{"id":23408,"date":"2012-12-10T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=23408"},"modified":"2018-02-11T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T11:19:31","slug":"transcend-member-prof-vandana-shiva-the-original-tree-hugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/12\/transcend-member-prof-vandana-shiva-the-original-tree-hugger\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva &#8211; The Original Tree Hugger (Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>19 Nov 2012<\/em> &#8211; BBC HARDtalk speaks to the original tree hugger. The phrase was coined back in the seventies when she, along with a group of women in India, hugged trees to stop them from being chopped down. In the decades since, Vandana Shiva has become known throughout the world for her environmental campaigns. She says a billion people go hungry in the world because of the way greedy international companies go about their business. So is it a na\u00efve world view or could we really end poverty and improve everyone&#8217;s life by returning to old fashioned ways of farming?<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O2OJPFSZ4OE<\/p>\n<p><em>TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, and author of more than 20 books and 500 papers. She is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and has campaigned for biodiversity, conservation and farmers\u2019 rights, winning the Right Livelihood Award [Alternative Nobel Prize] in 1993. She is executive director of the Navdanya Trust.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Nov 2012 &#8211; BBC HARDtalk speaks to the original tree hugger. The phrase was coined back in the seventies when she, along with a group of women in India, hugged trees to stop them from being chopped down. In the decades since, Vandana Shiva has become known throughout the world for her environmental campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","category-music-video-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}