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Carbon Nation Film Screening and Discussion. Carbon Nation Film Screening & Discussion Featuring director Peter Byck When: Thursday, May 5 at 3pm Where: Cannon House Office Building room 441 Carbon Nation is an optimistic, solutions-based film that shows how tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national and energy security, and promotes health and a clean environment.

Carbon Nation Film Screening and Discussion

It is a pragmatic primer about why a low-carbon economy makes good business sense. Carbon Nation debuted at the DC Environmental Film Festival in March 2010 and since then has been screened hundreds of times around the U.S. Feedback on pay-it-forward experiment - Future My Love. The Top Ten films as chosen by Transition initiatives! 5 Dec 2012 The Top Ten films as chosen by Transition initiatives!

The Top Ten films as chosen by Transition initiatives!

I know it has been a thrillingly exciting wait, but now we can announce the Top Ten films most popular with Transition initiatives!! Thanks to everyone who voted. I know the fever pitch of excitement this has generated. You can either read them below (click ’read more’) or you can play this little player to hear them read out in a Top Ten countdown kinda stylee. Tomorrow We Will See – a documentary. “Tomorrow We Will See offers a window into Lebanon’s flourishing creative culture through the perspective of ten Lebanese artists.

Tomorrow We Will See – a documentary

In their own artistic ways, they have overcome decades of social and political instability and the uncertainties of what tomorrow may bring. A common trait that unites the artists is their talent of using art as a tool for transcending sectarian divisions and encouraging freedom of thought. Carbon Nation. All Critics (15) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (9) What we get is the filmic equivalent of a smiley face.

Carbon Nation

But enthusiasm and sincerity don't make the hard questions go away. "Carbon Nation" is an inspiring look at the many recent advances in clean energy and green technologies. Interviewees who issue hysterical statements like "the sea ice cap is almost gone" go uncontradicted. DIVE! Living Off America's Waste (2009) (trailer) The Interrupters. Crude Impact (2006. Perma Kultcha. Bullfrog Communities. Home. Crude (2009. Afristar - PROGRAMS. Perma Kultcha is an informational and educational documentary about permaculture in South Africa.

The film showcases permaculture initiatives from around the country, from Johannesburg to Cape Town, KwaZulu Natal to the Klein Karoo, and reveals the diverse ways that permaculture is being applied in South Africa. The film visits urban gardens, rural training centers, organic farms, schools-based permaculture projects, community environmental education initiatives, sustainable food markets, and more.

Consulting with a range of South African permaculture experts and practitioners, the film demonstrates the many ways permaculture can be applied to address issues like food security, community economic empowerment, and climate change. In this way, Perma Kultcha provides the a vision of how we can live in harmony with our environment, and build a sustainable South Africa. Animate Earth: Science, Intuition & Gaia (2011) - Plot Summary.

Go Organic! (2007. This series of films provide a refreshing education on the current state of agriculture, pointing out positive sustainable and organic practices that you can take part in.

Go Organic! (2007

The Meatrix and Frankensteer expose the ways of unethical farming, while others provide us with role models through CSAs, Cuban community, sustainable lemon farms, organic choices, and a new wave of female farmers leading the way. Ancient Futures - Learning from Ladakh (1993. The Sacred Science. Green Planet Films Blog. The Next, Best West explores our changing relationship with the land that sustains us.

Green Planet Films Blog

It tells the story of how the conventional American concept of progress has steered our exploitation of the Western landscape, and takes you to three places – Colorado’s San Luis Valley, the high plains of eastern Montana and the Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula – where a vibrant new understanding of progress presages a better future.

Length (mins): 36 Year Completed: 2012. Edible City The Movie. Earthome. The Next Industrial Revolution (2002. ANIMA MUNDI: Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Soul of the World (trailer) Freedom Ahead. Seeds: a documentary film. First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture. First Earth is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter - building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages.

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

It is a sprawling film, shot on location from the West Coast to West Africa. Pipe Down. Home Page. Terry Barman, Director Profile at Hemp Ireland Limited. The good weed. Staying up all night in the Chelsea Hotel Billy Scanlan takes a long day’s journey into night at the celebrated new york hotel, which has been a home from home for Bob Dylan, Brendan Behan, Sid Vicious and Mark Twain. 24 Jun 2004 St.

The good weed

Connemara Fibre Mills Galway Ireland - yarns Wholesale Suppliers. Videos | Download/View. Welcome to the What If, Why Not Festival! - What If Why Not Festival. Time for Change. Meet the new revolutionaries of the Do-It-Yourself cultures in Barcelona, Tallin and Jakarta.

Time for Change

They are modern day heroes. They do not wait for political parties or institutions to change their world; they simply do it themselves, by creating new local currencies, by working in social networks or by simply robbing the banks and redistributing their money. The world economy is in crisis and public trust in financial institutions has hit rock bottom. As commercial banks were bailed out with billions of taxpayers money and continued to practice their old vices, many people lost faith in bank managers and politicians. Future of Hope - The Iceland Documentary. COHABITAT, The movie (Final HD)

Forks Over Knives. About. An Ecology of Mind, The Gregory Bateson Documentary (1) Be The Change - Be The Change is an independent documentary filmed by Reel Emotive’s Patrick Mitchell which will become a motivational piece inspiring social and environmental activism.

Be The Change -

We will be showcasing activists on an interpersonal level in various social movements to promote awareness.