The changes to our environment are happening fast, predictions aren’t looking much gentler. Natural resources are dwindling, weather is wilder, screens are disconnecting our children, and the bees are still disappearing. Here’s our top list of award winning environmental documentaries you can stream now on Greenspace VOD powered by Distrify Media. See 12 nonfiction features by great filmmakers .
Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In the suspenseful documentary BANANAS!*, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food.
Official Trailer of Documentary-Film “Bottled Life – The Truth about Neslé’s Business with Water”. For more info visit website: www.bottledlifefilm.com
Do you know how to turn ordinary water into a billion-dollar business? In Switzerland there’s a company which has developed the art to perfection – Nestlé. This company dominates the global business in bottled water.
Swiss journalist Res Gehringer has investigated this money-making phenomena. Nestlé refused to cooperate, on the pretext that it was “the wrong film at the wrong time”. So Gehringer went on a journey of exploration, researching the story in the USA, Nigeria and Pakistan. His journey into the world of bottled water reveals the schemes and strategies of the most powerful food and beverage company on our planet.
Our journey into health & wellness started about 10 years ago when my father was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, depression & anxiety. He spent 5 years bedridden, on 6 different medications, gained over 50 pounds, and was offered no hope for recovery.
We refused to accept this diagnosis and started studying all we could about nutrition and healing the body naturally. Our research quickly convinced us about the power of real food and the body’s own innate healing capacity.
One big problem we had was that my father didn’t take anything we said seriously, mostly because we were not medical doctors. That’s where the idea for the Food Matters film was born.
After filming experts the world over we took all the footage back to my dad and helped him get off all his meds, change his diet, and turn his life around. Within 3 months he was back to normal, 50 pounds lighter, and running almost daily after 5 years bedridden. The transformation was unbelievable.
We saw first hand that with access to solid information you can invariably make better decisions for your health. We have since dedicated our lives to sharing this lifesaving message with another feature film Hungry For Change, books, apps, foods, websites, articles, and social media with more than 1.5 million followers around the world.
It has been through this personal experience that FMTV was born! A place where we can access and share this vital information!
Now you can watch all your favorite inspiring documentaries, expert interviews and recipe videos in one place and share them with those you love.
Go on, dig into a new documentary and expand your mind… start a juice cleanse… or learn how to make some fermented veggies at home!
“Nutrition saved my father’s life and is the reason Food Matters TV was born. We believe that food is better medicine than drugs, that healthy can taste amazing and that the best nutritionist in the world is you! Read more…’’
James Colquhoun & Laurentine ten Bosch
Filmmakers of Food Matters & Hungry For Change, nutritional consultants and founders of FMTV.
FOODMATTERS® TV
What If A Solution To Climate Change Was Beneath Your Feet?
Soil is a living universe beneath our feet. As important to our lives as clean air and water, soil also holds a potential solution to the global climate crisis. Increasing numbers of scientists, farmers and ranchers are implementing innovative land use practices that build fertile soil and sequester atmospheric carbon These methods of land management have the potential to provide us with nutritious food, improved human health, cleaner water, and a healthier planet for all.
World wide, most soils are depleted of carbon. The atmosphere contains an excess of carbon in the form of CO2, a climate change causing gas. What if that CO2 could be removed and stored in our carbon-hungry soil through land management practices? Find out how in The Soil Solution.
The Soil Solution to Climate Change was one of thirteen films featured in A Climate of Change Tour sponsored by 350.org, TRUST campaign and Wild and Scenic Film Festival. It has screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sausalito Film Festival, Awareness Festival, Davis Film Festival, Wild and Scenic Film Tour 2013 and the One Earth Film Festival.
Anything that we do to increase soil fertility could be a step in reversing climate change.
Here’s what you can do:
What Goes Up Must Come Down!- Cover bare soil with plants! Fertile soil is a natural sink for atmospheric carbon; the very same carbon that contributes to climate change. Excess carbon can be pulled out of the atmosphere by photosynthesis and into plants and the soil where it can have a beneficial effect.
Support Farmers and Ranchers Who Treat The Soil Like Gold- Buy from local food producers who increase soil fertility by using climate friendly agricultural methods including no or low-till plowing, cover cropping, composting and organic farming. If you eat meat, buy grass-fed beef from ranchers who practice holistic or rotational grazing methods that mimic the natural patterns found in nature.
If You Grow Your Own Food, Grow Your Own Soil- If you grow food, take care of your soil. Increase soil fertility by avoiding the use of toxic synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides on your garden or lawn. These poisons kill microorganisms that reside in and on the soil. These organisms perform numerous ecosystem services; including providing nutrients for plants, creating soil humus and loam and increasing plant health. The soil is filled with billions of unemployed microorganisms ready and willing to take on the job of providing nutrients to plants and indirectly to you.
Increase Your Skill Set- If you feel hopeless about climate change- it’s time to take action. Learn how to grow food without increasing atmospheric CO2. Take a course in organic gardening or regenerative farming. If you work with animals, learn about the benefits of rotational grazing. Get to know your local soil microbes and the Soil Food Web.
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”. Both an apocalyptic and redemptive view of the human condition.
The groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, NOVA takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms it into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustains life on earth.
Global environmental activist Lester Brown, praised by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers,” built his understanding of food and scarcity issues from the ground up. His father moved from farmhand to owner of a small farm, and as a teenager, Brown created a successful tomato business. Living in India while working for the USDA, he pieced together the clues that would lead him to sound the alarm on an impending famine, and his urgent warning to the U.S. and Indian governments helped save millions of lives. Now, Brown, founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch institutes, explains how the global food system is endangered by the unfolding ecological crises, rising affluence, population growth, and shrinking water supplies. Cameras by Todd Boyle
Transition the movie
‘In Transition’ is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun.
In the film you’ll see stories of communities creating their own local currencies, setting up their own pubs, planting trees, growing food, celebrating localness, caring, sharing. You’ll see neighbours sharing their land with neighbours that have none, local authorities getting behind their local Transition initiatives, schoolchildren making news in 2030, and you’ll get a sense of the scale of this emerging movement. It is a story of hope, and it is a call to action, and we think you will like it very much. It is also quite funny in places.
Produced by Helen Whybrow and Michael Sacca
in association with
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont
and Vermont Organic Farmers, LCC
runs 9:45
Welcome to Transition Studies. To prosper for very much longer on the changing Earth humankind will need to move beyond its current fossil-fueled civilization toward one that is sustained on recycled materials and renewable energy. This is not a trivial shift. It will require a major transition in all aspects of our lives.
This weblog explores the transition to a sustainable future on our finite planet. It provides links to current news, key documents from government sources and non-governmental organizations, as well as video documentaries about climate change, environmental ethics and environmental justice concerns.
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