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1) Bottled Up
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Description
Faye's world revolves around her grown daughter Sylvie who has an addiction to pain killers. When environmentalist Beckett moves to town, Faye befriends him hoping he may raise Sylvie's spirits. But instead Beckett begins to fall for Faye. Faye is soon forced to decide whether to enable her daughter's addiction or find the happiness that she has long denied herself.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The Goode Family is an animated comedy series which originally aired on ABC primetime in 2009. Created by Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill), the story revolves around a family obsessed with doing the 'right' thing environmentally, politically and socially. This pokes hysterical fun at the stereotypes associated with being either of a 'liberal' or a 'conservative' mindset.
3) Night moves
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Tells the story of conservationist David Brower, first executive director of the Sierra Club and founder of Friends of the Earth and the Earth Island Institute, who worked to save the natural environment and to protect and establish some of America's national parks. Includes 16-mm archival footage (much shot by Brower himself), photographic images from well-known artists, and interviews with leading conservationists, photographers, historians, curators,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Little lies lead to bigger truths in this charming Irish dramedy. Environmental consultant Kate Ryan goes undercover in a small town to quell objections to a wind farm. But Kate has a complicated history with the town, Carrigeen. Soon after arriving with her son, she runs into an ex-friend and an old flame and realizes her task won't be a breeze.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A deep dive into the life of Stewart Brand, a legendary pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism. Brand created the revolutionary do-it-yourself publication The Whole Earth Catalog, which Steve Jobs famously called 3Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google existed.4
Pub. Date
2015
Description
It chronicles the famed biologist lifelong love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. His work with ants led to his remarkable studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and the controversial discipline of sociobiology was founded. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and humanity's place in it.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"[This program] looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement -- from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestseller 'Silent Spring' to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action."--Container.
10) Rachel Carson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Often called the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson rocked the world in 1962 with her book Silent Spring, which warned the American public of the impact of pesticides on the environment and unleashed an extraordinary national debate about science and safety. At the center of that firestorm stood Ms. Carson, a strong, intensely private woman who balanced her love of the natural world and passion for writing with personal strife....
Pub. Date
2011]
Description
Shortly before her breakout role in Speed, future Oscar winner Sandra Bullock starred in this scorching adventure filmed on location in the deadly streets and jungles of the Bolivian Amazon. Bullock portrays Alyssa Rothman, an American activist battling a group of ruthless developers out to destroy the rainforest and its native population.
13) Sharkwater
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Driven by a passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, filmmaker Rob Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthursty monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.
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