Cultivating Arctic Landscapes gives a well-rounded portrait of wildlife management, aboriginal rights, and politics in the circumpolar north. The book reveals unexpected continuities between socialist and capitalist ecological styles, and addresses the problems facing a new era of cultural exchanges between aboriginal peoples in each region.
This award-winning documentary follows a controversial sugar development scheme in Mali. Some oppose its claims to offer inclusive development, and see it as a neocolonial venture.
This film shows how the oil and gas industries, rich with political connections, obtained a position of almost untouchable power and how at-risk communities have united to fight back.
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.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Hawaiians and Australian Aboriginals to protect their sacred areas from modern and industrial encroachment.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Ethiopians and the Q’eros people of the Peruvian Andes against the pressures of religious conflicts and climate change.
This film discusses many of the themes surrounding water issues, especially privatization.
Patagonia Rising gives voice to the Gauchos, a frontier people dependent on the Baker and Pascua river systems, who are caught in the struggle between Chile’s pro-dam business sector, clean energy proponents and the country’s rising energy demand.
This film examines a radical policy implemented by Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa: to leave Yasuni National Park’s oil in the ground and let the industrialized countries make a contribution to the preservation of the planet’s “green lungs.”
This film follows the residents of Brazil’s virgin forests as they struggle to maintain their identity in the face of environmental exploitation.
