Green Short Films

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Vanishing Act

A young boy tries to dispose of a garbage bag filled with trash.

The Bill

Please Recycle

This is the story of a wolf who goes on a journey of trial-and-error in efforts to recycle a discarded plastic bottle found on a trail.

Trees for the Future: Ethiopia

Mark Leisher Productions was contracted to capture multiple projects on the ground for Trees For The Future. TFTF is a non-profit organization based in Silver Spring, MD. This video is compilation of 3 stories. Mark Leisher traveled for 10 days in Southern Ethiopia in the Silte Zone. Presented by Green Roads TV.

Voices of the West

Crude Substitute: The Folly of Liquid Coal

The Rising Tide: Kiribati Short

This film depicts the current climate crisis in Kiribati, a nation in the Central Pacific.  President Anote Tong and other islanders elucidate the problem in a poignant and provocative way. Winner, Young Voices of Climate Change Award. Presented by The World Bank.

Fragile Planet by Sting and Rhythms del Mundo

This video has been produced by the Artist Project Earth had been financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UNEP, World Bank and Global Initiatives. Presented by The World Bank.

World, Hold On

Every day the Earth gives us more. More food, more fuel, more timber... but we are reaching the limit. How do give more to people and take less from the planet? That's the Global Environment Facility's challenge and its mission, as an independent organization that channel resources to steward life's diversity and sustain natural systems, societies and economies. Presented by The World Bank.

Heather and Goliath

Heather is a biologist with the Army Corps of Engineers. When she hears that her organization is planning to quietly remove Clean Water Act protection from the Los Angeles River, she bands with a group of local kayakers, a powerful congressman and several environmental advocacy group to defend the embattled river and change the course of its perilous history.

Plast-ick!

Which plastics are safe? Which should be avoided? Grist advice guru Umbra Fisk broadcasts her quick tips in a special sneak preview of her new video series.

Hummer

A fake hummer ad criticizing the awareness and ignorance of global issues.

Climate Change, Peru: Retreating Glacier

In Pucarumi, a small community in the foothills of the snow-capped Peruvian Andes, Felipe mulls the fate of the life-giving Ausangate glacier. Year after year, the great white glacier of his boyhood has receded and slowly turned black. "We are feeling the effects of climate change," says Felipe, an alpaca herder whose animals graze on pastures irrigated by Ausangate's waters. "This loss of snow means we receive less water. This climatic factor is causing us great danger." Less water has meant less pasture and more difficulty raising livestock. Animals such as alpaca and sheep aren't eating enough, "so their wool doesn't grow as well," forcing people to turn to synthetic wool to weave hats, sweaters, and scarves. Presented by The World Bank.

Melting Point

Espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasing and vocal concerns of environmental protesters in the UK. Ahead of next month's Climate Camp at Kingsnorth power station, this exclusive and powerful film exposes the extraordinary tactics being used to reframe concerned citizens engaging in their right to protest, as dangerous terrorists.

Hell for Leather

Filmed in Bangladesh over a two week period, the film reveals how leather used in consumer goods, including shoes, handbags, trinkets and luxury car interiors – some of which find their way onto European high streets – is linked to serious health problems amongst tannery workers. It also exposes how the toxic chemicals used in leather tanning lead to environmental degradation via the rampant discharge of untreated effluents from tanneries into water supplies and waterways.

Red Sky

Short film created at University of Hertfordshire, structured around a poem written by Sam Roberts.

Green Plaster

Submitted by: Suparna Gangal, SMS Productions, India

Grocery Store Wars

Not long ago in a supermarket not so far away...

Learn the ways of the farm

Robert Redford on Saving the Arctic Refuge

Don't let oil companies destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the sake of one penny per gallon at the pump. Watch Robert Redford's video about America's greatest birthing ground for wolves, caribou and polar bears. Then, speak out in defense of the Arctic Refuge by going to http://www.nrdcactionfund.org and sending a message to your two U.S. senators.

On Thin Ice: Polar Bears and Global Warming

NRDC's lawsuit forced the Bush administration to start facing facts about global warming. Now you can help turn up the heat in Round Two of this historic fight -- go to www.polarbearSOS.org/takeaction and help save polar bears!