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Green Film: The 11th Hour Cometh

9:09 minutes (2.1 MB)
Josh Dorfman discusses the trend of "green films." The movie An Inconvenient Truth raised environmental consciousness to new heights. Now Leonardo DiCaprio picks up where Al Gore left off with the release of The 11th Hour, the feature-length environmental documentary that he produced and narrates.


Off-Road Vehicles on the Rise

Off-Road Vehicles on the RisePosted by Hans Gutknecht on May 30, 2006 - 10:00am.

Sales of off-road vehicles have sky-rocketed recently. What environmental impact does this have? Should off-road vehicles be allowed in national parks?

Motor examines the controversial issue of off-road motor vehicle use on public lands and documents the heavy environmental damage that jeeps, ATVs, jet skis, snowmobiles, and all the other personal motorized transportation devices coming on the market cause in areas that Congress has set aside to be preserved land for future generations.




The Human Cost of Mining

The Human Cost of MiningPosted by Philip Higgs on May 1, 2006 - 9:29am.

Mining is no friend of the planet: erosion, deforestation, groundwater contamination, silting, the list goes on. Here's a more direct look at another of its impacts: the human cost.

The Devil's Miner, a documentary by Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson observes the thousands of miners, hundreds of them children, scouring the silver mines at Cerro Rico, the "rich mountain" outside Potosi, Bolivia.




The Disneyfication Of Agatha Christie, Hypnotist

The Disneyfication Of Agatha Christie, HypnotistPosted by Spiros Antonopoulos on January 9, 2006 - 3:52pm.

A scientific study reported on in the Times Online UK (here) and in the BBC News (here) suggests that by reading Agatha Christie you become hypnotized. Mesmerized by her repetitive phrases, the study claims that your brain secretes, in Skinner box fashion, “the chemical messengers… that induce pleasure and satisfaction”.




Red Feather

Red FeatherPosted by pelletierm on January 3, 2006 - 4:05am.

Documentary about the 300,000 homeless American Indians.



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