Forgotten Coast

A vast and largely unexplored wildlife corridor lies hidden on the western side of Florida, stretching from the Everglades to the Alabama border. Three friends set off to immerse themselves […]

Rabbit Island

A conservation easement ensures that an untouched island in Lake Superior will remain undeveloped; a group of young people gathers there to live in synchrony with the ecosystem. Directed by […]

Operation Moffat

Gwen Moffat is Britain’s first female mountain guide, and at 91 she’s a wealth of wit and stories. Filmmaker Jen Randall and writer Claire Carter interview her, while attempting the […]

Ever the Land

In the Te Urewara forests of northern New Zealand, the fiercely independent Tūhoe Maori tribe undertakes the building of a grand new meeting hall using radically sustainable methods. Their “Living Building” embodies the community’s deep and […]

E.O. Wilson: Of Ants and Men

When biologist E.O. Wilson discovered in the 1960s that ants use pheromones to structure their complex societies, he opened the door to a vastly expanded sense of our environment – […]

Salt of the Earth

Over the course of 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has borne witness to the plights of marginalized communities the world over, from famines to civil wars to unsafe labor conditions. […]

Pearl Button, The

Chile’s history is inseperable from its waterways. Its 2,670-mile-long coastline encompasses the world’s largest archipelago, and the waters that flow through it contain the memories of an entire nation: the […]

Old Joy

Mark has settled down – with a wife and a real job and a kid on the way, he’s got more responsibilities and less time to mess around. When his […]

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 […]