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A CONVENIENT TRUTH: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
This informative, inspirational documentary is aimed at sharing ideas to provoke environment-friendly and cost-effective changes in cities worldwide. The documentary focuses on innovations in transportation, recycling, social benefits including affordable housing, seasonal parks, and the processes that transformed Curitiba into one of the most livable cities in the world. |
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BURNING THE FUTURE: Coal in America
Examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging clean coal energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction. Faced with toxic ground water and the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, our heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life. |
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ECO RAP: Voices From the Hood
This video by Lynn Feinerman presents ecological issues from the viewpoint of a multiethnic group of young people as they learn about local environmental hazards and express their views using rap music. |
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Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars
Follows the story of Texans fighting a high-stakes battle for clean air. The film introduces the unlikely partners-mayors, ranchers, CEOs, community groups, legislators, lawyers, and citizens-that have come together to oppose the construction of 19 conventional coal-fired power plants that were slated to be built in Eastern and Central Texas and that were being fast-tracked by the Governor. Narrated by Robert Redford. |
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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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Heather and Goliath
When a governmental agency decides that the Los Angeles River is not worthy of environmental protection, a biologist becomes a whistleblower, a satirical writer turns into a rebel, and together they change the course of history in a local controversy of national proportions. |
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Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal explores the haunting controversy behind a century of silver-lead-zinc mining in Idaho's panhandle and reveals the dangerous health impacts it left behind for its inhabitants. The Silver Valley region is slated to become the largest Superfund in the nation. |
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In Our Backyard
An expose on the polluted industrial towns surrounding the St. Louis area, and their connections to a well known chemical company known as Monsanto. |
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Orange Witness
Orange Witness serves as a platform for those exposed to and affected by Agent Orange to tell their stories. Weaving audio interviews and archival footage the film paints a bleak picture of the damage caused by the use of herbicides 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T and TCCD internationally. Historically, Agent Orange has been associated with war, but the industrial and domestic of use of the chemical is revealed. |
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Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Once known as the 'California Riviera', the Salton Sea is now called one of America's worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Yet a few hardy eccentrics hang on to hope.Through their perceptions and misperceptions, the strange history and unexpected beauty of the Salton Sea is revealed. 'Accidentally' created by an engineering error in 1905, reworked in the 50's as a world class vacation destination for the rich and famous, suddenly abandoned after a series of hurricanes, floods, and fish die-offs, and finally almost saved by Congressman Sonny Bono, the Salton Sea has a bittersweet past. |
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