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Looks at the plight of apple growers in the age of globalization, and points the way to sustainable US agriculture. | |
 | | Burning in the Sun
An inspirational portrait of a young West African man who starts a business building solar panels from scratch and selling them to rural customers in Mali. | |
 | | Buyer Be Fair
Looks at the benefits of fair trade goods and product certification for people and the environment. | |
 | | Good Food
An intimate look at the farmers, ranchers, and businesses that are creating a more sustainable food system in the Pacific Northwest. | |
 | | Megamall
The construction of a huge mall 18 miles north of Manhattan reveals the role of money, power and politics in the age of sprawl. | |
 | | Nothing Like Chocolate
The story of Mott Green and the solar-powered Grenada Chocolate Company, a farmers' and chocolate-makers' co-op, which makes organic chocolate from tree-to-bar. | |
 | | Shift Change
Investigates employee-owned businesses that provide secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces even in today's economic crisis. | |
 | | We Are Not Ghosts
Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world. | |
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Affluenza
Diagnoses the "disease" of materialism and prescribes its antidote, simple living.
All In This Tea
Crusading American tea importer, David Lee Hoffman, supports China's endangered organic farmers by searching out fine, chemical-free teas.
All the Right Stuff
Teaches teenagers about media, malls, money, and consumerism.
The American Ruling Class
A dramatic, musical, documentary satire on class in America that attempts to answer the question 'Who rules America?'
Arid Lands
A moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West, the area around the Hanford Site in Washington State.
Back In Business?
After 11 years of civil war, can Sierra Leone expect tourism to improve the economy?
Beyond Organic
A model of community supported agriculture in the midst of suburban sprawl.
Billion Dollar Crop
The history and advantages of hemp as an industrial fiber.
Biomimicry
2-part series based on the book Biomimicry - a new science that studies nature 's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.
Biomimicry: Learning from Nature - Part 2
Advances in materials and medicine based on research into natural processes.
Black Diamonds
Examines the escalating drama in Appalachia over mountaintop removal mining.
Broken Limbs
Looks at the plight of apple growers in the age of globalization, and points the way to sustainable US agriculture.
Burning in the Sun
An inspirational portrait of a young West African man who starts a business building solar panels from scratch and selling them to rural customers in Mali.
Buyer Be Fair
Looks at the benefits of fair trade goods and product certification for people and the environment.
Cheat Neutral
Satirical look at the inadequacies of the concept of carbon offsetting.
Cities
Is "sustainable cities" an oxymoron or can they be made to work?
Cultivating Change
Garden tour that proves that growing food can be an avenue to social change.
Cultivating Opportunity
Hard-pressed farmers in the southeast US and in Mozambique find co-ops work.
Downwind/Downstream
Water quality for major southwest cities is threatened by mining, acid rain, urbanization.
Economics
Economics and its relation to social change and our lifestyles.
Edens Lost and Found
4-part series that highlights models for urban transformation in the effort to make Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Seattle into sustainable cities.
Edens Lost and Found - Chicago
City Hall and grass roots groups in Chicago are working on open space, green buildings and an educated citizenry to create a sustainable city.
Edens Lost and Found - Los Angeles
Is it possible that the City of the Angels can be a model for the world of environmental rebirth?
Edens Lost and Found - Philadelphia
Faced with severe budget limitations, Philadelphia's rebirth is being brought about by a network of community-based volunteer organizations.
Edens Lost and Found - Seattle
Recognizing that the human community is growing faster than the aging infrastructure, the city of Seattle created an Office of Sustainability and Environment.
Escape from Affluenza
Simple living and its rewards.
The Farmers of Gaho
Farmers in Ethiopia have mastered dryland agriculture.
Food
Devising a sustainable food system -- one that is healthy, accessible, and affordable.
Game Over:
Explores the changing face of conservation in Kenya.
Good Food
An intimate look at the farmers, ranchers, and businesses that are creating a more sustainable food system in the Pacific Northwest.
Helping Ourselves!
In India, two community projects help people move out of poverty and gain control of their lives.
kids + money
Money talks. Teens in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it and learning to live without it.
King Corn (Classroom Version)
Classroom version of classic film about how two friends uncover the devastating impact of corn on the environment, public health and family farms. DVD contains new BIG RIVER: A KING CORN COMPANION.
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King Corn (Original Version)
By growing an acre of corn in Iowa two friends uncover the devastating impact that corn is having on the environment, public health and family farms.
Life 4
A 27-part series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Life 5
A new 13-part series about globalization and the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Livable Landscapes
How growth and sprawl affect the quality of life in New England, and some possible solutions.
Lovins on the Soft Path
Hunter and Amory Lovins make the case for energy efficiency and energy conservation.
McLibel
The new feature-length version and final chapter in the saga of the postman and the gardener who took on McDonald's. And won.
Megamall
The construction of a huge mall 18 miles north of Manhattan reveals the role of money, power and politics in the age of sprawl.
Milking the Rhino
The promise of community-based conservation in Africa.
The Motherhood Manifesto
Looks at the obstacles facing working mothers and families and the employer and public policy changes needed to restore work-life balance.
The New Metropolis
Two short documentaries highlight the efforts of some of America's first suburbs to reverse their long decline.
Nothing Like Chocolate
The story of Mott Green and the solar-powered Grenada Chocolate Company, a farmers' and chocolate-makers' co-op, which makes organic chocolate from tree-to-bar.
Peanuts
A hand-operated peanut-sheller makes a difference in the lives of villagers around the world.
Razing Appalachia
Explores the controversial issue of mountaintop removal mining by following a grassroots fight to stop the process in West Virginia.
ReInventing The World
Three 50-minute programs on creating sustainable cities, food systems, and lifestyles.
ReInventing the World II
Two 50-minute videos that offer practical solutions to the big problems affecting all of us.
The Return of the Cuyahoga
The story of the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways.
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns
Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.
Save Our Land, Save Our Towns (Classroom Version)
Examines the causes and effects of -- and then remedies for -- suburban sprawl.
Shift Change
Investigates employee-owned businesses that provide secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces even in today's economic crisis.
Store Wars
Looks at the impact on a small town when Wal-Mart plans to build a mega-store there.
Subdivide and Conquer
Suburban sprawl: causes and remedies.
Subdivide and Conquer (Short Version)
Suburban sprawl -- causes and remedies.
Trouble In Paradise
Local inhabitants of the Maldives wait for promised tsunami aid.
Truck Farm
Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming.
Truck Farm
Blending seriousness and whimsy, filmmaker Ian Cheney explores the promise and perils of urban farming.
Water and the Human Spirit - Program One
Communities solving their own water problems.
Water and the Human Spirit - Program Two
Farmers and communities solving their own water problems.
The Water Front
The story of Highland Park, Michigan, and the larger issues of water privatization and human rights.
We Are Not Ghosts
Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world.
Weather The Storm
Fishing communities on France's western coast show the path to sustainability.
Work and Time
A program about stress. How we can overcome being over-worked and out of time?
You've Been Trumped
In this David and Goliath story, proud Scottish homeowners take on The Donald over one of Britain's very last stretches of wilderness.
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