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The Docuseek Sustainability Collection

THE SUSTAINABILITY COLLECTION encompasses a wide array of disciplines and approaches to sustainability, including new approaches to urban design, the implications of energy choices, and new and traditional agricultural methods and food distribution strategies. The collection shows in a variety of ways and places how design, conservation, community, and legislative action are all crucial components of a sustainable future at both the local and global level.

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The Docuseek Sustainability Collection includes the following titles:

Designing A Great Neighborhood - imageDesigning A Great Neighborhood

A model co-housing project, where future residents participate in the design of their own neighborhood.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 54 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Detropia - imageDetropia

Academy Award-shortlisted for Best Documentary, the film is a vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 86 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Diet for a Small Planet - imageDiet for a Small Planet

Frances Moore Lappe shows how to practice vegetarianism and address world hunger.

Bullfrog Films | 1974 | 28 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Dirty Business - imageDirty Business

Reveals the true social and environmental costs of coal power and looks at promising developments in renewable energy technology.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 90 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Divide In Concord - imageDivide In Concord

A fiery octogenarian activist spearheads a grassroots campaign to ban the sale of single-serve plastic bottled water in Concord, MA.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 82 minutes | 5 - 12, College, Adults
Downwind/Downstream - imageDownwind/Downstream

Water quality for major southwest cities is threatened by mining, acid rain, urbanization.

Bullfrog Films | 1988 | 59 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Dreaming of a Tree House - imageDreaming of a Tree House

An exploration of the design and philosophy behind a 20 year-old experimental, ecological collective housing project in the center of Berlin.

Icarus Films | 2011 | 85 minutes | 8-12, college, adult
Dying for Gold - imageDying for Gold

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present.

Icarus Films | 2019 | 98 minutes
E. F. Schumacher... - imageE. F. Schumacher...

Summary of Schumacher's economic arguments referring to the world energy situation.

Bullfrog Films | 1979 | 16 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Earth, Water, Woman - imageEarth, Water, Woman

A Rastafarian woman in the Caribbean sparks an environmental movement.

GOOD DOCS | 2013 | 23 minutes

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