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- Is sand an infinite resource? Can the existing supply satisfy a gigantic demand fueled by construction booms? What are the consequences of intensive beach sand mining for the environment and the neighboring populations?
- One girl's journey to inspire a movement. Juliette is fourteen years old and she is on a mission to save elephants. After single-handedly raising funds Juliette embarks on a life-altering journey to South East Asia to meet and work with her hero The Elephant Lady. This is the story of two women, one from the East, one from the West, coming together on common ground, saving elephants. It's the coming of age of a passionate emerging woman joining forces with the wise eastern animal advocate on an enlightening journey of compassion, action, and hope that is sure to motivate audiences young and old. The message: no matter what your age, your ethnicity, or disposition, no matter what the cause, you can make a difference.
- Part One: Is it possible that the fate of this one river in the world's most productive agricultural region, California's Central Valley, offers a chance to restore the historical balance between nature and the mark of humans on the land.
- LITTLE MISS DEWIE: A Duckumentary is a funny, heartwarming, and true inter-species love story that also examines important animal welfare issues. In July 2007, award-winning animal welfare journalist, and Buddhist nun, Mira Tweti, found an orphaned duckling at a local lagoon in Los Angeles, CA, and took her home. A parrot expert, Tweti (prounounced: Tweety, and it is her given name), planned to give the little duck she called Dewie, to a rescue. Through a series of unexpected situations, Dewie lived in Tweti's apartment for more than two months while the latter searched for a perfect duck home. Along the way the Playboy Mansion and the Bel Air Country club agreed to take her. But in the end, Dewie went to live with Lani and Edward Culver and their duck, Flipper. Dewie and Flipper are now a couple and the Culvers and Tweti consider themselves related by marriage.
- Mass suicide prevention from resource depletion, overpopulation and climate change.
- In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Europe and the United States. They talk about their work, their hopes and fears with a rare candor and directness, resulting in an intimate portrait of the global community of researchers racing to understand our planet's changing climate and provide a compelling case for rising CO2 as the main cause.
- Racing To Zero is a quick-moving, up-beat documentary that presents new solutions to the global problem of waste. Although waste may create garbage, garbage is in itself a RESOURCE, and that is the key. Our film follows the trail of trash and recycling with our guide, Robert Haley, Zero Waste Manger for the City of San Francisco as we travel the city from high to low and look behind-the-scenes at how zero waste can be achieved.
- Hampton Roads, Virginia is relatively unknown nationwide, but it is the region whose vulnerability to sea level rise most affects military readiness and our overall national security. With 14 military installations spread across 17 local jurisdictions, it is our highest concentration of military assets in the country, where 1 in 6 residents are associated with the military. Their homes, schools, hospitals, and families are increasingly struggling to keep up with the effects of rising waters, and the military and all the surrounding municipalities are working towards solutions in the name of strengthening national security and enhancing economic prosperity.
- Two children discover how plants and animals arrived in Hawaii by playing a video game. They find themselves magically transported on location to a rainforest and the top of Mauna Kea.
- Eco-pioneer Julia Russell tours a group of curious middle-school kids through a modest home and garden that has been renovated to be completely eco-friendly.
- This is a story about an 84 year-old-woman trying to take down the third largest industry in the world. Jean Hill, a self-proclaimed warrior, leads historic Concord, Massachusetts on America's first environmental crusade to ban the sale of bottled water.
- For decades, the utilities industry has been a driving engine of the US economy, contributing to our progress with a business model that focuses on centralized generation. But now, power companies face a crisis that requires them to capture a new market share to survive in the 21st century. From substations to gas stations, boardrooms to military bases, this film tells the story of America's energy industry on the brink of massive change. Whether it fails, prevails or adapts, the outcome will profoundly affect us all.
- Have you chosen to live a greener life? One man has and he has taken it one step further, he not only wants to live green but he wants die green as well and is helping others do the same. Dying Green, a short documentary set in the foothills of the Appalachians, explores one man's vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campell, the town's only physician and his efforts have radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Billy Campbell's dream is to conserve one million acres of land. This film focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves.
- A look at the ethics of the natural gas extraction process known as "fracking". The film covers political, spiritual, scientific, medical, and professional points of views of hydraulic fracturing. It also takes a look at the deceiving advertising the gas industry heavily relies on.
- The film chronicles the history and development of "Critical Mass", the leaderless, grassroots bicycle movement from its 1992 beginnings in San Francisco to its spread across the globe to over 200 cities in 14 countries. With traffic congestion, pollution, and road rage on the rise, cyclists are advocating for transportation alternatives. Critical Mass is at the cutting edge of this mindset.
- THE VALLEY AND THE LAKE is a four-part film odyssey focused on water issues, conflicts, and hopes in California's Central Valley, the breadbasket of the world and also the most human-altered landscape on the planet. Water Beneath Our Feet Part Four: There are only two kinds of water in the world, surface water that comes from the sky and the water beneath our feet, often called "groundwater." With drought spreading across the earth, one might well ask, is there enough groundwater to balance the needs of our cities and our farms and still preserve the natural world around us.
- Voices of the Transition is an enthusiastic documentary on farmers- and community-led responses to food insecurity in a scenario of climate change and peak oil. How to create local resilience? How to create a production system that enhances life? What role could the trees play? Different 'voices from the Transition', from Cuba, France and the UK, tell us of a future society where our deserts will once again be living soil, where fields will be introduced into our cities, and where independence from oil will help us to live a richer, more fulfilling life.
- THE VALLEY AND THE LAKE is a four-part film odyssey focused on water issues, conflicts, and hopes in California's Central Valley, the breadbasket of the world and also the most human-altered landscape on the planet.When You Return Part Three: On the land in the foothills above California's Central Valley, we join Wukchumni basket weavers, Jennifer Malone and her mother, Marie Wilcox, as they gather basket materials and weave baskets with friends and family. Along the way, there are lessons to be learned about personal accomplishment, care for the earth, and cultural resilience.
- Part Two: What was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River disappeared more than100 years ago due to water diversion and land reclamation for agriculture.
- Against the harsh landscape of the High Plains, towns fight to stay alive. The depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer is colliding with the legacy of independence that puts property rights in conflict with the stewardship of a common resource.
- This is a story of the Salton Sea, its rich history and the challenges it faces. As the need for water in the American southwest becomes critical, the decisions we make now will impact people, animals and the environment for future generations. There will be no turning back from the pathway we choose. Is it too late? Trixi and Bret Huish spent over a year at the Salton Sea, documenting its story.
- The Last Stand:Heroes at Ballona Wetlands centers on the politics, players and environmental issues in the debate over preservation and development at one of the last remaining wetlands ecosystems in Southern California. The film includes environmentalists, development advocates, labor unionists, native Americans, politicians, actors, scientists, and filmmakers set against the backdrop of Hollywood.
- An engaging drama of a Hawaiian boy who discovers the wonders of an island habitat and ancient principles after meeting the Guardian of the Forest, resulting in the healing of his ailing grandfather.
- For sixty years, parts of the 350-mile San Joaquin River in Califoria have been turned into a perpetual desert by water diversion for farming, thus destroying habitat for thousands of migrating salmon. Tales of the San Joaquin tells the story of the river and its restoration through oral histories of those who live and work along the length of the river.
- A Call to Arts is a film about love, art, revolution, and Ireland. Meet Helen Hooker and Ernie O'Malley as you join their youngest son Cormac's journey to discover his parent's contributions to the arts in Ireland in the 20th century.
- "A World At Waste" tells the harrowing tale of a man whose contempt for the environment comes back to haunt him as he visits a future where all of Earth's natural resources have been consumed and polluted.
- Celebrating the forlorn and lonely tree that Joel Tauber adopted in the middle of a giant parking lot at the Rose Bowl.
- A lonely figure rides his handcar through the desert. He hauls his precious jug of water. Ominous memories of oil pumping continually haunt him. Shot with a hand-cranked camera, 'Pumping' collapses time, as it contemplates big industry and our relationships with our finite resources.