Cuba, Brazil, India, Serbia, Thailand and five more cities in the USA, comprise the Beyond Green compilation, the follow up to our Peabody Award-winning “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet.”
As world leaders bicker and stumble to find common ground to stop global warming and environmental destruction, young people worldwide are taking up the fight for their own survival. "Beyond Green" is about their fight. In collaboration with Adobe Youth Voices, Listen Up! is working with youth filmmakers in nine countries to tell personal stories about youth addressing local environmental crises and what they’re doing about it.
In Africa's largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, youth band together to offer alternatives for people without running water and adequate sanitation. On the other side of the Atlantic, youth-led "Toxic Soil Busters" make it their business to get lead out of the ground and their community. And below the equator, indigenous youth from rural Colombia, pressed as young children into harvesting coca leaves, now work with the "Indigenous Guard," a group that seeks non-violent means to defend indigenous rights and teach local culture. These, as well as stories by youth in Armenia, Cuba, Brazil, India, Serbia, Thailand and five more cities in the USA, comprise the Beyond Green compilation, the follow up to our Peabody Award-winning “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet.”
| By: Beyond Green | |
| Location: Various, Worldwide | |
| Class of: 2009 - 2010 | Views: 47691 |
In the tradition of Colombia’s Nasa indigenous people, Edilfredo’s mother buried his umbilical chord to honor Edilfredo’s first tie to Mother Earth. The challenges of violence an alcoholism in rural Colombia have strained Edilfredo’s close ties to the Earth and at 13 years old he began harvesting coca leaves for export an even considered joining an armed militia group. Edilfredo, who is now 17, has rediscovered his connection with the Earth and is working with the Indigenous Guard to cultivate diverse crops that nourish the human body, the indigenous spirit and the natural environment.
In the tradition of Colombia’s Nasa indigenous people, Edilfredo’s mother buried his umbilical chord to honor Edilfredo’s first tie to Mother Earth. The challenges of violence an alcoholism in rural Colombia have strained Edilfredo’s close ties to the Earth and at 13 years old he began harvesting coca leaves for export an even considered joining an armed militia group. Edilfredo, who is now 17, has rediscovered his connection with the Earth and is working with the Indigenous Guard to cultivate diverse crops that nourish the human body, the indigenous spirit and the natural environment.
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Sxabue's Umbilical Cord

