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Cosechas Amargas: Los Monocultivos del Hambre (Bitter Harvest: The Monocultures of Hunger)
This documentary describes the evolution of monocultures like cotton, coffee, bananas and sugar in Nicaragua. It includes testimonies from farming women and men who have dedicated their lives to these crops. Spanish only. (Este documental presenta la evolution de monocultivos come el algodon, el cafe, los bananos y el azucar en Ncaragua. Con testimonios de los campesinos y campesinas. Solamentee en Espanol.)
The Stump Makers
Call Number: V 726Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Stump Makers delivers an indictment of the wasteful forestry practices and ecological devastation caused by major logging companies operations in California and Oregon. Using some of the same footage as Wasted Woods, this film documents the impact of clear cutting on the environment and the logging communities reliant upon the industry.
Wasted Woods
Call Number: V 730Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Wasted Woods shows destructive forestry practices used on the west coast during the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing on clear cutting and the immense machinery that cut and processed the giant redwoods, the film reveals the rapid deterioration of the forest ecology and the disappearance of towns and businesses, along with the forests, in large areas of the west coast.
Warning! Warning!
Call Number: V 736Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Warning! Warning! focuses on San Francisco Bay ecological conditions and threats to the Bay caused by the dumping of municipal, farming and industrial wastes into its tributary rivers and into the Bay itself.
Timber Tigers
Call Number: V 737Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Timber Tigers resulted from a national tour of forest areas. It shows seldom seen giant forest-cutting machinery that harvests and hauls trees of all sizes across the country. The film exposes the forestry industry's approach to logging: "After us, the deluge and the desert."
Vanishing Redwoods
Call Number: V 738Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Vanishing Redwoods depicts the delicate natural balance required for the growth and survival of redwood forests. Photographed in northern California and Oregon, it shows how the logging industry's traditional practice of clear cutting threatens the very survival of redwood trees as a species.
Tale of Two Systems
Call Number: V 739Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tale of Two Systems is the last film made by Richards in which he analyzes the issues involved in the acquisition and usage of raw materials in our market oriented society. The film features photography of seldom seen US strip mining operations and open pit mines with their immense machinery and gigantic holes in the earth.
Colin Edwards: Report on Cellulose Ethanol
This report discusses alternative energy, specifically using cellulose waste materials. Enzymes produced by fungus breaks down cellulose to glucose (the hydrolysis effect). The glucose is then converted to ethyl alcohol through fermentation. There is also further exploration of topics including bio-conversion, alternative energy including solar power, comparing nuclear and solar energy and the effect of oil dependency on the development of alternative energy.
Breaking the Bank
Call Number: V 749Format: VHSProducers: Deep Dish TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two half-hour television segments focusing on the thousands who converged on Washington D.C. to challenge the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at their meeting in April 2000.
Colonialism in Puerto Rico: News and Articles on: The Environment Militarization
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersFormat: CompilationCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
A compilation of news articles about the environmental movement in Puerto Rico and its fight with the US military, multinational corporations, rampant industrialization and the tourism industry.
