City of Trees

At the height of the recession, a DC nonprofit struggles to implement an ambitious “green jobs” program that hires 150 unemployed residents to plant trees in underserved parks. With only […]

Circle of Poison

Pro-business loopholes allow the American chemical industry to export pesticides to other countries even after they’d been federally banned for their harmful effects. On top of damaging already-marginalized communities abroad, […]

Oddball

Off the south coast of Australia, foxes have taken over an island sanctuary home to the world’s smallest penguins, damaging their population. But an eccentric chicken farmer and his precocious […]

Cemetery of Splendor

When soldiers working on a mysterious dig site contract a supernatural “sleeping sickness,” doctors and volunteer nurses set up a makeshift hospital where the treatments include colored light therapy, psychic […]

Catching the Sun

As the global race to lead the clean energy future kicks into full gear, an unlikely ensemble of characters in the US and China make radical moves: activist Van Jones […]

Night Moves

Two radical environmentalists and an ex-marine plan an act of ecoterrorism: they build a bomb to blow up a dam, hoping to block the urban development swiftly unfurling itself over […]

Captain Fish

When a little girl realizes that the frozen fish fingers her parents feed her were once living fish, she tries to send them back to the sea.   Directed and […]

National Parks Adventure

Awe-inspiring national parks like Yosemite, the Everglades, and the Arches stand as living monuments to America’s vast and untamed wilderness. Celebrate the centennial of the national parks system in glorious […]

Can You Dig This

To some, South LA may conjure images of vacant lots and liquor stores; gangs and drug dealers. Yet a burgeoning movement of urban gardeners guided by a charismatic leader is […]

Monkey Kingdom

In the Sri Lankan jungle, a newborn monkey and its mother struggle to survive within the competitive social hierarchy of the Temple Troop, a group of macaques living in a […]