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Gas Hole
This film criticizes America’s dependency on oil, explains how oil companies were able to establish their power, and provides information on viable and affordable alternatives to petroleum fuel.
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Switch
This award-winning documentary explores ways the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy is likely to happen around the world.
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Dirty Energy
This film investigates the cost of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster on Lousiana communities, and criticizes the relationship between British Petroleum and the U.S. government.
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Sprawling from Grace
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
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Earth First! 26, no. 1
Earth First! 26, no. 1 features reports about climate change and climate justice, looks into the future of civilization, and fights for the rights of animals.
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Fuel
This film examines the history and future of energy in America. It advocates for a transition to green energy through individual action.
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Wiebo's War
This film follows a Christian community and its leader as they resist the oil and gas industry and its plans for expansion into their land.
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Oil & Water
This film follows two young men fighting to preserve the Ecuadorean Amazon. One is a member of the indigenous Cofan tribe, sent to the US for a Western education as a child; the other is an American college student.
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Black Ice: The Story of the Greenpeace Arctic 30
This film recounts the story of activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic 30. Protesting against the first oil drilling in the Arctic ocean, they were jailed by Russia and charged with piracy and hooliganism, sparking a bitter international dispute.
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Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Managing the Unknown offers essays that show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress. This volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.