Irish Green Party Holds YouTube Video Competition – Where’s the Beef?

The Irish Green Party launched a video contest on YouTube, hoping to utilize the social network to build a stable of green message videos makers as well as messages. Now, at it’s end, the contest has 8 videos entries, not all of them clearly on message. It’s a great idea for a grassroots party, but the lack of participation spells disaster. So, where are all the green videographers?

Irish Green Party YouTube Competition

The Irish Green Party launched a video contest on YouTube, hoping to utilize the social network to build a stable of green message videos makers as well as messages. Now, at it’s end, the contest has 8 videos entries, not all of them clearly on message. It’s a great idea for a grassroots party, but the lack of participation spells disaster. So, where are all the green videographers?

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Irish Green Party YouTube Competition

The Irish Green Party launched a video contest on YouTube, hoping to utilize the social network to build a stable of green message videos makers as well as messages. Now, at it’s end, the contest has 8 videos entries, not all of them clearly on message. It’s a great idea for a grassroots party, but the lack of participation spells disaster. So, where are all the green videographers?

Eco-Savvy Storytellers watching the greening of politics.

Irish Green Party YouTube Competition

The Irish Green Party launched a video contest on YouTube, hoping to utilize the social network to build a stable of green message videos makers as well as messages. Now, at it’s end, the contest has 8 videos entries, not all of them clearly on message. It’s a great idea for a grassroots party, but the lack of participation spells disaster. So, where are all the green videographers?

Eco-Savvy Storytellers watching the greening of politics.

Monsanto Seeds Sustainable Agriculture Greenwash

This Greenwash moment is brought to us by Monsanto who intends to meet the challenges of tomorrow by redefining “sustainability”.

From the Monsanto website:

By 2030, Monsanto commits to help farmers produce more and conserve more by:

• Developing improved seeds that help farmers double yields from 2000 levels for corn, soybeans and cotton, with a $10 million grant pledged to improve wheat and rice yields.
• Conserving resources through developing seeds that use one-third fewer key resources per unit of output to grow crops while working to lessen habitat loss and improve water quality.
• Helping improve the lives of all farmers who use our products, including an additional five million people in resource-poor farm families by 2020.

That’s sustainable agriculture. And that’s what Monsanto seeds are all about.

Monsanto was primarily a chemical company, prior to focusing on the seed market. It helped us keep our lawns green with toxic herbicides now known to be carcinogenic. In 1980, concurrent with the Reagan Administration, the United States Patent and Trademark Office began to grant patents on seeds. Since then, Monsanto has purchased seed companies worldwide and has become the leader in genetic modification of seeds, monopolizing control of food production through a combination of its seed and pesticide sales. It systematically uses legislative pressure and lawsuits to fight the blocking efforts of farmers and stores who reject their products.

This Vanity Fair article, “Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear” provides a fascinating and well-researched piece on Monsanto’s march to monopolize the seed market. It illustrates that Monsanto’s definition of “sustainable” is about sustaining itself.

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Monsanto Seeds Sustainable Agriculture Greenwash

This Greenwash moment is brought to us by Monsanto who intends to meet the challenges of tomorrow by redefining “sustainability”.

From the Monsanto website:

By 2030, Monsanto commits to help farmers produce more and conserve more by:

• Developing improved seeds that help farmers double yields from 2000 levels for corn, soybeans and cotton, with a $10 million grant pledged to improve wheat and rice yields.
• Conserving resources through developing seeds that use one-third fewer key resources per unit of output to grow crops while working to lessen habitat loss and improve water quality.
• Helping improve the lives of all farmers who use our products, including an additional five million people in resource-poor farm families by 2020.

That’s sustainable agriculture. And that’s what Monsanto seeds are all about.

Monsanto was primarily a chemical company, prior to focusing on the seed market. It helped us keep our lawns green with toxic herbicides now known to be carcinogenic. In 1980, concurrent with the Reagan Administration, the United States Patent and Trademark Office began to grant patents on seeds. Since then, Monsanto has purchased seed companies worldwide and has become the leader in genetic modification of seeds, monopolizing control of food production through a combination of its seed and pesticide sales. It systematically uses legislative pressure and lawsuits to fight the blocking efforts of farmers and stores who reject their products.

This Vanity Fair article, “Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear” provides a fascinating and well-researched piece on Monsanto’s march to monopolize the seed market. It illustrates that Monsanto’s definition of “sustainable” is about sustaining itself.

Eco-Savvy Storytellers watching the greening of politics.

Democracy Now Discusses Significance of Historic Run with Green Party Presidential Candidate McKinney

This video, while two weeks old, is still timely, given the concern of little media attention provided to a third party villified for having “spoiled” the election in 2000. Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney speaks with Amy Goodman about the international significance of the Green Party and the responsibility the Party has to state its case and be heard. Vice-Presidential Running Mate, Rosa Clemente, who is a hip-hop activist and journalist, also spoke to Goodman about the media “whiteout”, a term used to describe the perceived suppression of the voices of people of color by media gatekeepers .

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Democracy Now Discusses Significance of Historic Run with Green Party Presidential Candidate McKinney

This video, while two weeks old, is still timely, given the concern of little media attention provided to a third party villified for having “spoiled” the election in 2000. Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney speaks with Amy Goodman about the international significance of the Green Party and the responsibility the Party has to state its case and be heard. Vice-Presidential Running Mate, Rosa Clemente, who is a hip-hop activist and journalist, also spoke to Goodman about the media “whiteout”, a term used to describe the perceived suppression of the voices of people of color by media gatekeepers .

Eco-Savvy Storytellers watching the greening of politics.

A message of Praise to Ingrid Betancourt

from Attendees of the 2008 Green Party of the United States National Convention

More information on Ingrid Betancourt

A message of Praise to Ingrid Betancourt

from Attendees of the 2008 Green Party of the United States National Convention

More information on Ingrid Betancourt

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