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ENVIRONMENT CHASING CHASING WATER WATER WATER Directed by Pete McBride Breathtaking photography tells the story of the Colorado River, which flowed to the sea for 6 million years and now dries up 90 miles short of the Sea of Cortez. After spending a decade working abroad as a photojournalist, Colorado native Pete McBride, decided to focus on something closer to his home and his heart: the Colorado River which cuts through his backyard. Taking nearly three years, McBride followed the river source to sea on a personal journey to see exactly where the river goes and what becomes of the irrigation water that flows across his family's cattle ranch in central Colorado after it returns to the creek. Recruiting hisfather, John, as his personal pilot McBride chose an aerial vantage to capture a unique and fresh view of the Colorado River Basin. He also partnered with Jon Waterman, an author who stayed stream level to paddle the entire length of the river. This short film takes the viewer on a 1,500 mile adventure downstream, from mountains and cities and through canyons and across shrinking reservoirs. For 6 million years the Colorado River flowed to the sea. Today it runs dry some 90 miles shy of its historic terminus at the Sea of Cortez. This visual journey is both revealing and alarming as it highlights the state of the river and the Southwest's drying future. Featuring the photography of Pete McBride and music by Explosions In The Sky, This Will Destroy You, Jesse Cook, and Ludovico Einaudi. Review � "Stunningly beautiful and hauntingly disturbing...a testament to our unquenchable thirst." - Dr. J. Val Klump, Assoc. Dean for Research, Great Lakes WATER Institute Awards � Best Short Mountain Film, Banff Mountain Film Festival � Most Inspiring Story, 5Point Film Festival � Best Environmental Documentary, Mountainfilm Festival, Telluride � Water for All Award, CMS Vatavaran Film Festival, Delhi � Best Documentary, Clearwater Film Festival � Audience Award, Short Film, EcoFocus Film Festival, Athens, GA � Best Environmental Film, Frozen Film Festival, San Francisco � Best Cinematography & Best of Category, Montana CINE International Film Festival � Best Land to Sea Film, Waimea Ocean Film Festival � Best Environmental Documentary, Mountain Film Awards, Mammoth, CA � Adventure through Activism Award, Adventure Film Festival, Boulder Item no. : BF01110822 Format : DVD Duration : 18 minutes Audience : Grades 7-12, College, Adult Copyright : 2011 StdBkNo : 1937772330 Price : USD 175.00 DREAMING DREAMING OF OF A A TREE TREE HOUSE: HOUSE: FREI FREI OTTO'S OTTO'S ECOLOGICAL ECOLOGICAL PROJECT PROJECT IIN I N BERLIN BERLIN By Beate Lendt DREAMING OF A TREE HOUSE is a film about the pioneering community-building project of the world-famous architect Frei Otto in Berlin, called the Okohaus—an experimental, ecological, customized housing project in the city center. Including interviews with Frei Otto, Christine Kanstinger-Otto, Hermann Kendel, Yona Friedman, Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, and other involved architects, planners, and inhabitants, the film shows the development and the philosophy of the project, which was built for the International Building Exhibition in Berlin 1987 (IBA). The "Ecohouse" project hosts a number of experimental solutions to adaptable home building and personalization. The film explores the ideas that motivated the project, its underlying sustainability themes, and asks how these ambitions were realized. DREAMING OF A TREE HOUSE ultimately asks: What can we learn from the Okohaus? How can its design, building process, and the experience of its 20-plus year occupation inform ecological and design issues currently relevant to our society? Award � World Premiere, 2011 Architecture Film Festival (Rotterdam) Item no. : NN03100836 Format : DVD (Color) Duration : 85 minutes Copyright : 2011 Price : USD 398.00 FIERCE FIERCE GREEN GREEN GREEN FIRE, FIRE, AA: AA : THE THE BATTLE BATTLE FOR FOR A A LIV LIVING LIV ING PLANET PLANET Directed by Mark Kitchell The documentary of record on the environmental movement. A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement - grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization... the film tells vivid stories about people fighting - and succeeding - against enormous odds. The film is divided into five "acts". Act 1 focuses on the conservation movement of the `60s, David Brower and the Sierra Club's battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon. Act 2 looks at the new environmental movement of the `70s with its emphasis on pollution, focusing on the battle led by Lois Gibbs over Love Canal. Act 3 is about alternative ecology strands and the main story is Greenpeace's campaign to save the whales. Act 4 explores global resource issues and crises of the `80s, focusing on the struggle to save the Amazon led by Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers. Act 5 concerns climate change. Reviews � "The most thorough, expansive, and inclusive documentary film on the rise of modern environmentalism." - Paul Sutter, Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado � "The material is vast, and it's an incredibly dynamic film. It's shaping up to be the documentary of record on the environmental movement. I think it'll be hugely successful." - Cara Mertes, Director, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program � "The film left me emotionally drained and profoundly hopeful." - Bruce Barcott, OnEarth Magazine Item no. : TE02560823 Format : DVD Duration : 114 minutes Copyright : 2012 StdBkNo : 1937772411 Price : USD 295.00 SHATTERED SHATTERED SKY SKY Directed by Steve Dorst, Dan Evans The story of how America led the world to solve the ozone crisis. Will we dare to do the same with climate change? Thirty years ago, scientists reported a hole in the ozone layer "the size of North America." The culprits were man-made chemicals called CFCs, which were prevalent in billions of dollars worth of refrigeration, air conditioning and other products that had revolutionized America's way of life. With doctors forecasting skyrocketing cancer rates if changes weren't made, the stakes were literally "life as we know it." Yet companies remained bitterly opposed to changing their products. Politicians were slow to act. Like with today's CO2 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: inquiry@learningemall.com Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk 45
emissions, an invisible compound was threatening the Earth's life-support systems, but a solution seemed beyond reach. Eerily reminiscent of today's energy and climate crisis, Shattered Sky tells the story of how America led the world in solving the biggest environmental crisis ever seen. Those interviewed include William Becker, Richard Benedick, Eileen Claussen, David Doniger, Daniel Dudek, Kevin Fay, Ross Gelbspan, Jeff Goodell, Hunter Lovins, Mario Molina, Bruce Niles, Michael Oppenheimer, Shari Road, William Reilly, James Rogers, F. Sherwood Rowland, George Shultz, Susan Solomon, Gus Speth, General Gordon Sullivan (Ret'd), Lee Thomas and Robert Watson. Reviews � "Well worth seeing because it reminds us that, until very recently, the environment was not a partisan issue." - Sustainable Business Forum � "This film reminds us of a time not long ago when we put politics aside and led the world to solve a global environmental challenge. We must do this again." - Larry Schweiger, President and CEO, National Wildlife Federation � "Watch this film. It shows we've been there before, and come out the other side with a clear victory-for both business and the environment." - Lee Thomas, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, 1985-1989 Item no. : AB02790824 Format : DVD Duration : 57 minutes Audience : Grades 10 - 12, College, Adults Copyright : 2012 StdBkNo : 1937772373 Price : USD 250.00 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE YOU'VE YOU'VE BEEN BEEN TRUMPED TRUMPED Directed by Anthony Baxter In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on a celebrity tycoon. At stake is one of Britain's very last stretches of wilderness. American billionaire Donald Trump has bought up hundreds of acres on the northeast coast of Scotland, best known to movie-lovers as the setting for the 1983 classic film LOCAL HERO. And like the American oil tycoon played by Burt Lancaster, he needs to buy out a few more locals to make the deal come true. In a land swimming with golf courses, Trump is going to build two more - alongside a 450-room hotel and 1,500 luxury homes. The trouble is, the land he has purchased occupies one of Europe's most environmentally sensitive stretches of coast, described by one leading scientist as Scotland's Amazon rain forest. And the handful of local residents don't want it destroyed. After the Scottish Government overturns its own environmental laws to give Trump the green light, the stage is set for an extraordinary summer of discontent, as the bulldozers spring into action. Water and power is cut off, land disputes erupt, and some residents have thousands of tonnes of earth piled up next to their homes. Complaints go ignored by the police, who instead arrest the film's director, Anthony Baxter. Local exasperation comes to a surreal head as the now "Dr." Trump scoops up an honorary doctorate from a local university, even as his tractors turn wild, untouched dunes into fairways. Told entirely without narration, YOU'VE BEEN TRUMPED captures the cultural chasm between the glamorous, jet-setting and media savvy Donald Trump and a deeply rooted Scottish community. What begins as an often amusing clash of world views grows increasingly bitter and disturbing. For the tycoon, the golf course is just another deal, with a possible billion dollar payoff. For the residents, it represents the destruction of a globally unique landscape that has been the backdrop for their lives. Funny, inspiring and heartbreaking in turns, YOU'VE BEEN TRUMPED is both an entertaining, can't-believe-it's-true tale and an environmental parable for our celebrity driven times. A moving score features music from jonsi, the internationally acclaimed musician and frontman of Sigur Ros. The film also offers a rare and revealing glimpse of the unfiltered Donald Trump, as he considers standing as a candidate for President of the United States. Awards � Best Documentary, Starz Denver Film Festival � Social Justice Award, Hamptons International Film Festival � Special Jury Prize, Traverse City Film Festival � Best Film, Edindocs Film Festival, Edinburgh � Green Award, Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival � Best Environmental Film, Sedona International Film Festival � Best Feature Film, San Francisco Green Film Festival � Jury Award, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival � Audience Award, Take One Action Film Festival, Scotland � Audience Award, DaKINO International Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania Item no. : BB01110828 Format : DVD Duration : 95 minutes Audience : Grades 9-12, College, Adults Copyright : 2012 StdBkNo : 1937772403 Price : USD 295.00 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ALGAE: ALGAE: FUEL FUEL FUEL OF OF THE THE FUTURE FUTURE This documentary examines the global search to develop a renewable energy source from an unlikely source: algae. ALGAE: FUEL OF THE FUTURE is a half-hour documentary that reveals the global search underway to develop a renewable energy source from algae. The film explores the groundbreaking research being done by the National Research Council in Halifax, Nova Scotia and explains why algae fuel isn't that far-fetched. It could be a commercially viable option since the crude oil we currently use was created by algae a few million years ago. Item no. : GF04061279 Format : DVD (Closed Captioned) Duration : Approx. 24 minutes Audience : Grades 7-12, Adult Education, Post Secondary Copyright : 2012 Price : USD 188.00 POLAR POLAR EXPLORER, EXPLORER, THE THE As this hard-hitting film reports, we’re currently at a vital threshold. Previously inaccessible areas at both poles are opening up due to climate change and melting ice. Today modern-day polar explorers are racing to understand the drastically changing ecosystems at both ends of the Earth — the Arctic and Antarctica. As this hard-hitting film reports, we’re currently at a vital threshold. Previously inaccessible areas at both poles are opening up due to climate change and melting ice. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, we’re able to explore Earth’s last frontiers and unearth new discoveries that could affect the course of all life on our planet. This film and its findings were so significant, the United Nations invited filmmaker Mark Terry to screen it at the Climate Change Conference in Cancun in December 2010. Did the film influence policy-makers and result in a new resolution being adopted? Find out in the film’s dramatic conclusion. Awards � Winner of Audience Choice Award - American Conservation Film Festival 2011 � Winner of Gemini Humanitarian Award - Gemini Awards 2011 � Winner for Best Experimental Film - Alaska International Film Festival 2011 � Winner of Silver Ace Award - Las Vegas International Film Festival 2011 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Learning Rendezvous Limited Email: inquiry@learningemall.com Websites: http://www.learningemall.com & http://www.learningemall.com.hk 46
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