Tag Archives | Sustainability Film Series

No Impact Man (2009) Wednesday, Dec 4 Colin Beavan of Manhattan New York was a married academic with a toddler when he decided to confront the problem of consumption head on by getting his family to live for one year with no net environmental impact. They experiment with living without toilet paper, washer and dryer, […]

Food Inc. (2008) Monday, Nov 11 Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often […]

Gasland (2010) Tuesday, Oct 22   In May 2008 Josh Fox received a letter from a natural gas company offering to lease his family’s land in Milanville, Pennsylvania for $100,000 to drill for gas. Fox set out to see how communities are being affected in the west where a natural gas drilling boom has been underway for the […]

The Last Mountain (2011) Wednesday Oct 9 In the mountains of Appalachia entire towns are being abandoned as the inhabitants succumb to cancer, poverty, and environmental devastation caused by mountain top removal, an energy extraction practice where mountain tops are blown up in order to get the coal beneath. But a few remain to fight […]