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Progress? Whose progress?
Survival International asks the great taboo question of our time—is the industrial development model really progressive? And who does it really benefit? Find out more with SI’s special report “Progress...
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The End of the Line (2009)
This documentary follows investigative journalist Charles Clover as he uncovers the shocking decline of our ocean fisheries, revealing that - Ocean fish catches peaked in 1988 By 2003 the populations...
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GMOs and human guinea pigs
Árpád Pusztai is the pioneering biochemist who first alerted the public to the health risks of consuming genetically modified food. After immediate and widespread praise for his findings, he was...
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Globalisation and Maori (1998)
Edward Goldsmith explains the corporate takeover of governments and the global centralised planning being orchestrated by multinationals via the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Globalisation and Maori...
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The Emerald Forest (1985)
John Boorman’s prescient tale of the Brazilian Amazon, where the construction of a giant dam threatens more than the indigenous tribes whose lands will be overwhelmed.
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Belo Monte – announcement of war (2012)
The construction of the Belo Monte dam is one of the most controversial developments ever seen in Brazilian history. The issues raised by its construction go beyond environmental, cultural and social...
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Aotearoa: Land of the Long White Cloud (1998)
Excerpt from Globalisation and Maori. TKM Productions, Aotearoa 1998. For tens of thousands of years tribal societies around the world achieved the universal ideal of a sustainable balance between...
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The Athabasca tar sands
As a result of the peak in global crude oil production and the subsequent explosion in oil prices, the world’s largest and dirtiest industrial project is racing ahead in the Canadian heartland of...
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The Crisis of Civilization (2012)
Based on the book A Users Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: and how to save it, Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed explains how systemic failings intrinsic to industrial society are converging inexorably...
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Aluna (2012) – the Kogis return
In this new film, Alan Ereira returns to the Kogi of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Columbia, 20 years on from his first visit,* which opened the world to this lost pre-Columbian civilisation and...
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Seeds of Freedom (2012)
Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seeds from their root at the heart of traditional, diversity-rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity used to...
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The Prince of Wales’s message for Rio+20
The Prince of Wales addresses the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this week. In his address, The Prince of Wales argues for an...
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The Promethean Enterprise
RapNews bring us their latest musings on what it’s all about (above); in particular: Man’s quest for ultimate knowledge. But is this the kind of knowledge that we really need? Edward Goldsmith suggests...
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Chile’s large dam projects
International Rivers explains the problems associated with a series of large dams planned on Chile’s Pascua and Baker Rivers. Chile recently approved the building of a series of large dam complexes on...
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Brazil’s large dam projects
*UPDATE* 15th August 2012. Court halts work on Belo Monte dam A high-level court yesterday suspended construction of the controversial Belo Monte dam project on the Amazon’s Xingu River, citing...
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Global warming unabated while Arctic ice recedes
*UPDATE* 22nd August 2012. Arctic sea ice—both by area and volume—is set to reach record lows this year and, if predictions are correct, will be completely absent during the summer from around 2015...
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