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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:

Mountains of Gold - imageMountains of Gold

Gold mining in the Amazon is a dangerous and dirty business.

Bullfrog Films | 1990 | 54 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
My Country No More - imageMy Country No More

The oil boom in North Dakota sets off a crisis in a rural community, forced to confront the meaning of progress as they fight for a disappearing way of life.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 70 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
My Father's Garden - imageMy Father's Garden

Explores sustainable agriculture and the contrast between chemical and organic farming.

Bullfrog Films | 1995 | 56 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Mysteries of the Deep - imageMysteries of the Deep

Explores the beguiling depths of the seas, as technology allows us to venture further and further into the planet's last frontier.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 44 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Native Table - imageNative Table

Chef Sean Sherman worked for years in Italian, Spanish, Japanese and modern American restaurants. Then one day he realized his own heritage – Lakota Sioux – had a lot to teach him about foods that would nourish himself, his customers, and the Earth. Today, Sherman and his business partner Dana Thomson (Dakota) are exploring their Native cultural heritages by re-creating pre-colonial menus – meals that use no dairy, no wheat, no sugar.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 12 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Natural Connections - imageNatural Connections

Makes a compelling scientific and ethical case for maintaining biodiversity.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 46 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Nature's Cleanup Crew - imageNature's Cleanup Crew

Examines the lives of the busy scavengers who live among us in our cities, recycling the mountains of waste our consumer society leaves behind.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 54 minutes
Near or Far? - imageNear or Far?

The Nigerian Minister for Agriculture wants to ensure Nigerians eat food grown in Nigeria.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 29 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Necessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line - imageNecessity: Climate Justice and the Thin Green Line

This story of climate resistance in the Pacific Northwest brings into view a historical landscape of tribal leaders, Indigenous activists and white allies as they resist oil trains and trucks carrying these highly inflammable products through treaty lands. In following the path of oil-by-rail and oil resistance along the Columbia, we revisit lessons of the New Deal era of building massive dams and what climate activists take from that era in thinking about a Green New Deal.

Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 60 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Necessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance - imageNecessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance

NECESSITY traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying highly toxic tar sands oil through Native lands and essential waterways in North America.

Collective Eye Films | 2020 | 60 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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