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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:

Cafeteria - imageCafeteria

The community puts its shoulder to the wheel and overcomes multinational productions to promote local farmers. Everyone gets involved to make healthy eating a common goal as well as a learning opportunity.

National Film Board of Canada | 2015 | 24 minutes | 4-12, PS
Chasing Water - imageChasing Water

Breathtaking photography tells the story of the Colorado River, which flowed to the sea for 6 million years and now dries up 90 miles short of the Sea of Cortez.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 18 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Cheat Neutral - imageCheat Neutral

A satirical look at the inadequacies of the concept of carbon offsetting.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 13 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Cheshire, Ohio - imageCheshire, Ohio

Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 75 minutes
Circle of Plenty - imageCircle of Plenty

John Jeavons demonstrates biointensive agriculture as a way to alleviate world hunger.

Bullfrog Films | 1987 | 28 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Circuit Earth - imageCircuit Earth

Shot throughout Philadelphia during the first Earth Week in 1970, the film features community groups, citizens and celebrities reflecting on the crisis facing the planet.

Bullfrog Films | 1971 | 43 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
City Life - Doing the Right Thing - imageCity Life - Doing the Right Thing

Porto Alegre, Brazil has benefited from urban revitalization.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
City Life - My Mother Built This House - imageCity Life - My Mother Built This House

Large homeless contingent in South Africa has organized to build houses for each other.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
City Life - The Barcelona Blueprint - imageCity Life - The Barcelona Blueprint

Barcelona today is a model of urban planning that may prove sustainable.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Come Hell or High Water - imageCome Hell or High Water

When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a Boston teacher returns home to protect the community his ancestors settled.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 56 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult

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