VIDEO: Ali G - Environment

This video is from a few years ago, but we just recently came across it - thanks Sierra Club's The Greenlife blog for posting.

One of Sasha Baron Cohen's other alter egos, Ali G, talks to people about the environment, recycling, etc. Funny stuff!

VIDEO: Shift Happens

Awe inspiring film about the world and the future...

VIDEO: Captain Planet - Summit to Save Earth 1

Episode recap:
In Summit to Save Earth Part 1, the Planeteers attend the World Earth Summit. However, the eco-villains have their own plans to ruin the Earth Summit. Can the Planeteers right the villains' wrongs and save Gaia in the process?

VIDEO: Scientist Jim Hansen Talks Climate Change

"Jim Hansen has been at the center of the climate change debate since the early Eighties as both a prominent scientist and spokesman alerting the public to the threats and uncertainties of global climate change.

The head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen studies radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres related to global change on Earth."

VIDEO: Hilarious green ad by Greenpeace

"Until the sun shines out of your arse - try using an energy saving light-bulb instead!"

Oh my goodness...this had as rolling on the floor! (Warning - there are naked butts in this video.)

VIDEO: Captain Planet - Two Futures 2

Episode recap:

In Two Futures 2, Wheeler visits Gi, Kwame, Linka and Ma-Ti in their native lands 35 years into the future. He sees how the Earth has changed and the consequences of quitting the Planeteers. Can he rejoin the team and still stop Hoggish Greedly and Dr. Blight before it's too late?

VIDEO: Plastic Soup for the Soul

Talking about the "plastic soup" that is our oceans today....

"Excerpts from NPR broadcast interviews with Captain Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation and Adam Walters, consulting scientist for Greenpeace International Research Lab."

VIDEO: In My Prius (a little humor for the weekend)

A green rap video...hilarious!

VIDEO: Shocking video about global e-waste dumping

From PBS: Frontline:

"On the outskirts of Ghana's biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah.

Correspondent Peter Klein and a group of graduate journalism students from the University of British Columbia have come here as part of a global investigation -- to track a shadowy industry that's causing big problems here and around the world..."

Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground

VIDEO: Coming Soon - GM Rice

"An important Public Service Announcement from your Government and The Biotech Industry (represented here by chemical giant Bayer) pronouncing the benefits of genetically modified rice strain - LL62. Barely tried and tested this GM Rice is coming to your dinner plate nevertheless - unless you take action now!"

Sign the petition: http://www.greenpeace.org/rice

VIDEO: Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (Trailer)

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) has just released a documentary called Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood about the “pervasive and pernicious effects of children’s advertising on the health and well-being of kids.”

VIDEO: Michael Pollan - "Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised"

"Michael Pollan is one of the nations leading writers and thinkers in this country on the issue of food. He is author of several books about food, including The Botany of Desire, The Omnivores Dilemma and his latest, In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto. In light of what he calls the processed food industrys co-option of sustainability and its vast spending on marketing, Pollan advises to be wary of any food thats advertised."

In this interview on Democracy Now, Pollan talks about a whole myriad of food issues from Monsanto, to swine flu, to Michelle Obama's organic garden, to school lunch programs.

Interview on Democracy Now - Part 1


Interview on Democracy Now - Part 2

VIDEO: Captain Planet - Two Futures 1

Episode recap:

In Two Futures 1, Hoggish Greedly and Dr. Blight have created a time machine so they can go back to the 1950s when there were very little environmental laws. They would be free to wreak havoc without anyone knowing to stop them. However, when the Planeteers try to stop them, Wheeler becomes trapped with Dr. Blight and gets fed up with the whole situation. He makes a choice to go through the time machine to leave the Planeteers. Will he learn that his actions do make a difference?

VIDEO: HOME - In high def for FREE until June 14th...watch this!!

"We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet."

VIDEO: Captain Planet - Bug Off!

Episode recap:
"In this episode, Verminous Skumm abuses pesticides to create an army of superbugs he hopes will terrorize and overrun the Earth. The infected town discovers that the more pesticide they use, the more powerful the toxic boll weevils become. Can Captain Planet and the Planeteers come to the town's rescue before the bugs take over?"