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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Juan C. Davila goes inside the Camp Pa'l Pueblo Beaches. The camp exists to stop an expansion of the Courtyard Mariott, which would limit public access to the beach and impact natural resources and life of the area. He covers the lives of the environmentalists who have camped over six years in the area.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A searing documentary exposes, uncovering the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. Different from every other plastic documentary ever seen, it presents a cohesive timeline of how people got to the current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal to the global resistance...
5) Pedal-driven
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Delves into the escalating conflict between mountain bikers hungry to ride and the federal land managers charged with protecting the public lands. It will take you behind both sides of this confrontation, riding with the freeriders and chasing them down with the rangers, in an exploration of issues increasingly important to all Americans.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
It is the Age of Plastic. It's cheap, practical, and everywhere. But is it dangerous? Viewers are taken on a journey around the globe, from the Moroccan Sahara to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, from a factory in China to the Alps to reveal the far-flung reaches of the plastic problem. Interviews with experts in biology, pharmacology, and genetics shed light on the perils of plastic to the environment and expose the truth of how plastic affects the...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The greatest impacts from climate change will not be warmer temperatures but water shortages. Learn how America's water infrastructure is incapable of handling these changes. There exist solutions that will make us rethink everything from how we use water, to where we live, to who owns water. Every drop of water that flows through America's rivers or is stored in our lakes and reservoirs is spoken for. Now, America is over-drafting its water supply....
9) Food choices
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This film takes a broader look and explores the impact that our food choices have not only on our own health, but also on the health of our planet as well as on the lives of other living species on earth and shows how everything is intrinsically interconnected. This film features interviews with renowned doctors, nutritionists, environmental experts, holistic health practitioners, athletes, musicians, celebrities, authors, bloggers as well as people...
10) Beach
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Bill Nye investigates how what we do on the beach and in the ocean impacts what happens on land. Questions he asks include what happens when you dump 29,000 rubber ducks into the ocean? What's the North Pacific Gyre? How does the sink effect keep us all alive? What is the world's greatest single litter problem?"--Publisher's description.
11) Promised land
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The planet is being overwhelmed with clothes. Close to 56 million tonnes of clothes are sold every year. In Europe, the amount purchased has almost doubled since the year 2000. Thanks to fast disposable fashion, you can constantly renew your wardrobe. But producing clothes at such a low price has a very high environmental cost. Textiles are the second most polluting industry in the world, after oil. According to the brands, they no longer have time...
13) Space threats
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
From star collisions to mass extinction crashes, gravity is moving everything around in often high-impact events; Imagine a tornado so powerful, it can form a plante or winds sweeping across a planet much like our won, but blowing at 6,000 miles per hour; It's a world in which a single spark or a tiny micrometeoroid can turn a routine mission into a lethal nightmare, while the most dangerous aspects of space travel; They helped build planets through...
14) Godzilla
Language
English
Formats
Description
From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society, or too much of a good thing? Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, 'Surviving Progress' is a provocative documentary that explores the concept of progress in the modern world, guiding through the major 'progress traps' facing civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment.
16) Eating animals
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer and narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman, this is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health consequences of factory farming. It offers attainable, common-sense solutions to a growing crisis while making the case that ethical farming is not only an animal rights issue but also one that affects every aspect of life.
17) Woman at war
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Icelandic
Description
50-year-old Halla, a passionate environmental activist, secretly wages war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland--but discovers her application to adopt has finally been approved and there is a child in the Ukraine waiting for her.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Investigates the problem of the Midway Atoll, otherwise known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a small land mass in the Pacific Ocean that collects the plastic refuse from three continents. Presents arguments against single-use plastic containers, which do not biodegrade.
20) Tapped
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig exams the big business of bottled water. Viewers get a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. Here is a powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled...
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