

Stunning images of life in the deep oceans and the destruction caused by deep sea bottom trawling.
“What we’re talking about here is saving our early twenty-first century civilization.” Lester Brown talks with TreeHugger’s Simran Sethi about his latest book “Plan B 2.0”. He discusses the necessary shift in the global economy, describing how gold and bottled water are very similar, and gives his opinions on the recent wave of environmentalism. Brown is a renowned environmental thinker and president of the Earth Policy Institute.
It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change? The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney's energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off the road for a year. With Sydney icons like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House turning their lights off, and unique events such as weddings by candlelight, the world took notice. Inspired by the collective effort of millions of Sydneysiders, many major global cities are joining Earth Hour in 2008, turning a symbolic event into a global movement.
Fear-mongering isn’t our style, but in this Hallow-green segment, we welcome you to be afraid – very afraid – of the hidden powers lurking in your home. Don’t fall prey to unnecessary electrical drains and contribute to the ecological impact they have on the planet, use switches and power strips to slay these fiends. View in Windows Media Player format.
The word around the bathroom was that Sam Suds the private detective was all washed up. He had rolled the dice on the case of the PVC and it had come up snake eyes. He was just about to throw in the towel and crawl inside of a shampoo bottle, when she came floating along.
Sierra Club Chronicles: The Day the Water DiedBrave New Films in assn with Sierra Club Prod.28 min 34 sec - Feb 9, 2006March 24, 1989 will forever plague history as one of the worst environmental disasters of our time. Eleven million gallons of oil spilled into the Prince William Sound killing thousands of wildlife and destroying a complex and delicate ecosystem. Exxon promised they would clean up the spill a
Jamie Lerner re-invented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way he changed the way city planners worldwide conceive what's possible in the metropolitan landscape.