Over the course of this past decade, we have grown to expect unlimited and free access to information, whenever and wherever we want it. Despite this, the cost of college tuition has risen more since 1990 than any other good or service, making it impossible for many to acquire a college diploma.Why should education be different? cont.

When we look back at this time a half century from now, how will we feel about our actions (or inactions)? Ana Sofia Joanes, director of the documentary Fresh, compares it to living in Germany during Nazi times, watching atrocities unravel while quietly standing by, doing nothing to fight for what’s right. cont.

Craig King has been involved in the natural foods movement since its early days in Southern California. Influenced by his grandfather who was a chef and grocer, King grew up developing a great appreciation for fresh, whole foods, and became a strong supporter of sustainable farming practices. In the film Here We Grow, King uses interviews with experts, advocates and regular people to tell the story of the current state of our food system. cont.

It all started with Flipper, the beloved cetacean TV star that made us all dream of keeping dolphins in the backyard. Ric O’Barry, the man who captured and trained the five female dolphins who shared the starring role in the series, was once the world’s pre-eminent dolphin trainer, living a carefree life of luxury while establishing a firm bond with the intelligent, social, self-aware animals he came to love like family. cont.

“You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to collect art.” Herbert Vogel, a postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. They lived off of Dorothy’s salary and used Herb’s to collect art. They only had two requirements when purchasing art: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. cont.

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? That is the question filmmaker Robert Kenner poses in Food, Inc., a film premiering on June 12.

The way we produce and consume food has changed more in the last fifty years than it has in the ten thousand years before that, but the image we are sold, on food packaging, in advertising and so on, is still that if a quaint agrarian America, cont.

Cogito Ergo Sum — I think, therefore I am, the statement made by French philosopher René Descartes in the 17th Century seems, in Western society (and largely other cultures throughout the world), to have been replaced with the more consumerist I own, therefore I am. cont.

Josh Tickell grew up in carefree Australia, running around the outback, playing with wild animals and swimming in pristine waters. When moving back to the Louisiana bayou with his American mother, he discovered a desolate wasteland that was merely a shadow of its glorious cajun-spiced past. cont.