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No Tankers!

This was shot April 15th at the no tankers rally in Victoria, BC. It is time for everyone to get involved in this struggle for our coast. The Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker proposal is simply not worth it. I will not sacrifice 100′s of years of our pristine coastline and thousands of livelihoods that depend on it, for 5 years of BC jobs. Anyone that lives on this coast knows, that it’s just a bad idea. Ask any sailor, our waters are a tough sail, the thousands of rivers, inlets, and rocky shores are absolutely no place for a supertanker.

Visit notankers.ca to sign their petition.

If you have any questions on how to get involved effectively or want to do more visit dogwoodinitiative.org/no-tankers/do-more or contact Dogwood Initiative directly.

To another 100 years of tankers off our coast!

Earth Day 2012

On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012 and help Mobilize the Earth™. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Together we will stand united for a sustainable future and call upon individuals, organizations, and governments to do their part.

An open letter from Dr. David Suzuki

Dear friends,

Some of you may have seen media coverage about my decision to step off the board of directors of the David Suzuki Foundation. I am writing to tell you more about this and what it means.

After my children and grandchildren, my greatest pride is the David Suzuki Foundation.

I am fiercely proud of how the Foundation brings science and solutions to environment problems. I’m determined to ensure that the Foundation continues to have the ability to solve critical environmental issues and bring hope for the future.

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The Price of Gas

What’s the price of gasoline? In the U.S. it’s about $4 a gallon. But some experts say the true price of gas is much higher. What about the costs of pollution, and the global and local problems caused by it? Who pays for those? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting calculates the carbon footprint and other “external costs” of gasoline use in the U.S.

The Last Mountain

The fight for the last great mountain in America’s Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for the future of energy that affects us all.

Source: http://thelastmountainmovie.com

Fall & Winter Documentary Trailer

“Fall & Winter” is a documentary that explores the origins of our global crisis in order to better understand the catastrophic transition we have now entered. This film presents the ideas and experience of a wide range of people dedicated to confronting this crisis head on. The result is an analysis of our failing institutions and culture so we may be equipped to handle drastic collapse and foster a vital, fundamental rebirth in the way we live on this planet.

FallWinterMovie needs your support! Please visit our Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manderson/fall-and-winter-a-documentary-film

Earth Day 2011

Earth Day Network’s year-round mission is to broaden, diversify and activate the environmental movement worldwide, through a combination of education, public policy, and consumer campaigns.

www.earthday.org

Spoil – Documentary on the Great Bear Rainforests under threat

SPOIL – A powerful documentary on the Great Bear Rainforest by EP Films.
The film shows the splendour of nature with some beautiful photography. It highlights the nature we all want to protect, but our blinkered and incessant addiction to burn more oil, is helping to destroy.

Spoil is a lovely film and a perfect way to encourage us all to help protect and nurture nature and not destroy it for the sake of dirty oil. We need to stop buying dirty oil and move faster into clean renewable electricity.

We all have the choice to support and promote clean renewable sources of energy and wean ourselves off of our addiction to burning fossil fuels.
• Switch your energy supplier to a company that is making concerted efforts in clean, renewable electricity.
• Next time you buy a vehicle, insist on purchasing an electric vehicle.
• Make it known to your politicians that the Tar sands must stop.
• Get involved with a group that is helping to stop the oil sands and its infrastructure. EG
http://www.pacificwild.org/site/take_action.html
http://stoptarsands.wordpress.com/solutions
http://dirtyoilsands.org/thedirt

SPOIL – Wins Top Environmental Award at Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. http://www.ilcp.com/buzz/spoil-the-fight-to-save-the-great-bear-wins-top-envi…

See The Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
See Spoil on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/19582018
Join Spoil on facebook https://facebook.com/SpoilFilm

Find out more about the filmmakers:
http://vimeo.com/epfilms
http://epfilms.tv
http://riversindemand.com

Find Beauty in All Things

Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what’s there.” It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.

Buy here : http://www.mpihomevideo.com/baraka_blu_ray_disc/