VIDEO: Fair Trade - The Story

"Fair Trade Certification empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace."

VIDEO: 1958 - Global Warming - It's NOT newly known

"For FIFTY YEARS scientists have known about global warming. This exerpt is from the well known educational documentary Unchained Goddess produced by Frank Capra for Bell Labs for their television program The Bell Telephone Hour. It was so well made, that it went on to live a continued life in middle school science classrooms across the nation for decades.

Nearly half a century before Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, this film was made. But what does it reveal? That our scientists have known for over two generations about this danger, but our politicians and citizenry have chosen to ignore the dangerous implications of this fact until it really is too late to avoid the preventable consequences."

VIDEO: Building a Slow Food Nation

Summary:
Moderated by Corby Kummer - Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Eric Schlosser and Carlo Petrini join together in conversation about the local, national and global impact of the philosophy and practice of Slow Food.

Building a Slow Food Nation - Part 1

Check out:
Chapter 7 - Lack of Focus on Human Rights
Chapter 12 - Food as Social Ecological Justice

Building a Slow Food Nation - Part 2

Check out:
Chapter 3 - A Sun Food Agenda (removing fossil fuel from our food system)
Chapter 10 - Becoming Less of a Consumer

VIDEO: The American Denial of Global Warming

"Polls show that between one-third and one-half of Americans still believe that there is "no solid" evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it can be attributed to natural variability. Others believe that scientists are still debating the point. Join scientist and renowned historian Naomi Oreskes as she describes her investigation into the reasons for such widespread mistrust and misunderstanding of scientific consensus and probes the history of organized campaigns designed to create public doubt and confusion about science."

VIDEO: Bill McKibben - Fighting Climate Change in the Obama Era

Bill McKibben talks about the politics of climate change in the new Obama era, both domestically and internationally...

VIDEO: 'No Impact Man' movie trailer

"Follows the Beaven family as they abandon their high consumption Fifth Avenue lifestyle in an attempt to make a no-net environmental impact for the course of one year."

VIDEO: Captain Planet - The Energy Vampire

Episode recap:
In The Energy Vampire, Dr. Blight turns Duke Nukem into a monster. As an energy-sucking vampire, Nukem threatens the electric grid while continuing to grow more powerful. Can the Planeteers and Captain Planet short-circuit Dr. Blight's evil plan and save some Native American land in the process?