>> women changemakers s around e world. mother and daughter filmmakers. these inspiring women.

>> independent of each other, there is an uprising happening on every continent around the world in response to the injustices against the earth. of a morere of a few sane and just world, spurred on by the numbersrs of individuals who recognize the necessity for change. these women lead us into a journeyy filled with stories that inspire us and challenge us to create change, support and respect all life. leaders inbeen recognizing there wewere probles and understanding there are solutionons around envivironmentalism andnd being t of that change. today the environmental movement is made up of women. >> you can impacact a nation. we feel empowered.

the world is stroke. if we are healthy, the world is healthy. ♪ of funnd a lot selectining the womemen in thihs film and we had a number of criteria. we are looking for all ages s so we had a woman in her mid-20's and one over 80. we had to focus in on who we believed were really out there making a statement and using their voice to great changege. , theis really shows that concererns of a won n in afraa and in n america anand in ecuadr are vevery similarar at core.

we are concerned about the next generation. we concerned about the planet we live on and what is going t o hahappen. we a are concerned a about clear and cleann water and how we are goining to finind our food sours and how we are going to feed our children and feed ththem so ty grow up to be healthy. ♪ >> when it comes to the disappearance of water will it is the women w who do thee strulele. the founder of a farm in india is standing up for the rights of farmers and water. she was inspired by the chp coal women whose current saved their community. they are essential to feeding

their families. she follows in their footstepsp. asrecognizing the earth each time we so the crop, we know we need the corporation -- corporation of the soil. the next step.us every culture in india. >> if you talk about farming in india, it is mostly the women. they are the backbone. it is women who are looking after. , werehe women started using -- wewe were losing our

enenvironment. it will be too late e tomorrow. making food banks. these are not owneded by any busisses, it is owned by committees. there are beekekeepers. , we are alsoerving multiplying this. these food banks are really helpful in making a self- sufficient. heroines are o on t the screenen. i was s drawn to their storiries

becaususe they arare voices thae not normalally heard.. we see at of m male influences throughohot ththe environmental movevement d most of the movementnt and these are e women and minorority women talking about whahat we are doig to the earth and how it is affecting them, their communities, and t their childr. > we want t them to be ererg, passionanate, toto be readyy too and find their own leadershihip strength and to put in that to work on behalf of the planet. ♪ > we are all in this together when we are talkiking about the environmental issues we are facing on this planet. this is what makes these w women special becaususe they transcend all of that.

it i is not who we are or where we come from, it is about how we will leave this planet for the next generation. ♪ >> as she struggles, she stands --to save the indigenous that was passed down by her tribe. her passion and her ability to fight injusticee is transforming her community. >> we are here on the reservation. and we live here in this aria for about 9000 years or so. to go tole who follow the place where the food growth is on the water. . am working on my dress we have a lot of different ways

to dr. our people. they have a significant role in our community. it is those who keep our cultural practices are those who are essential to decision- making, those in charge of water. we have our own ceremony. i try to do my best being a woman in this millennium. it is different than being a woman before. it is challenging. american society is about the individual, separate from the natural world. is the perception that somehow we are smarter. have to work on it because there willll be a fix.

i do not consider myself an activist, i consider myself a responsible person. the reality is we have this privilege of being people who can save mountaintops. we can save a whole species. from damaging a river. it is a big privilege to be the one who can do that. my community here is wealthy. we have good land. we have a lot of fish and dear and wildlife. i did not realize the significance of that until modification. we are restoring this. a lot of our traditional foods are strong and they predate industrial fertilizers.

usually we fertilized with what we have. fish and different things. a lot of our people have diabetes in our community. it is been a rough transition from a traditional system to an industrial system. i want t to restore our food. it is the foundation of our health. i am trying to read localized ththat for our economy. i am trying to keep it here and keep it healthy. enough foodto grow to feed our community. right now loma -- now, we're operating programs. that program provides. you neneed a green economy.

that is not transported 1500 m miles. we need local e energy and you not -- and you're not addicted to other powers. you become responsible. you take responsibility. we did a study a couple of years ago that a portion of our people spend a quarter of their economy on energy. a lot of the work is how to be local. how to g great intellectual property. it will ensure you have a local economy. and we began to look at wind. we have wind o on our reservati. we start working on it in 2003.

weft put up about five. ♪ someone down the road asked how did you do that. we have the foundation and a crane and we put it up. they asked if we could help them. ♪ >> the m main thing g the drives these men his passion and commitmentnt to the earth. they love to get their fingers into it. they love to make a difference. they love toto work from a position o of wherththey are and make something betteter than it was.s. i do not know that they have something that is different from everyone else. i think that it's a seed that is planted in all of us, that given the e right water and the right

motivation and inspiration we can all become leaders like that, from our own perspective. anand i think that is ththe beay of watching these women. i ththink it is one of the e ths that peoplple gravitate to in ts film, because they can see themselves and they can say,, well, if she can do that, i can do that. >> whether we likeke it or noto, sometimes it is as women -- it takes us w women to ststart in e that c change, if f for no other reasason, then to start wiwith ourselves first, then our chchildren and our families. it is by design. we a are made ththat way. and if our heart is in it, you cannot stop us. we are a force to be reckoned with. we just t have to believe that e have enonough power r to get it done.

if you get a woman like that, you better helper or get out of her way -- helelp her or get out of her way. but inin new york city, another hub for urban agriculture, transforming the south bronx into a place where the streets are filling with the sounds of environmental justice, green collar jobs, and sustainability. >> i find it fascinating that during world war ii, 40% of american food production was actually grown in victory gardens. people were growing it in their window boxes, for yards, in pots on their fire escapes. 40% of food production. that is how we ate. i am very disturbed by the fact that our current agricultural system, federally funded most of it, creates the kind of problems that we see right now, the fact that corn and soybeans are so

heavily subsidized that it is the basis of much of the unhealthy food that you find, especially in the portland -- communities around the country. -- in the poorer communities ♪round the country. >> hiperlan -- hi! >> [children singing] ♪ >> this place is so, so very special to me, and even more special when there is lots of beautiful children. i saw you before you all sat down so orderly, and i noticed you were all playing. that is exactly why wanted to make sure there were something like this in this neighborhood.

this was a doubt. and if it had not been for my big dog, about 80 pounds, who pulled me to this place. i was afraid to come in, but i had a big dog. and i realized, this is our ♪aterfront. the question was, how did it feel, i guess, for me when families started to come and spend time in this park, it made me feel really good. there were not many places like this before. we were considered a place where nothing very good or beautiful could be. so to build this place and have people come and be happy in it, i'd made me feel like i had done the right thing. people from outside our community often thought of those inside the c community has not deserving g and that we wouldldt

notice if we did not have anything nice. and i knew that if we built beautiful things, we would treat them nicely and we would treat each other nicely. that is why i wanted to build it. my favorite part is in the middle where they look like these little canoes and boats. they are based on the folks that used to live here many years ago. they were indians, the original people in this community. long before anyone showed up they were here and lived this amazingly beautiful life. this place used to be so green and lush, and literally, everything through here. and people had a lovely lots and they fished in the waters of lot because they were so abundant, abundant with different kinds of fish. when i look at that, it reminds me of what this community used to be and who was supported and

was loved and worked and were shipped here. and it also reminds me of the fact that our future could be wowonderful, t too. >> the cenentral thingng for mes that it jujust takes o one ideae tiny idea a to start a a movemet that sparkrks change from the grasassroots levevel. if you have anan idea, whether you're a woman, a man,n, a chil, go with it and see what may come from i it. that is what we need. we need to collectivelely come together. >> woman, the sun rises and sets on whether you feel the connection between your tears and the toxic rain. the sky is crying. enter craine interrupters, which

are at the criminal level in all spspecies, arere pollutingng thr ththroughout t the world f frome ganges to the great lakes. this doctor has made it her life work to make the world aware of the danger due to these destructors. she speaks to that of which people are afraid to speak. >> i l live in cololorado, a s l totown on the western slope of coloradodo. i love it here. it was living in this spot -- while living in is that of -- it was while living in this valley that i was inspired to go back to collelege at age e 51. i began to inspire -- i bebegano get inspired to look at low levels of toxic c chemicals in e wawater. i was workrking at the universiy of wisconsin under the fishehers department.. over t the years, they deterermd what f fish neededed to be rtocd in the g great lakees because te fish couould not repeproduce ine

grgreat lakes. something was wrong i immediately began looking at the wildlife. we discovever those populationsf animals around the great lakes were just not doing well. it was at that point i began to realize that the kinds of chemicals that we are e getting ininto the mother animals have introduced low levels of toxicic chemicals ininto the bababies. that was the beginning of asking the question of what endocrine disrsruption was. i brought together a v very collect -- e eclectic group of scientists. the first t thing they said is there are a large number of chemicals in the e environment that arere in development, not only in n wildlife, but inin hu. and if we do not abate the by

enviroronmentaexexposure that te see today, we will see why sfunction atat the populationn level. that w was in 199090. here we are 20 years later and no chemical has been banned yet. on the day that the doctors told me i could not back to washington to work, gundndersen energy corp. announced that they hahad gotten drills foror the gd mesa, which h is the big top war that providedes water for evevee on that side of the valley. and sosomeone handnded me thee formula for whwhat they wewere g to use when a fact -- they fracked, and i recognized a lot of chemicals, , but there was oe i did not recognize.

i i called my office and said, t me everything you can about this particular chemical. whenen i beganan to read about t particular chemical, i knew we were facing serious problems. and a year later, someone called me looking for me by the name of lalaura ams.s. she sasaid, my hououse is withi0 feet of f a well. i developed a very where -- a very rare adrenal gland tumor. it was horrible. chills went up and down the back of my neck. i know right where i was when she told me that. it wilill always be with me. and the worst part of it w was that a all the while she was beginnnning to developop this jr this tumor, she had given birth to her daughter.

what we have discovered is that people i immedialy begin to o sw all of the symptoms s of exposue to this -- these nasty chemicals that are coming up with the methane in that natural gas. air pollution is the big proboblem. children especially are vulnerable. there's always something new. discovery is what keeps people like me going. everery day there's someththing beautiful.l. yes, there is bad news, but it's also helping us to try to push policycy in the directioion it s to go.

it is not a local problem, not a state problem mowry countrtry problem. it is an internationonal proble. we should be electing people that repepresent the people anad not ththe corporations. >> i i am maggieie fox and prest and ceo of t the alliance for re climate e protectionon, which in organizatition that former vice president al gore started in 2006-07. it is to work on the solutions run the climate crisis. the first thing i'd bring is a commitmement to and love of the eaearth. and the arts as a suststaining force of life enjoyed -- the earth as a sustaining force of life a and joy for all l things. and that i bring a passion for advocacy andnd change as actionn the partrt of citizens and individuals. and d then i likike to bringng e

together. the fundamental precepts of that is not the win-lose paradigm, but that together we win. that m means all sides firsrst e to understand each other and then find a shared solution. women do that intuitively, whether we are raising children or running corporationons or running advocacy organanizations or running misissions. that is who we are and that is how we lead. >> to all of us ouout there it s time we e all held our h hands together, regardless of f our race, hard drive, our background, or our history -- our race, tried, background, or history. >> it justst because it't's diry women were excluded, it is in

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severine: there's so many ofof you. [laughter] um, my name is severine. he gave me a few more directorships than i deserve, but we'llll let the ship sail for now. um, push. i'm severine. i'm coming to you from northern new york, from the adirondacks, on lake champlain. audience: whoo, whoo! severine: that's my land, um, that i love. and i think in this room are some people who love land. [cheers and apapplause]