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NNIMMO BASSEY: award-winning African climate activist and poet: please help us make a film about his work and how it connects with austerity, refugees and our wider realities.
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The planned Energy East pipeline threatens to lock us into decades of soaring emissions from expanding the tar sands. It would lead to emissions that equal adding 7 million cars to Canada's roads. Take action here.
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First public screening: September or October 2015 Twitter: @BurnabyMtnDoco #BurnabyMountainDoco #Kmface #cdnpoli #bcpoli
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The drastic consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives. The face of the world is changing, because of us.
28 min
Danag y muchas otras ciudades en Vietnam Central están altamente vulnerables al calentamiento global. Los tifónes, inundaciones y sus pautas imprevisibles han causado graves consecuencias en la vida de las personas, sobre todo a los jóvenes.Este cortometraje narra dos...
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Los cientificos predicen que Kiribati, una isla remota en el Pacífico central, puede desaparecer por el aumento del nivel del mar en los próximos 50 años. Por ello una nación enfrenta un futuro con incertidumbre. "Tinau" es un retrato familiar intimista de una madre de...
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"Balud" es una palabra en dialecto filipino que significa "olas". Este cortometraje experimental es una respuesta al tifón Yolanda (nombre internacional: Hayan), lo cual tragó mi ciudad natal Tacloban en el pasado Noviembre de 2013. A mi família, amigos y compañeros que se...
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La situación al sur del casquete polar de Groenlandia se está deteriorando. El calentamiento global de la Tierra parece afectar a esta área más que a ninguna otra en el mundo. Las temperaturas han empezado a fluctuar y los habitantes nativos ven que su cultura se empieza a...
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Se trata de una película de animación sobre un violinista tocando en un teatro. Al cerrar sus ojos, él encuentra todo en el mundo a derretirse. Después de una ejecución loca, el violinista abre sus ojos sobre una realidade inesperada.
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Las montañas Rwenzori en Uganda se elevan 5000 metros desde el corazón de África. En sus cumbres están algunos de los únicos glaciares ecuatoriales de la Tierra. Pero estas "Montañas de la Luna", cuya existencia ha causado sensación en Europa cuando subieron por primera vez...
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Un documentario sobre el super tifón Yolanda - Hayan que azotó las Filipinas en el 8 de Noviemebre de 2013.
Un vídeo de Dobrin Kashavelov (Bulgária/Filipinas) - Grupo etário 18-35
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"Una carta desde el futuro se escribe en nuestro pasado reciente, diciéndonos como 'las cosas salieron bien'".
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Danang, like many other cities in Central Vietnam, is highly vulnerable to climate change. In particular, typhoon and flood and their recently unpredictable patterns have caused severe impacts on the people's lives, especially the youth. This short film tells 2 interweaving...
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Scientists predict that Kiribati - a remote Island Republic in the Central Pacific - could be lost to rising sea levels in the next 50 years. As a result a whole nation faces an uncertain future. 'Tinau' is an intimate family portrait of a Kiribatese mother now settled in the...
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This documentary discusses the effects of global warming in São Carlos, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. We follow Adinalsa, a farmer affected by the extreme heat of summer, and Gabriel, one of the founders of a community that thinks about how to take care of the...
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Balud is a Filipino dialect word for "waves." This short experimental film is a response to Typhoon Yolanda (International name: Haiyan), which swallowed my hometown Tacloban city last November, 2013. This film dedicated to family, friends and fellowmen who were lost on its...
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What is the problem with climate change and how we can solve it...
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The situation in the south of the Greenlandic Ice Cap is deteriorating. A global warming of the earth seems to threaten this area more than anywhere else in the world. Recorded temperatures have begun to fluctuate, and native inhabitants find their culture beginning to sink...
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It's an animation movie about a violinist playing at a theater and when he close his eyes he find the entire world melting. After a crazy play he open his eyes over an unexpected reality.
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Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains rise 5000m from the heart of Africa. At their summits are some of Earth's only equatorial glaciers. But these "Mountains of the Moon," whose existence caused a sensation in Europe when they were first climbed in 1906, are changing fast. Snows of...
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A documentary about the super typhoon Yolanda - Haiyan which hit the Philippines on Nov 8th 2013. A video by Dobrin Kashavelov (Bulgaria/Philippines) - Age Group 18-35
12 min
"A letter from the future is written to our recent past, telling us how the world ´it turned out right´. It follows the trail of someone that left words written, words of change, of simple change. In this near future, the images of our world are the same, but the value of...
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Four people from four continents are heading to the top of our planet. They journey north to encounter a seismic blasting fleet that poses a deafeningly loud threat to narwhals, walrus and other spectacular wildlife. According to a new scientific review, seismic blasting is...
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Let's just say, just purely hypothetically of course, I know it's completely ridiculous but what if we had, only ONE planet, just one. One planet to live on. One planet to breathe and eat from. One planet to make our day upon, make our way upon, make our cities upon, to sink...
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Publication that gives grants to scientists goes from non-profit to for-profit under Fox umbrella.
Xeni Jardin
Climate Deadline is an ambitious documentary in the making, taking us from the UN climate talks in Durban in 2011 (COP17) to COP21 in Paris this December, where this project will be finalised and the nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty is being...
69 min
Mark Kernan argues that the late comedian was a shaman of our times
This week we re-think our critique of the People's Climate March, then we go to Germany where trouble makers have been regularly shutting down Europe's largest source of CO2. Then on to Greece, to look at a growing resistance against a gold mine and finally to the longest...
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What the Frack, Jerry Brown?! is a comedic video series about the insane impacts of fracking in California.
5 min
The film inspired by Klein's book features the stories of everyday people standing up to climate change.
Araz Hachadourian
Was the catalyst for the current conflict in Syria a drought caused by anthropogenic climate change?
Written by Audrey Quinn, Illustrated by Jackie Roche
Ask Pope Francis and Mohammed Mesbahi
The Peruvian Amazon, which encompasses some 300,000 square miles, is an extremely biodiverse landscape larger than the state of Texas. For its size, it is very sparsely inhabited – it takes up 60% of Peru's landmass but is only home to about 5% of the country's 30 million...
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Uploaded by Peter Hegedus
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Ben Winston reports from Ende Gelände - a mass action in Germany's Rhineland - which saw over 1,000 people successfully shut down an open-cast lignite mine for a day, halting operations in what is Europe's largest source of CO2 emissions and preventing the excavation of...
Ben Winston
On 15 August 1500 people took part in a daring act of civil disobedience to shut down Europe's biggest source of CO2 emissions. Around 1000 people successfully entered the coal mine and all of the diggers in the pit were brought to a standstill.
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The floods of 2014 ravaged Kashmir, several thousand villages across the state had been hit and 390 villages had been completely submerged. The central part of Srinagar, Lal Chowk, was inundated with water for 15 days. The handlooms were closed for over a month and
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Why Paris won’t deliver and what we need instead
Alex Scrivener
The way The Dinosaurs extinct themselves is a simple analogy as to what we are doing to ourselves as well.
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At the UN's World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa, in September, policymakers, industry and others will debate the 'sustainable future' of forests and people. But there can be no sustainable future until the UN and governments accept that real forests have nothing...
Rainforest Rescue
Yoga pants by The OM Collection are made out of recycled plastic bottles.
This film explores the growing link between global environmental change, psychological and mental health challenges. Grounded in his research in the "think and do" tank, MaRS Discovery District-Brandon Hey examines the current state of institutional framings and responses to...
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Video showing the relevance of small producers in recovering the soil, lowering global temperatures. Very interesting contributions byVandana Shiva, Yvette Aguilar and others.
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In May, the Obama administration approved Shell's plan to explore for oil off the coast of Alaska in the Arctic Ocean. Environmentalists are appalled, fearing that Shell's plan can only lead to disaster. There have been several protests, and this one in Portland left...
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Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, the sine qua non in all we do! Can’t live with it, can’t — right at this moment — live without it. But it’s on everyone’s mind.
Margaret E. Atwood
The Rhineland’s lignite mines and coal plants in Germany are Europe’s biggest source of CO2 emissions and home to the world’s largest coal digger – the Bagger 288. The rapid expansion of coal mines and plants is causing health problems due to high pollution rates and the...
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'With this decision, President Obama has given Shell an open invitation to turn the Chukchi Sea into an energy sacrifice zone,' said Marissa Knodel of Friends of the Earth
Sarah Lazare
Every hour, enough sunlight blasts the earth to power humanity for a year. By 2050, across the entire world, solar energy could power our computers, phones, lights, hot water – anything we use electricity for today. There would be no need to pollute the planet with oil, coal...
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As California's drought continues to deepen, offshore in the Pacific, scientists have identified an enormous "blob" of warm water, that seems to be part of the larger climate change process. Interviews with key scientists who are making the observations.
9 min
Last week, Pope Francis and church officials encouraged everyone to consume less and think more about our impact on the environment.
Michael McCutcheon
View Part 2/2: http://youtu.be/_pKZLHNYPbM Are we beyond the tipping point for survivable climate change? How will our nation thrive the coming food and national security threats tied to climate change?
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A Mass Action to #EndCoal in the Rhineland, Germany
Ende Gelände
Scientist, writers, and scholars have stirred up a new movement in regards to the Earth's environmental changes. Apparently thinkers of this kind believe that the climate changes over a period of time rates our environment with a new name. The Earth's history and its unique...
Sign the petition here: http://tinyurl.com/WatermarkMine The farmers of the Liverpool Plains food bowl are fighting for their survival against massive proposed coal mines. Find out more and get involved! #wrongminewrongplace
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This is a special edition of the Fishbones climate change animation, dedicated to the occassion of the International Climate Top in Paris 2015 -- otherwise known as COP21. Fishbones is an animated short explaining the most fundamental thing you need to know about what climate...
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Over the years, Exxon spent more than $30m on think-tanks and researchers that promoted climate denial.
Suzanne Goldenberg
A short video about The Venus Project, a holistic solution to our current global problems. Music link: https://app.box.com/s/bnx08tvbme67zzo9s1d1
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The recently published piece titled ‘The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it.
As a budding cultural ecologist...
Sarah Levine
This knowledge isn't supposed to make us afraid - it's meant to stir our hearts into action - to give us the fire that we can use to save everything we love.
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It's really not about polar bears any more...
We have a problem. We're flying too much, and it's changing the earth's climate. Aviation is the fastest growing cause of climate change. But instead of doing anything about it, the Government is planning more flights and larger...
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In the latest edition of The Undercurrent: environmental activists protest the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for having climate-denier-oil-baron David Koch on its advisory board and religious conservative legislators push back on the Pope's findings in his...
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In the vastness of space, there's a a small speck of rock inhabited by the most peculiar lifeforms: Dark little "Globosomes" that start to replicate fast and begin to show signs of intelligence. The film tells the story of the rise and fall of these little creatures.
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Today on Rap News, a world exclusive: Pope Francis performing his 2015 encyclical on climate change, revealing his new, revised Ten Climate Commandments for the care of our common home. Of course, Robert Foster also has a couple of pointy questions to ask the Pontiff; as does...
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The latest evidence shows with a high degree of confidence that we are currently undergoing Earth’s 6th Mass Extinction Event.
Bob Novella
Coal pollution is the single biggest driver of climate change on the planet. It's causing more and more extreme weather and pushing the world's poorest people into poverty and hunger. If we keep burning fossil fuels at the rate we are now, climate change could push 50...
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What makes Pope Francis and his 183-page encyclical so radical isn’t just his call to urgently tackle climate change. It’s the fact he openly and unashamedly goes against the grain of dominant social, economic and environment policies.
While the Argentina-born pope is a very...
Steffen Böhm
An extract from Pope Francis’s 180 page encyclical on climate change, the environment and inequality
Pope Francis
The extraordinary tale of a community who defied the gas juggernaut. We are crowdfunding now for the feature documentary that tells the story of the fastest growing social movement of our time and poses the question- what is truly valuable?
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In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.
George Monbiot
A COUPLE OF MILES outside the town of Page, three 775-foot-tall caramel-colored smokestacks tower like sentries on the edge of northern Arizona’s sprawling red sandstone wilderness. At their base, the Navajo Generating Station, the West’s largest power-generating facility...
Abrahm Lustgarten
Environmental activists blockade Shell's Drilling Rig Polar Pioneer delaying its departure from Seattle's Elliott Bay bound for the Arctic on June 15, 2015. The Polar Pioneer is one of two drilling vessels heading towards the Arctic for Shell this year. The second, the Noble...
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If you’re like me and eagerly anticipating Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change—due out Thursday, June 18—stop what you’re doing and watch this.
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The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?
John Vidal
This week we take on the NGO led spectacle called the people's climate march plus a look at Peru's spectacular resistance against a copper mine, and the call from the east to disrupt oil extraction and infrastructure. On the music break, Ontario based hiphop group Flowtilla...
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Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez has been campaigning since he was six. He explains why young people are not afraid to take on the fossil fuel industry
Lilah Raptopoulos
New Yorkers and tourists passing through Columbus Circle Thursday were treated to free shaved ice courtesy of Royal Dutch Shell, which was recently given preliminary approval by the Obama administration to drill for oil in the Arctic. The company hauled a chunk of the "last...
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Corporate polluters are driving global warming and must not be allowed to steer—or even participate in—the ongoing processes of the United Nations whose stated aim is to develop global solutions to the climate crisis, a coalition of civil society organizations declared Wednesday.
Sarah Lazare
World leaders at the G7 summit pledged to act on climate change and have sworn to stop using fossil fuels ... in 100 years. Right around the time they've extracted them all.
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Here is a summary of global warming and climate change myths, sorted by recent popularity vs what science says. Click the response for a more detailed response. You can also view them sorted by taxonomy, by popularity, in a print-friendly version,
John Cook
"We [should] tell new stories of the dream, not the nightmares. We must describe where we want to go, such as happier lives, and better cities."
Bill Kilby
The UK’s largest coal-fired power station last year received an estimated £385 million in renewable energy subsidies, according to an analysis by advocacy group Biofuelwatch.
Zachary Davies Boren and Oliver Munnion
Climate change is about...food, water, extractivism.
Climate change is about...women, in leadership, in unity.
Climate change is about...much more than climate change.
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United Nations (UN) climate negotiations must urgently and equitably address climate change, and lead to rapid cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases if our planet is to have any hope of stabilising global temperatures. Growing talk among politicians, business leaders, and...
Action Aid
Given the realities of the climate crisis, can we continue to try to grow our way out of economic inequality?
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What’s your vision for a just and equitable 2050? Add your voice: http://changethecourse.org
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Blockades, shutdowns, lock-ons, love-ins, tripods and nanas…..Reclaim the Power’s day of action against the fossil fuel industry today (1 June 2015) saw 18 different actions drawing the dots between big energy firms, government ministers, public relations companies, oil arts...
Reclaim The Power
Hundreds of campaigners are gathering at Didcot Power station in Oxfordshire to demand a green energy future - and an end to the Government's relentless push for fossil fuels and nuclear power, writes Diêgo Lôbo. Preparations are under way for a series of actions due to take...
Diêgo Lôbo
Biodiverse ecological agriculture in women's hands is a solution not just to the malnutrition crisis, but also the climate crisis.
Vandana Shiva
From the tar sands of Alberta to the Port of Seattle to the communities in the blast zone of oil trains, organizers across North America are calling for a "wave of resistance" this fall to "shut down the economic and political systems threatening our survival."
Under the...
Sarah Lazare
Lots of people eagerly study all the polls and reports on how many people believe that climate change is real and urgent. They seem to think there is some critical mass that, through the weight of belief alone, will get us where we want to go. As if when the numbers aren’t...
Rebecca Solnit
Sustainability in Bangladesh : Call for an emergency wave
According to 2014 Environmental Performance Index data Bangladesh ranks among 178 countries are 169th in environmental friendly countries, 88th in having enough forests, 123rd in biodiversity and it is the most air...
Nazmus Sadat
RESIST: The Unist'ot'en's Call To The Land is a short documentary that was filmed in the summer of 2013 on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, 1000 km north of Vancouver in northern BC (western Canada) over the duration of the fourth annual Environmental Action Camp, hosted by...
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Recent scientific reports about climate change make grim reading. A paper published in The Economic Journal by the respected UK economist Lord Stern states that the models previously used to calculate the economic effects of climate change have been ‘woefully inadequate.’...
Steve Taylor Ph.D.
Organized by the Earth Day Network and the Global Poverty Project, Global Citzen 2015 Earth Day, a massive tribute to the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, celebrated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., brought awareness to the combined plights of global poverty and...
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"Mother" met en avant l'histoire de Beth, une mère de famille américaine militante des droits de l'enfant. A travers sa propre histoire familiale et sa rencontre bouleversante avec une jeune Ethiopienne, Beth prend conscience de l'impact dramatique d'une population planétaire...
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Madre Tierra reflexiona sobre el polémico tema de la población uniendo los puntos entre el crecimiento de la población y los problemas sociales y ambientales más urgentes de la humanidad. Esta premiada película vuelve a sacar al ruedo este asunto después de que haya sido...
69 min
What If A Solution To Climate Change Was Beneath Your Feet?
Soil is a living universe beneath our feet. As important to our lives as clean air and water, soil also holds a potential solution to the global climate crisis. Increasing numbers of scientists, farmers and...
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