Earth Days (2009) - Full Movie

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It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. Earth Days’ secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. The extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers—among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich; Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart; and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins—are beautifully illustrated with an incredible array of footage from candy-colored Eisenhower–era tableaux to classic tear-jerking 1970s anti-litterbug PSAs. Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on humanity’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements—and missed opportunities of groundbreaking eco-activism.

Source : http://robertstoneproductions.com/film/earth-days/

Crapshoot : The Gamble with Our Wastes

A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food - where does it all go? And what does it do to us? Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United States and Canada, this bold documentary questions our fundamental attitudes to waste. Does our need to dispose of waste take precedence over public safety? What are the alternatives?
http://www.nfb.ca/film/crapshoot_the_gamble_with_our_wastes/

National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 1 of 4 - Invaders

National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 2 of 4 - One Degree Factor


National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 3 of 4 - Predator


National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 4 of 4 - Troubled Waters

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Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and clue by clue, investigators around the world are assembling a new picture of Earth, discovering ways that seemingly disparate events are connected. Crumbling houses in New Orleans are linked to voracious creatures from southern China. Vanishing forests in Yellowstone are linked to the disappearance of wolves. An asthma epidemic in the Caribbean is linked to dust storms in Africa. Scientists suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed. Where are we headed? What can we do to alter this course of events? National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth, premiering in Spring 2005 on PBS, explores these questions. Drawing upon research being generated by a new discipline, Earth System Science (ESS), the series aims to create an innovative type of environmental awareness. By revealing a cause and effect relationship between what we as humans do to the Earth and what that in turn does to our environment and ecosystems, the series creates a new sense of environmental urgency. Award-winning actor, writer and director Edward Norton (Primal Fear, American History X, Italian Job) hosts the series. A dedicated environmental activist, Norton has a special interest in providing solar energy to low income families. Each of the four one-hour episodes is constructed as a high-tech detective story, with the fate of the planet at stake.

National Geographic

"The Story of REDD : A real solution to deforestation?"

Film produced by FERN FERN

REDD, or reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, is one of the most controversial issues in the climate change debate. The basic concept is simple: governments, companies or forest owners in the South should be rewarded for keeping their forests instead of cutting them down. The devil, as always, is in the details.

‘The story of REDD: A real solution to deforestation?’ considers the more complex issues that must be considered by any initiative to reduce deforestation. The attached script includes links to reports, websites and briefings that explain the issues in more detail or outline where facts and figures come from. It is intended not to be comprehensive, but to give a flavour of the research and a starting point for finding out more information about these issues.

For more information visit : http://www.redd-monitor.org/redd-an-introduction/

A Darker Shade of Green : REDD Alert and the Future of Forests

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As policies and programs to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and to enhance forest carbon stocks (REDD+) are promoted around the world by global and national elites, Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities are raising the alarm that these programs will have serious negative impacts -- and will not reduce the cascading threats of the climate crisis. This 28-minute documentary introduces the many concerns about REDD from the perspective of the people who are most impacted, featuring interviews and testimonies from Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Uganda, India, and California.

To request a copy of the DVD of this film, please go to : http://globaljusticeecology.org/forest_carbon_offsets.php?ID=595

A Fierce Green Fire - Official Trailer

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A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement -- grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization, the film tells vivid stories about people fighting -- and succeeding -- against enormous odds.

„Nosotros y la Basura” - („Wir und der Müll“)

Más informaciones : film.gianniseufert.de

(Dt. Übersetzung siehe unten)

“Nosotros y la Basura” es un documental educativo sobre la basura y su tratamiento que ya representa un problema muy grave. La película fue elaborado durante seis meses además de nuestro trabajo educativo y como parte del programa “weltwärts” – el servicio civil del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Economica y Desarollo de Alemania.
La meta era crear un documental de una manera didáctica para sensibilizar y concienciar que toca al nivel de la gente para que se lo utilize en charlas de la educación ambiental y para que sea una inspiración para iniciar un cambio sostenible.
Con el apoyo de la Embajada Alemana Quito, la GIZ, Experiment e.V., Childfund y Fenpidec Ecuador, organisaciónes y personas particuluares adicionales, tal como la proxima generación de los voluntarios, se utiliza el documental en la educación del medio ambiente al nivel nacional en el Ecuador.

„Nosotros y la Basura" („Wir und der Müll“) ist ein edukativer Dokumentarfilm, der das gravierende Problem Müll und dessen Umgang thematisiert. Der Film ist innerhalb von sechs Monaten während unseres weltwärts-Zivildiensts in Puerto Quito, Ecuador, entstanden. Unsere Hauptaufgabe bestand darin, in Bildungsinstitutionen als Lehrkräfte tätig zu sein.
Die Idee war es, ein sensibilisierendes und auf Augenhöhe ansprechendes Dokument zu schaffen, das in Workshops und der Umweltbildung nachhaltig eingesetzt wird und motivierend zu positiven Veränderungen beiträgt.
Mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Botschaft Quito, GIZ, Experiment e.V., Childfund, weiteren Organisationen und Privatpersonen, sowie vor allem der neuen weltwärts-Freiwilligen, wird dieser Film in ganz Ecuador im Bildungsbereich eingesetzt.

Version mit dt. Untertiteln : vimeo.com/29840114

Ein Film von : Malte Brammerloh, Thomas Dollmaier, Gregor Sauer und Gianni Seufert (2010/2011)

El Dorado, la sed de oro - Una película de Martin Frigon

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El Dorado, la sed de oro (Mirages d’un Eldorado), nos transporta a la lejana Cordillera de los Andes, en Chile, donde los habitantes de una comunidad agrícola se oponen al establecimiento de los gigantes de la industria minera, entre los cuales, la canadiense Barrick Gold y su proyecto Pascua Lama. Buenos brutos y truanes se confrontan en este western de denuncia, cada cual con sus respectivas e irreconciliables visiones de desarrollo.
Premio Festival - Festival Internacional de Cine Digital de Vina del Mar, Chile, enero de 2009
Premio Festival (Grand Prix) - Festival International du Film d’Environnement, Paris, noviembre de 2008
Fuente : http://www.pmm.qc.ca/english/spip.php?article54

MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan

The MIDWAY media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, our team is witnessing the cycles of life and death of these birds as a multi-layered metaphor for our times. With photographer Chris Jordan as our guide, we walk through the fire of horror and grief, facing the immensity of this tragedy—and our own complicity—head on. And in this process, we find an unexpected route to a transformational experience of beauty, acceptance, and understanding.

We frame our story in the vividly gorgeous language of state-of-the-art high-definition digital cinematography, surrounded by millions of live birds in one of the world’s most beautiful natural sanctuaries. The viewer will experience stunning juxtapositions of beauty and horror, destruction and renewal, grief and joy, birth and death, coming out the other side with their heart broken open and their worldview shifted. Stepping outside the stylistic templates of traditional environmental or documentary films, MIDWAY will take viewers on a guided tour into the depths of their own spirits, delivering a profound message of reverence and love that is already reaching an audience of tens of millions of people around the world.

Production of the feature film "MIDWAY" continues through 2012.

For more information: MidwayFilm.com

To donate: razoo.com/story/MidwayJourney

Midway Project blog, team details, production diary videos: MidwayJourney.com

Facebook - behind the scenes photos, latest updates Facebook.com/MidwayJourney

Twitter: twitter.com/#!/midwayjourney

Youtube: youtube.com/journeytomidway

Aral, el mar perdido

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En este documental de Isabel Coixet se da cuenta del desastre ecológico del Mar de Aral, en Asia Central. El documental refiere en qué estado ha quedado la zona del Mar de Aral tras su desaparición y cómo han sufrido las comunidades que dependían de él.

Source: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/otros-documentales/aral-mar-perdido/1052282/

Carbon Markets: Trading with our Future (short)

As the UN climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa draw to a close carbon emission credit prices have fallen to record lows and carbon market forecasts predict further carnage. “Carbon Markets, Trading with our Future” – a new film released in Durban offers a rare glimpse into the collapsing markets from the vantage of some of the leading architects and designers of climate finance.

Indústria do Alumínio: A floresta Virada em Pó

Reportagem produzida pelo Núcleo Amigos da Terra Brasil mostra casos de destruição social e ambiental que empresas transacionais provocam nos Estados do Pará e Maranhão, onde está concentrada mais de 80% da bauxita explorada no Brasil. O alumínio é uma das principais commodities brasileiras e o país é o 6º produtor mundial do metal, atrás da China, Rússia, Canadá, Austrália e EUA. O Brasil possui a terceira maior jazida de bauxita do mundo e é o quarto maior produtor mundial de alumina.

Bruna Engel, do Núcleo Amigos da Terra Brasil

Aluminium Industry - The Forest Turns to Dust


The Friends of The Earth Brazil nucleus, in contact with organizations and local movements, set to record these conflicts with ribeirinho communities to evaluate the social and environmental impacts that the aluminium industry provokes since the 1980s in Brazil.

Fonte: www.cartamaior.com.br/templates/materiaMostrar.cfm?materia_id=19162

"Mondego" by Daniel Pinheiro

Final Project of my Masters´s Degree in Wildlife Documentary Production from the University of Salford.
Film marked with a distinction. Filmed in Portugal during May/June 2011. A voyage by the Mondego river´s wildlife from the mountains to the sea.

Synopsis
A river acclaimed by poets and songwriters, closely entwined in the History of Portugal. As its waters merge with the sea, a small stream, hidden in the high mountains of Serra da Estrela, continues to ensure the Mondego breathes life into its great variety of habitats and wildlife.

danielpinheiro.wildlifefilms@gmail.com

Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development

http://www.ted.com

Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems.

Sed de Oro - Pascua Lama (español)

Una pelicula excelente sobre Barick Gold y Pascua Lama. (Explotación de oro en Chile)

Amazônia. Última llamada

Amazônia. Última llamada recorre la ecología, el medio ambiente, la antropología y evolución del Pulmón del Planeta. 6.000 kilómetros cuadrados que albergan un complejo ecosistema, de los más ricos en biodiversidad y de los más amenazados.

Esta serie, de 13 episodios de 52 minutos cada uno, proporciona un reflejo de la situación actual; de los intereses económicos y comerciales que convergen en este amenazado paraíso; el modo de vida y la percepción del mundo de los indígenas que habitan la selva; el imperio de la soja y las consecuencias que ese cultivo tiene sobre las tierras que va deforestando; las maderas preciosas que se están agotando a orillas del Amazonas debido a su tráfico ilegal; la fauna brasileña; los caminos seguidos por los biopiratas para robarle naturaleza a Brasil; los parques nacionales menos tópicos y más alejados del contexto amazónico; la lucha de la selva contra la ciudad; los trabajos de diferentes organizaciones en defensa del Amazonas

Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk

http://www.ted.com

Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ...
and too often, we're left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein's question: What's the backup plan?

Environmentalism: From the Control of Nature to Partnership

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In the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century, the long term goal of the betterment of humankind through the control of nature was a significant advancement. The experimental vision put forward by Francis Bacon and others enabled humanity to understand science and manage nature. For the 21st century, however, the ethic of control is giving way to one of partnership with the natural world. UC Berkeley Professor Carolyn Merchant discusses how the partnership ethic entails a viable, sustainable relationship in which connections to the global world are recognized through science, technology, and ecological exchanges. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures [7/2010] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 19243]

How Safe is Atrazine?

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One of the nations most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water in four states, but water customers have not been told and the Environmental Protection Agency has not published the results.

Records that tracked the amount of the weed-killer atrazine in about 150 watersheds from 2003 through 2008 were obtained by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund under the Freedom of Information Act. An analysis found that yearly average levels of atrazine in drinking water violated the federal standard at least ten times in communities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas, all states where farmers rely heavily on the herbicide.

In addition, more than 40 water systems in those states showed spikes in atrazine levels that normally would have triggered automatic notification of customers. In none of those cases were residents alerted.

For more on this story read the full report here:
http://huffpostfund.org/stories/2009/08/epa-fails-inform-public-about-weed-killer-drinking-water

National Geographic - Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 1 of 4 - Invaders

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Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 2 of 4- One Degree Factor

Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 3 of 4 - Predator

Strange Days on Planet Earth - Part 4 of 4- Troubled Waters

Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and clue by clue, investigators around the world are assembling a new picture of Earth, discovering ways that seemingly disparate events are connected. Crumbling houses in New Orleans are linked to voracious creatures from southern China. Vanishing forests in Yellowstone are linked to the disappearance of wolves. An asthma epidemic in the Caribbean is linked to dust storms in Africa. Scientists suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed. Where are we headed? What can we do to alter this course of events? National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth, premiering in Spring 2005 on PBS, explores these questions. Drawing upon research being generated by a new discipline, Earth System Science (ESS), the series aims to create an innovative type of environmental awareness. By revealing a cause and effect relationship between what we as humans do to the Earth and what that in turn does to our environment and ecosystems, the series creates a new sense of environmental urgency. Award-winning actor, writer and director Edward Norton (Primal Fear, American History X, Italian Job) hosts the series. A dedicated environmental activist, Norton has a special interest in providing solar energy to low income families. Each of the four one-hour episodes is constructed as a high-tech detective story, with the fate of the planet at stake.