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Imagine...Building on the Wind

STOP {buffalo springfield}

BREATHE {telepopmusik}

SLOW DOWN {alicia keyes}

{Focus! It's Time for Building on the Wind!}

THIS TIME {john legend} GRAVITY {john mayer} is not KILLING ME SOFTLY {the fugees} . I'm not LOST {coldplay} .

I'm not ALREADY HOME {jay-z} but this moment RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW {jesus jones} is my REDEMPTION SONG {bob marley} . You could say, A CHANGE IS GONNA COME {sam cooke} , or that the COMING {busta rhymes} is near. Read more...

Icarus' Boots: the cult & collapse of Diego Maradona

Maradona was an artist who inspired the mystical. Like Zidane after him, Maradona fuelled myths in the zealous minds of his followers and the collective psyche of his country.

But he was too good for his own good. A soccer genius, Diego Armando Maradona rose from the slums of Buenos Aires to become an icon and an idol in Argentina and Italy. Author of the infamous Hand of God goal that he punched in against England during the 1986 World Cup, many of Maradona’s goals were the result of his trademark breathtaking end-to-end rushes.

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The High Price of Offshore Oil: An Interview with Antonia Juhasz.

"It's lots of money, it's lots of equipment, and it's a total crapshoot."

Welcome to the world of offshore oil exploration, as described by Micky Driver from Chevron, one of the biggest companies in the industry.

To many observers, “crapshoot” probably doesn’t go far enough. 2010 has exposed the enormous dangers of offshore drilling like never before. On April 20, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico suffered a massive explosion.

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The Political Will to Win: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals Head On

Speech Transcript from Salil Shetty, UN Millennium Campaign

MILLENNIUM SUMMIT, MONTREAL, 22 APRIL 2010
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ISNT IT GREAT THAT WE ARE MEETING HERE TODAY ON EARTH DAY?   TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN FIND WAYS TO TAKE CARE OF THE POOREST PEOPLE ON MOTHER EARTH AND HELP MOTHER EARTH IN TURN TAKE CARE OF THEM.
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LET ME START BY TELLING YOU THE STORY OF MAMA WAMBUI WHO LIVES IN A REMOTE RURAL PART OF EASTERN KENYA IN AFRICA, A COUNTRY I LIVED IN FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

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The Commanding Heights: The Millenium Summit sets and astounding stage for G8-G20

With the G8-G20 looming, the {warehouse} magazine would like to take a look back at the 2010 instalment of The Millennium Summit. What follows is our take on events that continue to change our world...

SOLIDARITY- A word that was not thrown around loosely at Montreal’s Millennium Summit, April 20th to the 22nd  at Palais des Congrès. Guest speakers ranged from Sarah Ferguson; Coca-Cola representatives, former US Vice-President and author, Al Gore; Philippe Cousteau and Kristen Davis.

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What's Your Plan? Sitting Down with Plan Canada

Interview with Stephanie Beattie, Director of Communications at Plan Canada

Can you sum up Plan's mission in 2010?
Plan is one of the oldest agencies in the world. We started during the Spanish Civil War helping children, but our mission has evolved. We're a human rights organization, working to empower people to lead their own development. Our focus is on children and making sure that children in the poorest parts of the world have access to water and food and opportunities to contribute to the world. Read more...

All you need is a Farmer

People often ask me how I have time to cook and write and go to farmer’s markets with a full time job and the standard North American nuclear family.  My response is always the same: I make time.  While the weekly, family, juggling act is not always easy, I believe it essential that food and what we eat become more of a focal point in our busy lives—all you need is the motivation to make a change and the drive to stick-to-it.

Motivation is subjective, what motivates one person will make another indifferent, so all you need is to find which compelling factors can motivate you to make a change. Read more...

A Citizenship Model, Who's to Judge the Villanueva Story?

Two years ago this August a shooting took place in Montréal North that left a teenager dead and sparked riots in the neighborhood. Fredy Villanueva, an 18 year old playing dice in a park, was shot by the Montréal police and ensuing riots were an expression of intense frustration with police harassment and racial profiling in the borough.  Public dissatisfaction with police impunity became more visible and the SPVM came under scrutiny and criticism for their inquiry into the shooting of Villanueva.  Read more...