EcoSuperior Environmental Programs

Addicted To Plastic

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For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. Addicted to Plastic is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there's so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up.

King Corn

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King Corn is a documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbours, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America' most productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat - and how we farm.

Blind Spot

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Blind Spot is a documentary that illustrates the current energy crisis that our way of life is facing. Whatever measures of greed, wishful thinking, neglect or ignorance, we have put ourselves at a crossroad which offers two paths, both with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don't our way of life will collapse.

Birdsong & Coffee

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What is this connection between coffee farmers, birds and ourselves?
Why are 25 million coffee farmers impoverished while we spend more for our coffee?
Why are North American songbirds becoming harder and harder to find?
What is the difference between “Free” Trade and “Fair” Trade?

This film explores the answers to these questions and many more. We hear from experts and students, from coffee lovers and bird lovers. But most importantly, we hear from the coffee farmers themselves and learn how their lives and ours are inextricably joined in ways that we need to understand.