One of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America is the story of natural lawn care. Noticing a connection between her patients' deteriorating health conditions and their exposure to chemical pesticides and herbicides, a physician leads a community to ban the use of toxic chemical pesticides on lawns.

This documentary exposes the threats posed by the introduction of genetically engineered trees into our environment. The unknown dangerous consequences of genetically engineered trees are explored as they relate to human health, native forests, and wildlife.

An award-winning husband/wife team spend five months on foot with the endangered Porcupine Caribou Herd to reveal the oil industry's environmental impact.

Rampant over-development of agriculture, housing, and industry has increased the demand for fresh water well beyond its finite supply, resulting in desertification of the earth. Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geo-political map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

Crude is an epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. In 2001, citizens in Ecuador claimed that Chevron-Texaco spent three decades systematically contaminating one of the most bio-diverse regions on Earth, poisoning the water, air, and land.

Coal Country is a dramatic look at modern coal mining. We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in Appalachia. We hear from miners and coal company officials who are concerned about jobs and the economy and believe they are acting responsibly in bringing power to the American people. Both sides in this conflict claim that history is on their side. Families have lived in the region for generations, and most have ancestors who worked in the mines.

Carbon Nation is an optimistic film based on climate change solutions. Even if you doubt the severity of the impact of climate change or just don't buy it at all, this is still a compelling film that illustrates how solutions to climate change also affect other social, economic, and national security issues.

From its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation, this is the story of Earth's most valuable and under-appreciated source of fertility. Made from the same elements as the stars, plants and animals, and us, "dirt is very much alive."

Based on the book by Eric Schlosser, the movie dramatically reveals the dark, hidden side of America's fast-food industry. Besides negative health effects, adverse social and economical impacts to junk food are also discussed.

This award winning documentary builds the case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Filmmaker, Robert Kenner, lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, the USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers, and our own environment.

Michael Reynolds is a renegade architect who has been designing truly sustainable homes for 30 years. His "Earthships", constructed from used tires, beer cans, and mud based cement, run on renewable energy and provide food throughout the year. A must-see for anyone who wants to live off the grid!

Animated penguin friends face environmental challenges like pollution and depleted fish supplies mimicking real life crises. Good discussions with children easily follow this film.

When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis - feeding the population - and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. This film tells the story of the Cuban people's hardship, ingenuity, and triumph over sudden adversity, through cooperation, conservation, and community.

King Korn documents a year in the life of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Follow the industrialized path of their planted acre of corn through to harvest day and beyond as "corn" products fill grocery shelves. A must see for anyone concerned about mono-agriculture and the unsustainability of modern farming.

Genetically engineered, patented, and unlabeled foods have quietly filled grocery stores in the USA for the past 10 years. Is this scenario which includes genetically engineered foods he best solution to global poverty, or is it creating more long-term problems worldwide?

Koyaanisqatsi ia an awakening film which captures you through its masterful, cinematic use of visuals and audio. Witness a journey through the life of the modern man: our habits, our technology, and our connection with the environment. A must-watch for anyone who would call themselves an "observer".

This enthralling BBC series examines "the lengths living beings go to to stay alive," in the words of Sir David Attenborough. Aided by breathtaking high-definition cinematography, the makers of Planet Earth explore the more colorful strategies the world's creatures employ to procreate, evade predators, and obtain nourishment.

Internationally acclaimed artist Edward Burtynsky is renowned for his large-scale photographs of man-made or "manufactured landscapes" of quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, and dams. This film powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it, without simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions.

A New York City family goes very green when writer Colin Beavan leads his tentative wife and their baby daughter on a yearlong crusade to make a no-net-impact on the environment. Among their activities: eating only locally grown organic food, generating no trash except for compost, and using no carbon-fueled transportation.

Numen brings the same awareness to medicine and the medical industry that the organic food movement has brought to food and the food industry. Presenting a sobering view of conventional health care, it shares stories about how individuals have improved their own health and well-being and provides concrete steps for viewers to do so as well.

Taking more than five years to film, this BBC documentary is filled with beautiful images of animals and nature that have never been seen before. The complete 5-disc series featuring endangered animals and habitats is narrated by David Attenborough.

What would happen if you ate only fast-food from McDonald's, three meals a day, for one month? Supersize Me questions the unhealthy lifestyle of Americans along with the financial and physical burdens of America's addiction to fast food.

Aspartame is a common food additive, an artificial sweetener found in NutraSweet and in many other products. Controversy over its safety vs. toxicity is ongoing, and this documentary highlights compelling individual case stories.

Access to water, a seemingly basic human right, is examined as corporations are buying up water and selling it back as though it were a commodity. Learn how the bottled water industry affects climate change, pollution, our reliance on oil, and our health.

Since WWII, Americans have been settling in the suburbs fulfilling the promises established by the government. As peak oil nears in modern reality, the mobile lifestyle of suburbanites is becoming more uncertain. This documentary challenges the future feasibility of the suburbs and how Americans are likely to react to peak oil.

Is water a human right or a commodity to be bought and sold in a global marketplace? Should the people have local control of their water, or multi-national corporations? These are just some of the questions this documentary faces as it enters communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States.

Part film and part movement, this provoking documentary will inspire any consumer to be more concerned regarding the corporations that sell them their goods. Numerous interviews of corporate critics and COE's are featured. A must-see for any conscious consumer.

This award-winning film shares a hopeful vision of the future where architectural design, process, and products blend with nature's rules. Architect William McDonough and chemist Dr. Michael Braungart, co-authors of the best-selling book Cradle to Cradle (shown here), present innovative designs and real case studies to help re-make a better future.

The story of Farmer John involves a lifelong struggle that eventually evolves into the development of today's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and the re-birth of the organic farming movement.

This award-winning 3-CD set includes two DVD's and 1 audio lecture on CD by best-selling author Jeffrey Smith who is seemingly tireless in his efforts against GMO's. This explosive documentary reveals the significant health dangers of genetically modified foods and the connection with political corruption.

The earth is growing warmer and our children will have to face the consequences of the actions we take, or do not take, today. Filmed on four continents, this film addresses the human connection with the complex subject of a warming planet.

Combining secret documents with first-hand accounts by victims, scientists, and politicians, this widely praised film exposes why Monsanto has become the world's poster child for malignant corporate influence in government and technology.

This classic Disney film with modern Pixar graphics is also admired for its environmental and social statements. An inhospitable planet Earth has been left behind by humans, and Wall-E (a robot who collects all remaining trash on Earth) unexpectedly comes across a single live plant. This is a must-see for any family!

This documentary will leave you asking Who Killed the Electric Car over and over again with no straight forward answer to this mystery. The auto industry? The oil industry? Lack of consumer demand? Possible motives are explored and will still leave you wondering...