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Publisher
Community Service, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1900s, the country faced an immediate crisis -- feeding the population -- and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farm and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one." -- Container.
23) No impact man
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A family living in New York City attempts to live a year of their life without making an impact on the environment, including going without electricity and toilet paper and eating fresh foods.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The documentary will examine how getting back to the land is tied to other movements such as Black Lives Matter, Idle No More, and Times Up. It is a feature film that presents four stories of people living life on their terms, serving as leaders and role models who are lending their voice to the underdog and leading a revolution to a better world, from the ground up! An Indigenous-owned, youth-run organic farm in Hawaii, and Black urban grower in...
27) 2040
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if the solutions already available to improve our planet were embraced. Structured as a letter to his daughter, Gameau blends documentary with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision of how these solutions could regenerate the world.
28) Sustainable
Publisher
Hourglass Films, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
There is no hiding from the facts, rising temperatures, drought, soil loss, chemicals in our food, antibiotic resistance, declining bee populations, obesity, diabetes, shorter life expectancy, America needs help. Sustainable reveals the crisis facing America₂s food system, and the community of leaders who are determined to fix it. Amidst the cornfields of Illinois lives the hero of the film - Marty Travis.
Publisher
Lily Films
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"...Symphony of the Soil is an artistic exploration of the miraculous substance soil. By understanding the elaborate relationships and mutuality between soil, water, the atmosphere, plants and animals, we come to appreciate the complex and dynamic nature of this precious resource. The film also examines our human relationship with soil, the use and misuse of soil in agriculture, deforestation and development, and the latest scientific research on...
Publisher
Palisades Free Library
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The Palisades People Sunday Symposia, a community cultural series, presents Richard Cook, Architect. Mr. Cook discusses how biophilic design integrated within the built environment impacts our health, productivity, and sense of well-being.
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...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Biophilic design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature. The recent trend in green architecture has decreased the environmental impact of the built environment, but it has accomplished little in the way of reconnecting us to the natural world,...
Publisher
Arts Alliance America, LLC
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Presents forward-thinking designers, products and processes that are at the forefront of a new green world. Each episode revolves arouns a different green theme as it spotlights 3 specific innovators or innovations that have the potential to transform our everyday lives. The individuals profiled range from scientists to fashion and product designers, and from entrepreneurs to first-time inventors.
36) Fresh
Publisher
Ripple Effect Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
38) 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
Free Range Studios
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
"A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, with a special focus on the United States. All the stuff in our lives, beginning from the extraction of the resources to make it, through its production, sale, use and disposal, affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. [The film] exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues and calls...
40) Fresh
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the farmers, thinkers, and businesspeople across America who are reinventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for the future of our food and our planet.