We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Vision of Humanity groups together a number of interrelated initiatives focused on global peace. It brings a strategic approach to raising the world’s attention and awareness around the importance of peacefulness to humanity’s survival in the 21st century.

The Dalai Lama's answer

"The meaning of life resides in joy and the feelings of harmony connected to happiness; without happiness, life loses meaning. Happiness is at the heart of our lives and our demand for a meaning."

Welcome to The Ultimate Question Of Life, The Universe, And Everything where we try to answer the question surrounding life and its meaning with your responses, our blogs, and narratives from those who have answered the question for themselves. There are several different forums and every few days we rotate some of our more intriguing answers to forum questions below. If you have a thought, please share it with us in the forum discussion - you can register or just post as a guest!

Eight artists participated in Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet. Several qualities were considered in the process of choosing artists for this project, the foremost of which is the strong sense of generosity that comes through in all of the artists’ work, as well as an inherent integrity to their artistic approach. As travelers on a mission, the artists had to negotiate their roles as tourist, explorer, and documentarian, always maintaining a sensitive awareness of their position as outside observers.

Many of the Human/Nature projects involved the active contribution of the inhabitants of the sites, integrating their knowledge, skills, and needs. The result has been a merging of cultural narratives, evident in the works themselves. For example, projects by Ann Hamilton, Xu Bing, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, and Rigo 23, could not have come to life without the participation of the local populations. Mark Dion’s collaboration with the park rangers at his site resulted in a functional intervention at his location that directly responded to their needs. Other artists, such as Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Diana Thater, and Dario Robleto, focused their attention on the disappearing habitats of their sites and the immediate and long-term implications of industrialization, species preservation, and global warming. No matter their approach, rather than didactic responses to environmental crisis, the artists tell the stories of their sites by both exposing and obscuring the complicated imagery, histories, and function of these locations.

Dear friends of Mixcloud,

Thanks for signing up to our beta waiting list, and for your patience while we've been busy building and testing.

The last few months have been crazy but exciting times at Mixcloud HQ. Our DJ beta testers have given us some phenomenal feedback... in fact the buzz has been so great we've attracted the likes of Judge Jules, DJ Zinc, Roundhouse Radio, Luke Solomon and Mason to the site. We're pretty chuffed!

Sign up now!

We're now ready to roll out our beta invites to your good selves. To sign up to Mixcloud and enjoy some of the great mixes and radio shows posted to the site over the past few weeks:

Go here and click on sign up

Your invite code is:

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This code is limited in numbers and valid for the next 7 days only, so sign up now and feel free to pass on to some select friends who you know will appreciate Mixcloud's vision of "Re-thinking Radio".

If you've been lucky enough to get hold of an invite already, 'pologies for the email... why not pass on "mailinglistcloud" to one of yer friends!

What's that song?
Do you have a song stuck in your head but wonder "what's that song"? Record a short sample of the tune online anonymously on WatZatSong. The WatZatSong Community will listen and tell you what song it is! Name that tune!
Are you a music quiz fan? Show that you are the best by naming other member's tunes and climb up the WatZatSong song namers ranking!

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Science of Music: Accidental Scientist

What is music? Is birdsong music? How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door? Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum?

Explore the science of music with us, through these online exhibits, movies, and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all…listen.
online exhibits

June 5th is United Nations World Environment Day. The U.N. Environment Programme has setup a twitter campaign called ‘twitter for trees’. All you have to do is ‘follow’ http://twitter.com/unepandyou and they will plant a tree. The goal is to get 100,000 followers by June 5th. That plants 100,000 trees, so lets get started!