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Pub. Date
2006.
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
2015
Description
It chronicles the famed biologist lifelong love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. His work with ants led to his remarkable studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and the controversial discipline of sociobiology was founded. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and humanity's place in it.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
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...
6) Hoot
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
Witness the impassioned efforts of individuals who are battling the most severe threats of climate change in their own backyards. Set against the national debate over the United States' energy future and the decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, the film captures what's at stake for communities around the country and the inspiring ways Americans are responding.
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Sid takes a special trip to The Science Center to discover cool facts about water, and when his toy robot breaks, he investigates how to recycle and reuse! When Sid and his dad clear out space in the yard for a basketball court, they observe a curious home for many little creatures"--From publisher description.
11) Those Calloways
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Presents a story about a man whose private dream of establishing a bird sanctuary interferes with commercial development of a hunting resort. Shows the conflict that arises when he takes the law into his own hands. Designed to motivate students to assess their own feelings of responsibility to the environment and to other people.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
13) 2040
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if the solutions already available to improve our planet were embraced. Structured as a letter to his daughter, Gameau blends documentary with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision of how these solutions could regenerate the world.
14) Tomorrow
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Shortlyafter giving birth to her first child, French actress and director Melanie Laurent became increasingly aware of the dangers and the state of urgency that her son will face in the future. Along with friend and activist Cyril Dion and their crew, she decided to travel the world in search of solutions that can help save the next generations. The result is an inspiring documentary that presents concrete solutions implemented throughout the world...
15) No impact man
Description
Colin Beavan is a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal. He has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year of no electricity, television, cars, toilet paper, elevators,...
19) Water warriors
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When an energy company begins searching for natural gas, a multicultural alliance -- including members of the Mi'kmaq Elsipogtog First Nation, Acadians, and English-speaking families--unite to drive out the company in a campaign to protect their water and way of life.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes that we then throw away. But where is 'away?' Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life and human health? Follows 'everyman' Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics.