Film: Seeds - a documentary film (Merge:Media, 2004)

I attended the New York premiere of a documentary made by Marjan Safinia and Joseph Boyle about participants in the 2002 session of the Seeds of Peace International Camp in Maine, which hosts 12 to 16-year-olds from regions of conflict around the world. The film has some extremely powerful moments. See Film web site.

Photo

Here's a photo taken on May 25th.

Books: Zen and the Art of Making a Living, The Tao of Abundance

Laurence Boldt has written some literature, wise and practical books. I like to recommend these two in particular:

• The Tao of Abundance


• Zen and the Art of Making a Living

My Favorite Quotes

I've put online my collection of favorite Quotes.

White House Official Rewrites Reports of Gov't Scientists on Climate Change (New York Times, June 8th)

Andrew Revkin's article Official Played Down Emissions' Links to Global Warming in the New York Times June 8th edition documents how White Employee Phil Cooney altered the text of 2002 and 2003 reports on Climate Change issued by the US government, so that the direct sense of the scientific assessment was watered down indicating far more uncertainty than actually exists. He did this late in the reviewing process so that scientists did not see the changes until the reports were issued.

See also Joint Science Academies Statement: Global Response to Climate Change.

Nicholas D, Kristof: Uncover Your Eyes (Darfur) (New York Times)

Amazing lack of bold action by US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and US President George W. Bush on Darfur, Sudan. See Uncover Your Eyes from the June 7, 2005 issue of the New York Times.

Film: Mad Hot Ballroom (Marilyn Agrelo, Amy Sewell, Sabine Krayenbuhl, Claudia Raschke-Robinson)

This amazing documentary about 5th graders in 3 schools in New York City, and their teachers, is a delight. High Recommended!

See www.paramountclassics.com/madhot.

The Genographic Project: National Geographic, IBM and Scientists Study Human Migration over the last 60,000 years

See The Genographic Project, a National Geographic and IBM Research-led study of Human Origins and Migrations, which will be collecting DNA samples from many indigenous groups as well as from a broad sample of the public in developed regions. Population geneticists, anthropologists, linguists, and original peoples' advocates have enthusiastically joined in this study, which has significant protections for privacy. If you contribute your DNA sample, you will receive a password to a web site where over time, more and more details of how your DNA compares to that collected from various peoples in regions of the globe will be specified.

Darfur: Lives Destroyed by Physicians for Human Right

There is a 5 minute long web movie about a visit to Darfur in early 2005 by a delegation from Physicians for Human Rights. See http://www.phrusa.org/sudan/flash/.