Please don’t support sweatshops

If you’re vegan, if you’re a human rights activist, if you care about justice and fairness at all – please do not support sweatshops. Shira and I buy our undies and socks and such from companies that use fair trade organic cotton and hemp and which pay their workers a fair wage. (For other stuff [...]

Shirari Peace and Love Podcast #7: May Day 2012

In honor of International Workers Day and the Mayan calendar, we offer a 7th installment of Shirari’s Peace and Love Podcast. (Our last episode was way back in February 2009!) Listen for an update on our lives, our perspective on Occupy and 2012 and the idea of apocalypse, activist resources and tips, and a general [...]

Two shoots to go, and we’re screening in less than a month!

Empowered is a film Shira’s been working on for months and months with our friend Suzanne McMannis, the producer. I just finished the site for it and am psyched that we’ll have a place to share all the photos and videos emerging from the production. It’s been really cool getting to know more about the [...]

Press: Shira and Share Tompkins in Tompkins Weekly

On April 27th, McKenzie Jones-Rounds and I were invited to speak about Share Tompkins as part of the panel discussion following the community screening of the film The Economics of Happiness. The event was featured in an article by Eric Banford in the May 2-8 issue of Tompkins Weekly. You can read the full article [...]

Video: Intro to New Earth Living

I just made this video for an amazing new cohousing project, which is being developed in downtown Ithaca by Susan Cosentini. Ari is making the website, which will be launching soon at newearthliving.net Intro to New Earth Living from Shira Golding on Vimeo.

Vote for Shira’s Design

Please vote on my design for the Cereplast bioplastics logo competition. When you go to the site, start choosing between the one you like the most until mine pops up (you can vote as many times as you want): I tried my best to follow their specs: The symbol should be a symbol to represent [...]

Video: Empowered Sneak Peek, a documentary about energy independence

“Empowered” Sneak Peek from Shira Golding on Vimeo. For the last few months I’ve been working with local activist and off-grid homesteader Suzanne McMannis on a documentary called Empowered. The idea is to demonstrate that even in Tompkins County, one of the cloudiest places in the country, it is possible fill of our energy needs [...]

Here Me Speak about Frac Attack at the Left Forum in NYC

On March 19th I’ll be speaking on a panel at the Left Forum in NYC about the artistic response to the threat of hydrofracking. In addition to showing clips from Frac Attack: Dawn of the Watershed, I’ll discuss Empowered a documentary and We Can’t Stop an eco-musical, the two films I’m working on now. Hope [...]

Logo for Sol Kitchen, a Cool New Solar Cooking Education Project

I recently had the pleasure of designing a logo for a new local Ithaca business called Sol Kitchen being started by Joey Gates. She describes the project: Sol Kitchen is a multi-faceted adventure that includes solar oven catering and cooking classes for kids. Classes will include field trips to local farms, discussions about different kinds [...]

Truly sustainable housing

Is green housing truly sustainable if it can only be enjoyed by those with a lot of money? Many people around the world are still living in adobe, waddle and daub, and other very sustainable forms of housing just because that’s what their community has done traditionally. How can we combine the best of new [...]

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