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WaterBear, Off the Fence & WWF Launch Storytelling Initiative
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WaterBear, Off the Fence and WWF have developed a new storytelling initiative, the 8 Billion project, centered on defending planet Earth.
Spanning the next ten years, the project will bring together faith, arts and science communities to paint a portrait with a series of stories about how humans all over the world celebrate and protect nature. In the first phase of the project, filmmakers and storytellers will be invited to upload their films to the platform to join the global conversation.
This summer, the invitation will be extended to welcome contributions from the wider community, encouraging groups anywhere and everywhere to make a film and share their stories. The intimate, mostly self-shot videos will be curated for the platform to form a vast and iconic ode to planet Earth.
By MARTIN PALMER | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-04-15 10:22 Share CLOSE Prince Philip and Martin Palmer at a meeting in Buckingham Palace on April 19, 2017. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Today I am mourning the loss of Prince Philip, someone I worked with for nearly four decades and who was my friend. In that time, I watched him become the inspiration for the largest civil society environmental movement in the world-that of the world s religions.
He was also a man who had a special affection for one of the greatest and most ecological of all religions-Daoism. One of the very last public events he did before he retired at the age of 95 was to welcome the senior leadership of the Chinese Taoist Association to a meeting at Windsor Castle to celebrate the launch of a major eight-year plan by the Taoists to increase their activities to protect nature.