Love In Action
Creativity is the essence of our being; it is the foundation for everything that is happening in the world around us and the foundation for problem solving. Indian scholar and environmental activist, Vandana Shiva sits down with Deepak Chopra to explain her thoughts and ideas surrounding creativity, evolution, controversial topics about the environment and the driving forces which influence Mother Earth. This eye-opening discussion will disrupt your conventional understandings of hunger, the environment, nutrition, life, and death.
1:02:03 | 2014
Besides being a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of numerous books, Vandana Shiva is a tireless defender of the environment. She is the founder of Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers’ rights. She is also the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. Shiva fights for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food: “I don't want to live in a world where five giant companies control our health and our food.” Intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, and genetic engineering are among the fields where Shiva has contributed intellectually and through activist campaigns.
Her writings include Staying Alive, The Violence of the Green Revolution, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, Monocultures of the Mind, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, as well as over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.