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Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed | DW Documentary
Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed | DW Documentary Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 30 Views • 5 years ago

Can money and power ever make us happy? How much is enough? Our constant desire for more is part of our human nature.

Some call it a useful dowry of evolution, others a fault in the human genetic make-up: The old mortal sin Greed seems to be more ubiquitous than ever. Why can't people ever get enough, where is this self-indulgence leading - and are there any ways out of this vicious circle of gratification?

"People like to have a lot of stuff because it makes them the feeling of living forever," says American social psychologist Sheldon Solomon, who believes today's materialism and consumerism will have disastrous consequences.

Anyone who fails to satisfy his or her desires in this age of the Ego is deemed a loser. But with more than 7 billion people on the Earth, the ramifications of this excessive consumption of resources are already clear. Isn’t the deplorable state of our planet proof enough that "The Greed Program," which has made us crave possessions, status and power, is coming to an end? Or is the frenzied search for more and more still an indispensable part of our nature? We set off to look for the essence of greed. And we tell the stories of people who - whether as perpetrators or victims or even just as willing consumers - have become accomplices in a sea change in values.

Check out our web special:
http://www.dw.com/en/tv/greed/s-32898
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Permaculture Tools for Soil Repair | Agroforestry, Alley Cropping, Tree Planting & Water Mgt.
Permaculture Tools for Soil Repair | Agroforestry, Alley Cropping, Tree Planting & Water Mgt. Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 22 Views • 5 years ago

Imagine transforming barren and empty landscapes into abundant food forests, layered with mangoes, legumes, garlic, herbs and corn.

SwaYYam in South India is doing just this by using agroforestry and alley cropping to revitalise soils, produce an abundance of crops and educate local farmers.

Agroforestry and alley cropping allow multiple crops to be stacked in one space, with tree crops providing shelter for low-lying plants and holding water in the soil with their roots. Fast growing biomass plants are used as groundcover and then as a mulch to feed the soil. Nitrogen-fixers make nitrogen available in the soil for other plants and a range of crops are grown for year-round food.

Swales and ploughing on the contour work with the land's orientation to maximise water capture. Deep irrigation and pitcher irrigation take water deep to the roots of trees, especially young sapling plantings.

SwaYYAm and their educational centre, Open Shell Farm, enables local farmers to learn regenerative farming methods, helping them create their own sustainable incomes through healthy soils and bountiful harvests.

SwaYYAm is a recipient of the 2020 Permaculture Magazine Prize:
https://www.permaculture.co.uk..../articles/2020-perma

Malvikaa from SwaYYam shares the story of the project and some of their techniques in PM108: https://www.permaculture.co.uk/issue/summer-2021

Afterglow: Dispatches from the Birth of the Universe | 2014
Afterglow: Dispatches from the Birth of the Universe | 2014 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 37 Views • 5 years ago

Cosmology is the one field in which researchers can—literally—witness the past. The cosmic background radiation, ancient light streaming toward us since the Big Bang, provides a pristine window onto the birth and evolution of the universe. Already, the radiation has been key to confirming an early explosive expansion of space, determining the geometric shape of the universe and identifying seeds that resulted in galaxies. Now, the cosmic background radiation is poised to reveal when the first stars formed, what happened in the fraction of a second after the Big Bang, and the answers to a host of other bold questions about the cosmos. Join Nobel Laureate John Mather and other leading scientists who are leading the way.

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Original Program Date: May 31, 2012
MODERATOR: Lawrence Krauss
PARTICIPANTS: John C. Mather, Amber Miller, Lyman Page, David Spergel

Lawrence Krauss's Introduction 00:00

Robert Woodrow Wilson: Tuning in to the Big Bang 10:31

Participant introductions. 18:10

What lead you to the path of science? 20:45

Launching the COBE satellite. 32:45

Measuring temperatures 1/100,000 of three degrees. 36:50

When your wrong ... you move on. 41:34

The boomerang experiment from Antarctica. 46:54

How big is the universe? 52:43

How far back in time can we see? 58:54

Amber Miller and the EBEX project. 1:02:14

Polarization from gravity waves from the beginning of time. 1:06:16

What is the future of measuring the universe? 1:12:26

What is a microwave? Are we sure matter exists? 1:20:54

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