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| Green Planet Films is a non-profit distributor of nature and environmental DVDs from around the globe. We promote environmental education through film. We seek to preserve and protect our planet by collecting and distributing documentaries that can be used to educate the public about the science, beauty, and fragility of the natural world. Our mission is to grow our web-based DVD library, and provide a channel that connects these films to schools, organizations, businesses, government agencies, and individuals worldwide. |
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GREEN the film by Patrick Rouxel on Al Jazeera.
Article in The Daily Mail UK
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Green Planet Stream is our new streaming site. Want to watch a film right now online? We have ~70 films now, starting at $5 for 3 days, all access.
www.greenplanetstream.org
 Green Bag Lunch Films for Earth Day or your office Green Team!
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CURIOSITY QUEST GOES GREEN: Season 3
Curiosity Quest Goes Green is an upbeat, family, educational program on PBS that explores what viewers are curious about....In Curiosity Quest Goes Green, each episode is also dedicated to raising awareness of earth-friendly issues. Together with host Joel Greene, viewers learn about things that each of us can do to be more eco-friendly and responsible inhabitants of the Planet Earth. In each show, Joel ventures on a quest to answer viewer's letters of curiosity. Each quest takes the audience on location for an unscripted, hands-on exploration.
EPISODES INCLUDE: recycling all different types of materials, worm farming, rescuing wild animals, backyard composting, the effects of plastics in our oceans, Battery Recycling, Fishing for Energy, Green Surfboards, Green Your Home, Lunch Tray Recycling, Polystryrene, Clothing Recycling, and more!
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ALMA a film by Patrick Rouxel
Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, ALMA captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in the Amazon.
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CHEMERICAL
"Chemerical" explores the life cycle of everyday household cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in sea of toxicity.
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Global Food Equity
Global food shortages are having devastating affects in many corners of the globe. This detailed, wide-ranging program breaks down the different areas of food from the availability and distribution, to why some people have more than others. Viewers will hear from leading health experts at Oxfam and the Red Cross, as they discuss why food inequity occurs and whats being done to address the problem.
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Anna, Emma and the Condors
In a world of climate change and environmental challenges, two sisters, Anna and Emma and their companions, the California Condors, stand out as a beacon of hope. Their father, Chris Parish is the director of the Condor Project for the Peregrine Fund at Vermillion Cliffs. Their mother, Ellen Parish is a teacher and leader for the organization Roots and Shoots, founded by Jane Goodall. Together, the family work together to save and reintroduce the Californian condors back in to the wild.
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BACK TO THE GARDEN Flower Power Comes Full Circle
In Rural Washington state in 1988, Kevin Tomlinson filmed a group of "hippies" who had been living off the land since the 70s. Now in this poignant examination of an alternative community seen over time, he tracks down those original interviewees and shows what the glories and sufferings of living off the grid might really entail
and of hippie children who today ask whether free love was really free?
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Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion brings to light the connection between overpopulation and our most pressing environmental and humanitarian problems, as well as the solutions.
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The Light Bulb Conspiracy
The Light Bulb Conspiracy uncovers how planned obsolescence has shaped our lives and economy since the 1920s, when manufacturers deliberately started shortening the life of consumer products to increase demand. The film also profiles a new generation of consumers, designers and business people who have started challenging planned obsolescence as an unsustainable economic driver.
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Toxic Tears
Exposes the little-known dark side of the "Green Revolution" in India that transformed agriculture, but has negatively impacted thousands of farmers in the country.
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Animate Earth
Advocates for a new scientific revolution as essential to solving the environmental crises created in large part by conventional science's mechanistic view of the earth.
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Cafeteria Man
A candid look at what it takes to reform unhealthy school lunch programs and provide nutritious, tasty meals to our nations school kids, profiling Tony Geraci and his success in Baltimore's schools.
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DELICIOUS PEACE IN A UGANDAN COFFEE BEAN
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim coffee farmers in Uganda come together to challenge historical prejudices and economic hurdles by forming a model Fair Trade cooperative.
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Grow
Profiles a new generation of idealistic young farmers who have turned to the fields for a more fulfilling life, and with a strong desire to change how our food is grown.
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How to Boil a Frog
Fast-paced comedy mixed with hard-hitting facts help makes some of the world's major environmental issues both understandable and more enjoyable to learn about.
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In My Lifetime
Directed by a former ABC network news executive producer, In My Lifetime provides a comprehensive look at the full scope and impact of the nuclear age from its beginnings to the present day, including the international efforts by citizens, scientists and political leaders to reduce or eliminate the nuclear threat.
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Into Eternity
The first film to explore the challenging questions surrounding the long-term storage of nuclear waste generated by the world's nuclear power plants. NY Times Critics Pick.
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The Clean Bin Project
Follows an average couple as they go head-to-head in an uplifting and often humorous year-long competition to see who can produce the least amount of garbage.
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White Water, Black Gold
Investigates the little-known environmental and human costs associated with the largest single foreign source of US oil - Canada's Tar Sands.
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