The Battle for Water
Today, some parts of the world are literally drying up, affecting communities, both rich and poor. Natural water wells have run dry at a rate never before seen, and a growing number of people are worried that increased water...
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We The Tiny House People
This is journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops....
The Slow Poisoning of India
The Slow Poisoning of India is a 26-minute documentary film directed by Ramesh Menon and produced by the New Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). It deals with the dangers of excessive use of pesticide in...
The Dirtiest Place on the Planet
It is the city of Linfen, China and spending about a day there breathing in the air is about the same as smoking three packs of cigarettes. The scary part is that there's a lot of cities in China...
Inside the Garbage of the World
We're living on a beautiful planet and as a human race we've been here for thousands of years. Our planet didn't need to be protected; life was flourishing on its own, with its own agenda. However for the past 100 years we've...
Garbage Warrior
Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, that grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it...
Anthropocene
In geological terms, we're currently living in the Holocene stage of the Earth's existence; a period of time when all the elements have proven most beneficial to our species. But our unfettered growth has left a massive...
Fire in Paradise
The town of Paradise, California was aptly named. Beautiful, serene, and shrouded in the shelter of comforting trees, the town felt like the epitome of ideal California living. That was before the fire that decimated much of...
Do the Math
Like most people, Bill (environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org), is not an activist by nature. There's really not that many people whose greatest desire it to go out and fight the system. His theory of change was that he'll...
Home Project
The film, produced by the brilliant and ecology-minded French director Luc Besson, is the work of acclaimed aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, whose cinematography, covering landscapes in 54 countries, provides a journey...
We Feed The World
Every day in Vienna the amount of unsold bread sent back to be disposed of is enough to supply Austria's second-largest city, Graz. Around 350,000 hectares of agricultural land, above all in Latin America, are dedicated to the...
The Fight for Amazonia
From the heart of the Amazon jungle comes a three-part series examining the strides being made to save the world's most endangered rainforest. 1. Raids in the Rainforest. The first film follows Brazil's youngest national park director as she...
Earthlings
Since we all inhabit the Earth, all of us are considered earthlings. There is no sexism, no racism, or speciesism in the term earthling. It encompasses each and every one of us, warm or cold-blooded, mammal, vertebrae or...
The Sustainable City
Today, the way ecology is being incorporated into architecture has evolved considerably. Sustainable architecture, or green architecture, aims to minimize the negative impact of buildings on the environment by enhancing...