Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Going Local Week is August 31 – September 6. All eaters (a.k.a. everyone) can explore the benefits of eating locally produced foods. The challenge encourages participants to include one Indiana grown or produced food in each meal for one week. Invoke Studio’s Laura Henderson (whose championing of the film FLOW earns her a title as honorary Provocatrix), Slow Food Indy and Goose the Market invite you to explore the pleasures and benefits of eating locally grown and produced foods Slow Food style. Discover why Slow and Local is rewarding nutritionally, socially, environmentally and economically. Not to mention delicious!
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
I.O.U.S.A.: Live with Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson & Dave Walker in an exclusive one night event in select movie theatres nationwide on Thursday, August 21st. This event will include the critically-acclaimed documentary, I.O.U.S.A., and a LIVE discussion about America’s economic crisis and what we can do to change course.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Ancient cities, as we find them today, are not impressive sights. All that remains of Çatalhöyük (Chat-al Hoo-yook), one of the world’s first city, is a gullied, pitted mound, floating in a rolling plain of wheat fields. Little is left to show that this place was a primary source of Western civilization, a nexus of trade and ideas for two thousand years, the first organized cosmopolitan city-state, and arguably the source of the Great Mother Goddess religion—the universal faith of Europe, the Near East, and the Far East before the great empires of the Fertile Crescent arose. Hear what it can tell us about life and death today.
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
If they pay attention, the animals at the Zoo would be cheering George Schaller and the finalists for the INdianapolis Prize. You can meet these heroes of animal conservation yourself, and tell them what the animals might want to say.
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Posted in Uncategorized, Events, Environment, Science, China, Way we live, Globalization, Africa, Philanthropy, Citizen Diplomacy, Living Green, Taking action, Families and children, Tibet, photography | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Every other year the Indianapolis Prize honors an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to conservation efforts involving a single animal species or multiple species. Meet 2008 winner George Schaller as well as the other finalists at a gala dinner.
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Posted in Events, Climate change, Environment, Science, China, Business, Education, Globalization, Africa, Philanthropy, Citizen Diplomacy, fundraiser, Tibet, Congo | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Joseph Lehner puts on the coolest monthly event in Indy — Wine Wednesday — at his extremely cool house. This month Joseph shifts the happening to Earth House and takes away the wine … and Provocate is invited to be part of the performance art. Yikes!
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Posted in Events, Foreign policy, Crossing borders, Hoosier history, Poets, Novelists & writers, Environment, Way we live, Music & Motion, Empire, Art, GLOCAL-ization, Africa, Provocate Event, Theatre, urban living, Congo | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Should American companies do the right thing because it’s the right thing or because it’s the profitable thing? Does it make a difference to how the world sees the US? (more…)
Posted in Events, Democracy, Domestic politicking, Foreign policy, Law & justice, Europe, Journalism, Environment, Human and civil rights, China, Business, India, Empire, Globalization, Africa, Poverty, Philanthropy, Morality & Ethics, Inter-cultural communication, Latin America, Japan | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
If the world’s global public health threats are going to be addressed seriously, the United States will have to take the lead. But does that mean the government in DC or American citizens … or both? (more…)
Posted in Events, Foreign policy, Women, Crossing borders, Environment, Human and civil rights, Health & Medicine, Technology, Science, China, Business, Education, Globalization, Africa, Poverty, HIV/AIDS, Philanthropy, Citizen Diplomacy, Families and children, Inter-cultural communication, Kenya, cancer | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Former U.S. Congressman, co-chair of the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group, and member of the War Powers Commission…. Lee Hamilton = The Statesman’s Statesman (more…)
Posted in Events, Democracy, Domestic politicking, Foreign policy, Iraq, Religion, Mexico, Crossing borders, Islam & Muslims, Law & justice, Hoosier history, Europe, Journalism, Spies & Intel, Climate change, Environment, Energy politics, Human and civil rights, Terrorism, Technology, Science, China, India, War & peace, Empire, Globalization, Africa, Poverty, Citizen Diplomacy, Middle East, Afghanistan, Russia, Inter-cultural communication, Pakistan, Darfur, Latin America, Japan, Nukes, Tibet, Iran, Israel | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Four perspectives on American global power: (1) America is rapidly declining to irrelevancy (thank goodness); (2) America is facing the rise of new wannabe empires, so has to accommodate them in cooperative institutions; (3) reports of America’s decline have been rampant since before the US rose, and are still premature (thank goodness); (4) like it or not, for good or for ill the US will be Top Dog for a long time, but that shouldn’t distract us from figuring out how we here can help solve global problems. Guess which is Provocate’s preferred position? (more…)
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