Tag: Vandana Shiva

  • Synthetic biology: An emperor with no clothes? – By Allison Domicone

    Synthetic biology: An emperor with no clothes? – By Allison Domicone

    Reposted from Policy Matters Journal On September 11, I had the great pleasure of attending a public conversation with one of my heroes, Dr. Vandana Shiva, at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley. Shiva is a highly respected Indian physicist and activist who has for decades been speaking truth to power with an eloquence […]

  • Video: Corporate Biotech Green vs. Ecological Green – Vandana Shiva & Gopal Dayaneni

    Video: Corporate Biotech Green vs. Ecological Green – Vandana Shiva & Gopal Dayaneni

    Vandana Shiva, PhD in conversation with Gopal Dayaneni, of Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project. World renowned environmental philosopher and activist Vandana Shiva illuminates the corporate assault on biological and cultural diversity and helps us connect the dots: What is the East Bay “Green Corridor,” who is creating it, and what does it mean for […]

  • Vandana Shiva – September 11, 7:30 pm PST

    Vandana Shiva – September 11, 7:30 pm PST

    Seeding Labs, Ceding Seeds: Regional And Global Impacts Of The Biotech Bonanza Brower Center’s Goldman Theater  – 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley View the video of the event! Vandana Shiva, PhD in conversation with Gopal Dayaneni, of Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project. World renowned environmental philosopher and activist Vandana Shiva illuminates the corporate assault on […]

  • Vandana Shiva: What is Earth Democracy?

    Excerpted from an interview by Sarah Ruth van Gelder for Yes! Magazine photo by Linda Wolf Vandana Shiva: [Earth Democracy] comes from a very ancient category in Indian thought. Just like Chief Seattle talked about being in the web of life, in India we talk about vasudhaiva kutumbkam, which means the earth family. Indian cosmology […]

  • Green Greed – Seeds of Injustice, By Vandana Shiva

    Green Greed – Seeds of Injustice, By Vandana Shiva

    Originally published on Asian Age and Navdanya.org “The “green economy” agenda… could well become the blueprint for the biggest resource grab in history, with corporations appropriating the planet’s green wealth and biodiversity.” “Big oil, big pharma, big food, big seed companies are joining hands to appropriate biodiversity and biomass — the living carbon, thereby extending […]