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Pub. Date
2007-11-19
Physical Desc
1 videodisc of 1 (DVD-R) (21 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When rising folk singer and starlet Katie Lee left Hollywood in 1954 and arrived in the untamed canyon lands of Arizona, her life changed forever. This film captures the spirit of Katie Lee and Glen Canyon as it tells the story of a drowned paradise and features interviews with Katie Lee and Chuck Bowden, David Brower's last footage of Glen Canyon and Edward Abbey's famous speech from the top of the Glen Canyon Dam"--Copyright descriptive material....
3) Arise
Publisher
Distributed by Beyond Words Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth, weaves together poetry, music, art and stunning scenery to create a hopeful and collective story that inspires us to work for the earth.
5) Go further
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join actor/activist Woody Harrelson and friends as they take a hemp-fueled bus on an eco-consciousness raising 1300-mile incursion down the beautiful Pacific Coast from Seattle to Santa Barbara. Explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The goal is to show people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviors.
6) Wrenched
Publisher
[Distributed by] Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how Edward Abbey's anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Through interviews, archival footage and re-enactments, the film captures the outrage of Abbey's friends who were the original eco-warriors. In defense of wilderness, these early activists pioneered "monkeywrenching"--a radical blueprint for "wrenching the system." As exemplified by EarthFirst! in...
Series
Ironweed Film Club volume no. 74
Publisher
Iron Weed Film Club
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed: Consumerism has become the cornerstone of the post-industrial age. Yet how much do we know about it and what it is doing to us? Using theories of evolutionary psychology to underpin a bold narrative of our times, this film takes a whirlwind tour through the "weird mental illness of consumerism", showing how our insatiable appetite has driven us into "the jaws of the beast". Manipulating our innermost impulses, capitalism has begun to not...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head to head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. When an ambitious real estate developer sets out to transform thousands of acres of pristine hill country around Austin, Texas into a suburban development, threatening a nearby natural spring, the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see a microcosm of the struggle between...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the radical environmental organization ELF and Oregon-based member Daniel G. McGowan, who faced possible life imprisonment for his related activities, while addressing various perspectives on environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 43
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When clouds clear: Delves into one remote community's radical resistance to a proposed copper mine that would level and destroy their way of life forever. Set in an isolated cloud forest of the north Andes Mountains, the film is narrated by the founders and the children of Junin who depict how the village's daily life has been affect by the rich ore deposit that was discovered beneath their land. Suddenly these once-peaceful farmers find themselves...
13) No impact man
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colin Beavan is a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal. He has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year of no electricity, television, cars, toilet paper, elevators,...
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