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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet, life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences. Experts predict that by mid-century hundreds of millions of people will be uprooted as a result of sea level rise and an increase in extreme weather events, droughts...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this haunting portrait of America's oil-fueled excesses, director Adolfo Doring explores the inextricable link between the energy we use, the way we run our economy, and the multiplying threats that now confront the environmental health and stability of our planet. Taking as its starting point the inevitable energy depletion scenario known as "Peak Oil," the film surveys a fascinating range of the latest intellectual, political, and scientific...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Investigates the development and demise of the fuel-efficient, environment-friendly electric car. Examines the Bush administration's role in the car's being peremptory pulled from production, the influence of the automobile industry and oil interests, and implications for the future of sustainable energy in the United States.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jean Hill, is deeply concerned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; the world's largest landfill. She spends her golden years attending city council meetings and cold-calling residents. Since 2010, she's spearheaded a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottles in her hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. So far, her attempts to pass a municipal bylaw have failed. Her fiercest challenge comes from Adriana Cohen, mother, model...
Publisher
Screenscope
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Discusses achieving a balance between the needs of people and the needs of the environment, focusing on loss of farmland, river pollution, inadequate housing and water resources, environmental pressures, grasslands, wildlife, and the link between environmental change and human health.
Publisher
Screenscope
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This series illustrates the desperate need for a balance between the needs of people and the environment to ensure a healthy, productive society. Three main themes are intertwined, dwindling farmland due to urban development, a shortage of water for the residents of huge cities, and the pollution of and human intervention in waterways. This second series looks at environmental issues in a new way, without regard for national, political or cultural...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si', a letter to every single person in the world, confronting the looming calamity of human impact on Earth and ourselves. It is one of the most ambitious and revolutionary papal statements in history since it is directed not just to Catholics, but to everyone on the planet and it outlines the most critical environmental and social issues that we collectively face. There are four 'voices' that Pope Francis calls...
11) Four horsemen
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. Twenty-three international thinkers break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. A debate about how society ushers a new economic paradigm into the world which, globally, would dramatically...
Publisher
The Meadow Project
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
"Hometown Habitat features renowned entomologist Dr. Douglas Tallamy, whose research, books and lectures on the use of non-native plants on landscaping, sound the alarm about habitat and species loss. Tallamy provides the narrative thread that challenges the notion that humans are here and nature is someplace else. "It doesn't have to, and it shouldn't be that way." Inspiring stories of community commitment to conservation landscaping illustrate Tallamy's...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"What will it take to create an eco-friendly global economy? This program addresses the financial, technological, and organizational obstacles that must be overcome before human society and planet Earth can truly coexist. Drawn from the series Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy and futurist Hazel Henderson's book by the same title, the program contains powerful insights from engineers, energy experts, venture capitalists, and product development...
Publisher
Milpa Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Viewers are presented with innovative and inspirational solutions to the food security challenges humans are increasingly faced with. Topics include: agroforestry models in France; permaculture and "Transition Town" initiatives in England; and the organic farming revolution in Cuba. Switches between English, German, and French spoken languages.
15) Breath of life
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Explore the wisdom of the people who sustainably live off the land, as this poignant Documentary goes on a global journey to get insightful commentaries from the world's greatest scientists. Ponder what we can do to preserve our planet.
16) FrackNation
Publisher
FrackNation.com
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Phelim McAleer faces gun threats, mailcious 911 calls and bogus lawsuits when questinging green extremists for the truth about hydraulic fracturing. Made in response to the anti-fracking film Gasland.
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