Multimedia | film profile
Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste
This film follows the efforts of the city of San Francisco to reach zero waste.
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From Billions to None. The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
This film examines the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon by 1914, its lessons for the future, and plans from the “de-extinction” movement to reverse the event using genetic science.
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Banking Nature
This film examines the pros and cons of the financialization of nature, an approach which some believe can make up for failed political solutions.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Anya Zilberstein on "Count Rumford and the Landscape of Munich's English Garden"
Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
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Fiona Cameron on "Museums, Education, and Climate Change"
Fiona Cameron, Carson Fellow from August 2011 until March 2012, talks about her research on ‘Museums, Education, and Climate Change’ at the intersections between science, technology and nature.
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"Silent Spring at 50"
A comparative analysis of the reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the United States and in the UK.
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Leonid's Story
This animated film tells the story of a family which lived in the village next to the Chernobyl reactor, and whose lives were destroyed during the 1986 disaster.
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The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement
This film takes viewers on a journey that explores the more recent origins of the “rights of nature,” and its application and implementation in Ecuador, New Zealand, and the United States.
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Libby, Montana
A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.
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Uranium: Is it a country?
This film examines the processes and politics involved in mining uranium at sites such as the Olympic Dam in Australia and transporting it to Europe in order to generate nuclear power.