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HOME
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At the outset the film challenges us: "Listen carefully to this extraordinary story, which is yours, and decide what you want to do with it." This is a " visually astonishing portrait of the Earth as seen from mesmerizing aerial views. Home is not the first documentary to survey our planet from the air, but Arthus-Bertrand brilliantly and dreamily captures the miraculous linkage within delicate eco-systems. For viewers whose eyes glaze over at descriptions of the way Earth recycles energy and matter, Home underscores the beautiful and awesome reality of that complex process. " source |
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Kilowatt Ours
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"Kilowatt
Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America
by Jeff Barrie is the best energy film on the market. No wonder
this independent documentary has spawned a nationwide movement
to conserve energy. In fact, one of the central thesis of the
film is that the best possible energy choice is the conservation
of energy. A brilliant, humorous, extremely accessible energy
film."
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Who Killed the Electric Car? (available at D2L video link only) Film-related website: www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com |
“Structured as a whodunit, this reasonably outraged documentary shuffles through a catalog of suspects in the electric car's murder, detailing the combination of forces that caused the revolutionary machine to disappear from the road mere years after first being introduced. Unsurprisingly, it's a rather long list of culprits . . ." source See what's in production . . . HERE And what's coming out now . . . HERE
Concerned about car safety? Learn about the Physics of Car
Crashes (see film
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Episodes 2 and 4 of Cadillac
Desert Water and the Transformation of Nature (1997) An
excellent American four-part documentary series about water,
money, politics, and the transformation of nature. The American Nile tells the story of how the Colorado River became the most controlled, litigated, domesticated, regulated and over-allocated river in the history of the world. (Did you know there was once a plan to dam up the Grand Canyon? Learn about it in this film . . . and more!) The Last Oasis examines the global impact of the technologies and policies that came out of America's manipulation of water, demonstrating how they have created the need for conservation methods that will protect Earth's water for the next century. (This film is 13 years old -- have the dams it describes in India, China and elsewhere been built?) Food for Thought: the impact of climate varaibility and global warming on water sustainability are not prominently addressed in these films . . . How is climate change exacebating the future of water in the arid West -- and the world? (Note that these films are not "streamed" - instead the links take you to a series of 10-minute video segments. The quality of the videos is not great and a few seconds are lost in the transitions . . . but hang in there -- it's worth it to hear this history!) |
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FRESH - The Movie
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Quote from the movie:
“It’s time to
shift to a different world view, a different paradigm for the
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The Story of Stuff
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About the creator of The Story of Stuff and its offshoot videos: “Annie Leonard used to spout jargon. She reveled in the sort of geek-speak that glazes your eyeballs. Externalized costs, paradigm shifts, the precautionary principle, extended producer responsibility. That was before she discovered cartoons. Today the 45-year-old Berkeley activist is America’s pitchperson for a new style of environmental message. Out with boring PowerPoints and turgid reports; in with witty videos that explain complex issues in digestible terms…” source
Another view:
Debunking the Story of Stuff |
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The Story of Bottled Water |
A follow-up video to
The Story of Stuff about how clever marketing turned a
freely available commodity — tap water — into a source of profit
and pollution. |
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The Story of Electronics
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A follow-up video to The Story of Stuff on planned obsolescence and pollutants in computers and cellphones. |
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The Story of Cap and Trade
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A follow-up video to
The Story of Stuff on how carbon trading undermines
efforts to curb global warming. |
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Cheeseburger
Footprint video-related website: the carbon footprint of a cheeseburger |
A short video by James Casdio of Open the Future on the Carbon Footprint of a Cheeseburger based on the Energy Use in the Food Sector report. |
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Photographic Artist Chris Jordan |
Former
corporate attorney turned photographic artist, Chris Jordan
explains that he never used to be focused upon making a social
statement with his work. "All I was interested in about
photography was aesthetic beauty...places where color appears
inadvertently." Yet after photographing a large pile of garbage
that he deemed "really beautiful," friends began to point him
toward the social repercussions inherent in his work regarding
waste and American consumerism. "It's something that I truly
cannot take credit for, is finding my way to consumerism as my
subject. Because it found me."
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The
Interface Road to Sustainability
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The "Interface Road to Sustainability" a film by Mona Amodeo,
PhD., is the story of how one leader created a new vision of
industry,and how his company responded to that vision.
NOTE: This film is chopped up into 5 episodes and is a bit
awkward to watch, but give it a try. Also watch the short “The Seven Fronts of Sustainability” about a company’s promise “to eliminate any negative impact our company may have on the environment by 2020" |
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Acid
Test: The Global Challenge |
Acid Test, a film produced by Natural Resources Defense Fund, was made to raise awareness about the largely unknown problem of ocean acidification, which poses a fundamental challenge to life in the seas and the health of the entire planet. Like global warming, ocean acidification stems from the increase of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. source |
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Tuvalu: the Sinking Feeling Video-related website: www.pbs.org/frontlineworld
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". . . there is trouble in paradise, especially if you live on an island nation as narrow and flat as Tuvalu, where the average elevation is a mere six feet above sea level. When you live that close to the water’s edge you pay very close attention to the ocean, especially if it begins to rise. And that is what’s happening around Tuvalu, slowly, almost imperceptibly, the sea is rising." source “Researchers have recently been startled to see big changes unfold in both Greenland and Antarctica. As a result of recent calculations that take the changes into account, many scientists now say that sea level is likely to rise perhaps three feet by 2100 — an increase that, should it come to pass, would pose a threat to coastal regions the world over.”source |
