Forests and sustainable cities (1 min)
Short video by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on how trees and urban forests can make our cities greener, healthier…
Stop the Unflushables (2 min 12 s)
Marine Conservation Society and Daughter showcase an unfushable monster on the beach, highlighting that only paper, pee and poo should…
Walk to School with Living Streets (2 min 43 sec)
Great video about the Living Streets Walk to School campaign.
We need to talk about plastic bottles (1 min23sec)
Great, concise video from The Guardian, about the plague of plastic bottles on our planet.
Mall selling recycled items (36 sec)
At the ‘ReTuna’ shopping centre in Sweden, customers drop off used items, which are repaired and sold.
Japanese Forest Bathing
The Japanese practice of ‘forest bathing’ is scientificially proven to be good for you. For some background information, follow this link….
Big Schools’ Birdwatch (1 min 40 sec)
What is it like to take part in Big Schools’ Birdwatch? Hear from Year 3 teacher Janine Holmes.
Restoring the Caledonian Forest (3 min 20 sec)
An inspiring film about the work of the charity Trees for Life, expanding the Caledonian Forest by planting a million…
For the Love of Trees (2 min 40 sec)
For the Love of Trees – London. An event organised by Trees for Cities in partnership with Unilever, Ealing council…
Beach litter through a child’s eyes (2 min)
A short film made by the Marine Conservation Society featuring eight-year-old Lily, who explains why she cares about litter on beaches…
Cloning Sequoias to fight climate change (2 min 28s)
Giant sequoias can grow up to 100m high and 8m wide – an excellent store of atmospheric carbon. In order to…
Repair Café Worcester (<2 min)
In May 2016, the Worcester Repair Café took place, replicating the similar monthly event in nearby Malvern. Find out more…
Precious Plastic (3 min)
An organisation called Precious Plastic has developed build-yourself machines that enable everyone to build a little plastic workshop. The plans for the…
Wild Flowers (2 min)
Brett Domino’s excellent rap extolls the virtues of wild flowers. ‘Check it out!’ Go to Grow Wild UK to…
I Wish For You (5 min)
A short film about our future, for the RSPB by Michael Morpurgo, starring Maxine Peake and Jeremy Irons.
Short ‘How-to’ videos from the Global Cycling Network (6 min)
If you are a cyclist, here are two videos that will help you get the most out of your bicycle….
Creative Ways to Re-use Old Plastic Bottles (5 min)
A feast of inspiring uses for used plastic bottles. Re-using or up-cycling is better than recycling.
Change ourselves to survive climate change? (14 mins)
“Can We Survive Climate Change Without Changing Ourselves?” – a TED talk by Sharer Ali. “Overconsumption is wrecking the planet, not just…
Afghanistan’s Female Wardens (9 min)
Decades of war have eroded the natural wonders of Northern Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, with local villagers hunting the wildlife, overfishing the…
Gold at any cost (24 min)
Al Jazeera investigates how illegal gold mining in Peru is turning pristine Amazonian rainforests into toxic wastelands. A special edition of its…
Life in Syntropy (15 mins)
In 1984, Brazilian farmer Ernst Götsch bought 1,200 acres of completely deforested land on the edge of the rainforest. This…
Eco Eye: “Circular Economy” (25 mins)
In Series 12 Episode 10 of Ireland’s longest-running environmental television series. ‘Take, make, Dispose’ is how our current linear economic model is…
Eco Eye: “Changing Nature” (25 mins)
In Series 14 Episode 1 of Ireland’s longest-running environmental television series, Ecologist Anja Murray explores how we have impacted the natural…
Do you have to be vegan to fix climate change? (1 min 21 s)
What causes more global warming: every vehicle on the planet or the meat and dairy produce we eat? Raising livestock…
Could China Fix the World’s Climate? (1 min)
China is the biggest polluter in the world and burns more coal than anywhere else. The country’s swelling middle class…
The untold story of scrap stores (6 min)
A short film about scrapstores and the role of scrapstoresUK in helping scrapstores increase their membership, supplies of scrap and…
2016 – Year of Pulses (2 min)
A two-minute primer on the importance of pulses, produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. The…
Can the Sun cool down the Earth? (1 min 25 s)
Every hour, enough sunlight blasts the earth to power humanity for a year. By 2050, across the entire world, solar…
What happens to our recycling? (1 min 50 s)
What happens to our recycling? A short film explaining clearly the processing of packaging and other materials collected for recycling…
#Secondhandfirst – a poem on clothing (7 min)
Rapper and activist Potent Whisper’ contribution to #Secondhandfirst Week (2015). Over-consumption, including fashion, is having a seriously negative environmental impact on…
Why Are We Wasting So Much Food? (4 min 46 s)
Award-winning author Tristram Stuart argues that food waste is a vast global scandal, investigating the reasons for “deprivation in a…
Building a repair culture (4 min 12 s)
Promotional video about the Malvern Hills Repair Cafe, which is spreading a culture of repair across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. For…
AINA: That Which Feeds Us (23 min)
ʻĀINA means “that which feeds us” in the Hawaiian language. This 23 minute film highlights a way to address…