Tag: Documentaries - Page 4
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Yoga for Unity: Can Sun Salutations Resolve Tensions in Post-Conflict Areas?
It's hard to picture some of the most impoverished, and at one point violence-prone, regions in Kenya being turned into yoga studios, but that's what Yoga For Unity aims to do—and is starting to make happen. On December
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Film Review: To Buy, To Throw Away, To Buy; the Secret History of Planned Obsolescence
Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the
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DIY Homes Using Recycled Pallet Wood - Appalachian Gothic Architecture (Video)
From a $50,000 portable recycled house to a tiny green egg house for Chinese students, TreeHugger has already offered plenty of posts that prove that green living doesn't have to mean high-end LEED certified luxury.
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Why Resilience Beats Sustainability - Rob Hopkins on Transition in the City (Video)
Yesterday I posted about the new film from the creators of the End of Suburbia. This time around, the focus is on cities—and how cities can adapt to future shocks from peak oil, climate change, food shortages and
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End of Suburbia Director to Launch ResilientCITY - the Future of Our Cities (Video)
Image credit: Resilient Planet The End of Suburbia and its sequel, Escape from Suburbia, might just be the most influential documentaries within the environmental movement to be seen in recent years. True, they may not have achieved the mainstream
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TEDWomen documentary "Shape What's to Come"
TED launches TEDWomen, its latest in a series of global gatherings, this Tuesday and Wednesday, December 7-8, in Washington, D.C. The inaugural event, called
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Are We Hooked on Growth? Dispatches from the Edge of a Cliff (Video)
When Peak Moment TV asked whether being uncivilized is sustainable, it prompted an interesting discussion on what happens if we move away from current models of industrial civilization. Now their next episode tackles
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Lee Doren of How the World Works Slams Annie Leonard's Story of Cosmetics
Lee Doren, at How the World Works, has produced a critique of Annie Leonard's The Story of Cosmetics. Always wanting to hear both sides of the story, we took a look.
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Dr. Sanjayan, Lead Scientist for the Nature Conservancy (Podcast)
Dr. M. Sanjayan works as Lead Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, one of the largest and oldest environmental organizations in the world. His job leads him into some of the most diverse and endangered ecosystems of the planet. Sanjayan is also your
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Annie Leonard Looks at Cosmetics Industry: Simple, Serious, Scary (with Video)
Let me start out by saying there are a lot of good people in the chemicals industry and in the cosmetics industry. But, as Annie Leonard points out in her newest eye-opener The Story of Cosmetics: the "system is
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"The Vertical Farm," the Movie by Sting
Since 1989, Sting has been involved in protecting the Amazon through the Rainforest Foundation which he co-founded with his wife Trudie Styler and last month played a
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Forced to Cut Back, One Die-Hard Bacon Lover Learns to See the Merit in a Bit of Moderation
In my social group of foreigners living in Istanbul, the high price of pork products -- unpopular eats in a predominantly Muslim country -- is a constant lament. But in the countries we hail from, according to the
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Ready To Wean Off Oil Yet? DIY Fuel for $1 Per Gallon
Since Earth Day, we've been watching gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, with daily dispatches relaying the horrors. So if the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster isn't enough to
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"Nicotine Bees" Population Restored With Neonicotinoids Ban
Following France and Germany, last year the Italian Agriculture Ministry suspended the use of a class of pesticides, nicotine-based neonicotinoids, as a "precautionary measure." The
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Federal Court Orders "Crude" Director to Turn Over His Footage to Chevron - Filmmakers Rally in Support
One quick one for documentary fans, lovers of free expression, and (indirectly) anyone angry with oil companies: The Wrap reminds us that the director of the documentary "Crude" Joe Berlinger has be ordered by a New York federal court to turn over his
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"Into the Cold:" Why Trek Across the North Pole Now?
Because it's still there? To commemorate the centennial of Adm. Robert Peary's first-ever expedition to the Arctic, environmentalist Sebastian Copeland trudged 700 kilometers across the
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Attend Tribeca Film Festival At Home To See "Climate of Change"
Appalachian citizens fight mountaintop strip-mining. Papua New Guineans refuse commercial logging. An African man turns his village to cooking with solar
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Dive into Disneynature's "Oceans" on Earth Day for Coral Reefs
Last year the folks at Disneynature brought us the spectacular film, "Earth," on Earth Day. This year the studio releases "Oceans," a chronicle of the mysterious depths in five of the world's oceans, showing in theaters on April 22, Earth Day 2010.
