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…
Month: January 2016
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…