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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A series of four documentaries that survey China through Chinese eyes to see how history has shaped them, and where the present is taking them. Deals with the governance of China; talks about the past and future for Chinese women; looks at China's environmental challenges; explores China's conflict between personal freedom and governance.
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Documentary encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on five continents as it details plastic's path over the last 100 years and the effects it has had on the environment. Discusses solutions to issues such as recycling, toxicity, and biodegradability as well as marine debris.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society, or too much of a good thing? From executive producer, 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.
8) Damnation
Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers"--Container.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A six-part series examines sustainable transportation alternatives with potentially far-reaching effects. Explores real solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges, presented with a combination of storytelling, cinematography and an original music score.
Publisher
SustainabiliTV
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
This DVD will explain how sustainability strategies can boost companies' reputation and brand value, increase profits by at least 38% over five years, avoid a growing "perfect storm" of risks, help companies do well by doing good, and attract, keep and motivate top talent.
11) Those Calloways
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
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.
12) Promised land
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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.
Publisher
Fund for Sustainable Tomorrows
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The aim of the film is to give audiences a greater understanding of how human wellbeing depends on the health of the environment, and how, through history, the health of the environment has been compromised by war and preparations for war.
17) Sand wars
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Sand Wars is a surprising investigation into one of the most consumed natural resources on the planet. The planet₂s sand reserves are being threatened. Three-quarters of the world's beaches are in decline as victims of erosion or 'sand mafias.' But what will be the consequences of sand extraction on the environment and life on the planet?
18) Planeat
Publisher
TrueMind
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The story of three men's life-long search for a diet, which is good for our health, good for the environment and good for the future of the planet ... With the help of some innovative farmers and chefs, [this film] shows how the problems we face today can be solved without simply resorting to a diet of lentils and lettuce leaves"--Container.
20) Prophecy
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary tale of stark horror a savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.