Community Videos
What's Behind the Dollar?
Money - where does it come from? Money expert James Bernard Quilligan, Executive Director of the Center for Global Negotiations, describes where U.S. money comes from, and why, even today, all U.S. money comes from the private Federal Reserve Bank, not from the U.S. Treasury. The U.S. currency is to backed only by debt, but this was not always so!
Find out where all that money comes from, with author Krista Keenan.
Healing Rwanda: Jean Paul Samputu and the Forgiveness of Murder
AfroPop Star Singer Jean Paul Samputu speaks of the forgiveness that is healing Rwanda, as neighbors re-discover that they can live together.
Mizero Children was founded by Jean Paul to help heal the 1,000,000 orphans of Rwanda from the genocide, HIV/AIDS - children who can help restore a nation.
Great South Philly Cleanup
Community leader Damon K. Roberts, Esq. and his wife Arline bring together hundreds of people across more than 300 blocks in South Philadelphia, all to take charge of their neighborhoods, to take a stand for quality of life, and make the neighborhood SAFE and CLEAN - the two top priorities.
Damon Roberts describes how the residents of South Philadelphia are taking back their neighborhoods and their quality of life.
Cash Out of Manhattan
Pierre tries to find out why property in Manhattan in New York City is so expensive. So much money is trapped in buildings and land! Is it made of gold? Is it food?
Pierre says that we could help the world so much by selling property in Manhattan, and using the extra good money to help the world.
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 4/22/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 1 min. 30 sec.
Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story
Community By Design
Lawrence New Jersey takes action to design an ecologically sustainable future for itself through a FutureSearch conference. They create a marvelous vision of a livable, productive and sustainable future, using The Natural Step principles.
See: http://sustainablelawrence.org/
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 5/8/2006 Language: English Run Time: 29 min. 48 sec. Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
Graduation Tree
Pierre Invites you to plant a Graduation Tree when you graduate from your school! All over the world, people are planting trees to protect our world - see Plant for the Planet with Felix....
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 11/7/2005 Language: English Run Time: 3 min. 0 sec. Story Level 1 = Intended for all children or adults CC Developing Nations This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Developing Nations license.
Wangari Maathai
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai speaks of the connection between peace and the environment.
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 10/17/2006
Language: English
Run Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
Story Level 1 = Intended for all children or adults
Trash Beach
From toys, to shampoo bottles, to bread wrappers, to car parts, to our shoes and clothes, plastic is everywhere!
But what happens to all that plastic when we are done with it? Where does it end up? People have said that 90% of plastic ever produced is still around today. See the unexpected place Pierre has found our plastic leftovers.
Across the Pacific Ocean and the other great oceans of the world, we find huge piles of garbage collecting along the shorelines - and at the centers of huge ocean currents as they circulate.
Many animals are killed by this trash, this garbage of rope and nets and bottles and shoes - all the stuff we forget, that washes out to sea.
Pierrre and Krista find these on the South Point of the Big Island of Hawai'i.
Language: English
Run Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
Story Level 1 = Intended for all children or adults
Three Farmers, Three Communities
Pierre meets three professional farmers from Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in southeast Pennsylvania in the USA who show how their communities organized to grow great organic food close to homes.
Their food has better quality, better taste and less driving! This is a model for farming close to home, where people need the food! See the farms at: Pennypack Farm or Anchor Run Farm or Blooming Glen Farm
From Forgiveness to Activism: How Michael Berg Lost His Son to Revenge in Iraq Then Found His Voice for Peace
Peace activist Michael Berg's story of the horrific murder of his son, and his personal transformation thereafter into an activist using nonviolent peaceful protest against the war in Iraq.
Produced by: Pierre Terre, 3/11/2007 Language: English Run Time: 23 min. 0 sec. Story Level 3 = 12+ years of age
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
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