The Docuseek Sustainability Collection
THE SUSTAINABILITY COLLECTION encompasses a wide array of disciplines and approaches to sustainability, including new approaches to urban design, the implications of energy choices, and new and traditional agricultural methods and food distribution strategies. The collection shows in a variety of ways and places how design, conservation, community, and legislative action are all crucial components of a sustainable future at both the local and global level.
The Docuseek Sustainability Collection includes the following titles:
In Brazil can Pedro build a Life App to help the secret world of urban farms and gardens in Rio's shanty towns?
FEED THE GREEN: FEMINIST VOICES FOR THE EARTH features voices of prominent feminist thinkers juxtaposed with images from popular culture, pointing to the ways that an environmentally destructive worldview is embedded in popular discourses.
Biotechnology reduces the gene pool of the world's staple food crops.
From the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia to the Andes of Peru, indigenous highland communities battle threats to their forests, farms, and faith.
Documents the response of one fishing community in India to the “rape and run” industries that have begun to dominate their livelihood and decimate their environment.
Looks at the workings of a highly profitable supermarket, Brooklyn's Park Slope Food Coop, which for 44 years has been a shining example of a successful alternative economic system at work.
The deep history of cooperatives in America — the country's longest-surviving alternative economic system.
Presents the environmental effects of eating meat.
Food Rights and Civil Rights intersect at Food Justice.
Kenyan farmer Moses Shaha journeys through the Tana Delta, where farmers are starting to grow jatropha, a biofuel crop.
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