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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning documentary about humanity's wisest responses to climate change, species extinction, resource depletion, income inequality, and the connection between these issues. A look at the financial and economical paradigm underlying our planetary problems, while offering various solutions to reverse the path of global decline.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This AGTA 2008 award winning program looks at issues related to management of beaches and development near beaches in NSW, Queensland and Western Australia. Case studies include Duranbah Beach and sand pumping at the Tweed, The Gold Coast, new housing developments at "Salt" and "Casuarina" near the Tweed and how developers and communities reached agreement, Sydney-inappropriate development near beaches, pollution and protecting ecosystems, SW Western...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore presents evidence that the negative effects of global warming have increased since the release of the film "An inconvenient truth" a decade earlier.
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the follow-up that shows just how close people are to a real energy revolution.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Driven by intensely personal testimony and painstaking research, Deadly Deception exposes what GE never wanted its customers to know: a shocking pattern of negligence and misinformation spanning several decades. These tragic stories are answered by the inspiring activism of the GE Boycott, a grassroots campaign run by corporate accountability organization, Corporate Accountability International, to pressure GE out of the nuclear weapons industr. Nine...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Our current industrial method of food production is increasingly viewed as an unsustainable system, destructive to the environment and public health. But what is the alternative? Fresh profiles the farmers, thinkers, and business people across the nation who are at the forefront of re-inventing food production in America. With a strong commitment to sustainability, they are changing how farms are run, how the land is cared for, and how food is distributed....
11) Delhi safari
Language
English
Description
The story of a journey undertaken by a cub leopard, his mother, a monkey, a bear and a parrot when the forest they live in is on the verge of destruction. Builders have encroached upon their forest and the animals decide to go to Delhi and protest in front of the humans and ask some very pertinent questions- like, why has man become the most dangerous animal? Doesn't man understand that if the forests and the animals don't co-exist with humans, the...
12) Pom poko
Language
English
Formats
Description
An extraordinary tale of transformation and hope is told as the human world begins to encroach upon the animal world. When the racoons of the Tama Hills are forced from their homes by encroaching houses and shopping malls, they band together and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are able to appear as humans.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Join Captain Planet and the Planeteers as they protect the Earth. The brainchild of media mogul Ted Turner, Captain Planet and the Planeteers burst onto the scene as the world's first and only eco-superhero show in 1990 on TBS. Includes all 26 episodes of Season One.
15) War on the EPA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
How Scott Pruitt went from fighting the EPA to running the agency and rolling back years of policy. An investigation into the conservative political forces and causes, like climate change skepticism, that propelled Pruitt's takeover of the EPA.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Under siege: Aboard the battleship Missouri, a surprise party for the President evolves into an attack by mercenaries in league with the Captain with the plan of stealing the nuclear warheads.
The glimmer man: Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified.
Above the law: Nico...
20) Fresh
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.
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