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Director Louise Hogarth was first inspired to make a film focused on elephants when working on her film, Angels in the Dust, in South Africa. Angels in the Dust is the true story of Marion Cloete and the orphans she cares for. The stories of the children are interwoven with the dramatic parallel saga of the orphaned elephants of Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa. 
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The expression “to look beyond the horizon” can be understood as meaning to search for new knowledge, or to look towards what we cannot yet fully understand or perceive. The short film program Beyond Horizons focuses on works by artists who question the governance of natural resources in Northern Norway and the High North. An important issue in this regard is the right to the land and the sea. Another core issue is climate change, and the impact local interventions can have on a global scale. By exploring these themes, the artists included in this program imply that we need to think new, or even learn from what we already know to look beyond the given horizons.
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A paracity is an organic structure which can encompass a large number of human individuals. It has some things in common with our current urbanised areas however a paracity is not bound to space. It can live off a currently existing city and inhabit the same space. It can be seen as a second layer on top of a society. A paracity lives off another city like a parasite off its host.
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From an evening hosted by the Gaia Foundation, in London on the 20th November 2013, Charles Eisenstein reflects on the Earth's true nature as a complex living system.
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Together with the European Commission and under the auspices of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, ALTER-Net is pleased to host an international conference on Nature-Based Solutions. Relevant to research in many disciplines and communities, to EU policies and to practitioners, 'Nature and Urban Wellbeing' offers rich possibilities to share, learn and connect.
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Warming and drought are contributing to bigger and more frequent wildfires. A new approach—helping trees get the rain and snowfall they need—could be a model to help forests worldwide.
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This year's theme is "The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business." A few words from the preamble make me raise my eye brows: "political, economic, social and, above all, technological forces... are shifting power from traditional hierarchies to networked heterarchies." That means the false idea of reducing democracy to the singular act of voting every few years is over. People are begging to assert participatory democracy and exercise people power, using many new technologies and methods of interconnection, as levels of confidence in political leadership are dangerously declining around the world.
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The "Rights of Nature" approach promotes a structure of law that recognizes that our living planet has rights of its own.
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This is a very short article about a movie that was director Louise Hogarth. She was inspired to make a campaign when she was working on her movie. It is called the OBC. People in OBC make bracelets out of elephant dung, to support the elephants. They also make notebooks out of elephant dung. These bracelets and other items are given to orphanages. The next generation of crafters are going to be paid with bitcoins. This is going to benefit them and the elephants.
I think that it is cool that people are being creative, using waste, to support elephants and people. Here, in Thailand, elephant dung notebooks and other items made of waste is actually sold. I find it quite interesting that people are being paid with bit coins. I vaguely know what it is, but it is kind of confusing. My dad talks about bit coins sometimes, but I barely know what's going on. I'm pretty sure I'll know what they really are soon.