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Julia Butterfly Hill: Our Disposability Consciousness is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Julia Butterfly Hill is best known for living in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California Redwood tree for 738 days between December 1997 to December 1999. Hill lived in the tree, known as "Luna," to prevent loggers of the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting it down. In this video for the Global Oneness Project, she discusses our collective disposability consciousness. "When I started thinking about disposability consciousness, I went and asked a lot of native people that I kn...

350.org Founder, Author Bill McKibben on “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet”

Ahead of Earth Day and Cochabamba, Bolivia’s indigenous summit on climate change along with the anticipated unveiling of a Senate climate bill this coming week, Democracy Now spoke with someone who sounded one of the earliest alarms about global warming. In 1989, Author Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature but his warnings were largely ignored. Below are some excerpts from that interview. BILL McKIBBEN: On his new book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet:  Look, the planet that we l...