Environmental Sustainable Committee Library
All materials can be checked out at the Public Library
Some of the below can be found on Amazon Prime, NetFlex, and other streaming platforms as well as the Ellensburg Public Library.
Documentaries
Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages. (DVD, 2 discs). 2007. Seven specials starring Sir David Attenborough are collected here, including ATTENBOROUGH IN PARADISE, in which he visits the spectacular birds of New Guinea; THE AMBER MACHINE, in which he embarks upon a quest sparked by the gift of a piece of amber by a refugee girl many years ago; THE LOST GODS OF EASTER ISLANDS; and more.
BARAKA: (DVD, 2 discs). A World Beyond Words. 1992. From Nepal to Kenya, from Australia to Brazil, people try to cope with the changes that have altered their landscape, crowding them together and speeding up daily life. The film shows us these alienated people, but also images of traditions--whirling dervishes and Tibetan monks--that offer different, peaceful ways of existence. Shot in 70mm in 24 countries, this awesome musical and visual montage expresses the global existence of nature and man in the broadest sensory terms. The
non-narrative documentary film was directed by
Ron Fricke. BARAKA in ancient Sufi language , is a word that translates to ‘the thread that weaves life together’.
Blue Planet II: (Blu-Ray). David Attenborough narrated. 2017 British
nature documentary series on
marine life produced by the
BBC Natural History Unit. Like its predecessor,
The Blue Planet (2001), it is narrated and presented by naturalist
Sir David Attenborough, while the main music score was composed by
Hans Zimmer. The series was debuted on 29 October 2017 and was simulcast on
BBC One,
BBC One HD and
BBC Earth, making it the first natural history series to premiere on the same day in the United Kingdom, Nordic regions, Europe and in Asia. In the United States, the series premiered on Saturday, January 20, 2018, at 9 PM as part of a five-network simulcast on
BBC America, AMC, IFC, Sundance, and WE tv. Subsequent episodes aired on successive Saturdays on BBC America.
Chasing Ice: (DVD). 2012 Documentary film about the efforts of nature photographer
James Balog and his
Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) to publicize the effects of
climate change, directed by
Jeff Orlowski. It was released in the United States on November 16, 2012. The documentary includes scenes from a glacier
calving event that took place at
Jakobshavn Glacier in
Greenland, lasting 75 minutes, the longest such event ever captured on film. Two EIS videographers waited several weeks in a small tent overlooking the glacier, and were finally able to witness 7.4 cubic kilometres (1.8 cu mi) of ice crashing off the glacier. "The calving of a massive glacier believed to have produced the ice that sank the Titanic is like watching a city break apart.
Climate Refugees: (DVD). 2010. As the impact of global climate change grows, in many parts of the world the key question is no longer how to prevent the consequences of this threat to the environment, but what to do as people struggle to deal with the effects of mankind's carelessness. Parts of the world that were once habitable are slowly but dramatically changing, and the people that once lived on islands slowly submerging under rising oceans and plains that are turning to deserts have to find somewhere else to go. What is do be done with the people who have been displaced by climate change, and which nations should take them in? Filmmaker Michael Nash explores this side of the climate change debate in the documentary CLIMATE REFUGEES; filmed over the course of two years, the film examines the causes of climate change, nations that are suffering most from its effects, and the political, economic and environmental issues behind moving the people are becoming the first victims of this crisis. CLIMATE REFUGEES was an official selection at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
The Cove: (DVD). 2009 documentary film directed by
Louie Psihoyos which analyzes and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan. It was awarded the 2010
Oscar for
Best Documentary Feature in 2010. The film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills, change Japanese fishing practices, and to inform and educate the public about the risks, and increasing hazard, of mercury poisoning from dolphin meat. The film is told from an ocean conservationist's point of view. The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the
Taiji dolphin drive hunting is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and asserts that 23,000
dolphins and
porpoises are killed in Japan every year by the
country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats. The film argues that dolphin hunting as practiced in Japan is unnecessary and cruel.
Cowspirancy: (DVD) 2014 documentary film which explores the impact of animal agriculture on the environment, and investigates the policies of environmental organizations on this issue. The film looks at various environmental concerns, including
global warming,
water use,
deforestation, and
ocean dead zones, and suggests that animal agriculture is the primary source of environmental destruction. The documentary was directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. Environmental organizations investigated in the film include
Greenpeace,
Sierra Club,
Surfrider Foundation,
Rainforest Action Network,
Oceana.
The
Union of Concerned Scientists has disputed the film's assertion that the majority of
greenhouse gases driving
climate change are produced by animal agriculture, as this runs counter to
scientific consensus which is that the main cause is fossil fuel emissions. Also, in contrast to claims made in the film, a 2018 peer-reviewed meta-analysis estimates that the food supply chain is responsible for 26% of anthropogenic GHG emissions.
Forks over Knives: DVD. 2012. The Extended Interviews. Documentary filmmaker Lee Fulkerson explores the possibility that so-called "diseases of affluence," such as heart disease, can be reversed by simply adjusting our diets to include less processed and animal-based foods. discoveries. The film also records the experiences of a group of patients suffering from chronic maladies as they participate in an experiment in which their diets are substantially altered and wholesome, plant-based food is, essentially, used as medicine.
Happy: (DVD). 2011 feature documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by
Roko Belic. It explores human happiness through interviews with people from all walks of life in 14 different countries, weaving in the newest findings of
positive psychology. Roko Belic was inspired to create the film after producer/director
Tom Shadyac showed him an article in
The New York Times titled "A New Measure of Well Being from a Happy Little Kingdom. The article ranks the United States as the 23rd-happiest country in the world.
Home: (DVD). 2009. Narrated by Glenn Close and featuring the provocative and uniquely jaw-dropping aerial photography of famed photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, this soaring trip across planet Earth allows viewers to experience their home as never before.
Life: (DVD, 4 discs). 2009. The original script was written and narrated by
David Attenborough.
Life is a British nature documentary series created and produced by the
BBC in association with
The Open University. It was first broadcast as part of the BBC's
Darwin Season on
BBC One and
BBC HD from October to December 2009. The series takes a global view of the specialized strategies and extreme behavior that living things have developed in order to survive; what
Charles Darwin termed "the struggle for existence".
No Impact Man: (DVD). 2009. Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin playing themselves.
Documentary film directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein, based on the book by
Colin Beavan. The film, which premiered September 4, 2009, follows
Colin Beavan and his family during their year-long experiment to have zero
impact on the
environment. The film mostly takes place in New York City.
One Life: (DVD). 1996. An epic Adventure with a Cast of Millions. BBC. This nature documentary narrated by Daniel Craig compiles visually stunning footage filmed over the course of 3000 days, spanning all five continents, and featuring a wide variety of life forms throughout every stage of the life cycle.
Plastic Paradise: (DVD). The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 2014. Thousands of miles away from civilization, Midway Atoll is in one of those most remote places on earth. And yet it's become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, siphoning plastics from three distant continents. In PLASTIC PARADISE journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun travels on a personal journey of discovery to uncover this mysterious phenomenon. Along the way she meets scientists, researchers, influencers, and volunteers who shed light on the effects of our rabid plastic consumption and learns the problem is more insidious than we could have ever imagined.
Trashed: (DVD). 2013 Film narrated by Jeremy Irons. If you think waste is someone else’s problem… think again. See also:
WWW.trashedfilm.com.
Trashed is an environmental documentary film, written and directed by British film-maker Candida Brady. It follows actor
Jeremy Irons as he investigates the global scale and impact of humanity's modern wasteful consumerism and
pollution. The film is a call for urgent action to resolve the issue of existing deposits and drastically reduce our consumption towards
sustainable levels and
zero waste, but also demonstrates how this is already being achieved successfully in many communities around the world.
Vanishing of the Bees: (DVD). 2009
documentary film by Hive Mentality Films & Hipfuel Films, directed by
George Langworthy and
Maryam Henein and released in the
United Kingdom in October 2009. The story is centered on the sudden disappearance of
honey bees from beehives around the world, caused by the poorly understood phenomenon known as
Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD. Although the film does not draw any firm scientific conclusions as to the precise cause or causes of CCD, it does suggest a link between
neonicotinoid pesticides and CCD.
An Inconvenient Truth: A 2006 American concert/documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over a thousand times to audiences worldwide.
The idea to document Gore's efforts came from producer Laurie David, who saw his presentation at a town hall meeting on global warming, which coincided with the opening of The Day After Tomorrow. Laurie David was so inspired by his slide show that she, with producer Lawrence Bender, met with Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film. Premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the documentary was a critical and commercial success, winning two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song.
Since the film's release, An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of global warming and reenergizing the environmental movement. The documentary has also been included in science curricula in schools around the world, which has spurred some controversy. A sequel to the film, titled An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, was released on July 28, 2017.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. A 2017 American concert film/documentary film, directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, about former United States Vice President Albert A. Gore Jr.'s continuing mission to battle climate change. The sequel to An Inconvenient Truth (2006), the film addresses the progress made to tackle the problem and Gore's global efforts to persuade governmental leaders to invest in renewable energy, culminating in the landmark signing of 2016's Paris Agreement. The film was released on July 28, 2017, by Paramount Pictures, and grossed over $5 million worldwide.[4] It received a nomination for Best Documentary at the 71st British Academy Film Awards.
A Plastic Ocean: We Need A Wave of Change. (DVD) 2016. A Plastic ocean is a feature-length adventure documentary that brings to light the consequences of our global disposable lifestyle. We thought we could use plastic once and throw it away with negligible impact to humans and animals. That turns out to be untrue. During the four-year production period,.
A Plastic Ocean was filmed in 20 locations around the world in beautiful and chilling detail to document the global effect of plastic pollution and introduce workable technology and policy solutions that can, if implemented in time, change things for the better.
Sharkwater. 2006 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Rob Stewart. Helping to protect sharks, changing government policy, and inspiring the creation of shark conservation groups, Sharkwater is considered one of conservation's success stories, resulting in shark finning being banned worldwide. In the film, Stewart filmed current attitudes about sharks, and how shark-hunting industries are driving them to extinction.
Sharkwater explores the densest shark hunting populations in the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption of the shark-hunting industry in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
Stewart travels with Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship as they confront shark poachers in Guatemala and Costa Rica. Among the group's experiences are boat confrontations, poachers, police, corrupt court systems, and eventually murder charges. Also, Stewart states how the increasing demand for shark-fin soup in Asia is fuelling an illegal trade in sharks. His expedition is cut short, however, when he is diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, from which he recovers.
Stewart discovers that sharks prevent the overconsumption of plankton by other fish, which moderates climate change. Yet sharks have gone from predator to prey, and while they have survived Earth's mass extinctions, they could be extinct within a few years.
The film has received 31 international awards.
What the Health. (DVD) 2017. The Health film that Health Organizations Don’t Want You To See. What the Health is a surprising, and at times hilarious investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about our nation’s health and how big business influence it. The film exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us trillions of healthcare dollars, and keeping us sick.
Publications:
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash: 2012. Edward Humes. Published by the Penguin Group. ISBN 978-1-62090-660-6. A Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America's biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century. In Garbology , Edward Humes investigates trash what's in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity. Along the way , he introduces a collection of garbage denizens unlike anyone you've ever met: the trash-tracking detectives of MIT, the bulldozer-driving sanitation workers building Los Angeles' Garbage Mountain landfill, the artists residing in San Francisco's dump, and the family whose annual trash output fills not a dumpster or a trash can, but a single mason jar. Garbology reveals not just what we throw away, but who we are and where our society is headed. Waste is the one environmental and economic harm that ordinary working Americans have the power to change and prosper in the process. Garbology is raising awareness of trash consumption and is sparking community-wide action through One City One Book programs around the country. It is becoming an increasingly popular addition to high school and college syllabi and is being adopted by many colleges and universities for First Year Experience programs.
Rethinking Green New Deal: Using Climate Policy to Address Inequality.
Abstract by Aparna Mathur in National Tax Journal, National Tax Association. Vol. 72. Issue 4.
Plastic Free: How I kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can To. Book by Beth Terry. 2012. ISBN: 978-1-61608-624-2. Skyhouse Publishing. See also MyPlasticFreeLife.com.
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste. Bea Jonson. 2013. ISBN: 978-1-4516-9768-1. Scribner publishing.
The Keto Vegan: 101 Low-carb Recipes For 100% Plant-Based Ketogenic Diet. By Lydia Miller.
2019. Recipe Only Edition. ISBN: 978-94-92788-30-6
Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability. By Greg Horn. 2006 . Freedom Press. ISBN: 978-1-893910-47-8.
Naturally Sweet Vegan Treats: Plant-Based Delights Free from Refined and Artificial Sweeteners. By Marisa Alvarsson. 2018. ISBN: 978-1-62414-609-1
VEGETARIAN: the best-ever recipe collection. By Linda Fraser. 2003. ISBN: 1-84309-060-X
A Year of Easy KETO Desserts. 52 Fat Burning, Low-Carb Desserts & Fat Bombs. By Elizabeth Jane. See also http:/ketojane.com/ketomeals. ISBN: 9781999322557