Trim’s article focuses on “countercultural environmentalists” and an alternative development program in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The project’s history raises questions about the consequences of treating environmental issues as technical problems to be solved with innovation and new technology. This approach both depoliticizes environmental issues and embeds them into new political structures.
This film captures the rise of China’s influence in Africa and in Zambia in particular, through the lives of three individuals: a Chinese entrepreneur, a project manager for a Chinese multinational and the Zambian Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry.
This film follows a diverse group of women from around the world as they attend the Barefoot College in India. The college teaches them solar engineering skills to allow them to contribute to their communities and improve their daily lives, but societal and familial pressure proves challenging.
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 follows the founder of a grassroots chocolate cooperative in Grenada. It reveals the benefits of a cooperative model in an industry marred by corporate greed, trafficking, and slavery.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
This film examines the pros and cons of the financialization of nature, an approach which some believe can make up for failed political solutions.
This film examines lessons learnt from fracking in the US state of Colorado as the practice quietly expands to protected areas around the world.
