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In [this book, the author] talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. [He] shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply - and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. -Dust jacket.
3) Mountain Men
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Mountain Men follows men who have devoted their lives to surviving off the grid in some of the country's most unforgiving terrain.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, an abandoned water reservoir just outside the bustling metropolis, the Enache family lived in perfect harmony with nature for two decades, sleeping in a hut on the lakeshore, catching fish barehanded, and following the rhythm of the seasons. When this area is transformed into a public national park, they are forced to leave behind their unconventional life and move to the city, where fishing rods are replaced...
7) Tomorrow
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Faced with a sense of powerlessness in the face of growing evidence of a coming mass human extinction, Melanie Laurent (Inglorious Bastards) and activist Cyril Dion travel to ten countries where grassroots pioneers are reinventing their economies and democracies. From Detroit, where urban farms have transformed a dying city, to Copenhagen, where nearly 70% of the energy is renewable, to Kuttambakkan in India, where participative democracy allows different...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Classrooms are training grounds for students to learn how to respond positively to diverse environments. Every day, they interact with people who look different, come from different places, and have different preferences. This program explores the many types of diversity and the perils of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. We also discuss ways to express curiosity in others while respecting the differences that make every person interesting,...
10) Soyalism
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
SOYALISM follows the industrial production chain of pork and the related soybean monoculture, from China to Brazil through the United States and Mozambique. his eye-opening documentary describes the enormous concentration of power in the hands of these Western and Chinese companies and the impact this is having on the food we consume. Hundreds of thousands of small producers have gone out of business and entire landscapes have been permanently transformed....
12) Beyond Pollution
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A thought provoking, in-depth look at the causes and effects of the most devastating man made environmental disaster America has ever experienced. BEYOND POLLUTION is a firsthand investigation into BP’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Traveling thousands of miles across the Gulf coast interviewing environmental experts, government officials, fisherman & distributors, scientists, drilling engineers, and key BP contractors, the film reveals,...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"PLANET OF THE HUMANS" dares to say what no one will—that we are losing the battle to stop ecological meltdown by following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road—selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. In the midst of a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement’s answer is to push for techno-fixes and band-aids: too little, too late. This urgent, must-see movie, a full-frontal assault...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Pollution is killing tens of thousands of people every day around the world. Cities across Asia and Europe have had to shut down and stop traffic to manage “Airpocalypse” pollution events when the air is unsafe for the people who live there. But air pollution is a major killer everywhere, even places we think of as safe. Pollution causes a range of respiratory diseases, and even short exposure can change how our DNA functions. New science is finding...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
From Executive Producer Martin Sheen, THE MAP TO PARADISE is an adventure-filled and spectacularly gorgeous tale about the birth of the global movement to protect the sea. From underwater worlds of ice to glistening coral sanctuaries, discover what it takes to build a movement and to create positive change. Filmed across six continents, the filmmakers have set out to challenge the mainstream narrative of hard-hitting environmental documentaries with...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
At the end of their first year on Earth, the animal babies must take on the most complex challenges of their lives. In Iceland, an Arctic fox cub must learn where to find food for the first time, while in Kenya, spotted hyena twin sisters must roam a territory they share with the biggest threat to their lives – lions. All the babies must learn for themselves how to stay healthy and safe.
17) Macaques
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This video presents an overview of the genus Macaca, beginning with a discussion of their place in the primate order and their adaptability. This potential for eating a wide variety of foods and living in both temperate and tropical environments at a variety of altitudes means they are very similar to humans in their ability to exploit a range of habitats.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too fantastic to be true? German forester Peter Wohlleben ('The Hidden Life of Trees') and scientist Suzanne Simard (The University of British Columbia, Canada) have been observing and investigating the communication between trees over decades. And their findings are most astounding. 'INTELLIGENT TREES' features the main observations that are covered in Peter Wohlleben's book such as the...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Over the last 50 years, our use of phosphate based fertilizers has quadrupled. These are essential to modern agriculture, used especially for growing potatoes. Most fertilizers come from Morocco, where the pollution from phosphate mines is poisoning local drinking supplies, causing birth defects in animals and health problems in children. But also present in most phosphate-based fertilizer is cadmium, a toxic heavy metal linked to kidney and bone...
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