Press play: Top 5 Fair Trade vids
Fair Trade is one of those issues many people are simply unsure about. However, there are heaps of amazing online resources that are fun to watch, and totally enlightening. Some are TED talks, and some simple YouTube animated vids. Here are my Top 5 Fair Trade Videos from the web! In a few moments time, you will be 1000% more informed about the issues of Fair Trade than you were before, and all from resources at your fingertips. VOILÁ!
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Oxfam's latest video. Inspired by Coldplay. Starring you.
Wow. We asked you – Coldplay fans, Oxfam supporters and creative geniuses – to send us photos and videos of ordinary things out of place, and you responded in thousands. You sent 7,000 pics and films, from 55 countries, in five continents! (What, no Coldplay fans in Antarctica?)
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Red Carpet, Green Dress
Hollywood heartthrob Bradley Cooper is just the latest in a long line of impressive celebrities to take on The Green Carpet Challenge.
Cooper turned heads at this year’s Golden Globes when he decided to don an eco-friendly tux for the occasion. Designed by Tom Ford, the suit was made from wool certified by Oeko Tex – one of the world’s strictest environmental impact testing systems for textiles.
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What the frack is fracking?
Matt Damon’s new movie Promised Land is about the contamination of 11 families’ water wells in the small town of Dimock, Pennsylvannia, from a controversial method of mining gas called fracking.
It's not just happening in the US though, fracking is headed straight for Australian soil.
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Ugandan youth inspire change via SMS
This awesome clip comes from one of our Oxfam International Youth Partners in Uganda.
Owiny Hakiim, better known as Bigdeal, is helping to promote U Report, a free text messaging service for Ugandan youth to share their ideas, ambitions and worries.
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Female Food Heroes: Tanzania's hit reality TV show
Forget about Australia's Next Top Model, this is Tanzania's Next Top Female Farmer!
Mama Shujaa wa Chakula, which translates to 'Female Food Hero', is a reality TV program that focuses on the actual reality of being a female food producer in a country affected by climate change, poverty and gender inequality.
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"Cyber bullying is like being punched in the face"- videos that block the punch
The ten winners of the BackMeUp anti-cyberbullying competition have created a 30 second commercial at their film making workshop in Sydney. Two of the winners – Paige and Eloise from South Australia said “It is surreal the way we have got along with each other during this amazing journey no-matter what our experience of film and acting is or where we are from or how old we are we are all entirely supportive of everyone’s decisions, ideas and inputs.”
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Top 5 Series: Documentaries that made a Difference
Nothing like a good doco....especially if it has the power to change the world! Have a look at some which have done just that in our next instalment of our Top 5 series and let us know if you think any are missing.
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Storytelling 101: The Youth Food Movement
3things has been out on the road, travelling this sun baked land for stories of people that are getting up to sustainable, local and just plain inspiring things with a global impact. So without further ado meet the Youth Food Movement, a gang of sustainable riff raff hell bent on changing Australia's approach to food. In world where 1 in 7 people go to bed hungry and 2 out of 3 Australians go to bed over-full we really need the YFM.
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Buffalo girl boxers
...there is a whole underground kid boxing industry in Thailand. Yeah that’s not kick boxing, KID boxing. The ‘sporting’ culture that incorporates the Thai traditions and rituals is important to Thai identity. Children and infants are exposed to rounds of kicking pulling and punching. Doctors are becoming worried about the long term and short term effects of head injuries that children are contracting weekend after weekend.
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