Current Environmental Films Page 2
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| Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price
| Everyone has seen Wal-Mart's lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money convincing you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding? This documentary takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel...and shop. |
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| The World According to Monsanto
| Monsanto's controversial past combines some of the most toxic products ever sold with misleading reports, pressure tactics, collusion, and attempted corruption. They now race to genetically engineer (and patent) the world's food supply, which profoundly threatens our health, environment, and economy. Combining secret documents with first-hand accounts by victims, scientists, and politicians, this widely praised film exposes why Monsanto has become the world's poster child for malignant corporate influence in government and technology. |
 | The Climate Change Show
| The Climate Change Show outlines the serious and contemporary challenge of climate change in a fun and humourous way. The show is hosted by an animated sheep wearing rubber boots. He takes us into the past, present and future of the world’s climate and how it affects life on earth. The sheep discusses the earth’s formation millions of years ago and how global gasses were distributed to allow life to form. Fast-forwarding to the present, the sheep talks to us about our current lifestyle and how it impacts the entire planet. The focus is not just on our negative practices, but on the positive steps we are taking to minimize our impact on the planet. The topic is timely, the experience is fun, and the technological effects are stunning. |
 | The End Of Suburbia | Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too the suburban way of life has become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary. The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia? |
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