Green Beans

Interesting and informative sites from around the world, raising awareness, educating and empowering people to ensure we leave a planet worth inhabiting for our children and theirs… Tread lightly friends.

Food Inc.:  A must watch! You’ll NEVER look at dinner the same way again!

The Age of Stupid:  Eco-documentary set in 2055 where a historian reviews archival video from our time, and dubs our age…

 

The Corporation:  “ …explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal “person” to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist’s couch to ask “What kind of person is it?”"

Flow:  Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

H2Oil:  follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. Unlikely alliances are built and lives are changed as they come up against the largest industrial project in human history.

 

 

Black Gold:  As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black Gold traces one man’s fight for a fair price.

An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore’s inspirational documentary as frightening as it is informative and empowering.

Addicted to Plastic:  is a documentary about solutions to plastic pollution and encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on 5 continents, including two trips to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic debris accumulates.

Who Killed the Electric Car:  Great documentary following the birth and near immediate death of electric cars in the mid-late 1990′s.