Environment

In order to live sustainably on the planet, we have to start by changing our attitude towards the environment. Humans are not separate from nature; we are part and parcel of its evolving process. In the ENVIRONMENT Bullfrog Community, we can teach each other how to kick the fossil-fuel habit, preserve the planet’s non-renewable resources for their highest and best uses, and encourage our children’s sense of wonder. We can live healthily, happily, and with greater concern for the other inhabitants of this planet and for our descendants.

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	SINGLE-USE PLANET (59 min) A search for the true headwaters of plastic entering the ocean finds more than it bargained for.		CORAL GARDENERS (21 min) Follows a novel experiment in the Maldives to regrow coral reefs, which offer protection, food and income.
	ECOSOPHIA (77 min) Some of the wisest ecological minds come together for an honest appraisal of our civilization without greenwash.		URANIUM DERBY (53 min) A filmmaker discovers that her hometown of Ames, IA, was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project.

	DANCE ME TO THE END OF TIME (80 min) Documents the last four years of the filmmaker's life-partner, outspoken lesbian, artist and theater director, Nancy Diuguid's life, as she fought breast cancer.		THE OIL MACHINE (81 min) Our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil gets ever more complex as we hurtle towards climate catastrophe. Can we break our addiction?

	HAIDA MODERN (80 min) Portrait of Haida artist, Robert Davidson, whose art and activism point the way towards a renewed connection with the natural world, perhaps saving us from ourselves.		GYAANGEE (14 min) Famed Haida artist Robert Davidson carves his latest monumental totem pole and gives a rare insight into the deeper meanings of North Coast Indigenous art works.

	REGENERATING LIFE (137 min) How to cool the planet, feed the world, and live happily ever after.		A CRACK IN THE MOUNTAIN (99 and 53 min) Tells the story of the incredible, recently discovered, world's largest cave passage and the opportunity and challenges it presents to the small, impoverished Vietnamese community nearby.

	THEY KEEP QUIET SO WE MAKE NOISE (12 min) Ride along with two activists from the Environmental Protection Agency of Kuala Langat, Malaysia, in search of illegal plastics recycling facilities.		WINDSHIPPED (39 min) Sail freight comes to the 21st Century.

	FIXING FOOD (46 min) Tells five stories of creative new ways to lower the cost of the massive carbon footprint of our food.		STEWART UDALL: THE POLITICS OF BEAUTY (78 min) Examines the trajectory of Stewart Udall's life from his childhood to his years as the most prominent and effective Secretary of the Interior.

	EVER GREEN (30 min) For almost 40 years, partners Marianne Edain and Steve Erickson have worked continually to retain the rural character and ecological diversity of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, north of Seattle.		HORSESHOE CRAB MOON (48 min) Looks at the decline of horseshoe crabs and the crash of the red knot that depends on horseshoe crab eggs for sustenance during migration, and suggests possible solutions.

	TRUTH TELLERS (58 min) Chronicles the lives of Americans fighting for peace, racial equity, environmental justice and indigenous rights through the eyes of Robert Shetterly, a long time activist and artist.		MEAT THE FUTURE (88 min) Follows Dr. Uma Valeti, co-founder of leading "cultivated" meat startup Upside Foods, as he and his team develop a game-changing solution to a global, unsustainable hunger for meat.

	PLEISTOCENE PARK (100 min) An eccentric Russian scientist's quixotic quest to recreate a vanished ice age ecosystem and save the world from a catastrophic global warming feedback loop.		REFLECTION: A WALK WITH WATER (79 min) Filmmaker Emmett Brennan walks the length of the Los Angeles aqueduct in search of a vision for humanity worth living for — what he discovers has everything to do with water.

	POINT OF NO RETURN (97 and 57 min) Documents the journey of the Solar Impulse — the first solar-powered, round-the-world flight — demonstrating the tremendous potential of renewable energy sources.		THIRST FOR JUSTICE (58 min) Focuses on three battles for clean water—on the Navajo Reservation, in Flint MI, and at Standing Rock—united in the belief that Water Is Life.

	NATURE'S CLEANUP CREW (54 min) Examines the lives of the busy scavengers who live among us in our cities, recycling the mountains of waste our consumer society leaves behind.		THE SHADOW OF GOLD (79 min) An unflinching look at how the world's favorite heavy metal is extracted from the earth.

	AWARE: GLIMPSES OF CONSCIOUS (102 min) Explores boundary-pushing research in the understanding of consciousness.		THE DIVIDED BRAIN (78 min) Explores Iain McGilchrist's pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture.

	WE ARE THE RADICAL MONARCHS (86 min) Follows the Radical Monarchs, a group of young girls of color on the frontlines of social justice.		CONNECTIVITY PROJECT (46 min) Examines the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world.

	INTO THE CANYON (84 min) Filmmaker/photographer Pete McBride and writer Kevin Fedarko set out on a 750-mile hike through the entire length of the Grand Canyon. Two Friends. 750 miles. One Question. If the Grand Canyon isn't worth saving, what is?		COOKED (82 and 54 min) Reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster.

	NO FEAR NO FAVOR (66 min) African communities on the front lines of the poaching crisis fight to protect their wildlife for future generations.		ENTANGLED (75 min) Climate change accelerates a collision between one of the endangered right whale, North America's most valuable fishery, and the federal agency mandated to protect them both.

	SPLIT ESTATE (76 and 15 min) Documents the devastating effect that oil and natural gas drilling is having on the health of families and the environment in the Rocky Mountain West.		MY COUNTRY NO MORE (70 and 54 min) 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.

	FROM SEED TO SEED (87 min) Follows a group of Canadian organic farmers over the course of one growing season as they adopt agroecological growing techniques to create sustainable and resilient food and farming systems.		FARMSTEADERS (52 min) Follows Nick and Celeste Nolan and their young family on a journey to resurrect Nick's grandfather's dairy farm as a locally sustainable family farm.

	COMPLICIT (89 and 58 min) A benzene-poisoned, Foxconn factory worker takes his fight against the global smartphone industry from his hospital bed in China to the international stage.		OVERLOAD (71 min) Reveals the increasing toxic burden on human health from chemicals in our environment.

	LET THEM EAT DIRT (58 min) Looks at the role microbes play in the development, physical and mental health of our children, and argues that good health may begin with kids playing in the dirt.		ONCE WAS WATER (55 min) Las Vegas provides an example to the world of how any city can and must create its own sustainable water solutions.

	BACKFIRED (61 min) Investigates the largest auto scam in the world, tracing VW's deliberate installation of defeat devices in their diesel cars to circumvent California and US vehicle emissions standards.		A CONCERNED CITIZEN (41 min) Marine toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott, who helped fishing communities hit by the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon spills, creates a civics course to help young activists become effective.

	BLUEFIN (53 min) The story of the thousand-pound tuna, a warm-blooded giant with gills which wholesales at up to a million dollars, and which is caught in an oceanic "last of the buffalo hunt."		LOBSTER WAR (74 min) Climate-changed ocean temperatures shift New England's lobster fishery across national boundaries, sparking international tension.

	THE SEQUEL (61 min) Looks at the influential work of David Fleming, who dared to re-imagine a thriving civilization after the collapse of our current mainstream economies and inspired the Transition Towns movement.		SYMBIOTIC EARTH (147 min) Explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration.

	AWAKE (89 min) Tells the story of the massive peaceful resistance led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to the Dakota Access Pipeline through their land and underneath the Missouri River.		HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD (127 min) Filmmaker Josh Fox travels to 12 countries on 6 continents to investigate climate change and uncover the answer to a difficult and fundamental question: what is it that climate change can't destroy?

	DEATH BY DESIGN (73 min) Exposes the unintended environmental, health and social consequences of our addiction to our digital devices.		THE TRUE COST (92 min) Groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?

	A QUEST FOR MEANING (87 min) Two childhood friends take an impromptu road trip attempting to uncover the causes of our current global crisis and to discover a way to bring about change.		ONE BIG HOME (88 min) Follows one carpenter's journey to understand the trend toward giant houses. When he feels complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, Thomas Bena takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera.

	TRIPLE DIVIDE [REDACTED] (53 min) Investigates the impact of fracking and exposes the cover-up of related drinking-water contamination in the triple watershed of the Eastern US.		CHESHIRE, OHIO (75 min) 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.

	AFTER THE SPILL (62 min) Introduces us to some of the BP oil spill's most aggrieved victims as well as those who are desperately trying to save Louisiana's eroding coastline.		JUMBO WILD (60 min) Highlights the tension between the protection of wilderness and ever-increasing development interests in wild places, bringing to life the passionate fight to protect British Columbia’s iconic Jumbo Valley.

	ANTHROPOCENE (97 and 57 min) Examines whether human impact has tipped the planet into a new geological epoch, with all of its political, social and behavioral implications.		PLANETARY (84, 52 and 43 min) A provocative cinematic journey that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species.

	DAMNATION (87 min) Explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers.		PLASTIC PARADISE (57 min) Angela Sun reveals the effects of our rabid plastic consumption as she investigates The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

	COME HELL OR HIGH WATER (56 min) When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a Boston teacher returns home to protect the community they settled.		THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE(56 min) Examines the challenges that climate change poses and discusses meaningful action that can be taken by individuals and communities.

	DIVIDE IN CONCORD (82 and 60 min) Tells the entertaining tale of banning bottled water in small town America.		RACING TO ZERO: IN PURSUIT OF ZERO WASTE (56 min) Presents new solutions to the global problem of waste.

	GREEN FIRE (57 min) Explores the life and legacy of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac) and his land ethic philosophy.		A FIERCE GREEN FIRE (101 min) The documentary of record on the environmental movement.

	GROUNDSWELL RISING (70 min) Documents the opposition from both sides of the political spectrum to the ubiquitous practice of fracking for natural gas, and the health and environmental reasons behind it.		OIL & WATER (78 and 55 min) The true story of two boys coming of age as they look for solutions to the global problem of reckless oil drilling following one of the world's worst toxic disasters.

	STANDING ON SACRED GROUND (228 min) In this 4-part series, indigenous people from eight different cultures stand up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment.		TREES IN TROUBLE (27 min) Documents how a city responds to an imminent tree crisis caused by invasive insects such as the emerald ash borer.

	A WILL FOR THE WOODS (93 and 61 min) A life-affirming depiction of people coming to terms with mortality by embracing their connection to natural cycles.		BRINGING IT HOME (52 min) Extols the many benefits of industrial hemp for the environment and human health, while revealing the obstacles to what could be a thriving industry for U.S. farmers.

	BIOPHILIC DESIGN (62 min) A design revolution that connects buildings to the natural world, buildings where people feel and perform better.		PLAY AGAIN (80 min) What are the consequences of a childhood removed from nature?

	SEMPER FI (76 min) Reveals the Marine Corps' cover-up at Camp Lejeune of one of the largest water contamination incidents in US history.

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