Palo Alto Humane Society

Satish Kumar

Editor at Resurgence, speaking with PAHS’ Erin Scott on April 26, 2008.

Satish is an internationally respected author and teacher of reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity

Interview topics with Satish Kumar

Why Are Animals of Value?
The Link Between Animal and Human Suffering
Why Concern Ourselves When People Are Suffering?
Children and Natural Affinity
Animals as Food

Joe Camp

Filmmaker and author Joe Camp shares insights with PAHS on August 21, 2008.

Best known for creating the renowned BENJI films, Joe is also a speaker, advocate, and recent author of The Soul of a Horse.

Interview topics with Joe Camp

As a storyteller, what was the impetus for creating Benji?
How are dogs and horses different and how are they alike?
Describe originating factors for widely-held ideas about horses.
How is “relationship” a key theme in The Soul of a Horse?
What is the current paradigm driving human-animal relations?
What is necessary to shift the current paradigm?

Lucy Spelman, DVM

Lucy Spelman, with the Mountain Gorilla Vet Project, talks with PAHS’ Erin Scott on October 17, 2008.

Currently based in Africa for her work with MGVP, Lucy is the former director of the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and has been featured on Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel.

Interview topics with Lucy Spelman

How did your interest in veterinary medicine begin?
Tell us of insights gleaned through your extensive experience.
What is your one-health approach to gorilla heath care?
What if people want to contribute to animal betterment?
New video coming Soon.

Jeffrey Masson, Ph.D.

Author Jeffrey Masson speaks with PAHS’ Erin Scott on May 20, 2009 at Tilden Nature Area’s “Little Farm”.

Jeffrey (Jeff) Moussaieff Masson is a prolific writer specializing in explorations of animal emotions and veganism. He speaks internationally and lives in New Zealand with his family.

Interview topics with Jeffrey Masson

Continuity of emotions, from animals to humans.
Do dogs really love?
What has been your most transformative learning?
How can we create a more humane planet?

Marti Kheel

Ecofeminist Marti Kheel speaks with PAHS’ Erin Scott on May 20, 2009.

Marti is a prominent writer and activist in the areas of ecofeminism, animal advocacy, and environmental ethics whose holistic philosophy effectively bridges these seemingly disparate movements.

Interview topics with Marti Kheel

Empathy, awaring to the world view, and actualizing deep change.
The value of an ecological model for creating empathy.

Nicolette Hahn Niman

Environmental lawyer Nicolette Hahn Niman shares her findings with PAHS’ Erin Scott on June 6, 2009.

Nicolette Hahn Niman, formerly with Waterkeeper Alliance, is an attorney and livestock rancher who speaks about the inhumane realities and environmental impacts of industrialized livestock production.

Interview topics with Nicolette Hahn Niman

Nicolette speaks about the ranch and shares her background.
“Righteous Pork Chop”: Goals and largest learnings.
The difference between family farms and factory farms.
Pigs: Intelligent, social, complex, and in need of nature.
Industrial animal agribusiness and environmental laws.
How has your research impacted your actions as a new mom? Investigations and dietary changes, choices and health.

Earth Pilgrim: A Year on Dartmoor

Earth Pilgrim: A Year on Dartmoor, part BBC 2's Natural World Series.

Follows Satish Kumar as he speaks of his reverence for nature.

Earth Pilgrim: A Year on Dartmoor

Earth Pilgrim, Part One
Earth Pilgrim, Part Two
Earth Pilgrim, Part Three
Earth Pilgrim, Part Four
Earth Pilgrim, Part Five
Earth Pilgrim, Part Six

BEE

BEE, a film short by Norwegian filmmaker Eva Bakkeslett.

Eva beautifully explores the life of bees through intimate camera work and discussions with experts on their value, their complex network of relationships, and their manifestation of re-emerging principles such as love and attraction.

BEE Videos

BEE, Part One
BEE, Part Two

Marc Bekoff

Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology at Boulder’s University of Colorado

Here Marc summarizes his findings and perspective about animal behavior, cognition and emotions. Marc is a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a former Guggenheim Fellow. In 2000 he was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society for major long-term contributions to the field of animal behavior. Marc is also an ambassador for Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program, in which he works with students of all ages, senior citizens, and prisoners, and also is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Jane Goodall Institute. He and Jane co-founded the organization Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: Citizens for Responsible Animal Behavior Studies in 2000.

Wendell Berry

Author, Poet, Critic, and Farmer

Wendell Berry was writing about the virtues of slow food and sustainable agriculture decades before it became fashionable. Here, he speaks to KQED’s Michael Krasny on November 3, 2009, to discuss “Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food,” his new book of essays. Berry is the author of more than 40 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors of which some include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1962), a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1965), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award (1987), the Ingersoll Foundation's T. S. Eliot Award (1994), the John Hay Award (1997), the Lyndhurst Prize (1997), and the Aitken-Taylor Award for Poetry from The Sewanee Review (1998). The details within Berry’s perspective are different than some we’ve interviewed here on EweTube, however he like the others all provide facets of what it means to be an ethical, “relationed” human.

One Rat Short

“One Rat Short” is a work of love created by Alex Weil and Charlex Films. Taking place in two worlds - one gritty, grimy, and dark and the other sterile and so brightly lit that one feels the need to turn away – two rats from different worlds find each other through a brief circumstance. Amidst the amazing computer graphics, the story evokes compassion, awareness and inquiry, softly and effectively. With no dialogue, allow the quiet moments to fill you in-between the dynamic action sequences. Influenced by The Red Balloon, “One Rat Short” offers us fortunate viewers a similar tone of melancholy and innocence in this storyteller’s story full of heart and quiet poignancy.

GoD and DoG

Wendy Francisco wrote, sang and animated “GoD and DoG”, this sweet and moving musical video short. Wendy's involvement with music began at a young age -- she learned guitar at age 8 and began to write her own songs. Since, she has traveled all over the United States and beyond doing concerts and other projects (you may remember her voice at the front of the NBC sitcom “Dear John” with Judd Hirsh). Most recently, Wendy created the You Tube video, GoD and DoG, which was her first animation. The video received a million views in its first 40 days!