Living Soil
Over the next 40 years, the farming industry will have to produce more food than it has in the past 500 years. This challenge transcends the massive workload placed on farmers. It also speaks to the growing scarcity of our most...
Environment - 7
The Diesel Disaster
Budget-conscious drivers in Germany seized the opportunity to invest in diesel-fueled vehicles. The promise of high gas mileage and environmentally friendly emission levels was too alluring to resist. Now, in the wake of...
Origins
Four years in the making, Origins is a stunningly ambitious new documentary that challenges us to reevaluate our existence in the modern world, and embrace the simplicities that defined the beginnings of our species. "I believe...
Guardians of the Amazon
Deforestation rates have doubled in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil's far-right president has embraced the destruction of this precious environmental resource in favor of increased commercial development. Meanwhile, the...
Paul Kingsnorth: Portrait of a Recovering Environmentalist
An acclaimed novelist and poet, Paul Kingsnorth has also served as one of the most vocal and determined environmental activists. He inspired many throughout the world with his...
Hunt for the Supertwister
Can technology help us tame nature’s most violent tornadoes? Little on this earth can withstand the violent fury of an F5 tornado. A churning vortex with winds over 300 miles an hour, these tornadoes create immense swaths of...
All Things Are Connected
While our ethical traditions know how to deal with homicide and even genocide these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with ecocide and biocide. Today we live in an ethically confusing and contradictory world, a world in which sentiment and...
Manufactured Landscapes
Manufactured Landscapes is the striking documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large scale photographs of manufactured landscapes - quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams - Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful...
Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan occurred. It scored a whopping nine on the Richter scale. A devastating tsunami soon followed, with 28,000 people declared dead or missing. Amongst the hardest-hit...
Crash Course: Ecology
With a solid understanding of biology, it's time for the long view - how the living things interact with and influence each other and their environments. Life is powerful, and in order to understand how living systems work, you...
First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture
First Earth is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter - building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating...
Sacred Spirit of Water
Water is a living organism, water is sacred, water is life, water is worth defending and protecting for those yet unborn. Rivers and lakes in Alberta don't stop at provincial borders. These rivers and lakes flow throughout...
In-Vitro Meat
The global desire for animal meat is an insatiable one. Over 50 billion animals are killed each year to meet these demands. Beyond the obvious cruelties indicated by that statistic, the process also raises concerns for food...
Fossil Free
Impassioned climate change activists all over the world may have a new and entirely unexpected ally in their cause: the financial sector. On the heels of the recent climate change talks in Paris, groups of concerned citizens...