Published in 1972, The Limits to Growth was the first study to demonstrate that the consequences of human population growth (related rates of industrialization, pollution, food production and exploitation of […]

Every morning Maria Irene Soto wakes up convinced that she works on the world’s best energy-producing project: Hidroaysen. If it is built, Hidroaysen will be the largest hydroelectric plant in […]

From office buildings that produce more energy than they use to electric cars with style, visionary and entrepreneurial minds today are working across the globe on the technologies that will […]

In Papua New Guinea, village leaders reach into their past to revive a canoe-launching ceremony, while embracing a modern strategy of lawsuits to stop a nickel mine that plans to […]

In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed […]

When the nuclear accident at Chernobyl happens, a young couple, Anya and Piotr, finds that their wedding day turns into a day of disaster. When news arrives of an accident […]

Exposing the environmental and human rights issues in Alberta’s toxic oil sands, the film traces the environmental and social impacts of Canadian oil on both sides of the U.S. border. […]

A fascinating and frightening exploration of the dangers of nuclear weapons, this film is a wake-up call about the urgency of the nuclear threat. It exposes a variety of present-day […]

  In Kenya, water insecurity is a life-threatening reality, and the population is expected to leap from 40 million to 60 million in the next twenty years. Most of the […]

This first American feature by an African American woman to receive general theatrical release was named to the National Film Registry in 2004. Exploring the Gullah culture of the sea […]