What’s happening to our planet?
ECOLOGY: How a massively popular nature TV series can help the world
ecology
China’s Uncle Smog Buster on the struggle to combat pollution
ENVIRONMENT: Balancing conflicting political demands for clean air and water – and a thriving economy – in a one party state is not an easy task.
The costs of green energy?
ENVIRONMENT: For many, green energy solutions are just a new way to make money, says director Jeff Gibbs.
It’s a rich man’s world
CAPITALISM: Carmen Lossman’s forensic film lifts the lid on the great con of late capitalism – the debt and money-go-round that is spinning towards ecological, social and financial disaster.
Fishing in tidal waters
ECOLOGY: Director Renu Savant gives us the opportunity to see the ancestral, small-fishing methods of the men of Mirya on the west coast of India.
«Such an ordinary thing»
ECOLOGY: Inspired by the growing movement of global eco-villages, a group of 12 adults and 6 children set out to start the first such eco-community in Estonia.
Re-foresting the desert humans made
CLIMATE CHANGE: Malian musician Inna Modja takes an epic journey down Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall project where 8,000km wall of trees is to stretch across the entire continent.
Life vanishingly rare
CLIMATE: Enriched with animated segments depicting the legends and culture of the Inuit and Chukchi people, The Book of the Sea reveals a side of Russia rarely seen.
Criminal species extinction
ECOLOGY: The making of this film is itself an integral part of a drama involving the Chinese mafia, Mexican fishermen pushed into crime, fearless activists, frightened policemen and a rare species of mini whales.
