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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
UMA: A WATER CRISIS IN BOLIVIA tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a national water crisis. The government has consistently supported the expansion of mining, granting miners unrestricted water access and failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws. UMA, the Aymara word for water, takes us on a journey from the tropical...
62) Sustenance
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A challenge by a group of friends with different diets takes the viewers on a global journey in search of the dimensions of sustainability.
63) Blame Game
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
As more and more of us use and replace electronic devices, manufacturers have failed to offer solutions for how to deal with the resulting waste, and much of it is exported to a toxic dump in Ghana where scavengers do their best to salvage what they can. BLAME GAME investigates the murky world of global electronic waste disposal, where legal grey areas, a lack of investment in recycling, unscrupulous businesses and politicised application of the existing...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Allan Code's MEMORY TRAP: THE HERD THAT WOULDN'T DISAPPEAR weaves together interviews of biologists, elders, authors, conservation officers and hunters with footage from some of the most remote corners of the Yukon wilderness to tell the incredible story of the Fortymile Caribou herd. In 1920, the Fortymile Caribou herd had numbers in the 600,000's, only to dwindle to 4,000 in the 1970's. Follow Code over the course of a year through the remote wilderness...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH is a years-in-the-making feature documentary from the award-winning team behind *Manufactured Landscapes* and *Watermark* and is narrated by Alicia Vikander. The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the...
66) Fast Fashion
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The planet is being overwhelmed with clothes. Close to 56 million tons 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. This film explores the bad practices of the textile industry, the most polluting industry in the world after oil.
67) Go further
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
GO FURTHER explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviours. The travellers include a yoga-teacher, a raw food chef, a hemp-activist,...
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For readers of Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, and Freakonomics, comes a captivating and surprising journey through the science of workplace excellence. Why do successful companies reward failure? What can casinos teach us about building a happy workplace? How do you design an office that enhances both attention to detail and creativity? In The Best Place to Work, award-winning psychologist Ron Friedman, Ph.D. uses the latest research from the fields...
70) Seasons
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (Directors of the Oscar-nominated, *Winged Migration*) return to the lush green forests that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age, when the ice retreated, and the cycle of seasons was established. SEASONS is the awe-inspiring tale of the long shared history that binds humankind and nature. Nominated for the Films4Families Youth Jury Award at the **Seattle International Film Festival.** *"Another testament...
71) Behold the Earth
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A music-rich documentary film that explores America’s divorce from the outdoors through conversations with legendary scientists, as well as a new generation of creation-care activists within America’s Christian communities.
72) Burned
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
This documentary takes a hard look at the latest false solution to climate change: woody biomass. It tells the story of how biomass has become the alternative-energy savior for the power-generation industry. The film is a visceral account of the accelerating destruction of our forests for fuel. Winner of an Audience Choice Award at the **American Conservation Film Festival**.
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When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction. He favors unambiguous political statements — such as torching...
74) Learning to See
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In this documentary shot by photographer Robert Oelman's son over a 12 year period, the audience travels with Oelman deep into the rain forests of South America to discover the world's most exotic insects. Winner of the Neapolitan Award at the **Naples International Film Festival**. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the **Santa Fe Independent Film Festival**. *"Robert Oelman's son [director] Jake honors his father's story in this...
75) Right to Harm
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Through the riveting stories of five rural communities, RIGHT TO HARM exposes the devastating public health impact factory farming has on many disadvantaged citizens throughout the United States. Filmed across the country, the documentary chronicles the failures of state agencies to regulate industrial animal agriculture. Known formally as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations – or CAFOs – these facilities produce millions of gallons of untreated...
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Shaunak Sen’s ALL THAT BREATHES reinvents the environmental documentary by portraying, in incisive yet lyrical fashion, the reciprocal influence of animals and humans. For more than a year, Sen followed New Delhi brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad as they rescued birds of prey from the increasingly destructive effects of urban pollution.
77) Peninsula Mitre
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The Gauchos del Mar brothers (producers of the films *Gauchos Del Mar* and *Tierra de Patagones*) perform an unprecedented 400 KM expedition by foot with over 35kgs on their backs during 53 days on the easternmost tip of Tierra del Fuego Province in Argentina, a pristine area where no one lives. The brothers have the goal of surfing a world-class wave never ridden before at the Cape San Diego Lighthouse, the most easterly point. To get there...
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Adding Talk to the Equation helps teachers learn how to skillfully lead math conversations so all students stay in the game, stay motivated about learning, and ultimately deepen their understanding. This collection features five case studies filmed in grades 1-6 and shows teachers at various stages in their practice of generating and managing rich mathematics conversations. Lucy emphasizes the progression that occurs as teachers get more comfortable...
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Workplace excellence volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Find out why some people love coming to work and doing their best: Energize with breakfast ; Create a fun caring culture ; Make the workplace desirable ; Use light, colour and design ; Encourage staff creativity ; Make work spaces comfortable ; Provide relaxing zones for time out ; Offer team building activities ; Meet, celebrate and socialize.
80) Kangaroo Island
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Kangaroo Island (KI), South Australia, is Australia's third-largest island. A popular tourist destination, KI has many ecotourism attractions. The program follows a group of Geographers and others discovering landscapes, landforms, animals and their habitats, communities and heritage. An aim is to show the major attractions and how good management leads to protection of natural and cultural environments and sustainable tourism. Content includes:...
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