Tag: Documentaries - Page 3
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Documentary Claims A Love of Meat is Killing Us (Video)
From my musings on what a vegan world would actually look like, to PETA's infographic on what happens when everyone eats vegan, we've seen plenty of speculation about what our future would look like if we abandoned, or severely
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Hawaiian Couple Embarks on Mega Tree-Planting Road Trip: 50 Native Trees, 50 States
Joe Imhoff and Sara Tekula, a husband-and-wife filmmaking duo, understand the power of native species: Their Plant a Wish project is taking the couple on a cross-country trip to install native trees in every state. But the Hawaii-based couple isn't just
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The Stunning Beauty of Pollination Caught on Film (Video)
As Discovery launches a network-wide push entitled Bees on the Brink, we're turning our attention back to honeybees, the challenges they face, and what we can do to help them. From the deep dependence of our food
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Last Chance to Help Bees and Get Ellen Page's Autograph as Thanks. (Video)
Image credit: Vanishing of the Bees The Vanishing of the Bees documentary created a huge buzz over the plight of the honeybees, not least because it had the help of actress Ellen Page as narrator and spokesperson for our pollinator friends. But the
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Istanbul: A City Growing in 'Overdrive'
The Istanbul of palaces and soaring minarets, of bazaars and bustling nightlife, lies within just a few of the city's 1,000 total square miles. The other Istanbul is full of factories, freeways, grey concrete buildings, and -- most of all -- traffic.
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Chinese Workers Struggle to Catch 'The Last Train Home' in World's Largest Human Migration
Every year, 130 million people throng China's railway stations, frantically trying to obtain a seat on a train that will take them home for
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Ellen Page Speaks Out on the Vanishing of the Bees (Video)
We're excited here at TreeHugger about our live chat today with leading bee expert and entomologist Professor May Berenbaum today at 2.30 est. But (luckily!) we're not the only ones stepping up to talk about the plight
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Whole Foods' "Do Something Reel" Film Festival On Tour
Since An Inconvenient Truth won the Academy Award, eco-docs have been all the rage from The Cove taking an Oscar to Gasland making the short list of
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6 New, Critically-Acclaimed Eco Documentaries Worth Seeing
Forget the boring documentaries that you suffered through in school -- today's filmmakers use everything from 3D technology and IMAX lenses to custom-designed equipment and pop soundtracks to draw attention to their
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What Is An Eco-Terrorist? Interview with Marshall Curry, Director of Sundance Winner "If a Tree Falls"
When I first met Daniel McGowan, he was living in a vegetarian coop house in Brooklyn—the first house I knew that did its own on-site composting in New York City—and working for the Rainforest
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Culture and Celebrity (Slideshow)
Anyone who thinks that the importance of pop culture is limited to what Charlie Sheen tweeted yesterday and who's at the top of the pop charts is severely underestimating the impact that celebrities, events, music, films,
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Culture and Celebrity
Anyone who thinks that the importance of pop culture is limited to what Charlie Sheen tweeted yesterday and who's at the top of the pop charts is severely underestimating the impact that celebrities, events, music, films, books, art, and social media can
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'A Few Brave People' Fight to Protect Turkey's Black Sea Region from Destructive Dams
The fight by residents of İkizdere and other Black Sea valleys to protect their homes from dam development is the subject of a moving new Turkish documentary, 'A Few Brave People.'
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Host a Party, Help Oscar-Nominated Sun Come Up Raise Money For Climate Change Refugees
While all the green-themed films currently up for Academy Awards are worthy contenders, and I'd really encourage you to see all of them if you get a chance, the producers of Sun Come Up--a beautifully shot documentary which follows the relocation of
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"Gasland's" Oscar in Jeopardy?
Of the worthy films up for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards this year, two focus on environmental issues. Though much interest involves British guerilla street
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Fracking & Climate Change Refugee Documentaries Gasland, Sun Come Up Nominated for Oscars
The Academy Awards may be over a month away still, but the Oscar nominations have just been announced and environmentalism is center stage. Well, most likely center stage during one of the non-broadcast portions
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Sundance Festival's Eco-films Climb "The Last Mountain"
"Explosive power the size of a Hiroshima bomb once a week," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described mountaintop coal mining at a West Virginia rally to stop
