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…
Category: Global outlook
I Wish For You (5 min)
A short film about our future, for the RSPB by Michael Morpurgo, starring Maxine Peake and Jeremy Irons.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…