An original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK's Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water...
(Al Jazeera English Headlines: January 7, 2011) The UN says 2,000 people a day are filing into south Sudan ahead of Sunday's vote on secession. In southern Yemen, Al-Qaeda fighters...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: September 22, 2010) Ten people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a blast at a military parade in Iranian city of Mahabad...
A block of Latin Alternative music with percolating sounds from Novalima, cumbia rap by Bomba Estereo, the Spanish-Southwest fusion of DePedro, retro madness with Mexican Institute of Sound and Cineplexx,...
In this rousing speech singer and activist Harry Belafonte calls on the next generation to draw on the passion of the civil rights movement to right contemporary wrongs, particularly when...
Amy Goodman says that as an independent journalist her role is to go where the dark resides and shine a light there. In this presentation we air her rousing...
In this clip, environmentalist and author Bill McKibben talks about the need for environmentalists to generate the same passion for change as the civil rights movement. He believes that there...
In this clip, environmentalist and author Bill McKibben discusses the ease with which he and his family ate only locally-grown food over the winter, and the unexpected enjoyment of the...
In this clip, writer and environmentalist Alex Steffen discusses the long-term importance of sustainable design and the immediate necessity of world leaders to embrace this notion.
Author Kim Stanley Robinson argues that modern society still functions on a system of feudalism in which a very small number of people hold the majority of wealth and power,...
Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben thinks we need to shrink the economy and the best way to do that is to localize. In this clip he pictures a future where...
Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben argues that there is no such thing as "clean coal," despite advertisements created by the coal industry to promote otherwise.
Writer and environmentalist Alex Steffen says that well-designed cities can help, rather than hurt, the environment. In developing countries, access to education, legal services, and medical care empowers women and...
In this clip, author Kim Stanley Robinson reflects on the portrayal of the future in science fiction and discusses the possibilities of a cultural revolution, in regards to technological approaches...
In this clip, environmentalist and author Bill McKibben asserts that carbon needs to have a price and cap associated with it, following similar Japanese and European practices. Such actions, he...
