VIDEO: Burning The Future: Coal in America - Trailer

"A trailer of the upcoming film, Burning the Future. The film takes a hard look at the environmental and human effects of strip mining coal in the US."

Video: A Chemical Reaction - Trailer

"A Chemical Reaction, is a documentary movie scheduled for release in 2009 that tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America. It started with one lone voice in 1984. Dr. June Irwin, a dermatologist, noticed a connection between her patients’ health conditions and their exposure to chemical pesticides and herbicides. With relentless persistence she brought her concerns to town meetings to warn her fellow citizens that the chemicals they were putting on their lawns posed severe health risks and had unknown side effects on the environment."

VIDEO: Sesame Street Remake of Johnny Cash Songs

"A great environmental song with a parody of two of Johnny Cash's hits 'I Walk The Line' and 'RIng of Fire.'"

It's almost Friday - woo hoo!

VIDEO: "Crude" movie trailer

"Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brothers Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion Amazon Chernobyl case, Crude is a real-life, high stakes legal drama involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, multinational corporate power, and the fate of disappearing indigenous cultures. Subverting the conventions of advocacy filmmaking, this award-winning film explores a complex situation from all angles, bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus. Rarely have such conflicts been examined with the depth and power of Joe Berlinger‚s documentary Crude. These real characters and events play out on the screen like a sprawling legal thriller."
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times

VIDEO: Blue Man Group video featured on "Earth To America!"

Cool video by the Blue Man Group!

VIDEO: Captain Planet - A Twist of Fate

Episode recap:
In A Twist of Fate, a South American vacation for the Planeteers turns into a lesson for Wheeler. When an earthquake leaves him with amnesia, Wheeler is taken in by a homeless girl, Theresa. A fire breaks out in the slums, and another bump on the head helps him regain his memory so he can summon Captain Planet. Will the Captain save the day in time?

VIDEO: Pacific Garbage Dump - Nightline

"Great Pacific Garbage Dump is a graveyard of toxic plastic "

Video: Bill McKibben on Colbert Report explains why the number 350 is so important...

All of Stephen's joking aside, this is serious folks. Listen to what Bill McKibben has to say...

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VIDEO: A World Without Water

"A World Without Water The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatisation of water supplies. More than a billion people across the globe don’t have access to safe water. Every day 3900 children die as a result of insufficient or unclean water supplies. The situation can only get worse as water gets evermore scarce. "

VIDEO: SF Mayor Gavin Newsom discusses importance of cities in discussion of sustainability

Summary:

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is a strong advocate for sustainable urban planning and green business practices; he lead San Francisco to join the Kyoto Protocol, created significant incentives for solar power installation through the GoSolarSF program, and is working on an ambitious plan to make SF the "Electric Vehicle Capital of the U.S."

He discusses his ideas and plans for shaping the growth of cities during these turbulent times.

VIDEO: Captain Planet - The Fine Print

Episode Recap:
In The Fine Print, Looten Plunder exploits an agricultural worker's hidden shame — illiteracy — by putting the man in charge of spraying pesticides. He can't read the written warnings, and as a result, he creates a lethal cloud that threatens a nearby town. Can the Planeteers and Captain Planet clean up the air before it's too late?

VIDEO: Food Scarcity and Climate Change

Summary:

"Scientists calculate that temperatures will keep rising for the next 50 years, no matter how drastically we cut greenhouse gas emissions. Open Society Fellow Mark Hertsgaard and Sara Scherr, founder of Ecoagriculture Partners, discuss the implications of this somber reality for food production and global hunger.

The panelists assess the severity of the problem, which is worsened by widespread soil erosion and dwindling rainfall in crop-growing regions. They also identify cause for hope. New farming techniques can boost crop yields while enabling plants to store carbon.

The event is moderated by Ross Gelbspan, author of two acclaimed books on climate change: Boiling Point and The Heat is On."

Video: Underwater Beauty (to get you through midweek stress!)

This video is just so beautiful and peaceful...perfect to watch if you're having a stressful day...

"The main tank called the 'Kuroshio Sea' holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world's second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters. Whale sharks and manta rays are kept amongst many other fish species in the main tank.

WE MUST PROTECT OUR OCEANS!"

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world

VIDEO: Tapped Trailer (bottle water consumption)

"Tapped is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on our health, climate change, pollution, and our reliance on oil. "

"Whiskey is for sipping, and water is for fighting." -Mark Twain