In the heart of this documentary, a fundamental question: how the chemicals which contaminate our food chain are they tested, estimated, then done regulate?
Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic and character-driven film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links.
An in-depth investigation into the disaster President Obama described as an ecological september 11th. This film examines the causes and effects of the Louisiana oil spill from many different angles: the ecological, the human, the political and the economic, and goes beyond the usual finger pointing at BP. The result is a much broader perspective on the disaster, revealing fundamental problems with the American approach to the petrol industry. A crucial conflict of interest is revealed within the Department of the Interior’s Mineral Management Service.
Oceans are rapidly becoming the world’s rubbish dump. Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A ‘plastic soup’ of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaching chemicals slowly up the food chain.
Cancer meant that Robin af Ekenstam had to amputate his right hand. He was only 21 years old.
When Robin hears of an advanced artificial hand he volunteers to participate in the development.
Science for Life is a journey into scientific progress seen through the eyes of ordinary citizens who benefit from it. It also looks at the vast financial resources invested in scientific research to win a stake in the global competition to be first in shaping the visions for the future.
12 months expedition, 18 000 nautical miles, 21 legs, 9 seas, 9 countries, to call attention to the necessity for international initiatives in favour of the environment. Most aspects of this change are alarming, yet we have met everywhere an enormous individual, and incresingly collective, will to protect our environment. From the Inuits to the Kuna Indians, from Silicone Valley to New York, from Vancouver to Miami - everywhere and all along the 40,000 kilometers of our journey, we have witnessed various initiatives whose purpose is to find solutions.
From the creator of the award winning film “Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home” (Sundance Channel, Super Channel) comes a shocking tale about the products we use to clean our homes and bodies. “Chemerical” explores the life cycle of everyday householder cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in sea of toxicity.
What began as a childhood dream is now an epic 18-month adventure that spans the globe. More than a few have embarked on an ‘around the world’ adventure; some have even completed it, but no one has ever done so powered exclusively by the sun. Meet Louis Palmer and his home-made “Solartaxi”. Full of surprises and apparently insurmountable obstacles, his journey begins in the summer of 2007. Along the way, Louis and his Solartaxi meet princes, movie stars, politicians and scientists, but most importantly,he encounters ordinary people, showing them: A car with zero emission is not a dream.
« Alma » is an insight into the Amazon forest and the industries destroying it. It is a poetical ride on beauty and suffering, a reflection on the value of life. Alma reveals what lies behind products such as meat, leather, dairy and exotic hardwood. The film invites us to question our consumer habits, to open our eyes and hearts, and allow room for empathy.
Laos owns one of the last primary forests in Asia. For several years, thousands of hectares of this ancestral forest have been brought down and replaced by an industrial culture of hevea, the rubber tree. Three local initiatives attempt to make the young laotians aware of the richness of their environmental heritage and of the danger of deforestation having irremediable consequences on biodiversity.
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