Arise: Women Protecting The Environment

(Earth Focus: Episode 42) A look at the award-winning film "Arise!" and its documentation of the intellectual and spiritual insights that women from around the world bring to solving today's environmental challenges. Mother/daughter filmmakers Lori Joyce, Candace Orlando, and executive producer Molly Ross reflect on the making of the film.

The episode also profiles four outstanding women environmental leaders: Winona La Duke, executive director of Honor the Earth and founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project at White Earth Reservation in Minnesota; Vandana Shiva, co-director of Navdanya, a movement to protect the diversity of living resources—especially native seed—based in Dehra Dun, India; Majora Carter, an environmental justice advocate from New York City and founder of Sustainable South Bronx; and environmental health analyst, Dr. Theo Coburn, founder and president of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, based in Paonia, Colorado.