Darwins nightmare - Winner Best European Documentary 2004

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Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world.

Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo... Kalashnikovs and ammunitions for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent.

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This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world's biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.
http://www.darwinsnightmare.com/

TEDxExeter - Tony Juniper - What has Nature ever done for us?

http://www.tedxexeter.com/videos/

Tony Juniper is a campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser and a well-known British environmentalist. For more than 25 years he has worked for change toward a more sustainable society at local, national and international levels. From providing ecology and conservation experiences for primary school children, to making the case for new recycling laws, to orchestrating international campaigns for action on rainforests and climate change, his work has sought change at many levels.

Hubert Reeves : conteur d'étoiles

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Portrait documentaire d'Hubert Reeves, humaniste et écologiste engagé. Son combat : laisser aux générations futures une planète habitable. Les heures sont comptées, croit-il. Il nous rappelle les découvertes scientifiques qui font de nous les «enfants du cosmos» et, à ce titre, nous rendent responsables de la survie d'une terre promise, laquelle menace de devenir notre enfer...

Source : http://www.onf.ca/film/hubert_reeves_conteur_detoiles

Open Source Ecology - Oberlin Public Talk

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Public talk at Oberlin College by Marcin Jackubowski about the Open Source Ecology concept. FIlmed at the Lewis Center for Environmental Studies on January 11, 2011

James Lovelock - The Vanishing Face of Gaia

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James Lovelock, the groundbreaking originator of Gaia theory, in conversation with science editor Tim Radford warns that we are about to reach a tipping point, beyond which our planet will not recover sufficiently to sustain human life comfortably.

Portrait of the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess

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Portrait of the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement. Made in 1997 by Rerun Productions, The Netherlands. Shot on location in Naess's hut Tvergastein on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau, and in Berkeley, USA. With Bill Devall, Vandana Shiva, George Sessions, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Harold Glasser.

This I Believe - David Orr

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David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Special Assistant to the President of Oberlin College and a James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont. He is the recipient of four honorary degrees and other awards including The Millennium Leadership Award from Global Green, the Bioneers Award, the National Wildlife Federation Leadership Award, a Lyndhurst Prize acknowledging "persons of exceptional moral character, vision, and energy." He serves as a Trustee for several organizations including the Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org) and the Aldo Leopold Foundation (www.aldoleopold.org). He is the author of six books and co-editor of three others including Ecological Literacy (SUNY, 1992) and Earth in Mind (1994/2004). In 1987 he organized studies of energy, water, and materials use on several college campuses that helped to launch the green campus movement. In 1996 he organized the effort to design the first substantially green building on a U.S. college campus. The Adam Joseph Lewis Center was later named by the U.S. Department of Energy as "One of Thirty Milestone Buildings in the 20th Century." The story of that building is told in two books: The Nature of Design (Oxford, 2002) and Design on the Edge (MIT, 2006). Recent projects include a two year, $2 million project to define a 100 day climate action plan for the Obama administration (www.climateactionproject.com ). He is also active in efforts to stop mountaintop removal in Appalachia and develop a new economy based on ecological restoration and wind energy. He is the author of forthcoming The Transforming Climate: Leadership in the Age of Consequences (2009).

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Interview with Derrick Jensen filmed by Ingrid Severson

René Dumont: Global Ecologist

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In this short documentary, revisit the 20th century through the eyes of 97-year-old René Dumont, agricultural scientist and activist for peace, justice and the environment. Angered by enduring injustice, Dumont beseeches us to look to the future: "Open your eyes! The 21st century has had a rotten start!" This film brings us his outrage and activism, his love of humanity and hope for the future. In French with English subtitles.
http://www.nfb.ca/film/rene_dumont_global_ecologist/

This Earth Focus special features award-winning filmmakers Marilyn and Hal Weiner as they share the experience of making their series "Journey to Planet Earth."

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Trouble in the Forest by Gary Toole, - NFB

In this compelling film, David Suzuki investigates the frightening phenomenon of forest dieback caused by acid rain and proposes some solutions.

An Ecology of Hope by Fernand Dansereau, - NFB

A documentary portrait of ecologist Pierre Dansereau, the film takes us from Baffin Island to New York City, from the Gaspé Peninsula to Brazil. At each stop on this world tour, we hear his story and witness landscapes of breathtaking beauty.

BBC Four - The Curse of Oil - The Wilderness

As the demand for oil increases, fragile wilderness areas across the world are being opened up to oil exploration and furious debate.

Producers' Diary: Working (or Rather Not Working) With Oil Companies

This programme travels from the political lobbies of Washington DC to Alaska, where the pristine landscape of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could soon be the site of extensive oil development, and on to Alberta where production of 'The World's Worst Oil' is already underway.

Producers' Diary: Dave Yager: The Other Side of the Story

Opposition from environmental groups is growing but so is the world's hunger for oil. We need the oil but how far will we go to get it?

BBC Four - The Curse of Oil - The Pipeline

The Caspian Sea contains some of the largest untapped energy reserves on the planet and everybody wants a share. A 1,100-mile pipeline is being built to transport the Caspian's oil to the markets of Europe and North America.

Producers' Diary: The Borjomi Valley

This programme follows the route of the new pipeline through some of the most geographically challenging and politically dangerous places on earth, as it makes its way from the Caspian to the Mediterranean Sea.

Producers' Diary: Mirvarie

En route, the filmmakers encounter disgruntled Turkish villagers, British engineers enduring arctic temperatures and an American-trained force of new military recruits in Georgia.

BBC Four - The Curse of Oil - Rich and Poor

The discovery of oil is usually celebrated as a one-way ticket to wealth and economic growth. Yet evidence indicates that the presence of oil in a developing country makes life worse, not better, for most of the people who live there - particularly the poorest people.

Producers' Diary: Why Oil?

This programme travels to Ecuador and Angola where, historically, oil has proved to be more of a curse than a blessing.

Producers' Diary: Filming in the Ecuadorian Rainforest

Producers' Diary: We Are Happy To Be Together

The programme asks how much of this is the responsibility of the oil industry and looks at how oil companies are responding to the challenges presented by this 'paradox of plenty'.

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Cafe Science: How Much Is Nature Worth?

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"The vast majority of things are worth something, a few things are worthless, and a few things are seemingly priceless. Where does nature fall in this spectrum – worthless, worth something, or priceless?" -- Shahid Naeem

Shahid Naeem considers how a team ecologists and economists derived a global estimate of Nature's worth in 1997, and what recent experiments tell us about one of the greatest scientific challenge we face in the modern world -- understanding how 15 million species make our biosphere an equitable place to live.

Naeem's discussion, held on August 24, 2006, was the third in a new series called Café Science. These modern-day salons provide an informal, relaxed setting offering an opportunity to talk about pioneering ideas and research with leading Columbia Scientists.

Columbia News Video Brief Archive for the Year 2006