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Movie Review: Manufactured Landscapes
Monday, July 14, 2008. 1

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In the documentary Manufactured Landscapes, artist Edward Burtynsky and director/producer Jennifer Baichwal explore the impact of industrialization and modernization. 


Movie Review: Animals: Friends or Food?
Friday, May 30, 2008. 1

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After always professing a love for animals, Jason decides it is only fair that he raises the animals himself if he is going to eat them. 


Movie Review: Garbage Warrior
Tuesday, March 04, 2008. 2

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Are you fed up with hearing about global warming and how it’s going to destroy our planet? Are you beginning to feel like maybe there isn’t anything you can do about it? Garbage Warrior may just be the documentary that shows you that there’s some hope.


Movie Review: Delhi Dump
Wednesday, January 30, 2008. 0

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This short documentary takes the viewer into the lives of workers in Delhi, India, and exposes the horrific conditions in which many of them function.


Movie Review: The Refugees of the Blue Planet
Wednesday, January 16, 2008. 0

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What do the Maldives, Brazil, and Calgary, Alberta all have in common? According to The Refugees of the Blue Planet, each is facing an environmental crisis, and, in turn, creating environmental refugees in the process. In this documentary, the growing concerns presented by environmental refugees are brought to light, through both a local and global perspective.


Movie Review: Sustainable Table
Wednesday, November 21, 2007. 0

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Sustainable Table is a feature-length documentary which asks its audience: “what’s on your plate?”, and then proceeds to tell them.


Movie Review: Escape from Suburbia
Thursday, November 08, 2007. 0

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Escape from Suburbia claims that our “failure to pay attention is going to undo us”. This full-length documentary examines the impact humans are having on the environment and the change that must come about today.


Movie Review: A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Wednesday, October 24, 2007. 0

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“Oil is the excrement of the devil. Oil is the bloodstream of the world economy”. So begins, A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, a 90 minute documentary on the state of the world and its dependence on oil.


Movie Review: The 11th Hour
Friday, September 21, 2007. 0

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Ever wonder how much money it would take for the planet to survive without nature? Or how quickly our population has grown since the industrial revolution? Or how much energy we really need to live? The 11th Hour will give you your answers. If you can make it through the first half hour or so.